COME AND GO
"We almost there," jame said when to put his body out the car window, he smiled at the setting sun, stroked the hair that was covering his left eye to look ahead, then went back into the car.
me: "how far do we need to go jame? it's already more than 2 hours"
jame: "only 14km to go and we have to go there"
he pointed at a gigantic thing that looked like a giant sword that was stabbing into the ground, dark black and looks worn out.
"why didn't I see it bruh" after I said that, kirie drove the car in that direction. and the other two, nathan and Lilly, they're resting.
the car approached this giant sword, and the closer we go, the more kirie felt like vomiting, some forces like the previous area making her feel like that. we stopped at the entrance to this place, and there was a screen board saying that this area was closed to visitors for a dangerous reason. "let's get this over with" jame finished talking then he created a machine in the air, levitating and activated it, the machine shot out like a ram to break the door, and then we went inside. quite noisy but luckily no one saw or heard. the inside of this place is pretty cool since it's a sightseeing spot instead of the previous one, but then how do we find the second cube, piece, and file for jame now?
nathan: "where to go now? hmm. woah woah" nathan opened a strange door at the end of this place, he called us over to have a look, it's a high slide going straight down.
me: "woah. jame?" I asked jame with an uncertain face
jame: "yeah it's down there. welp I go first, YIPPEE" without saying much jame jumped down the slide, and kirie followed after she said: "wait y'all down there". I, Nathan, and Lilly looked at each other for a while then decided to follow the two of them.
me, nathan, Lilly: "AAAAAAAAAAAAH" we slid down a long path straight down to something soft, a big pillow. the other two were waiting and now we find ourselves in a dark hallway with little light, it's a bit gloomy in here. we pulled out the flashlights and started searching our way to move forward.
me: "how the hell did they make this area like this? also how the heck did your memo file down here? this mystery is getting more confusing the more I think about it"
jame: "hmm yeah I do have the same question like who is that guy on the record and what am i"
kirielane: "you are my friend"
jame: "yeah I know but who am I really" jame looked at his arms, his face looks happy or maybe crazy like he was.
we continued on for a while when suddenly the ceiling behind us collapsed, which was quite unusual since there was an explosion-proof door in front of us. then that door opened, and dust flew everywhere. when we went inside, we found this is a large room, 2 sides have big columns, and there are small stairs going down. after going down the next to the below we see a small cube with a tape recorder next to it, two of them are placed on an older generation piano.
me: "there it is" we all ran toward the piano until a spear trikes down stopping us from going.
jame calls his claws out and kirie gets into her core form. me nathan and Lilly get our guns out just in case. "show yourself" kirie said, her wing blades spread out in the attack position.
in the darkness behind the piano, there are 4 glowing red mechanic wings revealed, a light streak on top revealing a head. it slowly flew out and we saw that it was a core, holding two blades emitting a dangerous red aura like the color of its whole body. it doesn't have an insignia on the shoulder or on the chest, after all, it's a type of core I've never seen. me, Nathan, and Lilly, we take a few steps back to stay out of danger while the other 2 deal with it.
jame: "hey I need to get that mind if you move or else I have to use forces" jame pointed at the cube and the recorder with a murderous grin on his face.
kirielane: [i'll get the wings you go for him then the file] she armed her guns at the core.
a short moment of silence before the core start speaking: "... this... is... not belong to you. turn back and leave or you all have the punish from me" the core raised his right sword slowly turning from jame to kirie to Lilly to nathan then me, his face was covered up by an armored helmet, we can't tell which one is he staring at. then he continues "I am FAC-G, you can call me Gaves. state your business here"
kirielane: "why do we have to tell you that, what about you, why are you here guarding jame memo file?"
gives: "this is non your business"
after he said that, kirie right about to fires her guns at him, I cut in and asked him: "wait, if you are guarding jame memo file, then someone must have given you this task"
gives: "what? how did you- who is jame?"
me: "do you the name DC-404-J?"
gives: "HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT NAME" he then suddenly flew over to where I and the other 2 were hiding, jame stopped him and I continued: "DC-404-J or jame is the one who grabbing your leg".
gave a look back at jame "hi" *waving his claw* jame said. then put away his 2 blades into the sheaths on his waist, landed down and he takes back his wings. Gaves then asked jame
gaves: "you are 404 right? the second?! right?"
jame: "yeah I am but the second thing I don't know. anyway why you..."
gives: *sigh* "it seems you came here for the memo file as he said. jame hmp good name"
jame: "thanks"
kirielane: "wait who is he you talking to?"
gaves: "you probably don't know but he is the one who saves jame from that organization"
kirielane: "I don't understand"
me: "wait is he the one who made this recorder?"
nathan: "what's his name?"
