Raptor One – Chapter 39
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“GAAAHHH!!!” I wake up with a cry of pain, the entire pack jump up like scared cats at my cry of agony
“WARNING!!! MALICIOUS ANOMALOUS PSIONIC WAVE DETECTED!” Sigma Alerts the pack before I'm forced inside my mind, losing connection with the outside world
A world of red, a broken moon, a strange obelisk, the feeling of maddened wrath wash over me as i see the images.
Dead bodies everywhere, strange creatures flying, distorted aberrations wanders between the sea of dead.
Blood is everywhere, the red rain painting this mad world in a shade of deeper red.
‘Surrender’ i hear a voice
‘Give in’ it repeats
"’BECOME ONE WITH US’” we say in sync.
I give a mighty roar, the entire space tremble and starts to crack
*Wrath overflow! Type 2 Wrath detected!*
The entire space is full of cracks but it still did not crumble, my closed eyes hiding a wrath so fiery that it scares me.
‘There’s no exit’ it reply, the cracks mending
‘There’s nowhere to hide’ it continues
“’There’s nowhere to flee‘” we say in sync again
I almost lose myself, but then... WRATH!
I release another mighty roar, this time, i put my wrath to use
The entire space shatter, but one of the monsters attack me, i fail to dodge, but i manage to perfectly deflect the attack with my wings.
I watch up close the monster appearance as my mind returns back to my body
I find myself lying, three times as weak as before, my breathing rough, my senses spinning as i slowly try to get up, only to see the entire pack holding me down.
“I know that image...” I say out loud
The entire pack give a sigh of relief as they see I'm back and help me up
“What happened” Zu ask me
“Does anyone heard of Necromorphs?” i ask out loud, and the entire pack jumps scared!
“Eh?” i say surprised, my eyes open as i look their scared faces.
“The - There’s a outbreak outside?” i look at the scared Su’zu
This make things worse, i don’t want to face a outbreak of undead lunatics, zombies are enough for me.
“What happened, give me the full history! Let’s go! I have a score to deal with!” I say, my wrath at being taken over... twice...
The pack form a group behind me, weapons ready as they follow me outside the ship.
I already gave Sigma signal for reinforcement, Raptor One is outside the ship in Walker mode, weapons ready to blast anything that moves as we exit the ship.
I look around as i activate my Scythe, my open smoking eyes looking at the frozen workers in the hangar bay as they look at me and my Viking scared to move.
I look around the hangar and find a new ship docked, from the outside it looks normal, but my instincts scream another thing, so i wash a psionic wave over the new ship.
And find the disgusting piece of psionic anomaly that affected me earlier, and also find the entire crew of the ship surrounded by it’s wave too.
I lift a hand, and point it, the my orange Viking starts walking to the ship, ready to blast it.
“Li’luk! Computer! Now! Activate the emergency lockdown of the Docking bay!” I give my command.
“YES SIR!” She say and run in the direction of the hangar bridge, Li’lak and Zu follow right behind ready to fire as they run
As me and the Su brothers close in on the strange ship a squad of guards arrive inside, guns ready as they point it at me
“Halt!” I say to the guards and they freeze in place, my intimidating look make then stop in fright, but their guns are pointed at me.
“There’s a ship with Necromorph psionic anomaly here! It’s coming from there! Help out, NOW!” I order the new squad
The entire squad jump at the word ‘Necromorph’ as they start running to cover, weapons ready at the ship just like us.
Then the ship starts the engine, but i hear the sweet sound of electronic alert as the docking bay doors slam shut in seconds.
“Emergency dock bay lockdown protocol active, Alarm code: Black extinction. ALL AVAILABLE ARMED PERSONEL INTO COMBAT STATUS!”
The electronic voice starts normal but end it’s words like it’s facing it’s worst enemy as the message resonates on the entire of Beta Stratta.
I look at the exhausted girls on the command bridge, they cheer at barely managing to complete their first order.
