...
Varakiel is greeted with a familiar face after some distance.
Chatterbox: it's too bad really. had you found out it was a trap, you would have at least stood a chance of besting me. but hindsight is 20/20 i suppose.
Varakiel: (it was obvious from miles away, this guy is really arrogant.) so, do you want something from me?
Chatterbox: plenty.
Varakiel: Jeez, at least buy me a dinner first or at least a rose ....those still exist right?
Chatterbox:.....ha ha ha ha! excellent, that works out perfectly! I despise humans as well!
Varakiel: (oh brother this guy stinks!)*sigh* just get to the point.
Chatterbox: I have a few questions for you. I hope you answer honestly.
Varakiel: Go ahead then, surprise me.
Chatterbox: have the impostors working with you been enhanced in any way?
Varakiel: Why do you say so?
*snap*
Varakiel: (oh so we are playing these games uh?)you mot-,
varakiel fakes his cries of pain.
Chatterbox: I believe I said I wanted answers only. it's just you and me. no one's coming to save you.
Varakiel:(yeah sureeeee.)
Chatterbox: let's try this again. have the impostors working with you been enhanced in any way?
Varakiel: Yes, they have.
Chatterbox: where are you from?
Varakiel: (oh this one is a tough one but i'll risk it) The ark.
Chatterbox: Were you ever sick as a child?
Varakiel: (oh so he knows about vapaus, interesting.)...i believe so.
Chatterbox:....ha ha, i see. much better. All right, human, come with me.
Varakiel: where to?
Chatterbox: you don't need to know. what i will say is buckle your seatbelt. It's gonna be a bumpy ride.
...
Varakiel: May I ask you a question?
Chatterbox: what a nosy human you are. bother me again, and i'll start putting my knowledge in anatomy to good use.
Varakiel: (so someone teached him about anatomy, good to know) if you don't answer, I'll blow myself up.
Chatterbox: blow yourself up? ha ha, you're a human, not an android.
Varakiel: really?
*Boom*
when varakiel says that a small explosion occurs behind them.
Varakiel: I usually carry demolition bombs on me for some operations and also some grenades.
Varakiel then pulls out a grenade.
Varakiel: if you are well versed on humans you should know what a grenade is, 3 seconds and i go boom.
Chatterbox:....you're bluffing.
Varakiel: really?
*ping*
varakiel then pulls the pin of the grenade.
Varakiel: I just need to take off my hand of the trigger to blow it up. and I know you want me alive for some reason.
Chatterbox: very bold of you indeed. willing to gamble with your life like this. i have my ways of ensuring to take away that toy from you, you won't be able to do it.
Varakiel: And what do you think the bombs under my uniform are for?
Chatterbox: …
chatterbox stops.
Chatterbox:...fine. one question, and one question only.
Varakiel: two.
chatterbox:...fine, okay!
Varakiel: ( heh-heh so easy) you were behind that map inside the research base?
Chatterbox: yes. I knew what you were up to from the very beginning. You were like a fish just waiting to land on my hook. To be honest, I feel a bit disappointed. you all fell for it hook, line and sinker! ha ha ha.
Varakiel: How do you know the location of the ark?
Chatterbox: ha ha ha, that's easy, remember those two impostors? the ones trying to capture me?
all the scraps that they took under there told me exactly where to look.
Varakiel: How many breads have you eaten in your life?
Chatterbox: what?
Varakiel then jumps off chatterbox and throws the grenade.
*boom*
Chatterbox: what do you think you're doing?
Varakiel: payback, Fire!
*bang*
A gaping hole appears on chatterbox's body.
Chatterbox: !!
Snow white: nice job making him stand still, and you, don't you ever die?
Chatterbox: A pilgrim!?
Snow white: I'm not letting you get away this time.
*bang*
Chatterbox: Urrghh….
Chatterbox retreats a good distance.
Snow white stands in front of varakiel.
Snow white: are you all right?
Varakiel: I am fine, thank you for the assistance.
Varakiel then grabs his snapped finger and then….
*Crack*
set it back straight.
Varakiel: Thank you, Snow white.
