Muvluv:Cutting Canon (WarframexMuvluv)

dragonkid11 · Dec 20, 2014

Sorry for about the massive delay, I just went to a food fair just in time to get all the discounted items before someone else cleaned the booths out.

Of course I got stomachache from that.

Last part before next chapter

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Chapter 4-5

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For a room made for VIP, it's certainly extravagant. The white wall clearly hadn't seen much uses, but it was still cleaned regularly by the janitor. There's a boxy TV on a wooden round table, right beside a small telephone to call in room service. There's also a wooden rack for books of assorted taste, and of course, a small refrigerator with expensive looking alcohol bottles. And the private toilet looked so clean even the seat itself was sparking despite being made of plastic.

Of course, the Tennos didn't need any of that (Maybe except for alcohol, and the TV), they just needed a room to temporary act as liaisons between the main clan and the Earth governments. Now they just needed to waste their time off until tomorrow when they destroy Sadogashima hive.

Saryn was lying on the king sized bed, staring at the TV, apparently other than this United State of America, pretty much every single country was panicking about the BETA. Ember decided to read some book, somehow there was a years old magazine on TSF showcase. Vauban went outside, probably to inspect on the local TSF. And Oberon, as the leader of the group, was currently communicating back to the clan base.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "I assume everything over there is fine since you are not 30000 kilometers away from the base on your Liset?"
[Cleansing Light of Ground Walker][Oberon]: "The local took the first contact a lot more better than everyone else we met. They didn't even thought of shooting us before asking."

A hearty laughter came from beyond the void.
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Ha, anything else you like to report?"
[Cleansing Light of Ground Walker][Oberon]: "The meeting took some hours on finalizing our terms and conditions to their own capability, and then we all pop the champagne and drank it. Though I wonder why they looked like they saw ghost when I drank the champagne."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "We probably missed some common senses somewhere, anyway, anything else?"
[Cleansing Light of Ground Walker][Oberon]: "Well, they gave us this fine room for one night and that's it. Oh, and Vauban went poking around....oh, one more thing. There's this Dr. Yuuko Kouzuki, she's sharp, so be careful of what you say when you meet her the next day."

It was agreed on both sides that on the day of retaking Sadogashima, the leader of the clan will meet with the leaders of Japan on finalized the contract, as a matter of respect.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Yeah yeah, how much I can say anyway? Not like I'm actually good at talking."
[Cleansing Light of Ground Walker][Oberon]: "That's exactly what I afraid of...things will be just fine in the end anyway, see you, Oberon out."

Excalibur felt a snap in the void and Oberon was gone from his perspective. He could only sign from that statement.

"Things will be just fine in the end, eh?"

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For a group of aliens that brutally killed the BETA in horrified ways AND had a extremely terrifying origin that defied all laws of nature, they sure were a pleasant group. Certainly a living proof that the Russian was truly more emotionless than aliens.

Walking down the long empty hallway, Dr.Yuuko once again thought of Tennos.

Mysterious, yet sometimes have a complete lack of subtle. They seemed more like a group of assassins. Assassins of mass destruction.

To repeatedly use advanced technology in even the mundane tasks, such as drinking champagne right through the advanced combat helmet. Who on Earth would use matter phasing technology just to save the trouble of opening your helmet!??! Then again they were aliens...and opening the helmet might also expose themselves to danger such as possibly dangerous Earth pathogens.

Unknowingly, she walked into the hanger for the TSF. Usually, the engineers were still doing maintenance on the TSF even late at this night. With their high number of moving part, the TSF was quite a hanger queen. But instead, from the walkway, she saw the head engineer talking to one of the Tenno, the blue one specifically.

"So air superiority simply just ceased to exist after the Laser-class was introduced?"
"It might not be much for your technology, but those damn lasers pack a punch to our war machines. Even laser coating could only lasted seconds against those lasers."
"Hmm....maybe I could help you on that one."
"How about something even more practical?"

Vauban turned back to the voice and looked up to Dr. Yuuko, walking down the metal stair.
"Ho? May I ask what is it that you were suggesting?"
"There's was a project I need to complete for the sake of humanity, do you think we could make a contract for you to help in the project?"
"That would depend on the difficulty of the task, I would call myself a man of adventurous journey and in fact would offer my service for free if the task was of insurmountably difficulty."

There was a smile of Yuuko's face, it was her usual sinister one.

"Congratulation, you are hired."
"Hired!? HA! I'm in, what was the project about? A true way of contacting BETA? A gigantic warmachine with impossible amount of weaponry? Or just exploiting BETA weakness? The name is Vauban, my lady."
"Ho? Vauban huh...You have much...to learn."

As they both looked at each other rather passionately, the head engineer watched them could only think of one thing.

Shit, they are multiplying!!!

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Darkness, was a way to describe this place. Whoever made this place really want to express his mysteriousness. After all, what could be more mysterious than calling himself the Master.

"A group of aliens that just so happen to fight victoriously against the true God of the world? Madness, more like a group of sciencefreaks made by the damn Americans."

With this darkness, it was really hard to notice other occupants of the room even just one table away. But it quite clear that the man was around 40 and was a citizen of Canada, before it became a radioactive wasteland.

"We need to deal with them before they made too much of a difference to Japan."

A feminine voice came from the other end, sounding young with a Middleeastern accent.

"Indeed, we need to eliminate them, is the sleeper agents in Japan ready?"

To the left of the female and right of the male, was another middle age man sounding like a French.

"I can guarantee you that my men are ready at your command, Master."

A Korean accented voice from a young lady was heard right next to the red haired man, who now became the center of attention.

The only light source in the room, the TV screen showing the latest news in Japan, shined up the red haired German.

He looked at the TV, which showed off the physic breaking actions of the Tennos as they ripped the BETA apart with their power.

"Finish them."
"As you ordered, my Master."

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"!?!??!"

Whatever it was, it alerted everyone in the room. Even the TV screen was flickering from whatever happened.

The TV screen stopped to flicker, as silence moved into the room.

But even that was broken, repeated fire of assault rifles can be heard, muffled through the wall of the compound. The sound getting louder and louder, their men and women were definitely being wiped out by something.

Now it's close enough that the firefight happened right outside the room.
"WHAT THE HELL IS TH-"
"SHIT SHIT SH-"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-"
"MOM PLEASE HELP M-"

All voices were silence by a loud gruesome sound, just as their weapon ran dry from the firing.

Whatever it was, it's right outside the room.

Then the TV screen shut down.

There was a flicker of light from outside of the room as the door was kicked open, there's a black figure in the doorway, holding a head of a blonde haired woman in one hand, and a massive scythe.

In the next moment as he blinked his eye, the door was closed and room was in darkness again. But a shot from a pistol changed that, whatever it was, it's fast, it sliced each bullets from the pistol, creating a flash each time.

Then the pistol clicked as it ran out bullet. A sinister laughter was echoing through our the room as everyone in the room draw out their guns.

"Y̛̦̠̱̙͖͈͢o̩̼̜͙̦͞u͏̰͚̻͇̻̲̘͝ ̙̀f̴̜̣̥͍͢i̸̺̱̲̯ͅr̷̫̤͚s̖͔̮t̰̰̖̫̰̀."

The Frenchy yelled out as his arm, the one holding the pistol, was flying through the room, spraying a trail of blood just before his head rolled on to the ground. Another flash came as the Israeli woman fired off a whole clip from her uzi, all the bullets was turned into flash. For just 3 second, the figure just stood there and blocked the storm of 9mm. For just that 3 second, he had a clearer look at the black figure than he ever could.

His face, there's no eye or mouth or nose, just a red blank diamond with layers of lines beneath it. Then the fire stopped, no because she ran out of bullet, but because she went through a massive weight loss as she was sliced in half.

"Ṕ̸̨̦̙̲a̡̡͈͖̞̭͈̕t͚͕͇̦̘̱̱̤͉͘̕͝ḥ̨͇̳͔͈͓̠̦̀͞ę̷͎̰t̼͎i̲͈͇̠̲ͅͅç̩."

The Korean woman fired her pistol as well, but she draw out her combat knife just as she saw the figure coming with his scythe. She briefly wondered why her eyes were blinded, she had no idea her knife just shattered from the impact. There's only a moment left to think as her body was cut vertically in half, covering the Canadian with a huge spray of blood.

There's only so much one could do when his eye was blinded by blood spray from his former comrade, you could only do so much as well when all of your limbs were cut out, leaving you crawling on the floor with your bloody stumps. A final blow through his back finished his misery.

The TV screen now turned back on after 8 seconds.

The room was now lightened up slightly and the Master can see the result of the fighting. It was brutal, horrifying and gory. For the first ever since a very long time, he felt fear. Even if he had no fear in death, it was another thing entirely to see gruesome deaths happening right before your eyes.

He now saw the black figure, standing right in front of him as his legs gave way, felling onto the floor. It was intimating, with all the massive blood stain on its naked body. He didn't know what it was, but the way the blood stain vaporized and mixed into the cloud of smoke surrounding its body made it looked like Death itself.

"What are you..."

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And the Master was no more.

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And then we won't see him again for a very very long time.
Next chapter, impending doom of Sadogashima-chan.

Fallenblades643 · Dec 20, 2014

STALKER-CHAN~!

UGYU~

Valks just love to give him hugs.

Clawed, hysterical hugs. But hugs all the same.

Blackmuse · Dec 21, 2014

The world are worst enuff with BETA. Please dont bring corpus and grinner to this world >.<

captainmelgar · Dec 21, 2014

but what about the other syndicates? i can see new loka jumping at the chance too get "pure" genetics to study

dragonkid11 · Dec 22, 2014

Just edit some minor detail to show you guys that it really is Stalker that trashed the Allegiance headquarter.

He really didn't like others to kill his targets before he get to it.

And also, yes the syndicate will be involved sooner or later.

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Chapter 5-1

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So this is how standing on a naval ship feels like...

Standing on board the Kii-class battleship, Owari of the Imperial Navy 2nd fleet, for the first time ever, Oberon truly felt the periodic shaking of the naval vessel as ocean wave smashed against its sides. He looked down from the rail, a floor of moving blueness that stretched to the horizon, splashing against the massive steel wall of the battleship.

"I presume there's not much water up there?"

While staring at the blue wave, Oberon heard a man voice to his right. It was Shogun Tsunemori and 3 of his red royal guards, who was also accompanied by three white royal guards.

"Yes, this is truly a entirely new experience for me."

It's a completely different experience compared to ship moving in space. All one can feel up there was just silent and the lack of even the smallest movement. The calmness of space was just not the same to the violent wave of the sea.

"The operation will start soon, would you mind to join the rest in the command room?"
"That's would be wonderful."

Walking through the maze-like interior of the ship, it reminded Oberon of those cramped spaces in the Grineer vessel. It was necessary to maximise the usage of space in the ship, but this one took to a whole new level. It's clearly designed for the short average height of the Japanese, which would undoubtedly be a advantage if the ship was boarded by foreigner who tended to be much higher than the Japanese.

Thankfully they didn't take Rhino along, he would have problem just to walk through the tiny doorway. The other thing Oberon spotted was that every single personnel in the ship saluted to the Shogun as he walked pass them. He saw the men didn't do it out of fear, but respect, truly he's the supreme military commandeer of Japan.

After a walk that took forever, they finally reached the command room. Seriously, just how does people get to the escape boat in time anyway!?!? He quickly left that thought aside and scanned the room. There's consoles all over the massive room, as the operator looked over the data and contacted whatever unit it was on the other side of the line. One notable feature of the room was the massive screen right in the middle of the wall, showing the map of the Sadogashima island. He also noticed a man wearing a blue military uniform and a ship captain hat, definitely the captain of this vessel.

"Oberon, this is Captain Iwazaki of this vessel."
"It's an honor to meet you, I appreciate your gratefulness for allowing us to be on board your vessel."
"No, it's an honor to have you on board my vessel, Tenno. It was a personal request from the Shogun after all to oversee the operation from my ship."
"Now if you excuse me, I would like to call the rest of my comrade into the room."