“Open fire!” I order, and my Viking starts blasting the ship with no remorse, most of the damage is mitigated by the armor, but some explosion resounds inside the ship as the strange ship’s engine puff out and the ship crash land on the hangar bay again
The strange thing is the blood that flies off with each piece of armor the ship loses
The guards and my pack are simply terrified as more armed squads of guards rush inside, taking cover as soon as they enter, the workers long evacuated.
My Viking continue blasting the fallen ship for some time, but soon change it’s target as something try to fly off the ship!
Three of the five flying creatures are shredded to pieces mid flight, but two scape, Su’ra manage to hit one with his pistol, but the creature just ignore the damage as it flies into the midst of one of the squads, the entire squad open fire at the thing, but only two bust hit the thing as it fall down, full of holes, the entire squad retreating as they blast a entire magazine on it.
The last one also received the same treatment.
Things are not that simple however as a wave of Necromorphs charge out spiting spikes, bomb rushing, or charging at the resistance, us included.
At this time the girls have regrouped with us and got into firing formation, four of the five shots hit the enemies, but they just keep charging our way
I use my tactical analysis and medical knowledge to get how this thing works as the pack and the squads keep firing at the charging Necromorphs, more reinforcements rush in and starts to help the pressured squads
After some seconds of thinking i find they work like normal zombies, blow the brain or chop em up and they are good for the kill.
Normal hits however do no damage, it needs to chop or hit a critical part to affect the creature.
“Aim for the brain if possible! If not, aim for the legs! Try to focus on the explosive ones!” I yell out.
This information helped the situation a lot, as it was starting to spin out of control.
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My pack fail at keeping the Necros at bay, so i rush in, jumping high over their crouched form and slashing one of the creatures in two, taking the opportunity of landing to change the swing to another, it’s head fly off, doing a backward swing i separate more the bugger and cut another in two from the waist to the head, the next follow up swing however fail to kill as it’s limbs fly off, it swings back and i barely manage to deflect fully before spinning and cutting it in two too, using the power of the spinning swing i fly back behind my pack as they shoot at the Necros.
Things are somewhat contained as the other squads are managing to keep the Necros under heavy fire, and reinforcements are rushing in like a broken dam as they close the gaps of which the Necros can scape and arm the civilians.
I continue to help while crushing and smashing Necros with my psionic capacity, but then i cry out laud again in pain, falling in one knee, my giant scythe keeping me from getting intimate with the bloodied ground before my eyes lose focus and my mind is pulled back into the red world
‘We already devoured your kind once’ it say to me as one of the monsters slash my way
I dodge and cut it in two with my scythe
‘Stop resisting, your wrath won’t burn forever’ it say again, two monsters attack at the same time
I dodge their swing while spinning and another one fall in pieces, but the other manage to take space, we struggle two times as i spin in and out it’s reach before finally cutting it to pieces.
I feel pressure on my mind, something trying to pry inside me, but it fails and put gasoline on my wrath.
“Grah!” I roar, but fail do damage the space.
‘Useless’ it say, three monsters attack this time
I manage to deflect two attacks and dodge one, but i still feel my blood splatter out, the monsters disappears
I give a mighty roar, the space cracks but not enough like last time
‘You wont scape’ Four monsters attack me
I fully deflect one and use it’s energy to spin away out of the others range as they disappears
I’m bonafide pissed beyond reason!
*Type 2 wrath unleash!*
My roar is so strong that the reverberations instantly shatter the red world
‘You will see us again’
I hear it’s last words before returning to my body.
Blood fly off my body, emptying the already dangerously low amount of blood on me lower.
I get a heavy dizziness for some time, i hear my pack start yelling in alarm, then rushing, then new sound of gunshots close to my pack as my dizziness pass and i get my wounded body up again.
My pack was almost overwhelmed while i was dizzy, but the reinforcements and my Viking helped keep the line.
As soon as i finished getting up things got bad fast
Some of the killed monsters got up and returned to the fight, most missing a head.
