As the facility's below areas begin to crumble, the workers have to abandon their job, escaping to save their life from this traumatic event. Those who didn't know thought this was just an incident, but those who work for the big league understand what's going on below hundred of meters, beneath the outer layers.
The floor froze, the ice shattered, James with 80% of his flesh fallen off, using his metal skeleton arm holding on the absolute zero scythe, the other constantly striking Mina's face, breaking her mask.
Her armies have decayed, the power she withstand, breaking her shield every second with huge chunks ripped off. Firmly grasping the frost weapon, she knocked his hand out with her scythe, striking the head right on his stomach.
James shot away from her a few meters, but she quickly turned the scythe, the blade part stuck on his complex spinal mechanics, drawing him back to her.
"Idiot!" James said playfully like a maniac. Although his stored materials were low, he still created a pile bunker. Seeing that, Mina brought her scythe down and removed it from his body, swiftly rushing up to stop. James then delivered a straight punch and the pointy head of a spike. The machine exploded, and afterburner forces dived right at her head.
Weapons clashed. The pilebunker instantly froze; it shattered according to his plan, the tiny pieces stabbed at her face. The mask eventually cracked.
"Not so hard now! aren't ya!" James laughs in triumph. Just as he was about to finish her off with the final blow of the laser beam, A raging scream blasted James into the wall many times.
Her mask opened, revealing the face of a lady who had lost her skin. The skull was replaced with mechanical components, her eyes were forced open, and some pins held the lid in place. The hole in her eye was pitch black, and the X in the middle represented where she was looking.
After condensing the ice energy, she slammed her chest with another thump. The shield regenerated, preventing the decaying from breaking more.
James got up, he was instantly met by her scythe, which slashed his head. Cut in the middle horizontally. Bringing her back after a spin, he kicked her stomach, knocking Mia down. James put the upper part of his head back. He grabbed her leg and threw her to the rebars sticking out from the broken pillar. The shield protects her, but it is slowly being drained away. James, diving at her, stomped her to pierce the body. His tail threw her scythe away, and they began their tug-of-war.
Soon, one of them will run out of defense ability. James's thermal shield rapidly drops from being this close to the frost, and the ice shield shreds its skin away.
"I WILL KILL YOU!" increased her power, the temperature dropped over absolute zero again, everything surrounding decay.
His skeleton hands started cracking, and he knew this would end badly. "If only I had more..." James thought, his time running low.
From the other side, Clare busts in while being chased. "Catch!" She throws the piece right at James, but the cold prevents her from getting closer. The core's part slides onto the icy floor, reaching his feet.
"Thank you..." His tail shattering occasionally, he managed to insert the piece into his core. I think I win this one," he told Mia with a dangerous smile. He refueled the materials, his arms breaking out from the ice. He laughed like a maniac before slamming down. The rebar pierced her body, transforming into harder steel.
Mia screamed; this is her defeat. His hand broke through the metal skin, he pulled out her chest, open ribs and loosing skin. Yanked out her core, his claws reappeared, they tore Mia's body in half.
[target eliminated], his system switched to Clare. James assimilated her core. With his robotic form equipped with armor, he quickly dashed to Clare, who was trying to escape from the Guards. She was blocking the door, but how could a kid stand against a tall machine?
James broke out of the room, using newfound power that he had taken. His absolute solver upgraded. Now, it automatically generates matters inside the black hole, the range is increased significantly, and the ability for decimation is increased. The red marks appeared on the guards who were still in slow-motion, absolute zero freezing those cores from where they stand, gravity control shattering all of them in one quick move.
"Woah..." Clare said in astonishment. "What that part of your core do?"
"Upgraded my Absolute solver to V4. I can stop worrying about limited storage and single targeting."
The facility started to explode. James held Clare close to him. "Hold on, we gotta get Kiries"
His Claws break the floor, and he jumps down with Clare.
"AAAAHH!!!" Clares clings to dear life, and they fall straight to where Kiries is. Once he met her trying to climb up, his tail wrapped around her waist, and the three of them quickly blasted off. He flew with an extremely fast velocity straight up, outside in the sky.
Turning back, his arms fused together, dark liquid constructing into a blaster, "Eat this!"
A beam shoots down straight at the core where the monster is, It built up a light sphere, then a huge explosion went off. The heat wave disintegrated everyone outside, burning the ground and roads. James, with his reclaimed power, the cooling shield helps them all stay safe from the danger.
"Well, that was a show..." kiries said
"Woah, you need some blood." He lent her some D-blood, helping her grow back into a physical body.
"Thank you..."
"Hey, uh... do you think they're plotting something?"
"What made you say that, Clare?"
"Never mind, can we go? Those guys will be here soon."
James glided through the air, fleeing from this disaster.
Soon after, many attack helicopters arrived with armored vehicles. Looks like the government people are here along with the organization. Scientists gather samples, with gun men guarding the place for any intruders.
When the sky hits the night mode, when the sun sets down, the main threats arrive. The drop ship landed down next to the exploded site, where they slowly dragged the remains of the eradi-creature out of the burning crater.
"So how much is the damage?"
"The total amount is 34.506 billion, Sir. Those three caused quite a bit of destruction. They also got the first relic out of four of them."
The man in the suit stimed into himself an unknown substance, traveling from the neck down to his heart, then turned back to the drop ship.
"Anyone want to try next? This is your task after all."
"Why don't we go in a team? We could take him on," Vix answered, still recovering from the damage from the previous attack. He was still angry about this.
"I told you to not question it..."
"Fuxk off..." he stays in the drop ship and doesn't want to go out.
"He's right, although I still don't understand why, we still have to follow your order, director" from inside, a tall girl with white short hair, covering her ears, a core with modified systems like Vix, her body covered in powersuit, armored in vital spots. Wielding a huge special-made sniper rifle and a light handgun hampered in 60AE blackout, she confidently stepped out while the other waited inside.