Oberon quickly walked out of the room, and the captain changed his expression just as quickly to a stern look.

"Your highness, may I ask?"
"I already know you have doubt on them, but continue."
"It's simply not wise to just gamble on some newcomers, your highness. While their goal might be beneficial to our cause, that doesn't meant we should just send an entire fleet alone unsupported."
"Captain, we have lost."

It was when all eyes in the room looked at the Shogun. Even his calm red royal guards were stunned by this statement.

"Your highness, that-!!!"
"We failed at Cheorwon,and as the BETA reached here, we lost a third of the citizen of Japan. The best of our army was dying at a staggering rate against them just to defend our homeland, and we lost the capital even before we bombarded it with our own fleet just to stop their advance."
"Your highness, I....forgive us for being so useless."
"No, forgive me for being a failure of a commandeer. Now, the American moved back to their homeland to prepare for the worst as well. We only have these newcomers to depend on. Pray that they can bring miracles to this land. Everyone, I want you to do your best in this operation."
"Yes, you highness!!!"

All the operators immediately went back to their station as their relay the information with spirit in their tone. The Shogun closed his eye and took a deep breath.

They fall from the above after all, maybe they could bring miracle to this land...

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[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Ready up, we got our first job to finish and we aint gonna be late to it."

Excailbur, already up and readied with a skana and a braton on his back and a pair of akbronco on his waist, calling out to his comrade who were still eating their morning meal.

[Storming Wind of Thousand Cuts][Ash]: "This conflicting timeline was annoying as hell."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Not like the universe have ear to hear your complain. Well, neither do I, so get up!"
[Unstoppable Invincible Impeding Moving Object][Rhino]: "Can we do it tomorrow?I'm sure we can do it tomorrow"
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "FINISH YOUR DAMN COLOSSAL MEAL, RHINO. THIS IS MORE TIME RESTRICTED THAN A GODDAMN ALERT. WE NEED TO GET THERE WITHIN 10 MINUTES."

He then stared at a non-existing watch on his wrist for just a second.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "We only have 9 minutes and 45 seconds left, if you are late, you don't get to punch stuff."

Rhino immediately panicked and tried to eat his meal in time, though it's just barely possible for him to finish his king-sized 20-layers burger in time.

It was a time to use the base command room again as Excalibur switched the hologram on with his comrades gathered in front of him.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Today, mark the day as we sent ourselves into a new world. Where apparently giant monsters and robots exist. Today, we gonna kill us the hive of a monster."

The hologram of the alternative Earth zoomed onto the nation of Japan and zoomed again to the Sdogashima island.

[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "Is it just me or does it look like the Milky Way?"
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Yeah...it does look like WAIT THAT'S NOT THE POINT."

Damn Nyx, always screwing with people mind.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "The BETA hive on Sadogashima was what the local called a phase 2 hive. Apparently, that meant the hive won't have any laser-class strain in it."
[Obsessive Attraction over Immense Firepower][Mag]: "WHAT!? Then what is the point of this mission!?"
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "To show that we can kick ass and chew bubblegum, and we had plenty of asses to kick in that hive. Estimated maximum number from the local was close to half a million. And to show that we are capable of handling it, we will once again send in four people only into the hive."

Already in the small crowd, Excalibur can see one tiny white hand, lifting high up and waving to get his attention. But he ignored that for now.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "First, Ash. I expect lots of close range combat in the tunnel of the hive. So you are in."
[Storming Wind of Thousand Cuts][Ash]: "YES, HELL YEAH. Finally I can meet some honest to God living Nipponese!!!"

Once again, Excalibur saw the tiny white hands, this time two of them waving around like a fan in a concert. But he ignored that for now.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Next, Volt. You got your massive amount of energy supply prepare?"
[Lightning Fury of Speeding Blueness][Volt]: "Of course!!"
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Good, the team would need that. I also have an intel on some kind of reactor-strain that produce energy and G-element for the hive, probably have so much energy that it will zap anyone within vacinity to ash. So you need to handle that one."
[Lightning Fury of Speeding Blueness][Volt]: "It will be done.ButyesIfinallygettobeonthesurfaceyeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh."

Again, Excalibur now saw the one with those tiny white hands, jumping up and down among the crowd to get his attention. But he also ignored that as well.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Next, Banshee."

Everyone in the crowd immediately looked back to a blue feminine warframe with strange proportion, who is still cleaning her rifle while completely oblivious to her environment. It took her 10 second to notice what was happening.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "BANSHEE, WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME."
[Deafeningly Wailing of Muted Silencer][Banshee]: "..."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "..."
[Deafeningly Wailing of Muted Silencer][Banshee]: "..."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Dot dot dot."
[Deafeningly Wailing of Muted Silencer][Banshee]: "Wait, you are nominating ME!?"
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Of fucking course, finally. Your expertise will be needed for this mission, the team need to go underground, remember? You need to use your sonar power to locate the reactor-strain, as well as warning everyone of incoming BETA, do you understand!?"
[Deafeningly Wailing of Muted Silencer][Banshee]: "Y-YES!"
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Next, N-"
[Incoming Explosion of Absolute Awesomeness][Nova]: "YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!"

A white tiny feminine figure was seen jumping up and down like a kid in a candy store. She's clearly very excited about this.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Erm..Nova..."
[Incoming Explosion of Absolute Awesomeness][Nova]: "I CAN FINALLY EXPLODE THOSE GIANT MEAT BAGS!!!"
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Nova..."
[Incoming Explosion of Absolute Awesomeness][Nova]: "I CAN'T WAIT TO EXPLODE ALL THE THINGS."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Nova!!!"
[Incoming Explosion of Absolute Awesomeness][Nova]: "ALL THOSE MASS THAT WILL BE CONVERTED INTO UNSTABLE PARTICLE, THIS IS GONNA BE GOOD!!!"
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "NOVA!!!"
[Incoming Explosion of Absolute Awesomeness][Nova]: "Yes?"
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "I'm...erm....you didn't get chosen."
[Incoming Explosion of Absolute Awesomeness][Nova]: "......what."

And immediately her shoulder just dropped down all the uplifting spirit she had before.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "I wanted to say Nyx."
[Incoming Explosion of Absolute Awesomeness][Nova]: "Ohhh......."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "We need her to capture some living BETA to study them."
[Incoming Explosion of Absolute Awesomeness][Nova]: "You meant I can't explode them all even if I get there?"
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Erm....no..."
[Incoming Explosion of Absolute Awesomeness][Nova]: "Okay....."

With a cough to his right fist, Excalibur cleared out his voice.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Okay, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!?MOVE NOW!!!"

The four nominated Tennos quickly moved to the hanger and prepared for the operation.

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Sorry, explosion denied.

okais · Dec 22, 2014

Poor Nova.

captainmelgar · Dec 22, 2014

why do i get the feeling volt is obsessed with coffee?

Blackmuse · Dec 22, 2014

Please stop using bigger front for shouting. Its anoying and it remind me of stupid dota player -.-"

dragonkid11 · Dec 23, 2014

Ya know, I said this is a crack fic, but I guess when you actually write the fic it will be different.

Oh well, the humanity will be conditioned to the insanity of Warframe sooner of later.

I guess I will make a chapter in the future where the Tenno was serious about saving life when all the human was like, oh it's the Tenno and their silly antics.

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Chapter 5-2

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The food court, normally the place would have been empty considering there's an operation to be conducted soon, and it's not exactly rush hour either. But having two actual aliens eating in the food court certainly attracted far more attention from the crews than necessary.

[Judgement by Look Equal Death][Saryn]: "W-why is everyone looking at us!?"
[Watch as the World Burns][Ember]: "Because we are awesome?"
[Judgement by Look Equal Death][Saryn]: "...I don't think that's the reason."
[Watch as the World Burns][Ember]: "It's not like it's a bad thing!"

Ember knew damn well what the real reason are, but still to see her friend to be completely oblivious to two gigantic reasons on her chest was hilarious. Ah, Saryn, the best teasing target ever. Seriously though, why the heck she didn't change her warframe if she didn't like the attention so much?

Still, the crews really were staring a bit too much. Guess the first thing they thought when they heard there will be intelligent warrior aliens on board was not one fat blue alien with the accent of your uncle, one white alien that literally make everyone around him thought of divinity eventhough he's atheist, and two ridiculously hot female aliens, pun intended.

[Cleansing Light of Ground Walker][Oberon]: "Greeting, Ember,Sary-gosh you look terrible."
[Judgement by Look Equal Death][Saryn]: "Take me out of here now!!!"

Oops, guess the staring was too much for Saryn. While action speak louder than word, it's not quite the same with Tenno. We didn't act much in emotion but the void was crazy with feelings and thoughts from just a simple projection from Saryn.

[Cleansing Light of Ground Walker][Oberon]: "Where's Vauban anyway?"

And the door just so happened to be dramatically opened as Vauban walked through the opened door way with Dr. Yuuko in hand. Oh shit, everyone in the team thought, he got himself another lady into his harem.

"And if we just set the pressure to 800atm, the super carbon can now be a form of dry lubricant. No longer will machinery be oiled just to run at 100% efficiency, just put carbon!"
"I can't believe I haven't thought of that, that will save at least 5% of hydrocarbon production!"
"Sorry if I interrupt your...science speak but we have an operation to watch over, Dr. Yuuko."

Oberon coughed into his right fist to grab their attention, standing between them also help as well.

"Ah yes, the operation, let go!!"

[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "Come on, Oberon. I'm just helping the situation."
[Cleansing Light of Ground Walker][Oberon]: "I know it's better to gain the trust of Doctor Kouzuki, but gaining her affection was another thing entirely.
[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "It...kind of come with the territory."
[Cleansing Light of Ground Walker][Oberon]: "Your funeral if you can't handle Valkry and Nova as well."

As the team and Dr. Yuuko walked back to the command room, Ember couldn't help but snicker at the shitstorm that will happen when they go back.

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[Ordis][Operator:Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Liset]: "Reactor online, sensor online, weapon online, all systems nominal."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Ordis did you just....nevermind."

Five Lisets flew into the atmosphere, grinding against the ozone layer, fighting against the intense heat and pressure just as the small stingray-shaped stealth craft flew down to Japan at mach 50. While one would be surprised by the mere common usage of such advanced technology, it was just another normal insertion for the Tenno.

[Ordis][Operator:Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Liset]: "Stealth system fully operational, laser-class will not spot us."

And if it was, the Lisets would be under fire and evasive maneuver will be engaged. The stealth system really did work against everything.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Alright, I will repeat once again, Ash, lead your team down onto the surface and await my signal to start the operation, clear?"
[Storming Wind of Thousand Cuts][Ash]: "Crystal."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Anyone want to speak?"

A round of "No" answered his question.

Let see...sword,check...some prepared phrases,check...dessert,check...and a good face with a smile,close enough.

After the reentry, the island of Sadogashima was clearly in the view right at the horizon, as well as a fleet of naval warship moving close to the island, just right outside of the laser-class range.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Lets go!"

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"Your highness, the clan lord have arrived."
"Good, bring him in."

The first thing the Shogun noticed, was that despite being the clan lord of this group of BETA killing demi-divine alien warrior, the 'warframe' as told by Oberon yesterday, was oddly simple. It's not even flashy colored like the others, just a simply grey. Probably just his imagination, but he had a feeling that there's not much different between him and....

"I'm Shogun Tsunemori Saionji,supreme military commandeer of the Empire of Japan, it's an honor to meet the man himself."
"I'm Excalibur, the clan lord of [Clan First Born], shall we begin the operation?"

Ah yes, Excalibur, it's was kind of disappointing to the Shogun that he's didn't named himself after a legendary Japanese sword, but Clan First Born? That's a simply name that went true to the point.

"Captain, begin phase 1."
"Yes, your highness. Being the operation!"