With no choice i start launching fire feathers their way, this action helped a lot keeping the line as the monsters lit in flames and burned down to nothing
This however cost me a lot from my already in bad shape body.
“WHERE IN THE HELL ARE THE FLAMETHROWERS!” i roar out loud
“Right here.” i hear a semi mechanical voice
I see three squads of people, most mechanical in nature, the one that replied to me looks like D. Octopus.
No, if i look better he looks like am Adeptus Mechanicus from the machine god cult.
“Adeptus Mechanicus, the ones that follow the machine god...” i mutter
“That’s rude, i am Adeptus Mechanicus, but i follow no machine god, machines where made for us humans to progress after all.” the Adeptus reply
“Now that’s new.” I say as i scan all his implanted components and it’s tech.
“I see that you are at your bottleneck as a engineer, and at your limit as a machine.” He says as he approach me
I get my scythe ready, i don’t want problems from two sides at the same time, not unless I'm alone.
I give a side glance at the wave of Necros, and see that even with the Apprentices helping raining flames at the wave they keep coming, that destroyer size ship really have crew capacity.
The Adeptus stops in front of me, a mechanical tentacle get close, a needle springs from it.
“Don’t move, i want to give you some liquid matter to help your body, don’t worry, this composition is made specially for mechanical beings.” the Adeptus say
I stay in place, i try to examine the mix, but fail, it’s more complex than what a Master Engineer can know, huh...
I see the mechanical tentacle pierce me right at the heart, the very weak flow of mechanites disrupted as the mix enter my body.
Then frenzy.
My mechanites starts to devour the mix like starving wolves and replicating on the spot, ignoring my body rules.
In no time i feel my blood flow return to normal, my stomach start to lose the hunger, i even feel satiated, a look and i see that I'm 3/10 full.
I see the mechanical tentacle return to it’s standard location, the mostly mechanical face of the Adeptus giving me a nod.
“Good body, this mix should at most alleviate the problem by 25%, but your body has gone beyond my calculations and got itself back into optimal status, if your knowledge where as deep as mine i would say you’re am Adeptus like me.” He say before joining the fight.
The moment he started firing... Chaos ensued.
There was no Necros kept alive, nor in pieces, even their blood was purified like it never existed.
I stay, looking as he finished the problem that not even i had capacity to solve, and even started dismantling the Destroyer class ship on the spot along with his apprentices.
I never saw this much efficiency in one place, in less than a hour the entire ship was ready for the baptism of hell flames from the forge.
A small part was kept untouched however.
I walked to his side, my pack followed but i gave a halt command.
The closer to this mini obelisk, the stronger the psionic wave.
The adeptus and his apprentices are okay however.
I fall into one knee as i grunt, a loud growl full of wrath resounds.
The adeptus and his apprentices look at me along with the rest.
“Not this time.” My wrath infused growl leaves along with the words as i get up and pass the adeptus and his group.
I extend my hand to the obelisk and it gives a resounding cry
Then it fly into my hands!
I manage to stop it before it touch me as it floats in front of my extended hand, crying in pain.
I growl louder, my fingers slowly closing, the obelisk starts to crack as it’s cry gets louder
I feel it’s presence pull me inside it again as i fail to withstand it
‘YOU PAY FOR THIS!’ it cry out in anger
I manage to dodge all the six monsters as they disappear
I try something different this time, i concentrate my wrath on the blade of my scythe, the pearl feels my wrath, and it feeds me back it’s wrath at being suppressed.
I fail to control the now heavy scythe, so i place it in resting position and try again
This time our wrath sync as i swing and swirl with the scythe as the movement gets faster and faster
*Wrath sync! Wrath meter updated! Type 3 wrath detected! Wrath: 300/300*
A swing, and a cut follow, a wide crack appear, then the red world crumbles with no resistance as i find myself back on my last position
I lower my scythe, the crackling smoke and the sound of angry banshees resounds along with my deep gutural growl as i look at the cracked obelisk with my white pupils, my entire body crackling in red lightning.