Snow white: it's you, the commander from before…do you need help?
Varakiel: Yes, I need your help.
Snow white: Ok, I'll help you. but you have to forget what you are about to see.
Varakiel: In that case, you also should forget what you are about to see.
Varakiel's body then was surrounded by a white armor.
Varakiel: I am sorry, chatterbox, but your uses are over.
Varakiel then charges at chatterbox.
Chatterbox: what!?
*BANG*
Varakiel: This is for mihara!
Chatterbox: UGH!
Varakiel: This is for yuni!
*BANG*
Chatterbox: W-WHAT!?
Varakiel: this is for all the nikkes you have corrupted!
*BANG BANG BANG*
Chatterbox: ARGHHHHH! W-WHAT IS THIS!? A HUMAN, A HUMAN SHOUL-
Varakiel: And this is for marian!
*BOOOM*
Varakiel: *pant* *pant* *pant* snow white, finish him off before he runs away or something, and do it fast.
Snow white:....i have so many questions myself now.
Varakiel: i can respond any of them bu-
Chatterbox: damn human! I swear I will snap your body in half!
Snow white: Begone, you blasphemous creature. you do not belong here. engaging!
....
Chatterbox:...guhhhh…
Snow white: enemy neutralized.
Chatterbox falls to the ground, griggling.
Snow white: human…are you okay?
Varakiel stands beside snow white.
Varakiel: yeah, i just used too much stamina back there, it was vengeance for all the nikkes who he has hurt.
Snow white: I've got a lot of questions for you…but first…
Snow white walks to chatterbox.
Snow white: I finally caught you. I've got a lot of questions for you.
Chatterbox: spare me…
Snow white: are you begging for your life? spare me your crocodile tears, pitiful creature. What sinful force brought you into this world?
Chatterbox: please…spare…me…
Snow white: disgusting.
Chatterbox: my….queen…
Snow white: !!
the dark sky splits apart.
something descends amidst the light and darkness.
Varakiel: a nikke using a rapture armor? interesting. (and this malice, heh, it barely reach a 10% of what black alice felt for the world)
???: how pitiful you are, chatterbox. don't worry, I'll save you. Are you the one who injured my companion?
Varakiel: this voice….(lily?)
Lily: (well they did managed to corrupt marian by a lot so they probably rolled with what they had and created this….heretic)
Varakiel: (so is not marian? just a thing using a copy of her body?)
Lily: (yes, even if you call her, she would not respond to the name of marian this is just but a hollow copy, destroy it, me and the system dislike what they were trying to do to marian and this is a reminder of her fate if you didn't come varakiel.)
Snow white:...the heretics. it's you, the one who answers to the queen! a traitor who sold out all of mankind! a nikke who chose to join the raptures!
Modernia: modernia will do just fine, if you don't mind.
Snow white: I'm in luck, i've gotten one step closer to the queen.
Modernia: I ought to kill you where you stand. but for the sake of my friend, we'll have to stop here for today. I won't forget your face.
Snow white: I won't let you get away.
Modernia: you will not be facing me.
*clunk clunk clunk*
giant raptures appear in front of snow white.
Modernia: have at it, boys.
Snow white: out of my way!! oh for goodness sake….she got away!
Varakiel: wait don't go just yet,
Snow white: you, human! go home!
Varakiel: Let me go with you.
Snow white: you're of no use to me.
Varakiel: Well, I can find, how was it called modernia? and chatterbox you really believed i was enjoying a free roller coaster on his back and don't put things to help.
Snow white:..! you better not slow me down!
Snow white then rushed to pursue modernia.
Varakiel: haha (i want this girl on my squad now~!)
Varakiel then runs at the same speed of snow white.
...
Snow white: good, we haven't lost the tracks. but this snowstorm is picking up. if we don't pick up the pace, these tracks are going to vanish.
Varakiel:...hm.
Snow white: Are you tired?
Varakiel: Oh no, I am fine, I was just thinking.
Snow white:...uh huh. Let's rest for a moment.
Varakiel:.....you're not taking a no for an answer do you? *sigh* fine.