As the word was given by the Shogun himself, the operator quickly relayed the information to the rest of the fleet. The first phase of the plan was to bombard the south-western coastline of the island, which was rather close to the hive itself to establish a defense line on the beach in order for TSFs and TSAs to resupply and fight against the BETA. All while the Tennos fought the BETA from the within, attracting all the attention toward them to give an easier time to the TSF and TSA pilots of Japan.

"This was different to the silent we had when we have our own operation."
"How many men and women have sworn loyalty to you,Excalibur?"
"20 or so."

That's...a rather low number compared to what the Shogun had thought of, then again they were absurdly powerful.

"I assumed you didn't need much men and women when they all worth an army each. But here on Earth, men are just men and so are women. We need number on our side and we need to coordinate them."

It's quite clear that they were fighting a battle in this very room, as the operators had to be calm and transmit the correct information in a clear manner to the soldiers in the front line.

"Well, then I shall get my men to start."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Operation started, let's go hunting."

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[Storming Wind of Thousand Cuts][Ash]: "So, do we do it the flashy way or the stealthy way?"

The first one to speak was a brown warframe user, Ash. Most part of his body was simple, just like Excalibur, but part of it was covered in chitin-like armor, and his helmet certainly looked like an insect.

[Lightning Fury of Speeding Blueness][Volt]: "Flashy, definitely flashy."

The second one to speak was a ocean blue warframe user, Volt. The warframe was sleek and thin, emphasized speed over all else. There's also a large piece of synthetic cloth that extend from his back to the back of his legs, designed to reduce air drag as much as possible.

[Deafeningly Wailing of Muted Silencer][Banshee]: "...stealth..."

The third one to speak was another blue warframe user, Banshee. As a female warframe, the suit had a rather strange proportion. It's not a suit that emphasized the asset, the strange thinnest of the limbs and the large helmet gave off an even more alien feel as the suit stealthiness brought dread to her enemy.

[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "Let's make it as loud as possible."

The fourth one to speak was a grey warframe user, Nyx. It was a simple design, just like Excalibur. But rather than being based on the aspect of peak human physical capability, it's based on the aspect of peak human mental capability. The suit was capable of bending mind just like Excalibur would bend metal under his strength.

[Storming Wind of Thousand Cuts][Ash]: "Well, that's a tie then."
[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "Technically, flashiness won because Excalibur told us to show off."
[Storming Wind of Thousand Cuts][Ash]: "...dammit, why no one appreciate stealthiness these days!? Stupid kid and their triple forma-ed guns and shits....."
[Lightning Fury of Speeding Blueness][Volt]: "Then it's decided, flashiness!!!"
[Deafeningly Wailing of Muted Silencer][Banshee]: "..."

Weaving through the rain of bombardment as the 2nd fleet surpressed the BETA horde, the Tenno prepared to attack.

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dragonkid11 · Dec 25, 2014

Alright, the Future Christmas Omake that I have promised, try to catch all the spoiler!

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The Yokohama base was one of the few newly constructed base that have incorporated advanced Corpus, Tenno and BETA technology in its massive structure. Large open parking space for incoming spacecraft, numerous hangers for its own military force of TSFs, tanks and powered armors, a deep underground facilities and hanger for the HAPs(Heavy Assault Platform), nothing unusual for a base made from a remnant of a BETA hive, well, at least a brief one.

But among the most interesting advanced facility newly added to the base, was the hard light training field. A variant of void technology, the massive 1x1 kilometers field have hard light emitter platforms mounted all over the field in order to simulate even the slightest minor detail to the fullness. It's capable of turning a entire field of nothing, into the ruined city of a former metropolis, to a scarred landscape of a desert battlefield, to even the heavily entrenched coastline of a BETA territory.

With the structure was made of hard light, the pilot can felt the terrain like it was the real deal. Not that it will cost death even if the pilot accidentally crash into it, sensors mounted all over the field can quickly detect a incoming collision and maximize the survivability of the pilot by softening the terrain. And in the case of BETA invasion (again), the hard light field can easily go into extremely lethal mode, so much that not even the corpse will remain. Unless the BETA dig upward and smashed the hard light emitter, in which case it will take months to repair because its ridiculously expensive cost for a prototype.

Like I said before, the field can simulate anything, including....

"Wow, it's so pretty."

Second Lieutenant Miki Tamase looked toward the massive pine tree in the center of the field, standing far higher than any other pine trees at the edge of the field, decorated with countless light bulbs and shiny plastic balls, with a large golden star stood brilliantly on the top of the tree.

With a massive flash-constructed glass dome covered the hard light field, the only snow landed on the field was artificial snow, made to withstand the 27 degree Celsius room temperatue, way higher than that on the outside.

"To think the Doctor managed to get permission to do something, then again she is the Dr. Kouzuki..."

Second Lieutenant Chizuru Sakaki arrived on the scene. Well yes, it's true that the Dr. Kouzuki and Dr. Vauban, or to be more precise, Dr. Grenada designed and made the the first ever hard light field on this large scale, it's still quite irresponsible to use the training field as something as simple as a party palace...

Then again, it is Dr. Kouzuki and Dr. Grenada, they have all the right to do whatever the hell they want after they saved humanity more time than a human fingers could count.

"Eh? I don't think it's bad at all. Good thing that Shirogane mentioned this."

Second Lieutenant Mikoto Yoroi was the next to come. It seemed that Shirogane always have the right idea at the right time. The Yakisoba bread, plan to utterly destroy Alad V once and for all, refugee liberation and finally the suggestion of celebrating Christmas, even when he wasn't entirely sure what Christmas was, strange. The Clan First Born Tennos went nut from all the preparation and even the rest of the A-01 was excited about this event.

"I think the celebration is great, but....why do we have to wear this?"

Second Lieutenant Meiya Mitsurugi awkwardly walked toward them. Of course, such massive celebration of an event didn't exactly come without a cost. While all the A-01 members will come to celebrate, it seemed once again the Valkyries will be the showcase of this event, being an almost all female flights, all members have to wear the ridiculously skin revealing Santa lady dress.

Though it probably almost worth it to see Shirogane in Santa Claus costume, almost. From the briefing, Dr. Yuuko mentioned that she spent lots of time experimenting the costume on Sergeant Marimo, so condolence to her as well...

"...It will be great if Santa Claus come right now."

Second Lieutenant Kei Ayamine said, clearly tempting the scenario to happen. It will be absolutely great if a red sleigh, carrying literal tons of bag of gift on its back, dragged by 6 two-legged Moas with red glowing light blubs on their head, just so happened to smash through the glass dome, with the occupants saying "Ho ho oh shit" while the sleigh screaming down at high speed, smashed into the ground right in front of them, sending presents and wooden splinters all over the place and crashed into the gigantic pine tree.

And of course that just happened. Kei Ayamine was briefly disappointed that she didn't brought out her digital camera quick enough.

"Just a simple test drive, right. Takeru Shirogane, I have to admit your TSF piloting skill was unparalleled to even some Tenno pilots, but in everything else, you are shit!!"

Said by a giant white Tenno, wearing the Frost warframe while wearing another red coat over it as if for redundancy with a large grey beard hanging from his helmet. Another Tenno, one wearing the Ember warframe and Santa Lady dress dragged him out of the remnant of the red sleigh, apparently she removed the wireframe on her thigh to properly wear the dress.

"It's not really my fault when the only thing control the stupid Moas is a piece of rope, at least put a steering wheel in the sleigh!"

One robotic fist punched out of the sleigh, and a young Japanese man pop out of the sleigh, along with a short pink-haired cyborg, also wearing the Santa lady dress (Seriously, just how many did Dr. Yuuko ordered?) dragged him out of the sleigh.

"Hi, Shirogane, Kagami."
"Hi, Sakaki, Tamase, Mitsurugi, Ayamine and what's your face."
"Eh!? That's just cruel..."Gosh, look at Mikoto, it quite funny how someone who's completely oblivious to important detail was easily hurt when the reverse happened.

"Just kidding, Yoroi. Where's the rest?"Sumika Kagami said, while giving off a smile like that of a puppy.

"They are probably still preparing, the party is still half an hour earlier. Tsukuyomi."

A red feminine warframe immediately landed down from somewhere in the tree, along with three white Royal Guards appearing from thin air.

"Yes?"
"Is everyone ready on that side?"
"Almost, the food are almost done cooking for the buffet, the decoration on the stage is done, and the cake is definitely ready."
"Thank you."

Ah yes, the cake. Technically not the main dish of the event, but it's still just as important as the spirit of Christmas, as it symbolized the end of the event itself....Well, probably not that important, but it's still nice.

And then they heard more footsteps, heading toward them from the direction of the stage. It was Akane Suzumiya and Haruko Kashiwagi, obviously wearing that ridiculous outfit.

"Dr. Yuuko called, the event is about to sta-Oh what happened to the sleigh!?"

All the fingers were pointed toward Shirogane.

"Can't expect anything else other than BETA extermination from you, you idiot."
"What? Even a broken clock can tell the correct time twice a day!!!"
"It's still wrong in all other 23 hours, 59 minutes and 58 seconds."
"....burn..."

Shock, absolutely shocked!!!, Takeru Shirogane thought.
"Well at least Frosty the snowman here have 4 more spare one."
"What about the presents?"
"All fake one, I can't expect him to drive correctly at all."

Oh now he went sulking in a corner that just void-bullshitty appeared.
"Don't worry Takeru, you can still ride me properly."

What a brilliant idea, Sumika, you literal bitch.

"Takeru..."
"?"
"We will some talk after this, okay?"

Said by his squadmates as they all have a extremely dreadful look, except for the adorable Tamase, who just looked like angry penguin.Why Sumika, why, Takeru painfully imagined what will happen after the event.

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The A-01 Special Task Force had one of the highest casualty rate among the UN TSF unit from the sheer difficulty and high risk of the task they have to finish. But since the Tennos have worked with the A-01, as well as the advancement in TSF combat technology. The casualty rate dramatically decreased to the point that there's an increase in A-01 members.

The most famous among the A-01 was the Valkyries, always tasked with high risk mission to the point that its new members constantly suffered mental trauma and discharged to the other flight in the A-01, much to the dismay of Captain Isumi. Whether the mental trauma was from combat fatigue or facing the constant bullshit shenanigans of Dr. Yuuko and Dr. Grenada, nobody have the truest idea.

Nevertheless, the event started with the Valkyries standing on the stage, while Captain Isumi gave off a speech that was rather courage-boosting, clearly something that should be said during a battle and not while wearing a ridiculous costume. It would definitely be incredible epic if not for the author pathetic writing skill.

It's a shame despite all the eye-candies, most member of the A-01 were female. It was the few guys down stage that got the ladies attention instead. So it was quite annoying to both Haruka Suzumiya and Mitsuru Hayase that their man and their alone was getting swarmed by females of other flight while they stood on the stage,wearing attention-grabbing outfit.

Mitsurugi and her squadmates could only sympathize their annoyance and acknowledge that they weren't the only one having harem problem. Thankfully, their man was currently too busy being Santa somewhere else.

Next was various short shows by members of A-01, the Tennos of Clan First Born and surprisingly enough, a group of Corpus entertainer, because Darvo was too busy to join the party, so the least he can do was introduce them to some famous entertainer at Origin System. What a nice guy.

One notable show was Limbo's Wonderful Universe magic show, performing simple magic trick with super bouncy rubber ball, special zip gun, a confused Grineer trooper, maid uniform, cup of coffee, Orthos Prime, Alad V flash clone,Russian nuclear bomb, Dr. Yuuko's sports car and a Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf. D.

How did all that came together nobody have any idea, not even the performer himself.

And then Frost, Shirogane, Ember and Kagami drove the red sleigh down on to the stage and gave presents to everyone. Nothing special, but the meaning was the important part, as the presents was sent in by the A-01 and the Tennos to the others.