The obelisk give a last cry before being devoured by a black hole.
I watch the black hole disappear in front of my hand, it’s pulling force getting weaker along with it’s disappearance.
The scythe and me enter a cold wrath state as we used it to make the black hole anomaly that devoured the mini obelisk.
“So you are a psionic capable machine.” The adeptus say as my pack approach me.
“I am no machine, i am myself, what i am made of is of no concern.” I say, my voice back to it’s usual cold but normal tone.
“Want to join the Mechanicus? I see the potential on you, you can bring your knowledge beyond mere Engineer level of knowledge, it will also help you and your body.” The adeptus say to me
“Tempting, so i agree, i do need more mechanical knowledge so i can keep this needy body running, but for now I'll take my order and prepare the ship for a money run first.” I say to him
He nod to me and give me the place they operate so i can visit and learn there when i return.
“Sigma.”
“Aye aye Captain.” She say, moving my Viking back into ISS – Tenacity.
“Interesting, a Symbiotic Relationship.” The adeptus say as my pack walk out of the now clean hangar bay
Walking on this mostly habitat like station is a brand new experience after the fiasco last time.
Beta Stratta is a small station divided into three layers, the lower layers, where factory and energy production lies, the middle layer, where docking and security lies, and the upper layer, the biggest one, where the civilian population stay.
After some scans and a medical check we are allowed to go into the upper layer.
As the elevator opens i see this layer is no different from a big city, separated only by reinforced transparent bulkheads that protect the civilians in case of breach's and other events.
After walking some time, and getting the eyes of all non avali civilian because of the exposed Survival Armor we arrive at the location where the production pack stay.
A clean looking avali style compact house.
After a knock am avali open the door.
“You are the Craft Meister?” i ask the male avali
“Me? No, I'm just the Accessory master, follow me, I'll bring you to the Craft Meister.” He say
We follow him inside and after a 880 volts banter a female avali appear in front of me
“Hello big guy, i never saw your face before” She say as she looks up to me, the clear sexual interest in her eyes say a lot.
I take a step back and place Zu where i was.
I don’t talk 880 volts.
Zu looks at me really confused, so i slap her ass.
She peep in surprise before understanding what i want and engage in a conversation at speed 12 with the craft meister.
The look my pack give me is... Strange at best.
“When did you get this close to Zu’rahir?” one of the Su bothers ask me.
“Lak, full detail, 880 volts.” i say.
Li’lak looks at me with wide eyes before nodding to me and starting another wave of talk.
I just walk to a wall and lean on it, arms closed as i wait our new cloak and components.
It does not take much time as they bring both our cloaks and components.
I look and give a nod at the quality before making the components float and assemble five cloaking modules on the spot.
The Crafter’s pack look at me shocked as i float each custom made module to my pack.
They get it and plug in before locking their cloaks in place
I get my cloak, clearly of better material and quality, more customized than the cloaks of my pack.
I swing my cloak on my shoulders, it locks with style as i feel the material and watch it with open eyes, my white pupils scanning the cloak for defects before i nod in satisfaction and close my eyes again.
“We are done here, the rest of the time are at your leisure, I'm going back to sleep the wounds away.” i say to my pack.
I give the Crafter’s pack a nod in thanks before heading back to the ship, my plan for today mostly destroyed.
“Heh. No wonder they say plans don’t live first impact.” i chuckle as i get inside the ship and just go to sleep.
Status:
Health: 1,5/3 HP | 50/50 MP.
Wrath: 0/300
Day: 18.
Month: 3
Time Shift: Space.
Age: 18
Credits: 5000 (-0 – No Change)
Nanite storage: 3.000 units/Max 10000 units, 50u Needed per day.
Mainframes:
Omega Protocol: Mainframe type.
Auxiliary Protocols:
Yggdrasil Protocol (O.P): Liberated.
Helheim Protocol (O.P): Liberated.