Snow white: good, i've got to make some preparations as well.
snow white and varakiel walk to a nearby building to cover from the snow storm.
….
Snow white: where there's a will, there's a way.
Varakiel: Hey, are you okay? you're pretty banged up.
Snow white: that's because my equipment isn't quite up to par.
Varakiel: How long has it been this way?
Snow white:...i don't remember. maybe since the first rapture invasion. a few decades at any rate.
Varakiel: mhn, as expected, but you can't go on like that someday it will break and you will die….
Snow white:.....who are you anyway? Why did chatterbox kidnap you?
Varakiel: Well, I have some theories myself, but I think it has something to do with my body.
Snow white: your body?
Varakiel: my blood to be precise.
Snow white: !! you have blood type Rh X!?
Varakiel: the one that creates vapaus? yep.
Snow white:....you should be careful who you tell that information to.
Varakiel: Well you helped my squad before and you saved me now so I can trust in you.
Snow white:....look, what you're doing is not something that ordinary humans are capable of….that being said i want to also ask what did you do to be able to damage chatterbox to some extent.
Varakiel: Oh that, that's a special armor that damages the nanomachines of raptures using vapaus.
Snow white: impossible no one is able to create vapaus into a usable weapon.
Varakiel: Well, I have a lot of material inside of me and I have quite the blacksmith helping me, so we figured a way out eventually.
Varakiel arms then suddenly are wearing a pair of white armor gloves….
Varakiel: You could say that when you helped me you inspired me to create something to destroy raptures.
then they suddenly disappear.
Varakiel: and it's easy to deploy too. So tell me you know something about chatterbox and modernia?
Snow white:.....i don't know those guys, but i'm pretty sure they are directly under the queen. we find them, we find the queen.
Varakiel: the queen, like the queen of raptures?
Snow White: yes, the raptures' queen. if we manage to bag her, we'll be able to usher in a new era….let's get moving before this snowstorm gets any worse.
Varakiel: alright.
....
Varakiel and Snow white then continue their pursuit of modernia and chatterbox.
Snow white: we're getting close to a whiteout. Can you keep up?
Varakiel: Like I said before, I'm fine, I am not your average human.
Snow white:...i haven't met many commanders, but i've never met one quite as raring to go as you are.
Varakiel: Well I am not a common human after all is it?….how did you meet chatterbox?
Snow white: at first, i was destroying raptures as i went along, just trying to make my way towards the queen. but i was hitting a dead end. they didn't communicate using any human language, and whatever data they had stored inside was scarce. and then, I came across chatterbox. that is…if i remember correctly. then a massive beam of light shot out from the ark.
Varakiel: the ark?
Snow white: yeah, i ran into him near the ark. a rapture who could talk. It was like an epiphany. I thought I could get some information about the queen. but that clever little sneak is always thinking about how to slip away. so our conversations have been brief. I thought I could make him say more this time, but there was an accident.
Varakiel: modernia…
Snow white: a traitor. scum….the less said about them, the better. All I can tell you is they are mankind's adversary, without a doubt. they're also my ticket to the queen. I've said too much. we need to speed up.
Varakiel: wait…you said they don't use any human language, right?
Snow white: yes.
Varakiel: Do you have any record of that language on you?
Snow white:....
Snow white doesn't know why but she feels like this human, can do something….she hopes. snow white hands varakiel a device that displays nothing he has seen before….
Varakiel: Do you mind if I study it for a bit?
Snow white:....go ahead i couldn't decipher any of it…
Varakiel: (....lily can you do it?)
Lily: (of course i can~....hmmmm….but at most it will take me 2 or 3 years…this is a complete new language after all)
Varakiel: (i can wait that time, meanwhile i can rescue nikkes and bond with them, having my own army of beautiful girls doesn't sound so bad~.) hmmm….
Varakiel takes out his phone….and fakes a call.
Varakiel: Hello, yes, it's me, did you receive the data? good...mhm.
Snow white ears perk up.
Varakiel: So tell me, can you do it?.....ugh, really?
Snow white slowly gets closer to varakiel out of curiosity.