This was when Rhino pop out the red sleigh by destroying it from the inside, claimed himself as 007 Reindeer with a red bulb on his face and the one that made the magic happen. Make sense, considering the sleigh aint gonna fly itself.

It was finally the time to get the cake out.

Moved by four Moas underneath, the cake was one huge whiteness, almost big enough to put a person inside. Of course, nobody wanted that kind of cake, that would be disgusting and terrible to eat.

"Shirogane, you are the one that ordered the cake right? What is it?"
"Oh it's an ice-cream cake."
"...what!?"
"You know, a cake made with ice-cream on the inside rather than...cake? I not really sure about the name, all the ice-cream have fancy name like Gold Medal Ribbon, Chocolate Trilogy, Piece of Cake, yeah really, and Macadamia Nuts N' something. It was all the way in America, so I had to ask Excalibur to help me get it here."

After all that happened, it was worth it to Shirogane that he finally managed to see the shocked face of his squadmates, especially Mitsurugi, who just stared at the cake while saliva dripped from her mouth. American food was truly out of the ordinary. She immediately whip the drool off after realizing it.

"So who's gonna cut the cake?"

Said by Captain Isumi, who immediately regretted it as all the Tennos on the scene draw out their sword, axe and other really sharp instrument.

"Guys, it's just a cake."

And then all hell broke loose.

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Base Commandeer Paul Radhabinod sensed another shenanigans in his base. It's pretty much a requirement in a base with more than one mad Doctor and a whole group of Tennos. Grabbing a long coat, he walked to the hard light training field quickly with NORMAL HUMAN SPEED.

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"E̦̺̦͇͕̯̖x͕͎̺̠̠̠͈́c̡͉̣̳̖̱ͅa̛͚̩̟̲̪l͝ͅib̥̯̣u̳͈r͇,̖͇͙̲͉ ̻̜͉̞̟I̝͠ ̶͕̤̯̰͙̳͎h̠̠̹̜a͓̻̱͈̮̼v̫̝e ̯̟̗̮͍r͡e̖̱̱̖̗͡t͓͓̫́u̵̩̻̻̦r͔͝n̸̯̳͚̻̰̱ḙ̘̝̜͠ͅd̡̹̠̼̱̻ ̤̠̼͕͍̱to̧̩-̬̬o͍̰̥̗͎͇͢h̫̬̭̖͞ ̣̻͝w̩͈̞̩͝h̸̹à̼͎t̘̻̭̺̲̠ ̮͖̯t̗̫̬̟̥̭͠h̤͚͕̬̩̜̣͜e̹ͅ ͓̝̕f̺̱̲͓͔u̥̮̕c̳̻͕͘ͅk..."

It was a surprise, even to the Stalker who have seen everything. Tennos fighting among themselves? He can see they were just having a fun competition, but what's the prize?

"Oh Stalker you finally here..."

He turned his neck back with an inhuman level of flexibility, looking at the Sergeant Marimo, wearing one of the most ridiculous costume he have ever seen while drinking an can of beer, he can see several more emptied one all over the ground close to where she sat.

"W̖̳̩̮̩ͅh̪̘̦̹̝̣͉a̱̣̲̰͘t̫̱̟̣ͅ j͈̝̝u̴̗̥͇ş̭̱̥̭̞ͅͅt͇̞ h̴a͎̫̜p͔͈̟͙p̼̤͉̘̯ͅe͢ne͏̤͈̙d̛̻̤͍̟̬͇!̯͕ͅ?͔̣̪̟"

"They are fighting over who get to cut the cake."
"C͚̫̀a̫͘k̙̲e̼̝̙̰͎̤,̨ ̼ͅC̮͕̲͢A̫̳͉̟̼K̻̜̭E!̜̩̹̠̖͍?̴͔̮͔̰̹ ̤̜͓̻̝̻͠H͕̠͕̖̖o͕̤̬̰w̟̯̙ ̩͙̟̖͠co̴͇̥̭̬uļ̼̟͎͕d͙̹̮̺̣ ̬͎̻̲t̳h͚̙͔͡ẹ̸̖̘̯̮̝ͅy͖̖̜̻̯͍͟ ̻̭̲͓̕ͅl͏̦͙̖̠e̞a̢̘̤̬̳v̢̜̝e ̯̞͞m̩̜͠e̠̤̣̰͓̘̕ͅ ̤͎͙͙̣o͓͔̜u̮t͈̣͚̗͇́ͅ ̠̹͔̳͡o̩͙͎̜̙̜̦f̗͎̺̣̭̰̦ ̫̬͚̜̩̀tẖ͔is̭̤͞,̹̘͕̤̱ ̜̘̪̼̠E̬̭x͎͡c̬̲̝̼̠á̙l̟̮ib̢̭̖̭̬u̢͇̱̖̩r̰͖͝!̝̖̬!̯̥̜̮̱̭̪͘!̲"

Excalibur looked back, with two Skanas in his hands.
"Stalker."
"F͙̟̀i̢g̨h͓͚̺͎̦̦̼ț̕ ͎͉̣̞m̱̖̝͔͚̪̹e!͇̪̠̯͚̥͢"

And Sergeant Marimo could only sign and open another can of beer as Stalker joined the fight.

"What the situation, Sergeant Marimo."

Marimo tiredly looked toward the voice and saw the base commandeer himself arrived on the scene. She immediately sobered up and saluted the base commandeer.

"The Tenno are fighting over who get the right to cut the cake, sir!"
"Good, continue!"

As soon as that was done, she went back to normal and continued drinking.

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"E̝͍͕͉̦xc͕͉̹͖̫̩a̢͔̣̰͍l̫̱͖͝i̭̺b̢̠u̼̺̟̥̜͚r̖!̥̼̤̜"

"Stalker!"

Suddenly Paul Radhabinod. Two fists launched out and smacked both Tennos right in their face, spinning them both in mid-air with NORMAL HUMAN STRENGTH. With one motion, he grabbed a Skana and a Despair, fighting his way through the storm of blade.

The first comer was Mag, who cast a [Pull] at him but he dodged it, instead a can of beer flew toward her and covered her with alcohol. Frost tried to shoot a bolt of [Freeze] to Paul, he also dodged that and now Mag was frozen in a block of air. Rhino stomped Frost, jamming him onto the ground and jumped toward Paul, who just grabbed and threw him to Ash.

He briefly sensed motion behind him and swung his fist, punched Loki right in his face. Just a few more steps to the cake, and Tsukuyomi, stood between him and the cake. Seeing he's the base commandeer, Tsukuyomi bowed down to give him her respect, he promptly suckerpunched her to the ground. With a single stroke, he cut the cake into tiny neatly pieces with NORMAL HUMAN SKILL.

"I'm tired of all these motherfucking Tennos in my motherfucking base. Continue."

And just like that, he walked away, throwing down the skana and despair back to their original user. He can't really use them at all.

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"Well, that just happened."

Excalibur said, as he took another bite out of the neatly cut out cake. Ice-cream cake, what an amazing invention. And as soon as the fight was over, Stalker just disappeared. Guess he's just bored again.

"Yo, Shirogane, have fun?"
"Yeah...fun..."

Excalibur only gave one look to his squadmates and already he figured out the problem. Ah, youth. Still, he's lucky to have a harem, why so sad?

"Now that the event is over, can we talk now?"

While Mitsurugi was saying that, seeing Ayamine cracking her knuckles while Sakaki gave off a frightening stare with her glasses clearly implied something else. Once again, youth.

"Oh well, Shirogane, go ahead."
"Help me!"
"Nope, your problem, your funeral. Besides, the event isn't over."

Before anyone could ask a question, the black sky soon lightened up with spectacular display of firework. Any word they wanted to speak was replaced with the excitement of seeing the brilliant light in the night sky.

Yeah....loud popping noise...this certainly remind me of-

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Awoken from his meditation. Excalibur stood up and looked at the clock. The one displaying time at japan of Alt Earth.

4th August 1998, 8.00 A.M

Odd, normally his meditation show him only glimpses of the future, not a whole full 6 hours of experience.

Oh well, let's make it happen then.

dragonkid11 · Dec 30, 2014

Whatever speculation you have, I will not confirm nor deny it until I write it out.

Also, sorry for the being late for the next part, Christmas made me a lot more busy than I thought.

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Chapter 5-3

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Time to start the show.

Being the one with the most brilliant visual looking ability, Volt was given the honor to deliver the first strike. With a flip, he grappled off the revolving gateway beneath the Liset and jumped on top of it.

Stealth system of the transport pod hid him from the laser-classes that were shooting down naval shell fired from the local fleet. Still flying toward the hive, Volt charged up energy in his hands from the Liset's reactor.

The horde was too far away to strike with a wave of [Overload], and running down with a cast of [Speed] to close the distance will expose himself to it, and [Electric Shield] was not even remotely useful when he was standing on the Liset, moving at hypersonic speed.

This leaved one option left, [Shock]. Not that it was any less fancy, because when you put this much power into it...

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The 17th 'Stingray' squadron of the Imperial Japanese Marine corps was among the first unit to breach the shore of Sadogashima after BETA have taken the land.

12 A-6J Wadatsumi transformed from underwater cruising forms to bipedal form to step right onto the enemy territory, each firing a dozen 36mm autocannon and 2 120mm smoothbore cannon to drown the enemy in a wall of projectiles.

Of course, even with this much firepower, there's no way that the combined force of Imperial Japan Army and Navy will retake the island of Sadogashima on its own.

Captain Yazama Seiji of the Stingray squadron continued to order his men to advance. While wondering whether or not this new force they gained will successfully help them in this battle. The so called Tenno, literally officially joined the war just yesterday.

The A-6J Wadatsumi was an entirely different machine compared to the TSF. It mainly focused on impressive amount of firepower rather than mobility, and thus required a different breed of pilot. One that focus on where to shoot while advancing slowly, rather than being an mobile force that strike and flank the weakpoint of the enemy.

The Captain continued to fire at the incoming BETA wave, there was not an inch of the land that wasn't covered in red gore and gut in front of his war machine. But a help would be really handy right now, he thought.

That was when an enormous beam of lightning coming in from his far right scorched a hole through the BETA horde, the BETA in its path exploded into a shower of blood from the intense electricity. And the beam itself burned all the way to the Monument itself, even from such distance, the Captain can see the alien tower shaking from the blast wave.

Now that's what I call firepower!!!

But, even with such severe casualties, the BETA horde just covered up the hole in their formation with more BETA, not before he noticed a tiny blue humanoid figure running his way into the hole with impossible speed.

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The laser-classes, located around the monument continued to fire at the naval shell with inhuman accuracy. Though the BETA hive have no strategy other than sending more BETA, the laser-classes were programmed to shoot first at prioritized target then move. With the entire 2nd fleet continued to lob shell onto the island, the laser-classes were stuck in the first order.

And that will make my job easier.

His first target have its eyes stabbed out, with the G-element harvested within split second. The other laser-classes noticed, but they couldn't see what was killing them even as they were dying with stab wound.

Dying was more of an incorrect word however, it should be...shut down.

Just for a second, the laser-classes noticed a brown insectoid looking figure appeared out of nowhere, they charged up their beam to fire, but the figure popped a smoke with light bending properties, faded into the air.

This also allowed a naval shell to bomb the area. The laser-classes were all killed from the blast, while flashes appeared as the invisible figure deflected shrapnel away from him and onto the incoming small strains.

The cast of [Smoke Screen] once again ran out, but this time Ash decided to have fun.

A cast of [Teleport], a soldier-class's head was cut off. Another cast, a tank-class was sliced in half. With the constant cast of [Teleport], he's herding them around like a flock of sheep. And a incoming missile just ended the fun.

Nevermind, he thought. That when he saw a Heavy Laser-class staring at him with its eye after a few Grappler-classes managed to get it to aim down. So the BETA did get smarter.

But one shot popped the eye's of the Heavy Laser-class as soon as its charged up. One more shot ended the Grappler-classes as the bullet impossibly bounced around, striking bone and nerve cluster before exiting and hit one after another.

