Chapter 16: Cassanova

Chloe and the others continued traveling the inner parts of taiwan.

As they traveled they didn't encounter any giants along the way. Then they thought that taiwan has been completely destroyed by the giants and the country is now completely deserted.

Josh became their guide as he knows the shortcuts to their destination. Chloe and the others followed josh as he leads them on a safer route.

As night came, they didn't reach the next city so they were forced to camp in the forest.

Josh and joel then prepared their tents as jason and christian prepared the food.

Zeth and london talked about the reptoids that were living in taiwan.

Captain zeck went to go look for dry branches so that they would be able to make a campfire later in the evening.

Chloe sat down inside one of the tents that Josh and joel prepared.

She then reminisce the moments when she was a relic agent and she thought about Niko.

Chloe then thinks that niko's dead by now as the nuke wiped out almost the entire population of egypt.

And she's certain that niko wasn't able to survive that.

Joel then checks on chloe and wanted to call her for dinner, but as he saw chloe dozing off.

He felt happy for a second as he saw chloe's face expressionless but still was beautiful to see.

Then he didn't bother chloe as she was still at that state.

London then tells them that they need to be careful here on out.

They are inside taiwan now and there's no place to run if they get cornered.

Zeth then asks london why does he know alot about taiwan, When he and timber had been here for almost a week only.

London then tells zeth that in a matter of week they completely roamed the inner parts of taiwan.

Then zeth nods and ends his question.

Chloe then came out from her tent and went to sit with the others near the fire.

Josh then grabs a map and explains the safer routes that they should pick for tomorrows journey.

They discussed about the matter immediately and after that they started eating and organized the guard shifts and went to sleep.

The next day...

Josh led the way as the others followed.

Josh then sees a huge tree, and tells them that this tree didn't exist before.

Josh told them that when he was at the military they went to taiwan on a mission to escort an individual. But didn't saw this huge tree anywhere near here before.

London then asked if when did they visited taiwan and told him that if it was 10 years ago then it could be possible for the tree to grow this much.

Josh then looks at london and said "It was 4 months ago."

Then the others started hearing noises from all directions.

Josh then commands them to do the formation they practiced if ever they get cornered.

Joel then flew up to the sky to check the surroundings, but didn't see anything.

Zeth then tells them that this noise isn't made by those giants.

They started walking towards the huge tree quietly.

Joel then goes down to inform them that he didn't see anything suspicious from above.

They quickly walked towards the tree, and as they reached the tree.

They heard frog croaks coming from all the directions.

Then suddenly a reptoid showed up infront of them.

Other reptoids then started walking towards them from all directions.

Chloe and the others then started to get worried as they see alot of reptoids coming out from all directions.

Chloe then shouts that they are not here to fight, and wanted to have a talk with them.

A reptoid then jumped from the huge tree and landed infront of Chloe.

The reptoid then knocks chloe out and the others fought against the reptoids.

Joel and christian were about to use their Abilities but the Reptoid that came from the huge tree yelled (In human language) that if they fought back, Chloe's head would be sent flying towards them.

Then Josh and christian looked at each other as london signals them to surrender for chloe's sake.

Then the others nodded as they kneeled.

The reptoids then started walking towards them and tied their hands with thick ropes.

As the reptoid that held chloe hostage told them that he was the Elder at tawain's reptoid clan.

And told them that they will not harm them if they follow them and not resist.

London and the others started following the Elder as he walked towards the huge tree that had a small opening at the side.

As they went inside the tree a large staircase was there heading towards underground.

Jason then gulps and asked the others if they'll get eaten.

Christian then laughs at jason as he said while they were going down.

"Get eaten? by this lizards? Are you joking with me? This rope won't be able to hold me down. If they do something to chloe while she's unconscious then I'll blow this place away immediately and kill them all."

The elder then praised him for his arrogant words and told him that he would not dare harm the girl that he's carrying. And said that he doesn't want to die yet.

Christian then smiles at the elder as he said "So you knew huh?"

The elder then looks at christian and smiled.

Then they went underground, As the reached the bottom of the staircase they then saw a bright light coming from the other side of the door infront of them.

Chloe then wakes up and was shocked that she was being carried by a monster.

She suddenly pushes the elder and escaped from the reptoid's hand. And checked her surroundings as she saw her comrades tied up.

Chloe then tries to use her belt as a weapon in order to fight the reptoid but the elder told her relax.

And the reptoids at the back started cutting the ropes that were tied on the others. And wore them some bracletes "Bellrus bracelet" so that they were able to understand the other reptoids.

The elder then explained that he is the only reptoid here that understands and knows how to speak English (Human Language).

The Elder then welcomed them to the Underground City of Taiwan known as "Cassanova".

Then as they walked towards the huge door.

They saw a sun at the center of the City, and it was floating in mid air.

Jason then shouts that there is a sun here.

London then explains to them, and tells them that it's not a sun. It's the heat orb.

They use the heat orb as their own sun to brighten the whole underground city.

Zeth looks at the heat orb with dazzling eyes.

Josh and the others were shocked that the heat orb they were talking about really existed.

Josh then asks the elder if what was his purpose on bringing them in here.

before the elder could speak chloe suddenly intervened as she asked the elder if they were willing to cooperate with them on developing a new weapon that could kill the giants.