Varakiel:.....wait you really can do it!? awesome…eh!? 3 or 2 years!?.....that's incredible!
Lily: (hehehe)
Snow white:....(could it really be?)
Varakiel then saves his phone.
Varakiel: Good news snow white, it seems my partner will be able to decipher the rapture language, the bad news is that it might take between 3 or 2 years.
Snow white: r-really!?
snow white put her hands on varakiel shoulders.
Varakiel: Mhm, I guess today is your lucky day, hahaha.
Snow white: I didn't know the ark was that advanced in technology.
Varakiel: Well the ark isn't, this is secret technology developed by my family.
Snow white: your family?
Varakiel: my name is varakiel fateburn, commander of the counters squad. nice to meet you snow white.
Snow white: fateburn?...have i heard that name before…?
Varakiel: Well, my family was rather famous 55 years ago. (lily you really gave me that deep backstory)
Lily: (of course, it is easy to write something about the past without changing the future too much.)
Varakiel: (I see.)
Snow white:.....i can't remember…. just 2 or 3 years though…..
Varakiel: Now wait snow white, we are not sure if that information you collected shows any clue about the rapture's queen.
Snow white: you're right…
Varakiel: So I have a proposition to you, come back with me to my outpost after this….
Snow white: No, I can't do that.
Varakiel: Let me finish jeez, I am not asking you to stay there…..
Suddenly the snow storm gets more wild.
Snow white: damn blizzard…the tracks will be gone soon. we need to move faster.
Varakiel: calm down, i put two trackers on modernia and chatterbox, they aren't getting away.
Snow white: when?
Varakiel: first to chatterbox when he was carrying me, and modernia when she turned around.
Snow white:...but still we can't get too far away from them….are you okay?
Varakiel: is a bit chilly but nothing I can't handle.
Snow white:....even if i told you to go back you couldn't go back if you wanted to, should we find another shelter?
Varakiel: hmm…let's keep going, if I can't continue I will tell you.
Snow white: very well.
...
Varakiel: I want to ask you something, have you ever thought about going to the ark?
Snow white: …no. we haven't completed our mission.
Varakiel: I see, but you know you can't keep going like this, like I said one day your equipment will fail, even nikkes have to take a rest to lick their wounds and heal up.
Snow white:...and even if I went there….we know nothing about the ark.
Varakiel: Absolutely nothing?
Snow white: yes. not a single thing. we don't have the slightest idea about. what kind of environment that place is. so we can't go to the ark. Even if they wanted me, I still wouldn't go. We are but pilgrims wandering the frozen lands, looking for a glimmer of hope.
Varakiel: but even wanderers have to lay down snow white, you might be a nikke, but your soul need to lie down and rest…..that's why i invite you to my outpost, there you can rest, there you can maintain your weapons, that's what is it for, a sanctuary for nikkes, tired, broken, hopeless, mind broken, amnesic, i welcome all nikkes.
Snow white:....a sanctuary for nikkes?
Varakiel: you see, my dream is rather simple, i want to give this world hope, this world has been hurt beyond repair by raptures, but there's still a future, for humans and nikkes. that's what i fight for, a future full of hope, hope that nikkes can use to build the future. a future without raptures.
Snow white:.....hope…
snow white looks at varakiel directly.
Varakiel: snow white, prepare, modernia and chatterbox are almost on our sight.
Snow white: Ro- understood.
Varakiel: (heh-heh)
…..
Snow white:...found them. it's a heretic and chatterbox. Is she repairing chatterbox? they're awfully chummy, aren't they?
*cha-chink*
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Snow white: I'm going in guns blazing. you better find somewhere to hide.
Varakiel: wait..
an anti-tank rifle appears in varakiel hands.
Varakiel: You shoot modernia, and I go for chatterbox.
Snow white:.....very well.
Varakiel:....*inhales*
Varakiel then counts to 3 with his fingers to signal snow white.
3.
*click*
2
Snow white:....
1
Varakiel:...fire!
*Bang bang*
two bullets are shot
Modernia: ah! you just don't get it, do you?
Chatterbox: arghhh!!
Modernia quickly arrives in front of snow white.