Banshee got him covered.

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"Kill confirmed, surface laser presence is completely gone."

Within just 5 minutes of their deployment, the Tenno managed to wipe out more BETA than the rest of the force deployed onto the battlefield. 500 Laser classes, all came from the Cheorwon hive were all killed as well. With the Laser classes gone, artillery can fired with impunity onto the BETA with full on firepower.

The Shogun was right in his decision after all, Captain Iwazaki thought.

Looking away from the strategic map view, he watched the Shogun and the Tenno Clanlord as they discussed the operation.
"My comrades are infiltrating the hive right now, this should catch the BETA's attention."
"It's a shame that the 7th fleet of the US navy couldn't join the fight quick enough, it will be over before they landed a shell onto the beach."

The Tenno, Excalibur gave off a hearty laugh as the Shogun did so as well. It was quite an alien laughter, echoing as the air vibrated.

But back to the mission, with the BETA focusing on protecting the hive, the surface BETA was decreasing as any reinforcements were deep within the hive, fighting back at the Tennos.

Even then, it's rather too easy, even with help from the aliens.

Suddenly, the other white one, Oberon, rushed out of the room after taking off his alien crafted bow, looking intimidating with all the long sharp blades.

"Get your men to the eastern coastline now! Our comrades on field hear tremors in that direction!"

Wait, hear? How does even hear through the thick wall within the hive was one thing, to actually know where the sound came from in the twisting tunnels of the hive? That difficult, if not, impossible.

But without hearing another word from anyone else, Oberon made it out of the room. The Shogun quickly called out one Royal Guard to follow him out.

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dragonkid11 · Dec 31, 2014

Chapter 5-4

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Please listen to me for once.

Running down the maze-like tunnel of the Sadogashima hive. Banshee cast another [Silence], surrounding her with a sound-dampening aura to cover up the traces her team left as they made their way to the heart of the hive, the main hall ,in which the G-element rich Reactor strain resided.

So far, they haven't met any strong opposition from the hive, which was rather strange when they were pretty much knocking on their front door and trashing their houses right now. Even the short-sighted, near deaf Grineer troopers showed more response than this.

Banshee suspected there was a ruse behind this. While the Clan didn't mind her, the users of Banshee frame were often called useless by other Tenno, as there was a significant shift in combat doctrine in this new age as the usage of brute force was more effective than using stealth. And against Infected which can detect Tenno presence immediately, stealth have became a dead art.

Unlike Ash, Loki or other stealth-oriented warframe, Banshee must require support from others. But there literally nothing the Banshee can do when there's an better alternative for it, especially when everyone can just pumped out more dakka.

Simply put, our Banshee was tried of this bullshit. But here in the underground, it was a golden opportunity to show off her power.

Another cast of [Sonar], and she directed the team to the other way as a BETA group was rushing down that way, through her power, she can detect the BETA long before any of them spotted the team. That BETA group ignored them as they hid their presence once again on the thick hive wall.

However, Banshee suspected there's something wrong with this group as she detected Laser-classes among it, despite they have wiped out all Laser-classes on the surface and a hive this small shouldn't be capable of making Laser-class. Even as their team moved away to get to the main hall, Banshee briefly warned the other back at the command center.

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Being a Royal Guard was not just a job, it's a duty on its own, started right when one was born in the family. Onsai Yakusukyo was one, born to serve the Reagent House of Saionji, she was honored to serve during a time when the candidate of the House was chosen to be the Shogun.

However, the position certainly couldn't come at a worse time, just when the BETA got closer and closer until even the mainland was tainted. And now this group of extraterrestrial being known as Tenno came with no more objective other than to harvest this element which she didn't even knew existed.

How could the Shogun trust them? She already knew the answer to that one, but was the empire truly that desperate?

Still climbing up the ladder, she almost reached the top when a white hand extended down from the edge. She accepted it and Oberon pulled her up to the top of the control tower. The only other people that will come up here was only the maintenance crew, fixing the communication tower weekly.

Clearly the alien was looking for a high ground, he's still holding onto his bow, but how will he hit anything from this far away ? was her current thought.

"This will do."

Once that done, he stood up, as if the shaking motion of the warship didn't bothered him. His legs took up a stance, bracing for whatever he will unleash. Lifting the bow high up, he draw one arrow from the quiver on his back. Slowly, he pulled the arrow back, bending the bow back, and lined up the arrow with his eyesight.

She recognized this style of archery, back in an archery festival when she was young. Kyudo, it could be said as the signature archery style of Japan.

Then, he released the arrow.

There was a strong gust of wind, nearly blew her off the tower as the arrow surpassed the speed of sound, causing a massive shockwave sounded like a cannon fire. She staggered, covering her eye from the dust wind. By the time she recovered, the arrow was long gone to the island.

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Unit L21 was walking toward the outer hive entrance, just like the other tens of thousands of BETA strain rushing out to flank the carbon machines that were currently attacking the hive.

It was among the hundreds Laser-classes made after the hive entered emergency mode as the hive have been breached by the invader but it didn't need to know that.

The other, more robust unit rushed out of the entrance first, suffering damage through our their body from the carbon machines ranged attack. But unit L21 didn't care about that as it's only programmed to achieve the objective of eliminating the oppositions.

As it's cresting up to the entrance, unit L21 spotted one carbon machine and charged up its laser to eliminate it.

Fortunately for us, it won't finish the job.

By the time it detected an advanced projectile falling onto its position, it's too late.

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12...
Each count, the ground slightly trembled, each count, something had a really bad day, too bad BETA were too stupid to fear.

[Storming Wind of Thousand Cuts][Ash]: "Oberon is really going all out even from that far, eh?"
[Lightning Fury of Speeding Blueness][Volt]: "See, told him the thunderbolt mod would have been helpful."
[Deafeningly Wailing of Muted Silencer][Banshee]: "....It's not stealthy..."
[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "Technically, killing everyone in the room before they could punch the alert count as stealthy."
[Storming Wind of Thousand Cuts][Ash]: "Don't test my patience, Nyx. Ogris is not a stealth weapon."

A short smug laughter came as an reply from Nyx. Just another 300 meters, shouldn't be a problem. Or so Nyx thought, a massive group of BETA just so happened to be right around the corner, now hell bent on stopping them from reaching them main hall.

[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "Let me handle this."

Instead of running away, she headed straight for the horde, even as they were charging, wanting to stomp of her. A destroyer-class came for her, running at 150 kmph, but she easily jumped onto it and jumped off. There's no guns nor blades on her hands, all strapped onto the magnetic clamp on her back.

It's unfortunate that the BETA were too stupid to wonder why, if it was the Grineer or Corpus, they at least showed astonishment in their mind. Still falling in the air, she cast [Chaos].

It was a illusion power that make her opponents thinking everyone was their enemy. Immediately the effected BETA stopped and turned around, only to be smashed as there's still a whole group of giant monsters running with no intention of stopping.

It's nice to see that with their huge size, the momentum simply became too much and the BETA group crushed each other into bloody pulp just from the initial charge along. After that, it's an all out fight between giant monster versus more giant monster, ripping each other into gory pieces.

Within 20 seconds, the remaining BETA was so damaged that even the local can easily handed their ass on a sliver plate now.

[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "That was fun."

Leaving the huge pile of bloody mess behind, the team walked toward the main hall.

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dragonkid11 · Jan 3, 2015

Chapter 5-5

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"Underground BETA reinforcement eliminated, all surface BETA units elimination confirmed."
"Good work, now all that left now it's the hive."

With confirmation from the operator, the Shogun sighed a relief. If it wasn't for Oberon's warning, the frontline force would certainly be flanked right now from two side. Though he did wonder just how much power did that bow have, to feel tremor all the way to the command room.

"That should be all of them now."

Oberon opened up the steel door with one hand with the red Royal Guard he sent following behind. He noticed that his quiver on his back only have a handful of arrows left, and that whatever the Royal Guard have seen, it caused her hair to look like a pile of bird nest right now. The Shogun quickly pointed to his head and the Royal Guard immediately realized it.

It's among the expertise of a Royal Guard to make themselves looked like nothing serious have happened at all within just seconds, necessary to make sure the Royal Guard looked as powerful as possible at all time. Clearly this Royal Guard lacked a bit exercise.

"What's the situation underground, Excalibur?"
"Just a few moment later and the island will be part of Japan again."

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[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "So this is the final boss room?"
[Storming Wind of Thousand Cuts][Ash]: "Nyx..."

If it was, it would certainly be an plain-looking miniboss room. It more of a chamber, massive even compared to the size of a fort-class. Yet, it's as empty as the brain of some Grineer commandeer, hundreds of meters of nothing but flat dusty rock plain.

Dotted above the chamber, was multiple light bolts of some sort, with two lengthy organic tendrils connecting the light bolts to the roof above and the floor beneath. But the most important thing in the room was also the center of attraction, literally. A massive Reactor-strain, a quick scan from the codex scanner revealed abundant amount of G-elements within, thousands of times more than they have ever gathered from harvesting Laser-classes.

[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "We have fought several thousands BETA just to get in here and there's no giant BETA made from several Fort-class smashed together hastily to fight with?"
[Lightning Fury of Speeding Blueness][Volt]: "I don't think it's a good idea to tempt the universe right now..."

She continued to walk toward the Reactor-strain, glowing blueish from whatever reality-bending process happening inside. Vauban will certain kill people just to study this, then again they are Tenno. Though, this chamber certainly was different than the rest of the hive, noticeble by the fact that she sensed emotion in this chamber.

Fear, confusion, angry, sadness, despair, the five states of emotion felt by the victims of war, all can be read in this chamber and this chamber only. Whatever happened here she didn't want to know, but she certain would like to kill more BETA for this as this was the strongest state of emotion she ever felt.

[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "COME ON BETA. We have trashed your illusion of invincibility and we will reap this reactor rich with precious resource off your own damn turf."
[Deafeningly Wailing of Muted Silencer][Banshee]: "..."

One shot, that was Banshee's answer to the storm of tentacle that was about to stab Nyx repeatedly. The bullet striked the end of the tentacles just before it hit Nyx, spiraled down the tube and reduced the spawning spot of the tentacle into blood-gushing mess.

Another storm of tentacle spawned from the wall, it was easily blocked by a green shimmering barrier as Nyx casted [Absorb], repelling and ripping the tentacles into shredded ribbons. Another dozens came from the her above, but Volt quickly punched and kicked dozens of tentacles a dozens times each in one second. Tens more bursted from the ground, but Ash crossed the distance with a single [Teleport] and gave the tentacles a face full of shotgun pellets from his Tigris

And another came, like a wave of attack. Tentacles kept coming out of the cave wall, but each time it did so, the Tenno simply got used to the attack and quickened their response each time.

[Storming Wind of Thousand Cuts][Ash]: "Volt, mind if you shut down the darned thing now?"
[Lightning Fury of Speeding Blueness][Volt]: "Okay, buthowthehekdoIdothat!?"

With a cast of [Speed], he dashed through hundreds of meter with ease as the power sped up his reaction. However, just like any other BETA strain, it's still organic, and there's clearly no proper interface to interact at all. There's only one way to do this.

For a moment he hesitated, well, until Ash just teleport behind him and kicked him toward the Reactor-strain, jamming his arms into its electrified innards. For that moment, he felt more energized than ever before as lightning channeled through him and charred the tentacles in the room into electrified ash.

Feeling 'well-fed' from the charged up, he pulled his arms out and clapped them together, then he released.

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"Well, this is surprisingly boring."
"Don't talk like that, I don't another BETA wave coming right up our arse again."

Now that the operation was mostly completed, the only thing left now was to clean up the remaining BETA and the Sadogashima shall be part of Japan again!!!

"Still, just how long will it take to make this place green?"
"Some genius managed to make giant robot, I'm sure that fertilizing the land should be much more easier."
"Ho? So soon to consider a retired job already?"
"Shut up...wait...did you feel that?"

