Chapter 2: Living Weapon

Staff sergeant Calvin Colt, age 21, height of 1.75 meters and the Special Forces trainee. Adopted by generous and kind parents, I was brought up in a humble but warm environment. I entered the military so that I could contribute back to my foster family and get stronger so that I can become independent to survive on my own. They had been taking care of me ever since I was a baby and I feel indebted to my foster parents for taking in a baby who was abandoned at their doorstep and accepted me for who I was, especially Alice. Mom was a faithful and dedicated housewife while dad was a manager of a medium sized company dealing with shipping and transporting goods. Alice was three years older than me and had excelled sports and studies and was brought up well under our parent’s teaching. She spends hours studying and exercises whenever she has the time, but she still makes time to take care and play with me through her tight schedule.

Ever since I was a child, I barely made any friends due to my unique eyes, which my iris were partially light green and sky blue. Because of this, I was bullied until I was 15. Most of the reactions from people who saw my eyes were usually curiosity but some people had called me “alien” or “freak”. Sometimes, they would take the chance to gang up on me because I was always alone and was from a high income family and extort my pocket money, if not they would trash up my locker and table in class. I had kept silent about it over the years so that I wouldn’t worry my family, until one day Alice heard about it from her friends. She had stormed into my school, forcing the bullies to apologize to me by force. She single-handedly took down 6 seniors who were in the rugby team and 5 other seniors from the baseball team, causing the school to fear offending Alice and eventually the bullying stopped. She scolded me for not telling her about it, but I simply told her that I didn’t want to cause them to worry. She handed me an amulet with a bell that she had bought from her trip to Asia and told me that it would keep me from harm, and if I were to face another issue like this, she would settle it for me. As I took the amulet from her, she took out an identical amulet from her pocket and wore it around her neck while smiling warmly at me. From that day onward, I started training my body to gain the strength I need to stop relying on Alice, and instead protect my family with my own hands.

Even in the military, there were those who made fun of my eyes but were silenced by the influence and pressure my sister had in the army. At a young age of 23, my sister had been promoted to the rank of major. This brought much attention to the other soldiers who felt that she had bribed her way up, be it financially or by using her body. She simply dismissed those negative feelings and carried climbing in rank.

I have to admit that Alice is very attractive. Standing a height of 1.65, she has a face which is simple but well proportionate and arrange. Her long blonde hair that reaches her shoulder blades is usually tied in a bun, exposing the nape of her neck, which was snow white and flawless without a single blemish. Truth is, my sister is a superhuman…. It is proven through the fitness tests that have been conducted by some doctors from some hush-hush health organization. Her reaction time is 0.03seconds, easily 10 times of an average man of 0.3 seconds. She can also carry on jogging for over 8 miles in 30 minutes without breaking a single sweat. In terms of strength, she can easily overpower a man weighing over 120kg (that is packed with muscles, not fats). Furthermore, she can see objects over 50 meters away and describe every single minute detail and has twice the hearing capacity of a normal man, easily putting men in shame. Hence, she cleared all the courses like a breeze. Some call her a living weapon, but others know her as the Valkyrie. Hence, I did not want to feel inferior to her and decided that I would catch up to her and eventually repay my gratitude to her.

Strangely, there is no news of her when I asked around…. Something feels wrong, especially when I was suddenly transferred over to assist in using a developing suit that the Technology Advancement Division is secretly developing for the country. It has been a month now that I have been involved in this program and I have to admit that the suit can definitely allow our country to deal with much bigger military forces with less casualties. The suit has been improved and some of the bulky parts where the reinforced Kevlar had been reduced and they had apparently created some sort of wrist interface where the operator of the suit can select the multiple functions that the suit has. For example, setting the suit to energy saving mode to reduce wastage of the power in the suit in critical conditions, setting the suit to combat mode, where the suit will be reinforced with nanotechnology to further reduce the impact of projectiles and rebooting the suit in 30 seconds if the suit gets hacked. All in all, it is much safer than sitting inside a damn tank now, and much faster too.

This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

“Alright gentlemen, load up and let’s go mess some shit up!”

“”“HOORAH!”””

It’s my first mission and I decided that I would not screw it up, not as though I could, given all the cheat-like functions the suit had. I was also given a small rectangular box and a small canister which contained red fluid. Both of them were given to me by friends of Alice who worked in the TAD, well simply as a favor. They were the Takahashi sisters whom my sister was their bodyguard during one of her missions. They are the best scientist the country had and they specialized in nanotechnology. They were at first shocked when they saw that only my sister was their bodyguard, but they soon realized that Alice was no simple woman. She had protected them over 10 times in that one week she was assigned to protect them. What's more is that they found Alice a nice and humble person and they hit it off the moment they started conversing.

Anyway the box contained nanobots which were able to break down and analyze the substance placed in the box and could reconstruct whatever it had decomposed if the data existed and material was supplied, in which case the data was stored in the suit and I was to collect samples of soil, rock or anything that I come into contact. The fluid in the canister also contained nanobots, only that this fluid is used to close up wounds and repair tissue. Well, the earlier test for the fluid canister proved that it can re-attach severed limbs and reconnect the nerve and blood vessels so that the arm can be used again. With technology like this…. I fear if inventions like these were only built on a bigger scale and used in war. These two items are still in the experimental stages, so I honestly hope that they can be used later on without any issues. I had packed the items in the integrated back storage together with some first aid items and the amulet that Alice had given me. It is something like a reminder to become stronger and a good luck charm to me so I always have it around with me.

Within 1 hour since we were dropped off at hostile environment, we mowed down all the terrorists and claimed their outpost. We had faced fifty caliber rounds, grenades, RPGs and lots of AK47 rounds thumping our suits but we marched on. The squad was made up of four people and all of us were equipped with HK416 and picked our own side arms. I had chosen the FN Five SeveN since I had been shooting with it at the range for over 2 years. Other than me, the rest of the squad had been involved in testing out the suit for over 3 months, so they were moving faster than me. I soon caught up with them and started collecting samples for testing out the decomposer. When I placed in it into the box, I attached the power cord to the wrist interface and observed the results. Although it took only 3 seconds to decompose a rock which is the size of my fist, it took about 20 seconds to rebuild the rock at first, but the time taken to rebuild it decreased as I repeated the process about 5 times. The rock was now able to be rebuilt within 5 seconds. For other materials such as metals or cloth, it would depend on the atomic structure of the material. For example, for cloth it would take only 1.5 seconds to make a handkerchief sized cloth. For a single bullet, it would take about 3 seconds. I decided to replicate my magazines for my pistol and rifle, so I threw in one magazine each. It took two minutes to process and decompose and 5 minutes to rebuild it back. I left the decomposer switched on my hand and repeated the process 5 times as I sweeped the area for any traps left behind.

As I spotted a dried well at the back of the house, I looked into the well, only releasing that there was a trapdoor at the bottom of the well. I notified the squad to gather at the well. As we kicked the lifted the trapdoor open, we climbed down deeper and we were met by an empty underground hall that had some sort of large ritual circle on it. Whoever who drew this must have died a long time ago as the floor was completely covered in dust and the ritual circle had lots of unknown scribbling and symbols around the lines intersecting inside and outside of the circle. I think even those terrorists didn’t even know about the secret entrance. I walked to the center of the ritual circle and picked up an ancient looking scroll and an amulet fell out of it. As I crouched to pick it up and held it in my hand to inspect it, the ritual circle started glowing and the earth shuddered violently as dusts from the ceiling of the room rained down. Before I knew it, I was engulfed in the bright light the ritual circle produced, causing me to go blind for a few seconds.