The elder then stares at chloe as he saw determination in her eyes, as well as revenge.

Zeth then runs toward the Elder and praised him as they were capable of creating such technology that the humans weren't able to accomplish.

The elder then smirks at zeth and orders the reptoids at the back to go back to their positions and guard the sanctuary.

The reptoids then moved and went back to the surface.

Chloe then asks the elder again if he is willing to cooperate and end the alpha's conquest on their world domination plan.

Elder replied "It depends, I need to check first if you guys are trustworthy."

Josh looks at the elder and lights the cigar on his hand.

London then asked the Elder on where they could stay, and not just stand at the entrance like guards.

Elder then apologizes and leads them to the inner parts of the city.

The group then saw alot of reptoids as they walked along the streets of cassanova.

The elder asked them their purpose on coming to this deserted land.

Zeth then explained to the elder that they needed the help of the reptoids to develop a weapon that can kill the giants.

Elder then looks at the group and asked them if they are really willing to take on those giants.

Chloe and the others nodded.

London then said that even if he risks his life, he will do anything to kill those giants.

The Elder then smiles at them as he saw that they were really determined on reclaiming their lands.

Zeth then asked the Elder if they could teach him the mechanics on building the heat orb.

The elder then nodded and leads them to the inn that they will be staying at.

Chloe then clenched her fists as she see a light of hope on fighting against the giants.

When the reached the inn, they were paired into two per each room except for chloe, she was the only girl in the group.

Then they went to their rooms and rest.

Chloe sat on the bed and doze off while thinking about what's going to happen next.

She doubted herself if she could really fight those giants in a one on one situation.

London knocked at chloe's door and called her as he gathered the others at the lobby.

Then the Elder came and explained to them that the reptoids are willing to cooperate with them on their mission to defeat the giants.

The group then felt happy when they heard the elder's words.

The elder then told them that it will take some time to develop a new weapon especially when they have no idea about the giants weaknesses.

Zeth raised his hands as he tells the elder that he will share informations about what he knows about the giants.

The elder then smiled and thanked zeth for his cooperation.

Then the elder tells them that this will be their home for the mean time as they develop new types of weaponry that will be able to kill the giants.

The others then nodded at the elder.

The elder then called zeth to bring him along and introduce him to the Reptoid Engineers.

Zeth then agreed and tagged along as they went out of the inn.

Josh and london then asked jason, zeck and chloe if they have any experience in combat.

Jason tells them that he knows abit of martial arts as he was trained at the relic corps.

Chloe said the same as jason told them and tells them that they were comrades at the relic corps.

Zeck then said he didn't have any experience in fighting.

London then makes a decision to train them while zeth and the reptoids are developing weapons.

Christian volunteered to participate on being a teacher for them.

Then jason, zeck and chloe thought that this would be one hell of a training.

They then started their training in the next day.

Several days went by as they continued their training.

Chloe and joel were doing some sparring and was equipped with wooden swords.

Christian was explaining to zeck the best ways to win a fight against giants.

Jason was paired against josh and london, the most brutal teachers he could ever imagine.

Josh was the teacher of the Physical test. And gave jason orders to do such as 500 push ups, 500 sit ups, 500 laps of jogging on a 50 meter course and etc.

Then after he finishes Josh's training he was then taught by London on how he needs to pay attention to his surroundings, London taught him on how to hone his senses.

While they trained, Zeth was listening to the Reptoid engineers teaching him about the mechanincs of their equipments that the humans haven't seen before.

As zeth listened he then gets ideas from it and shares it to the team as they quickly tries to develop new types of weaponry.

There were many failed attempts as their development was unsuccessful. But they never gave up, and kept on inventing.

Chloe then began to catch up as she was taught by the others and successfully became stronger than she was before.

The same for zeck who didn't learn how to punch before, Now he can last long against two people and give them a rough time.

Jason became more confident as he was taught by london and josh.

And could take on josh now on a one on one hand to hand combat.

Then the scene went to the Pioneers where they were still venturing the lands of the surface.

As they've passed alot of places they encountered alot of Alphas and gained experience on how to fight them.

Niko along side with B1 and B2, his armor and shield were invincible.

The Alphas were immediately killed by the pioneers combat strategies.

Ardug, Lomi and asquel as well as Barques obtained their own Parasites as well.

They then became friends with their new companions as it fought along side them.

As night came, they then camped in the middle of nowhere.

And organized the guard shifts.

Niko then asks B1 and B2 if they will be going back to their own planet the Moonard.

B1 and B2 then tells him that their home planet was destroyed and conquered by an earthling.

Niko was shocked as he heard the word earthling.

And so he asked if it was a Human or other species from earth that conquered their planet.

B1 then replied that it was a human with a parasite on him that Conquered their planet.

B2 then tells niko that the human blew up half of the moonard's surface and sending the parasites into space.

Then the parasites weren't able to move on space as it lacked gravity.

Then they wandered at the space for decades and somehow ended up reaching Earth's atmosphere and fell towards earth.

Niko was so dazzled and asked them to tell him more of their stories.

Then B1 and B2 continued to tell niko some stories of their past.

Chapter 16: END