Reloading their assault cannon, the small element group walked toward one of the numerous surface hive entrance. Only those scientist back home would know how long this stretched after they analyzed the data, but for now, the TSF pilots agreed it's 'too damn deep'.

"I swear it came from here somewhere....huh?"

It's also a common knowledge that a cave system will be darker the deeper you go. So when she noticed the cave getting brighter, it's either more Laser-class or....

"OH SHIT, retreat retreat retreat!!!"

It was fortunately that they only idled around the cave entrance, or else they would have fried by the massive beam of lightning that came out somewhere from hive. It isn't just here either, hive entrances all over the island were bursting out beam of lightning that shot up all the way to the cloud. Even the monument itself was beaming up one straight upward as well, like a pillar of light.

The two TSF pilots looked back into the cave system, in which the cave wall was now glowing red with the immense heat.

"Let not go in there."
"Yup, nothing to see here."

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"They have secured the hive...but it should be obvious even from here now..."

What the hek have they done to the damn hive? Standing outside with two hands bracing his body against the railing, he can clearly see a massive beam of lightning shot straight to the sky, penetrating through multiple cloud and seemingly reached space itself.

He turned his head to the Shogun, while his Royal Guard finally gave way a bit to their stern look, the Shogun just looked amused to this show of power.

Still, it will be best if Volt didn't damage anything necessary...

"Great job, Tenno, if it wasn't for you, I doubt I could feel safe sailing at this part of the ocean again."
"We are just opportunists, Shogun Saionji. Ah yes, there's one thing left to seal our deal."

Just as he done saying, a two-legged sliver-plated robots walked toward them, with a black box attached to its back. Excalibur patted the robot on its head before opening the black box and put his arm in there, far more than the box could possible contain. It's bigger on the inside? , the Shogun thought.

From the box, Excalibur grabbed two Orokin ceremonial dishes and a bottle of Orokin wine.

"We will drink."
"Now this is my kind of deal!"

Popping the cap off, the Shogun can smell the scent of fruit, strong yet subtle, even with the salty smell from the blue water beneath. Despite constant shaking of the naval vessel, Excalibur poured down the wine onto the dishes without spilling a drop, and handled one dishes to the Shogun.

"And here, we drink. To drown out the past and dream of a better future."

And they both drank down the wine, savoring each drop of the precious wine.

"And then we smash the dishes, for the past is now meaningless in the face of future."

While Excalibur quickly smashed the dish against the railing, the Shogun briefly looked at the dish before smashing it. It was among the most beautiful ornate dish he had ever seen, far better than any traditional made dish he had seen. The golden strip was definitely real gold, yet the craftsman was excellent in making its pattern pronounceable despite being subtle.

Strong yet subtle, that seemed to be a theme here.

While there's still so many question to ask, and so many answer to be made, the Shogun was looking forward to this new future. Even if he didn't have the time for it.

And yet despite all that have changed, things might just ended up the same.

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[Swarm 3][REQUEST]: "Requesting reinforcement."
[Swarm 3-1][AID]: "Reinforcement request accepted, opposition state."
[Swarm 3][INFORMATIVE]: "Void signature detected, Level 5."
[Swarm 3-1][QUESTION]: "Relationship with local carbon machine."
[Swarm 3][INFORMATIVE]: "Symbiosis relation, possible future reinforcement predicted."
[Swarm 3-1][QUESTION]: "Current swarm objective."
[Swarm 3][INFORMATIVE]: "Assimilation of eastern area for harvesting purpose, objective failed, one hive terminated."
[Swarm 3-1][QUESTION]: "Conversion of hive statue to space-type capable in this swarm, number necessary."
[Swarm 3][REQUEST]: "One space-type hive to conduct assimilation at eastern area, predicted 98% success rate."
[Swarm 3-1][AID]: "Request confirmed and accepted, beginning one conversion of hive statue to space-type. Date to completion, 1.05 lunar cycles. Praise to the Creator"
[Swarm 3][PRAISE]: "Praise to the Creator."

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I have to admit, this is tiring me out, so I might call hiatus after next chapter, probably not though, that would have been too cruel of me.

Anyway, next chapter preview.

A simple recap of what happened in a month, through the view of the Shogun and Excalibur as they have a meal in a fancy restaurant.

Also, shit coming down hard and fast from SPACE.

dragonkid11 · Jan 8, 2015

So, next week my semester is starting, but I still have time to write this out.

Anyway, next chapter, GO.

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Chapter 6-1

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At first, it was a rush of amazement and wonder as something happened out of the blue. To the many people that have lost their country, it was a long awaited miracle. To the functioning nations that were trying to control the war, it was a major disruption to their short-termed plan. To the people of Japan, it was the servants of heaven came from the above to cleanse the land off its impurity.

Journalists tried to contact them. Military tried to recruit them. Refugees tried to plead for their help. But they simply did what they were here for, killing BETA. There's no time to know them, as there's still a long war looming at the horizon.

They are Tenno.

Now, the noises of media have quiet down now, though space ninja alien was still quite the next most exciting thing that have happened since the first occurrence of BETA on Mars, before they became known as eat-everything giant alien assholes.

How a month passed so fast, Excalibur had no idea.

He had no idea how much time have passed since he was sitting in this humvee either, the sight of an intact cultural city of an ancient (to him) civilization was rather breathtaking for him.

So, let's talk about the Tenno Alliance Treaty.

It have been a known fact to all General that have deployed Tennos in combat that their stealth capability has surpassed anything in the inventory of the Earth military, even the infamous F-22A Raptor of the American was thoroughly outclassed by even the simplest stealth masking available to the Tenno.

So, to any Tenno that wished to fight for the military, they need to obey what was in the treaty without a question. First would be that during meeting or briefing, Tenno will have to park their Liset at the designated military base. There's literally nothing that could detect a Liset on Earth, not even Eyeball Mk1.

Having a runaway Tenno will also be the worst nightmare possible either. So the only solution was to make their escape route predictable with the Liset at the base. Though it was more of a practice than actual prevention.

Second, it would be obviously that the Tenno cannot attack nations that have signed the Tenno Alliance Treaty, at least not without a good reason.

Third, nations that have signed the Tenno Alliance Treaty cannot order the Tenno to attack any human organisation. Tenno fighting against any common man would be such an unfair fight even the Tenno themselves would refuse it.

Fourth and the most important one to the Tenno, was that 50% of the harvest-able G-element was to be given to the Tenno, with the rest given equally (In the sense of nation power) to the nations that have signed the Tenno Alliance Treaty. However, with the current harvesting method used by the humans, only G-element in the hive could be harvested. G-element in Laser-class have too short of a half life to be anyway useful, so the Tenno get all the G-element from Laser-classes.

So far there's only 20 or so Tenno that have obeyed the treaty, so the Earth government could rest easy now, but it won't be long until several millions more flooding the system. The paleness of their face have spoken the magnitude of their fear.

So, the reason why Excalibur was sitting in this humvee was because his Liset have been parked at Hakuryou base, which was one of the designated Tenno meeting base of the Japanese military. The other reason reason why Excalibur was in a humvee was because the shogun have a room in one of the best inn in Japan, or so he said.

Still, it's not polite to ignore a free meal. Sure, they will discuss some important stuff, but eating was still the most important part of the night. Mmmmmmm, fresh Earth raw fish.

Checking out the time, he peeked at his internal HUD (Head up display), 6.47P.M, local time. Some 10 minutes earlier for the meeting. Truth to be told, he was surprised at the driver being able to drive through this heavy traffic like him in his Archwing, weaving through storm of bullet. The fact that he managed to do so in a big humvee through this tiny road spoke his skill in driving like it was breathing to him.

Now come to think of it, he kind of forgot his name.

"Would you mind telling what's you name again?"
"Takahashi Ichimonji, just a simple HSST pilot that just happened to have a day off today, sir."
"You would have think that they would put someone dedicated to this role."
"Even with you reducing casualty rate like nobody business, we are still man short in some aspect, sir."
"Kind of surprise that they would let you have a day off if they are so short on manpower, do you know this place well?"
"I'm born here, sir, I know the street like the back of my hand."

Excalibur still want to talk more with this driver, quite an interesting man to him. But they have arrived at the destination. Well, his driving skill was too damn good.

"If you need a ride back, just call me with the phone, I will be around."

And then he drove off, leaving him in dust. Probably going to a bar or something, Excalibur thought. So, standing in front of this classic Japanese inn, he tidied up his uniform and check his pocket for his phone.

Ah yes, did I mention he's wearing clothes now?

As Tenno made their appearance in the public, it became quite clear that to those that didn't know them, they would have thought they were exhibitionist of some sort. The only solution was to kill th-I meant wear clothes.

Just a modification to the current United Nation military uniform, though this one was made from bulletproof synthetic fiber of the future rather than normal plain cotton. It was also coloured with black and white as the main colour and gold as the second colour on the edge, because why not, it's fabulous.

A step towards the restaurant, and he was already greeted by two inn attendants, wearing traditional Japanese clothing. As he took another steps forward, the one of the younger inn attendant told him to take off his shoe. He gladly took it off because he didn't wear shoes since literally forever and those damn shoes have been messing with his sense of solid ground with he wore them. It's just a weird and absolutely alien thing to him to wear shoes.

Walking along the hallway, he can tell the age of this building just by the creaking sound of the wooden floor beneath him, even as he tried his best to silence his walk. Though he was more surprised at the two inn attendants being so unsurprised to his appearance, a normal people reaction would have at least gave a 'Ohh' or 'Ahh'. Either they were assassin in training or they really didn't gave a shit, probably later.

Finally, he walked to where the Shogun probably was, why? Because there's three Royal Guard wearing red uniform right outside the only entrance to the room. Probably the Shogun, because there's no way there will be two important figures just so happened to eat in the same inn because the universe like to bend reality to its own amusement.

Let see, these Red Guard have short white hair, long brown hair, and short red hair, yeah, definitely Shogun!, he thought, this was definitely his most solid attempt at recognizing people through their face. I meant, have you ever seen anyone showing their face off back in Origin System!? And even then, it's just one or two guy.

"The Shogun have been waiting for you.", yup, definitely the right one now.

The paper door slided open and the Shogun was inside, sitting with his legs crossed on the floor, facing against a short wooden table.

"I thought I should come earlier before the traffic turned bad, but how did you get here so quickly?"
"I found a great driver that can drive a car as good as he can with a spaceship."

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dragonkid11 · Jan 10, 2015

Surprisingly, there's not much proper image Muvluv UN uniform on the internet.

Instead, I found this.

Close enough. Just look to your left and you will find one example of UN uniform, female version of course.

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Anyway, I think I should finalized the choice of weapon used by the Tenno.

Based on order of appearance.

Excalibur, Primary: Braton, Secondary: Aklato, Melee: Skana. (Because he believe his skill will carry him all the way, also because he used more forma than necessary on his weapon set.)

Mag, Primary: Boltor, Secondary: Aklex, Melee: Glaive. (Dunno, boltor seemed like Mag weapon, and glaive is just more fun with magnetism)

Loki, Primary: Latron, Secondary: Akfuris, Melee: Karystl. (A stealthy guy, so he choose to kill his targets as fast as possible.)

Rhino, Primary: Hek, Secondary: Akbronco, Melee: Ankyros. (Hard-hitting weapon for up close and personal purpose)

Oberon, Primary: Cernos, Secondary: Akbolto, Melee: Jat Kittag. (Pretty much a paladin style weapon set, also, he chose Jat Kittag because frankly speaking, it's a freaking jet hammer.)

Saryn, Primary: Soma, Secondary: Marelok, Melee: Galatine. (All of the weapons are easily mastered and could kill everything easily, you know, because she's lazy)

Ember, Primary: Ignis, Secondary: Melee: Pyrana, Melee: Dual heat swords. (SET EVERYTHING ON FIRE, BURNNNNNNN. The pyrana is also slotted to deal heat damage.)