"Ah... V1-X our best maskman. You know you would be dead when he catches you, right? Also, he got the first core piece," the man said, flicking a peck dirt off her shoulder.
"How can life be interesting for a machine made for killing and who can't have its deserved fight? We have been inside the warehouse for nearly three years now and haven't stained any blood on our hands." She let out a creepy smile, her eyes squinting and glowing dark pink.
"Good... the War will soon come... data is crucial for this..."
She nodded. The ship closed the cargo door and escorted the important away. Vix was on the seat, hand holding the broken piece of Mia, a sharp piece from her core. He let out an annoyed sigh before watching her body slowly being ground into material inside the ship.
V1-X standing there, watching her friends go away, her computer notified, [track 404 down]
"What plan are you up to now..."
A launcher was taken out from inside her right arm, a holder for black coins. She tosses two of them, the coin levitating in the air, letting V stand on and glide through the air. She loaded in the first shot a custom sniper round with a length bigger than the thunderbolt aircraft, about 30cm, the eradicator round loaded inside the bolt action sniper. "Seeker," she said, aiming her rifle with the earth orbit. The pin slammed into the round with a super loud bang, strong enough to create a shockwave as strong as TNT. The bolt flew out with a speed that nearly reached light speed by 0.1 m/s.
"God speed..."
scorching red in the skies, avoiding any digital tracks. He landed them all outside the sector, into the sector 1, where they called the city of lights. Everywhere they see is filled with neon colorful light and bright street lamps shining on the electro field road.
"Woah... I always wanted to come here, they are advertising a lot of interesting pieces of stuff for Cores and humans", Clare said.
"Ugh... all these lightningss messing with my vision..."
James created sunglasses for Kiries and put them on her face. "There, it can be adjusted with your sight."
"Thanks..." Kiries said, she blushing a bit.
Something bright flew past by like a meteor, traveling with a speed that no normal human can see. They don't bother that much and head deep inside the color of the city.
Heading straight into a restaurant, they find a table in the corner, avoiding people coming by.
"Hello, may I take your orders?" a female service core, wearing the cat cosplay
James and kiries seem surprised when they saw they were still doing this stuff over decades.
"Hi, we'll have a few drinks and a family-size meal, please, right here on the menu"
"Thank you, ma'am."
The waiter left, and they started discussing what they were going to do next.
"James, how much you still missing..." Kiries said while sipping on her cup.
"3 parts left; this should be easy."
"Easy? Cmon dude, we struggled to get that thing."
"Correct... you nearly failed if Clare didn't deliver that piece in time..."
"Okay, okay, but I'm more better now, with this new absolute solver. I'm more unstoppable now" he smirked with confidence.
"I don't know, man. I mean, you're dangerous and all, but what if they prepared the countermeasures for you?"
"Not to mention there's no backup come when we destroy the facility..."
"They are plotting for something; I'm sure about that. What do you think, James?"
"Whatever comes next, I will protect you, that's my duty, and slaughter the bad guys"
Kiries nods in agreement.
The food arrived at their table. "Enjoy" the waiter said before leaving. The three sat together, letting the flavors melt in their mouths. Although only Clare could taste, James and Kiries ate only to gain more sustenance and maybe more material.
After they had their fine dinner, they moved on outside. They need to find a way to get information about the rest of James's core. While also avoiding mass destruction to populated areas.
"Hmm, so what do you think? We go to each site and find?"
"That will take too much time, Clare. Wouldn't it be easier if we could find a secret agent?"
"We could let them find us by showing ourselves online"
"That would be too risky since your identity is still hidden and hasn't been leaked. If they know you are with me, and knowing who been causing the problems, you will be a world wide wanted person".
"Those organization members definitely knew about her identity, they just haven't made that decision yet..."
Clare begins to be concerned about what Kiries said. Her fingers tangled together. But leaving that aside, she simply doesn't want to be worried.
"Hey James" she picked a black cap from a street vendor, "I think this looks good on you"
"Hmm? I dunno, I'm not a fashion person. What do you think Kiries?" he put the dark cap on, covering the top of his hair.
"It can help you hide your noticeable hairline..."
"Great, thank Clare"
She grabbed his shirt, wanting him to go with her. "Come over here, I can mix your styles with this mind set"
"Alright, jeez"
Those two dive head first into the lights on the noisy street, Kiries steadily moves behind them, watching those two. "Do you love her, J?" thinking, "I know she's your admin, but she's too close". Jealousy swept into her head along the plan on how to get his memories back.
She quickly gets to his side, holding his arm like a child.
"Do not leave me behind..."
"Alright Kiries, I'll be one your side"
buying clothes and shopping for new devices, they finally have fun after a rough day. The group went from side to side, checking everything they had inside sector 1, not bothering with the fact they were being hunted down.
On the other side of the frontline, who will soon come for them, a scope lining from the sky where she stands, aiming down the sectors on this country, above the ground over 20000m
"I thought the tracker found him... I can't see anything that matches that description. Did my weapon have a glitch?"
The seeker bullet was caught in mid-air, after circling the earth, She looked over the bullet, seeing it melted from the friction with air. "Aight... i need more time"
"V, you might want get your ammunition bag"
"Relax Vix I already had 599 bolt round for my baby."
"Intel said 404 received AS-V4 from that facility in sector 10. You cannot take him alone. I'm trying to ask for backup for you, but the director doesn't F##king allow for what!"
"Calm down, I can take his administrator. over now."
"Wai-" the comms shut off. She begins descending height
"Sector 1 eh? i need some clothes" [calling in personal locker]
"gotta infiltrate the city and track that robot down. how hard can it be..."