Lilly: "what did he do?"
3 of us asked like a moron lol. gives then continue: "ah yes he told me to keep this" he takes the cube and hand it to jame "hope you find the last one jame"
jame: "wow thanks I didn't think this would be this easy"
gaves: "you all must go now, at the end of this tunnel is an elevator lead straight up. my job is done here" gaves then sit down like he was done with his mission, he sounds sad
to me: "how about you go with us, surely you can help us"
gaves: "what? i...I don't know"
nathan: "c'mon it will be better with your help, someone needs to carry these 3 dumb brains"
lilly then kicked nathan in the leg when he said that.
gaves looked at us questioning what to do next, I bring my hand up to shake hoping he would agree. after a moment of hesitation, gaves shook hands and agreed to go with us. I and two others yelled up for joy because our squad have another member to help.
jame consumes the cube, then he has a short outage again but gets back together soon later.
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[memo files recovered: 2/3]
[images appear on my head, argh /// flowers, grass, a face of her, a name, books, blood bags, lancets, saw, machines, cube...]
[detected signal 175km remaining]
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me: "jame you ok?"
jame: "some weird images appeared in my head. I can't tell"
me: "hmm can you be specific?"
jame: "hmm it's like a lab or something"
me: "maybe it's an image in your memory"
kirie looking at jame with those black eyes. she's hoping for something.
we all get in the elevator to go up, and as we go we heard noises coming from above, probably those guys with guns again. as soon as the elevator arrived, we sprinted to the car to go before they come and start blasting. we're all in the car, and only gaves are standing looking back at where we came out from, I can hear the combat drones approaching.
Lilly: "hey gaves get in we need to go"
gives shook his head slightly and then opened the door of the car to get in. "i don't understand why I do that" after gaves finish his sentence, a bunch of AC landed on the ground, away from the car about a few meters. crap there are more than 10 AC, they were pointing their gun at us and firing, jame used his ability to stop all the projectiles, kirie returned fire and gaves pulled out his blades to kill off a few AC. more and more AC are coming, gaves jumped on the car rooftop and kirie stepped on the gas and drove away.
me: "goddammit I can't steady my arms to use this gun", I fired my gun to push those ACs were chasing us, Lilly and nathan were also helping me, those AC were flying and shooting, and jame is keeping the car fine by stopping round shots from those AC, gaves on top of the car fighting off some ACs were trying to close combat us.
we got on the main road to go to the next place, I saw more and more military vehicles. they saw us and we started a chase again.
nathan: "kirie?"
kirielane: "I heard that, jame make the car go faster"
jame: "gotcha" jame then fused his arms into the car and it started went zooming. gaves on the top somehow doesn't affect by the speed and he still slicing missiles, bullets, and cores coming at us.
nathan: "hey there! gaves dude, you good?!"
gaves: (he literally cut a core in four using his blades) "targets approaching"
nathan: "I'll take that as a yes!"
the chase lasted about 10 minutes until jame destroyed the whole road to prevent those guys from continuing the assault, but there are still a lot of AC chasing us. gaves then fly up and dive straight in, he started killing those AC with his blades and his mechanic wings, a battle in the sky, we watched him destroy cores one by one. after finish, he then flew to the car roof and stand on it.
jame: "nice blades skill you got there"
gaves: "I had been programmed with all blade skills. even though they don't use much"
jame: "it's okay, you gonna be helpful"
gaves: "thanks Mr. 404" even tho we can't see his face because of his armor helmet, I think he's smiling right now.