Vauban, Primary: Quanta, Secondary: Stug, Melee: Ether sword. (A user of smart weapon, originally wanted for him to use Penta, but then Quanta can both shoot and explode, so why not?)

Ash, Primary: Tigris, Secondary: Kunai, Melee: Fang. (An old fashioned ninja, except bow have been taken by Oberon, so I gave him a shotgun.)

Volt, Primary: Amprex, Secondary: Castana, Melee: Kogake. (GOTTA GO FAST, SHOOT FAST, STUN FAST, PUNCH FAST, ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA)

Banshee, Primary: Vectis, Secondary: Akmagnus, Melee: Bo. (One shot, one kill. I chose a Bo because no one will expect a sniper to wipe out a stick and beat the shit out of them.)

Nyx, Primary: Buzlok, Secondary: Nukor, Melee: Halikar. (Remember the part about how she like to screw with people? Yeah....Also, GRINEER)

That's all for now, 12 done, another dozen to go.

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Chapter 6-2

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"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

A loud roar thundered through the desolated wasteland.

Valkyrie, the one that chose who shall die and who shall live on a battlefield.

Heads and limbs of giant beast rolled and fall onto the vast desert as she torn them apart with claws made from her rage.

Those who have been chosen will be granted the right to enter the hell of the slain, Valhalla.

She screamed as she lifted up an humongous Fort-class and pummeled it into another, splattering blood all over.

But, this one doesn't give a shit. No, she will end you because you are a annoying shit and you just happened to be seen by her. Nope, no Valhalla, only death and pain, lots and lots of pain.

[Touch Angry Kitten Result Death][Valkry]: "DIE!"

Another roar through both the physical world and the void dimension, almost ruptured the thin veil between both incompatible world. There's no more BETA around her, only allied TSF that were absolutely terrified of her and pile of corpses scattered all over the brown plain, except for one target, the Monument.

For phase 4 hive, the Monument reached high into the sky, almost as a construction of pridefulness, proud to be one that ruled the land.

A [Ripline] came out from her huge wrist bands, made to restrict her movement so the Corpus can experiment on her, now she used it as one of the numerous brutal ways of 'saying "Hi" ' to her enemies.

The [Ripline] attached itself onto the top of the monument. Finding a good place to stand on, she then pulled down the wire with strength, channeled from the void and her own unending rage.

[Touch Angry Kitten Result Death][Valkry]: "GET OVER HERE!!!"

And the massive 300 meter tall monument seemingly budged from that statement from a tiny humanoid being, but it wasn't enough.

[Touch Angry Kitten Result Death][Valkry]: "GETU OVAR HERA YU PIEC OF SHIS!!!!"

Oh now she's speaking in angrish, which meant she got angrier, which meant she got more power, which meant...

[Touch Angry Kitten Result Death][Valkry]: "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

And with another pull, the TSF pilots presented all have a unbelievable state of disbelieve as well as a case of jaw dislocation as this tiny short alien managed to rip off a goddamn Monument off like a tree off its root. The entire thing just soared through the sky like a rocket and pulled up the tiny alien along with a huge chunk of rock attached to her feet and crashed landed some 2 kilometers away.

The dust settled after a moment as the Tenno was once seen again, standing on top of the fallen monument and screaming as all the rage leaked out of her body.

[Touch Angry Kitten Result Death][Valkry]: "Alright, raid done. Who wants ice-cream?"

All the TSF raised their hand in fear of getting mauled by this Tenno, also because who wouldn't want ice-cream after a 2 hours long fighting?

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"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

For a 33 years old, the Shogun sure can put up a good laugh, though was it really that hilarious? Excalibur thought. Just look at him, he's spewing tears from his eyes right now.

"Of all the one-liners she could do, she said that-AHAHAHAHA!!! Who was she talking to, a bunch of kindergardeners in a bus!?!?"
"No idea, I never remember much, some kind of Germany unit with complicated name, actually, they all do."

Taking another sip from the small cup of sake. The shogun poured Excalibur's cup with sake and in return Excalibur poured into his.

"The European really fought tooth and nail to get their land back, we are really fortunate to keep half of Japan in a habitable state, unlike theirs."

Lyon hive, a hive constructed from the fallen country of France after the last invasion from BETA to the west at year 1986. However, the hive have never been able to stretch its territory beyond into the ocean from the fierce resistance of the combined force of the European Union military might.

However, the European Union could only defend Britain from further invasion. Head-on assault to Lyon hive was simply impossible without assistance. That's where the Tenno came in, it will be only 1 month before the hive was sufficiently weakened to liberate.

"I'm sure that doctor of yours could help them fixed up any injuries from that raid in no time at all."
"You could say it's an addiction of some sort to her..."

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Staring onto the brown covering of the makeshift tent, Yui Takamura still couldn't face what have happened.

Just a week ago, the BETA have reached the capital, and her squadron was among the huge list of casualties suffered that that. She still remembered it like it was yesterday. The sight of her teammates getting squashed just before the line ended, destroyed from intense laser fire, and eaten right before her eyes.

All those memories were burned into her mind, so that she could never forget the faces of the death. And then they came, the Tenno. They just...killed the BETA like it was nothing, not a single effort done by the Imperial force was compared to them at all. They were just...better, greater than any man could achieve. The fact that they called themselves Tenno sounded more like a mockery to the Emperor himself.

And just like the BETA, she could do nothing to them. The sacrifices her teammates did that day, was in vain. Kyoto was retaken not by the hand of Japanese, but by aliens that most people didn't even know of. She remembered the face of one of them as well. White, and featureless, no eyes nor mouth on where it should be, yet she felt it was staring at her.

All her injuries on that day just healed up like it was nothing, thank to this strange device that she didn't even know how it looked like. Now the higher-ups were keeping her here to fully research on the effect of the device onto her body as well as keeping her psych normal for her next task.

Feeling a slight tingling on her waist, she got off the bed and headed toward the closest portable toilet. Then she heard something, something unfamiliar to this temporary refugee camp. Feeling curious, she walked toward the sound, which was more like a music. It was only the music getting intense that she noticed she was walking toward the medical camp.

Then she recognized the song just as she saw a Tenno.

The red Tenno, wearing a armored dress of some sort, walking through the medical camp and shooting green beam of energy at the patients with her hands formed like a pistol, all while this upbeat music played loudly all over the camp. There's only one word that could be said in this situation.

"What."

Yui Takamura followed behind the Tenno, every single tent the female Tenno passed, the patient were all standing happily on two feet with dancing to the rhythm. She have no idea what kind of injuries these refugees suffered, but the bloody bandages scattered all over the floor gave her some idea at least.

Standing right behind the Tenno, she saw the red Tenno shot a beam of green energy at a young man and spontaneously a pair of legs bursted from his bandages covered stump. An old man also recovered from his sickness and all his fatigue as well when a beam shot at him. They both got up and started dancing.

To Yui Takamura, this was kind of the last straw to her sanity. The Tenno truly have managed to achieve what other could not, bringing miracle to everyone alive. Then two beam of green impacted her chest, instead of making two huge holes through her body, it instead revitalized her and somehow her mood improved immediately.

It was then she came up with a new conclusion to this. That despised all that have happened, she was still alive, and she can be the part of the world that changed it to the better. Not more tear, not more cry, she have decided to stand up for the smile of everyone!

Then a tingling in her waist reminded her that she needed to get to the toilet, right now. Unfortunately, with all the patients up and running, the toilets were overloaded and there's a long line waiting for the next seat.

She's not the only one thinking 'Damn you, Tenno!!" at this moment.

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"That's just great!! Just tell your comrade that everyone will call her a saint if she continued do so."
"She's quite a saint back home already."

Yeah...a saint of guns and bullets, she will hurt you, then heal you, then kill you.

"That's quite a good impression to the people already, I'm still kind of sorry for the parade."
"That's okay, we have even worse impression back home..."

Just two weeks ago, the Imperial Diet decided that the existence of Tenno should be revealed to the public as the Empire of Japan will be working with the Tenno more closely than any other nations in the world. And so during a victory parade, the Tenno was asked to join the parade, some accepted.

Well, the citizens of Japan cheered for the army until they saw the Tenno with their own eyes, then silence filled the street. The suspension of disbelieve still haven't settled in yet, except for a bunch of kids who think space ninja were freaking awesome.

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"YEAH GO ON SPACE NINJA, SEND THE MARTIAN BACK HOME!!!"
"Takeru...could you quiet down...?"

But, the young short-haired boy didn't listened in despite the silent of the crowd. He's clearly testing the patience of the pink-haired girl here.

"I DON'T CARE ANYONE ELSE OPINION, YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!!!"
"Takeru,quiet down darn it..."
"WOW, HE'S LOOKING OVER HERE!! OVER HERE, LOOK AT ME I'M YOUR FAN!!!"

And yes, Excalibur was looking at the excited boy, who was jumping up and down like he was on a trampoline. he decided to give thank with a wave of his hand. Still, this boy really reminded him of someone with an explosive personality, no point for guessing who...

"Takeru, everyone is looking at us..."
"THANK YOU, I'M YOUR FAN, DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH!?"
"TAKERU, SHUT UP!!!"

And then the parade went slightly horribly wrong as the pink-haired girl gave off a punch straight for his face. Even the Military Police nearby flinched from the imaginary pain of the blow.

"That girl know boxing, Aoki!!"
"Oh shit, come on, Ippo, let's clear this up."
"Ah yes!"

Now Excalibur was serious worried for his fans but he can't just jumped off the Liset, he still have a show to put up for. Sorry, fan number one, but you are on your own.

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"I wonder what happened to that boy."
"Ah youth..."

Then a person outisde knocked the door and slided the paper door open, it was one of the inn attendant, though she looked like a foreigner, it was a bit strange to the shogun that the inn will hire immigrants, but then again the military had so much casualties, they needed the UN to help them, not to mention the Tenno as well.

"Sorry, your highness, but your meal will be delayed, there was a sudden influx of customer into the inn."
"Ah, that's okay. We could wait."
"Thank you for your patience, your highness."

And then the inn attendant left, closing the paper door on her way out.

"Now...let's talk about the main course of the discussion today."

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dragonkid11 · Jan 14, 2015

So, spending my time reading on some manga, I found out that the word Excalibur might have been a lot more phallic than I thought...

Namely that the japanese pronunciation of Excalibur can easily have a crapton of phallic word as pun, and the fact that Excalibur was a sword that shoot blinding white light.

Yeah.....

The name [Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism] might have been a lot more truer than I thought...

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Chapter 6-3

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While the supernatural power of just a small group of Tenno have already changed the tide of the war, for the Earth government to truly survive, they will need the technology of the star-faring civilisation. Even just the information on their weapons alone was more than enough to drastically improved the capability of the Earth military force.

As such, all Earth government have tried to trade technology with material and valuable items to the Tenno. Hint, tried. While the Tenno would gladly trade newly manufactured space-age weapon with the government for a rather odd list of items and advanced military equipment, reverse engineering of the weapon will take months despite the simplicity of the weapon whether due to insufficient technical skill or that working mechanism of the weapon were simply beyond human comprehension.

That, and apply the same principle to large scale weaponry and equipment will take years if not close to impossible to several poor-wealth nations. And there was also the fact that there was only one Tenno who can actually truly understand technology and make new gadgets out of it.

[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot], user of [Vauban] warframe and the main researcher of cutting-edge technology of the Clan First-Born.

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"I'm rather surprised that he will just give away the secret when you could have easily use it to your own advantage."
"There's nothing I can do if he want to trash talk to some curious audience. A lot of kitten were sacrificed every time he speak."

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It was a press-conference of a sort, while reporter were allowed into the speaking hall of the UN military base, Yukon base, majority of the information were censored to prevent leakage to the public.

