Chapter 17

Thud Thud Thud

The sound of footsteps was heard as It showed two military Chasser's walking on a set of rails.

"Why are we out here again, to look at rocks?" Said the first soldier.

No dumbass, we were sent out to see If there's something wrong with the tracks, scanners picked up something." said the second Soldier

The other Chasser merely nodded and carried on walking. That's when they came to a halt freezing in their tracks.

"What in God's name?" Said the first soldier.

A giant body of water was sitting there, a thick layer of green mist hung above the water as it contained a greenish water that glowed softly, but the most shocking part was that behemoth corpses laid everywhere, their bodies were mangled and large chunks of flesh where missing from them.

"What did this..." asked the soldier.

That's when they heard the sound of waves moving and both soldiers quickly pulled their rifles out pointing at the water. When they looked in the mist, they saw an object approaching them

That's when they went fully on guard, it showed soldier one's hand shake out of fear causing the gun to move around a lot. The object arrived at the bank and that's when they saw it was another Chasser. Quickly sprinting to the fallen Chasser to help they arrived at it.

"Hey talk to me what happened here?" asked soldier two.

"We were attacked don't get close to..." spoke the fallen Chasser.

It couldn't finish the message as it was pulled violently back in the fog, the sounds of screaming and crunching was heard but then everything was silent. Soldier 1 not being able to take it anymore screamed and unloaded his bullets into the fog. Soldier 2 quickly rolled out the way to not get shot but didn't see a rock on the floor and got knocked out, the last thing he saw was Soldier 1 brandishing a military knife and flying into the fog.

When the man awoke, he didn't see his partner anywhere, he groggily stood up and shouted his name. That's when he got a response saying that it's stuck in some plant life in the lake, seeing the Chasser's arm try to reach out. Soldier 2 walked in the water and grabbed his hand only to notice the entire arm is off and it's sparking at were the shoulder would have been, that's when he looked up and saw a pair of red eyes looking down at him.

The fog was shown as screaming, thrashing and crunching was heard then nothing. In the middle of the lake is showed a silhouette sinking downwards but not before singing softly in a childlike voice.

"Lock your doors and windows as the bogeyman will come snatch you up~ "With that ending line everything goes back to being dead quiet.

***

John yawned as he walked out of his dorm, he didn't get a lot of sleep last night as his mind was replaying the events that happened the previous day. The sound of an Intercom turning on is heard as it asked for John and team Zero to come immediately to the general's office. As the teen was walking in the corridors, he saw it was still raining, maybe not as hard as yesterday but still pouring. When he arrived at the office, he saw that team Zero was already seated and talking to the general.

"John please take a seat; I wish to begin." said the general.

John nodded and sat next to Mint who waved shyly at him, he smiled and waved back making the girl blush and turn back around.

"Alright, late last night we sent two soldiers out to see if the dome rails are still functioning due to scanners not picking it up. They didn't return so we are already expecting the worst." started the general.

"Let me guess you want us to go find them?" guessed Pepper.

"No, find out what's wrong with the rail... As for why I brought you all together it's because you all are the strongest pilots, so if something is there you can take care of it. Now dismissed!" said the general.

All stood up, bowed and left the room.

"All right team let's go and get changed in our pilot suits ok?" said Adam.

The twins said yes as John and Bartholomuel only nodded. When they arrived at the hanger John saw that Asura was looking good as new except that his right arm which John destroyed was now made of black metal with red plating indicating they had to completely revamp the old arm with this new one so that made him a bit happy.

"By the way what are you guys Chasser's names?" asked John.

"Right, we never properly told you, the white one which I pilot is called Tempest, the big Maroon one is called Taurus piloted by Bartholomuel, the man just climbed in Taurus and connected immediately. The last pair are called Rock and Roll separately, the twins pilot them." said Adam.

After talking about the names John said he got to go and connect with Asura. Asura's eyes lit up and the hanger doors opened. When John was inside, he felt two pairs of arms snakes around him.

"Time to eat the voice" said the voice in the teens ear.

He quickly turned around and saw no one was behind him, feeling that he's just imagining it.

The sound of ospreys starting is heard as it showed all the Chasser's being carried out to the outside world.

When the Chasser's arrived at the edge of the rails they tugged the cables causing them to fall on the ground.

"Guess we walking from here on out." stated John.

All the robots walked at a steady pace and noticed pieces of metal and flesh all scattered on the floor. Each of them rested their hands on the weapons they had. When walking forward they saw the lake with green fog everywhere.

"Is this raising red flags for anyone else? No? All right then." said Pepper to herself.

"Obviously it did, I mean any sane person would find this suspicious!" replied Mint to her sister.

That's when they saw an object floating towards them. It was the top half of a Chasser. Adam walked towards the robot.

"You have to help us we are stuck..." spoke the Chasser.

It couldn't finish its statement as Adam crushed its head and wiped his foot on the ground.

"Before you start to shout the cockpit was completely crushed probably the pilot too so I don't know what was talking." replied Adam.

Just as he was going to pull the robot out of the water it suddenly twitched and it flew back in the fog as the green fog cleared showing a scary image. Countless different pieces of bodies were being impaled upwards by thick vines. At the end of the vine there was a creature sitting on a rock. The creature was extremely skinny that you can see it's skeleton, it had 3 bony fingers that looked as if the skin had been scratched off, on its head was a mass of long hair that covered the entire face but you could see 2 glowing red eyes looking right at the team.