just finished the sentence, suddenly a core appeared in front of us while levitating and moving at the same speed as the car, this time it looks very different. we didn't have time to react, kirie fired 4 steel chains with spear points from her back, and the chains spear went straight to that core in front of the car. in a split second, the core grabbed the chains and cut them off, kirie screamed in pain then she accelerated the car to hit the core but it used the same chains and cut the car in half at a very fast pace. the car fell to the right to the sides, and I fell to the right with jame, Lilly, nathan, and kirie on the left, gaves after the 2 parts of the car were sliding on the road then he flew forward and attacked the core, it also intercepted the slashes from gaves, and countered him using it sword but gaves blocked using his blade and he landed behind it.
me: "jame get up! hey you guys okay?!" I asked the other 3 when the car parts stopped sliding.
nathan: "yeah... I'm good but Lilly her arm got stuck... help me" nathan then tried to lift the thing that holding Lilly arm, me and jame come over to help, I looked back and saw that gaves was fighting the other core, it looked a lot similar to gaves, parts, and other things. I and the rest of the gang helped Lilly get out and we took out our weapons to help gaves, and suddenly there were more cores that looked like him appeared from the sky to stop us from moving forward.
jame: "out of our way" jame then shoot those cores with his blaster, me and the rest also do it. they are too fast, they were so fast, we were quickly attacked from all sides, jame and kirie were protecting us from the slashes from those cores. jame and kirie were soon to be overwhelmed in turn, I and the other two tried to support them.
gaves killed the two cores by stabbing them through their cores and then flew over to help jame and kirie get out of the predicament. now there are only 4 cores left, but there's another wave of those people hunting us again, this time jame see them bringing 4 armored core and tons of heavy weapons.
jame: "crap, they coming again"
kirielane: "James create another vehicle" jame then went straight behind to create something. gaves and kirie attack the other cores, I and two other also help, but... they aimed at us.
nathan: "AAAH" a core tried to attack nathan but got stopped by gaves, then Lilly, then me those cores were trying to kill us.
jame after creating a military helicopter told us to get in to fly out of here. when we finished, more cores came to attack, gaves quickly killed them all, but those armed men were already close, they fires missiles and guns to stop us, jame and gaves stopped them.
we all boarded the helicopter, but gaves alone didn't, he stood there holding his blades.
jame: "c'mon dude get on!!"
gaves was silent for a moment then said: "go, I'll hold them back"
jame: "what?!"
me: "dude get on if you stay you gonna di-"
gaves: "shut it!, this is why I had been made, this is why I was here" he then looked at jame "find the rest of the memo file and finish this nightmare. I was pleased to meet you, jame" after he said that he flies toward those guys. kirie told jame to take off, he hesitated a moment then decided to take the heli up and get out of this place. me and the rest looked back at gaves now who attacked and held those guys back.
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shotted, stabbed, slashed, being damaged, gaves fight through those guys one by one, he killed an armored core, but then got knocked back and fell on the ground. gaves stand up, holding his blades tight, and looked up at the sky while being shot at, he didn't mind it and just stood there unmoving... the men and cores stopped attacking to see what would happen next.
gaves FAC-G (fallen attacker core) the last and final: "... the wind blowing through this place, I can feels the taste of blood flowing inside me, how much can I fix the ruin, the salvation they have taken away... HUMAN how much more will you need to destroy this place?, how much more does your kind need our powers?... no matter [fallen system: rise again]. dears human who wants his core, I will break you all a parts, cut you all down, consume your blood for fuel, destroy all your bones, and crush all your wills, I WILL RIP AND CUT YOU ALL UNTIL IT'S DONE, MY HANDS SHALL BE RELEASED, DESTROY YOU ALL... HERE... AND... NOW!!!" [fallen system: engage]
soldiers: "fire!!!!"
gave: "USELESS"
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we flew away in a bad mood, one person came and go soo quickly. a big explosion happened where we left, we all know what that means. "rest in peace gaves" jame said in a low tone.
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gaves: "that's the best you got?!! ahahaha!!!"
bloodshed
madness
death........
?: "huh, you made this more difficult for me"
gave: *split* "go to hell..... haha...."
?: *sigh* "finish for me"
grim: "with pleasure"
gave: [fallen system: good night my ange-----i!(@U#RFHO(!@@#IKQL@]
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(153km remaining)
I thought it would all be like an adventure movie, but maybe I was wrong.