Artery Gear: Fusion is a turn-based mobile gacha game developed by Access and published by bilibili.
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Prologue: The End
The snow in the mountains was melting, and the last fires of civilization had died and turned to ashes that were blown away by the starving spring winds. The last human on Earth had been dead for several months before Android Seventeen came to understand the gravity of his situation.
He had won.
It was a stunning and shocking realization that quickly advanced into an unnerving predicament. He had considered everything a game of sorts. Hunting humans, killing and torturing. Even his sister Lazuli also known under the impersonal moniker of Android Eighteen fell pray to his 'game'. Yet after every kill, he required more and more death in order to get excited. It started from one or two people at a time. The personal. The close. Yet even that became unsatisfactory after a while, so he and his sister, who was somewhat less blood lusted than he was began taking out buildings and even entire blocks with energy blasts.
Then humanity's heroes stepped up to stop them. It was amusing at first, seeing them struggle against such overwhelming odds. Yet they were crushed like the bugs they were. Not even the baby Trunks was spared their rampage.
With no heroes left to save them, Humanity was easy pickings.
Yet even the cold and aloof Android Eighteen decided enough was enough. She didn't find murdering children and animals amusing anymore and began growing disgusted with her brother.
A rift began forming between them, and the siblings began getting into increasingly violent altercations, always ending with Seventeen lashing out, forcing Eighteen to flee or submit.
One day he struck her too hard, and his fist crushed her face, splattering her brain against the broken concrete they had just fought upon.
It no longer was funny. No longer was it amusing. No longer was it a 'game'.
Thus the calamity that was Android Seventeen was unbound, and the end had come upon the earth.
Entire cities gone in bright flashes of light. Marvels of technology and architecture reduced to nothing but smoking craters. Not even stopping to admire his handiwork, Android Seventeen flashed across the sky sending blasts of energy raining down across the landscape. Nothing was spared. Entire landmasses turned to dust in an instant. Their only evidence of existence a mere flash in the mind of the crazed android.
A small girl twisted and turned upon her soft blue blankets, pillows and stuffed animals lay strewn across the wide canopied bed. Her porcelain skin was a deathly pale hue and her wide blue eyes shut and opened violently in the throes of prophecy. Soft sobs could be heard from her bedroom as tears streamed from her face while her platinum blonde hair was thrown about. Her white and light blue frilled dress ruffled and twisted as she tossed about.
She found herself high above a burning city as two shadowy figures rained fire down upon it. The screams of men, women, and children filled the air and mixed with the explosions and laughing of the dark beings coalescing in a surreal tune of annihilation.
She had tried her hardest to stop them with her powers, yet even for all her amazing mystical might she could not stop them.
Then, the two dark beings turned and fought each other before morphing into one that continued destroying any and everything in it's path.
The scene shifted and she found herself floating above the Frontier in Azure City. The dark being flashed across the city, destroying and laughing as it flew.
Atlas had deployed the full might of it's Armored divisions, it's Artery Gear forces, and even the massive Kabbalah, yet it was all gone in a flash of bright light.
Then she woke with a scream.
Android Seventeen sat upon a large rock at the edge of a stream. The corpse of a large dinosaur sat smoking on a pit roast next to him. The silence was deafening. Aside from the occasional gurgle of the stream, the world quietly awaited for his each and every move.
He had had much time to think to himself over the past two years. For all intents and purposes, he would live for thousands of years, yet he would live in a prison of his own making. What remained of planet Earth was his prison. He could not escape the planet, since he needed to breathe.
He laughed sourly at his predicament, but would not give up. He began forming a plan. Standing up, he began forming a barrier around himself.
Seven long and boring years had passed, and Android Seventeen had been quietly and devotedly combing through the sparse remains of civilization that he hadn't completely destroyed. There wasn't much, but he took to studying anything and everything he could. Any book he could find. Any computer that had information on it, he found and rigorously searched through.
His brash and impulsive nature had been calmed and replaced by a colder more logical life driven by necessity.
The years blended into decades, which then turned into centuries, and finally his patience paid off. Android Seventeen had managed to cobble together a shoddy but functional spaceship which was in stark contrast to the destroyed landscape around him.
Sitting in the middle of a wide flat plain was a ship looking quite similar to the pod Vegeta made his way to Earth upon.