Snow white: when did you..!?
Modernia: I was merciful enough to let you go once before. out of sympathy for your poor wretched souls, destined to forever wander this cold, dark planet alone.
Snow white: enough!
Modernia:...ah, I see. you've had enough, haven't you? that's why you came to me. you want out.
Snow white: enough of your blasphemy! traitor!
Modernia: in that case, then allow me…to put you out of your misery.
*bang*
Snow white shoots her rifle again.
unlike before on their surprise attack her bullet explodes before it touches modernia.
Snow white: a magnetic field? She can do that all on her own?
Modernia: I'll admit that you caught us off guard before. Unfortunately, it seems that your equipment is somewhat rusty. What a shame.
modernia then wipes her wings to hit snow white.
Varakiel: hmph!!
Varakiel, using all his strength, manages to push Snow white out of the attack.
Varakiel: I told you. you need maintenance.
Modernia: oh, a human protecting a nikke? Now that's something you don't see everyday…poor thing.
Varakiel: (lily load vapaus in my pistol)
Lily: (done~)
Varakiel: Snow white give me support, i can evade those attacks but you don't.
Snow white: what nonsense are you saying? get behind me now!
Varakiel: Snow white, believe in me!
Varakiel then walks to modernia.
Varakiel: I don't know who do you think you are….(has promy and papi finished "that" already lily?)
Lily:(ohhhhh are you using that? niceeee I want one too~!)
a cylinder tube appears in varakiel hand.
*Psshhew*
a white lightsaber comes from the cylinder.
Varakiel: (is weird to use this but since it's a sword, there should be no problem!)
*Nnnnnnn*
Varakiel: ( i might not practice the force, but i can compensate with magic.) but using the voice and body of my dear friend.
*Vrãu, vrãu*
Varakiel: is not something I can forgive.
Modernia: oh what is this? a new human toy? wah ha ha ha! I want it, it looks fun!
Varakiel: HA!
like it wasn't there varakiel saber goes through the magnetic field of modernia.
Modernia: what!?
Modernia then attacks varakiel with her wings!
*Vrãu, vrãu*
*BANG*
like it was butter the lightsaber cuts through them.
Snow white: incredible….what i am doing, i must look so pathetic standing still like this.
Snow white then rushes for her rifle.
*bang*
Modernia: why you…!
Varakiel then runs to snow white side.
Varakiel: good job snow white, are you ready? If so, let's go.
Snow white: yes….commander!
Varakiel then rushed ahead.
Varakiel:.....snow white, shoot a bullet to the sky.
Snow white:...roger.
*bang*
Varakiel: Alright while the cavalry arrives it's just you and me, cover me!
Snow white:....leave it to me!
Varakiel: ha!
*Vrãu, vrãu*
Modernia: s-stay away from here!
modernia pulls back quickly afraid of varakiel mysterious weapon.
*bang*
Modernia: urgh!
Snow white bullet hits modernia's leg.
*rat-tat-tat*
Suddenly 3 extra weapons are shoot.
Rapi: commander!
Neon: master!
Anis: commander!
Rapi: Sorry we're late. we saw the signal and came as quickly as we could.
Varakiel: Good job, now prepare for combat.
Anis:...commander….just how many weapons you have.
Varakiel: not enough!
Neon: master! Is that a lightsaber!? like an actual functional lightsaber!?
Anis: And what are those? don't tell me that's a pilgrim and a heretic. holy crap, what are the chances of seeing these two things together!?
Varakiel: 100% with me around! hahaha! counters let's destroy this heretic!
Anis: roger! What do you think, pilgrim?
Snow white: why not.
Neon: Let's end this thing!
Rapi: engaging!
Varakiel:.....let's do this!
Varakiel then begins to shine.
-Ominous Cross-
Varakiel: (oh right, haha,) ha!
Varakiel charges ahead!
Neon: music again?
Anis:....i'm gonna kill my boss after this, the commander even took his hobby of shining for some reason.
Rapi:....i don't think this music is his doing.
Snow white:....just what is he?
Modernia: human, impostors!! dieeee!!!
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