Finally, he had his ticket out. His escape.
Yet just as he opened the hatch, he saw himself covered in a white glow that was intensifying.
Quickly jumping back and into the sky, Android Seventeen erected a hasty barrier, shouting for the unknown assailant to identify themselves. Yet nobody answered.
His eyes widened in fear as he saw his body becoming transparent.
"NO!" he screamed in fear which escalated to rage as he shot across the sky, trying to escape from this strange phenomena, yet it was all futile.
He was disappearing.
Seconds later, nothing on earth remained of him.
The gray skies above the Frontier remained the same for the past several weeks as summer was reaching it's end and making way for the beginning of fall. The massive steel and concrete infrastructure of Azure City was constantly monitored by the various aircraft and surveillance vehicles that scanned and searched for any and all signs of a puppet outbreak. The men and women traveling the streets went about their business and work as Security automatons passed by and Artery Gears zipped back and forth through the skies.
Safety overrode any sentiment of privacy after the First Puppet war, and Frontier was on the cutting edge of military and high profile weapons production. Yet even that did not guarantee safety, as Azure city was about to find out.
The Iron Hammer, a state of the art floating fortress flagship, where Frontier officials consulted with the Super AI that ran all the military branches of the nation floated high above the center of Frontier's Military pseudo state. Alarms began blaring in a command centre on the flagship.
The room flashed red as technicians sitting at computers quickly shouted and relayed information to the military commanders in the nearby fleet under direct orders by the Super AI.
Azure City had experienced a puppet outbreak. Very soon tens of thousands of casualties would certainly be reported.
Android Seventeen found himself fading back into existence in the middle of a concrete street overshadowed by massive steel skyscrapers many many times larger than anything he had ever seen on Earth. They reached to the skies like cold defiant fangs.
sounds he hadn't heard for hundreds of years flooded him and he stood stunned, looking around wide eyed. Then as everything that had been a blur to him settled, he heard the screams of humans and the blasts of explosions peppered with gunfire. An airship made of a black steel twice as wide as the road exploded overhead and the bodies of maimed and burnt humans fell to the ground embedded with shrapnel. Blood splattered with ash coated the ground, and just for a moment, Android Seventeen was back in the past.
He remembered a time when the air force was still around where he would punch apart planes and helicopters, tossing the humans inside to their death.
However, his revelry was cut short when seven odd beings walked into the alley he was in. They were bleach white puppets, looking very much like a marching band. Their instruments clamoring as they moved on invisible strings.
One that looked like a tuba player raised it's tuba and blew into it. A blaring sound much like a foghorn but hundreds of times louder and more forceful assaulted his ears. A blast of force slammed into him, but it was not powerful enough to force him backwards. Gritting his teeth and covering his ears from the horrible noise, Android Seventeen burst forward, spun and launched a spinning kick directly at the puppet that was reduced to atoms as the sound of a sonic boom reverberated with a crack.
Before the puppets could even process what happened, Android Seventeen sent out a wide wave of energy, vaporizing them and half of the road along with it.
Annoyed and taken slightly off guard, Android Seventeen felt invisible strings attempt to wrap around his arms, legs, and attach to his head. His mind began to grow slightly hazy, and an odd sense of placidity relaxed him.
He felt content, like everything was going to be alright. Then he realized it was a mental attack.
"No!" He shouted. He would not have another weird ability do things to him he didn't want. Sending out a wave of energy, the strings were burnt to ash and the strange mind affecting ability was forced out of his head.
Looking around, he saw a large puppet that was bleach white, but looked more human than the ones from earlier, and one might be forgiven for thinking at a distance that it could have been a human once.
It was three different female looking puppets adhesed by some unknown means each holding a different instrument.
In an impressive display of speed, the puppets swept towards him faster than a speeding racecar.
Yet to him it was quite slow. Now on guard for whatever esoteric or strange abilities this puppet might have, he shot forward an energy blast the size of a large basketball that hit the advancing puppets and detonated.
The ground shook as a massive boom followed by a blinding flash as the buildings for several blocks all around were deleted from existence by the powerful energy blast.
There was no send off, no question asked on if there was a need for this amount of force. Android Seventeen had deemed it necessary, and so it was. He was genuinely frightened by how that puppet could effect his mind.
That could not be allowed to happen again.