Gathered under the stage was some of the brightest and smartest mind of the 20th century. Scientist and engineer of the Soviet, USA, China, Australia, British and Japan, were all sent out to listen to the speech to quicken the reverse engineering, with some small nation sent out their own group as well.

The speech lasted some 5 hours, with Vauban explaining the basic technology of the Grineer, Corpus and the Tenno. The audience recorded down his speech with any devices available, recorder, camera, laptop, and even pencil when battery started to run out.

Of course, Vauban intentionally shorten the Tenno part of the speech to keep some of their secret guarded, while some tried to pry open the pandora box with some rather antagonistic question, most generally respected the secrecy of the Tenno.

When the topic finally reached the Orokin and the void, things were getting messed up.

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"So, Dr. Gadget, what do you meant by 'their stuff were simply better' ?"
"It's literally just better!! There's no other subjective word for it! The projectile speed, the rate of fire, magazine size, damage model, everything is just better than anything we can do! And even now I have no idea why they were simply better... This, is one of the few thing where I just gave up and call it done for past 2 years."
"That...actually kinda sounded depressing."

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"What do you meant by nothing work!?"
"The void is not a simple dimension, it's a damn actual living space that hate anything that goes in it. Think of the Schrodinger's cat, anything can happen in the void, but whether it will happen in the void or not depend on the mood of the void. Unfortunately, it's also the only place for FTL travel, there's maybe a small percentage of ship that went into the void,everyday, just poofed out of existence because reality forgot to remember the hatred-filled space known as the void."
"Nevermind everything I just said."

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"And the only scientist that understand that part was the, what was she called these days?, the Wicked Doctor of the East?"
"Vauban said that Dr. Yuuko have the potential to be his apprentice in learning the void, even if he know barely anything about the void."
"I presumed that he have the other reason to have her as his apprentice."

Excalibur promptly slammed the table and chugged down a cup of sake.
"See!! I told him already, everyone can see through your thin veiled oh-so-wonderful 'kind-hearted' generousity. Those freaking dreadnaught-class rack, I don't understand him after all these years. And on top of that he revealed my title on some bar-tales."

When it came to identifying fellow Tenno, it's to either looked at their warframe type and the colour pattern, or just looked up and read their title on the top of their head. The title was a simple five worded phrase, chosen by the Tenno to reveal their personality and feeling through simple word. It also worked as a first impression of a sort, so Tenno with the name [360 Noscope While Maximum Swag] will certain be less respected than [Legendary Maneuver of Steel Raven].

The title of a Tenno should be kept as secrecy, known only to fellow Tenno or to those the sworn enemies of Tenno. So having his title being revealed make Excalibur worried because his title was a dick joke to make the enemy commandeers too busy on laughing their ass off while Excalibur cut through their force literally with ease.

There also another reason as to why he chose that, but that's reason is another story.

"Still...your name is...."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"...pfffft!"
"OH DARN IT NOT YOU TOO!!!"

Right now Excalibur was resisting all his urge to punch the shogun in his face, but that obviously will result in severe collapse of the status Tenno gained to the Empire of Japan.

It was some 5 minutes before the shogun finally clenched down his laughter, even to the point of coughing.

"I'm sure you have a good reason to pick a title like that...and I think I can see why."
"Okay, you need to stop switching your mood so darn quickly, stop being melancholy, the war is over for Japan!"

Noticing a frown on the Shogun's face, Excalibur stood up and just shoved a cup of sake right onto his face.

"Drink it!"

And the Shogun did so, yet he didn't look drunker than before, if it's any, he somehow sobered up!

What the hell, I thought Japanese were supposed to be weak against alcohol!?!?

Apparently not, either the Shogun have some augmentation in his stomach or his yamato damashii was too strong for the puny sake to cloud his mind.

"We, have been depending on our blade for too long. One would think that the last war was enough to stop that dependence, but with the sudden appearance of the BETA and the TSF, we just thought that, for once, we can cut down out foes in battle. Heh...there's only so much we could cut until the blade dulled itself."

Excalibur just sighed and let the man continued, the wait for the meal just got longer and longer.

"And I'm afraid your sudden appearance will lengthen our dependence even to the far future. It's amazing, yet at the same time, it's stupid. And I know even with the BETA, you were still holding back your true power."
"Holding back? Like what, a kid show? As if I have some super overdrive power that will blow everyone's mind."
"But it's true that your weren't even serious about the BETA, even the most elite eishi of the nation still feel fear and tension as they battled. You, you don't even feel the thrill of battle against the BETA, they were too big and slow to your superior Tenno capability."

"That...I can't deny that."
"There's also another thing that I would like to mention, I won't live past this year."
"!?!?"
"I know of your miracle medical technology, however, using it on a person like me would be a waste."
"Wh-what the void crap were you talking about!?"
"In fact, the representative for the next Shogun was already chosen in the case of my heart failing. Yuuhi Koubuin. I'm asking you, as a friend to help her success in her succession."
"If I'm your friend, I will punch you and get you to Oberon."
"Then do so as a mecrenary to lengthen the time of your contract to the Empire of Japan, you need to help her."
"...."

His hand grabbed hold of the sake bottle and he chugged all the remaining sake down his throat, not that it will help any, Tenno can't get drunk, Tenno can't get poisoned either because their stomach was a catalytic reactor that broke down any edible matter into pure energy.

"...There's no point in convincing you otherwise then...fine, I will fucking do it, but only if you were really dead past this year."
"Thank you."

It was death threat of a sort, but to the shogun it might as well be a blessing.

The inn attendants suddenly interrupted their conversation as the sliding door opened. In their hand was a small table with several traditional Japanese luxury dishes on it. While Japan did just suffered a war that ended a month ago, that didn't meant that expensive ingredients will be completely unavailable, just that they will be more expensive that usual.

And to Excalibur who have been waiting for a really long while, it better worth it.

"I really wanted to say I kinda lost the appetite to eat after that just now, but damn...the smell is great!!"
"Let start then!"

With chopsticks in their hand, the shogun and the Tenno gleefully picked out a piece of raw salmon, sashimi and just about to put it in their mouth when they heard a familiar voices.

"Dad, you really don't need to reserve such an luxurious inn..."
"It's been months since I saw you. A good family reunion is definitely necessary. That, and your mother and I have been here before."

They both can clearly hear it as the Prime Minister Sakaki and apparently his daughter were walking into the room directly below them, a couple footsteps followed, probably the bodyguards.

"I think I have just lost my appetite to eat, my other appetite is starting to open..."
"A meal can wait after this one, a man gotta do what man gotta do..."

They both nodding, all while a sinister thought came into their mind.

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"...wowOW, what's with that damn chill!?"

Loki said while he was cleaning his figure collection, it's that chilling feeling that someone was attempting to steal his seat of King Shenanigan by conducting prank of high hilarity, again.

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I'm building up the Shogun as a awesome character that will undoubtedly meet his end in the next few chapters.

Am I doing him right?

dragonkid11 · Jan 16, 2015

Apology for yesterday lack of posting, so I will finish up chapter 6 with this last extra long post.

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Chapter 6-4

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While prime minister Sakaki was the head of the Imperial Diet, even he will need a rest once in a while, especially after the war ended, at least momentarily before the Imperial Japanese Army recover their loss and attempt to retake Korea.

A simple family reunion with his only daughter, nothing more, nothing less. This certainly reminded him of the last time he booked a room in this inn with not just his daughter, but also his wife. Those were good time, and the precious smiles on his daughter and wife's faces should have been the things he saved rather than some far away land when that happened.

He got over it, his daughter,Chizuru Sakaki, got over it, but something was clearly lost in her. Maybe it got even worse after his job got busier after the BETA had taken over Korea. So much time spent in vain when his only family member needed the help.

She was probably hiding it from him, but as long as she is safe, he is fine with it.

"You know, you really are starting to look like your mother."
"Is that so?"

Ah, what an cold answer. Unlike him being a 40 years old man with a head full of short grey hair and a stern flat face formed from the stress in handling political matters, she is his average teenage rebellious girl with long orange hair ended in twin braided tail, wearing a pair of large circular spectacles, giving a cold glare at him.

He had no idea when did his wife taught his daughter on making braid, but it sure looked good on her. But even then, a long awkward silent came and shut down any conversation.

It's just the matter of waiting for the cook to complete their dinner, so, prime minister Sakaki took another sip from a can of orange soda (What kind of father would drink alcohol on their family reunion with their only offspring?), waiting patiently.

That was when the light went out.

"Huh?"

It's dark, but not dark enough to being outright blind. He can still see his daughter face, that went from confusion as to why the light went out and to sheer horror, as she looked at him. No, behind him.

He can hear footsteps, almost as if it was intentionally letting him to hear his demise. Then there's was a chilling wind passing through his ear, but no, it's a rather loud breath, in and out, in and out.

Then the entity spake.

"H̦͍̩̮͓͚͉́o͝n̠͍̗͖e̠͕͍̬y̙̲,͏ ͔̘̜͕̀I'͉͖̯̹̖̞ͅm̛̠͚̬̗̭ͅ ̮̠̙̦̠͞ho̷̭͈͕͍͔͈̘m̙̘͙̗͜ͅḙ͔͇̩̪͚.̣̕"

Prime Minister then screamed, just like any other 40 years old man would have had they heard the voice of the dead. Of course, this wasn't his dead wife speaking, the voice was clearly masculine and sounded rather like a certain space ninja...

"WHAT!? EXCALIBUR!?"

The light then went back to normal and the prime minister saw the shogun, laughing his heart out on the floor while the Tenno sat cross-legged, but also laughing like a maniac.

"H-how did you get in here?"

They both pointed right at the open window, it's fortunately that they were on the ground floor, or else the prank could easily go wrong.

"Don't worry though, my royal guards got your bodyguards covered."

There was a clear twitch to his face when he heard muffed laughter, coming from the outside, he angrily slided the door open and saw both his bodyguard, two grown adult almost reaching 7 feet, covering their mouths while their laughing and shaking betrayed their cover. Also outside the door was the three red royal guards that just facepalmed at their highness's act.

"No day off for the rest of the month."

He closed the door just as his bodyguard said "Worth i-" before getting cut off. He took a deep breath, and sat down, facing the shogun and the Tenno.

"C-can I have your signature?"
"Sure why not? Why all the kid speak English to me though..."
"Excalibur was the name of a sword from an old British tale, don't tell me you know nothing about it..."

Oh, that's just great. The Tenno managed to get more words out of her in seconds than he did in the past 10 minutes.

...But, she actually looked happy, maybe he needed to learn a thing or two from the Tenno, after all, all the stress from facing his political opponents probably took a toll on him.

And then he heard another familiar voice, just on the right of this room.

"Wow, it's been so long since we last ate here, dad!"
"OH TAMA, ANYTHING THAT GET MY PROUD DAUGHTER HAPPY, I WILL DO IT!!"

...Ah, that Undersecretary General. Off all the places he have a family meal with his daughter, he chose this place. Looking back at the shogun and Tenno, the prime minister suddenly had a great, nah, brilliant idea. After all, the UN kept sending that General to talk on some rather sensitive topic that enraged him sometimes , so it's time to let all the stress out.

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"I want your chef to cook up his finest dinner today! Oh, and extra sashimi for my daughter, my sweet heart really like it."
"I will tell the chef, customer."

The inn attendant left, wondering just how did the slim old man managed to change from the most serious face she had ever seen to some silly looking face of a father that worried about his daughter a lot and probably have a pack of band-aid in his pocket.

Well, he didn't have a pack of band-aid in his pocket. He however have two small bottle of strawberry juice from his daughter favourite brand in his extra-large pockets.

"Here you go!"
"Oh, thank you, dad!"
"Nah, it's nothing. If you want to thank me then do great thing in future!"
"Yes, I will, dad!"
"UM! MAKE ME PROUD, TAMA!!"

His daughter, Miki Tamase, a kind childish teenage girl who was rather short for her age and have a long pink hair stylied like a pair of cat ears and...something else, he not sure what it supposed to be, but it's probably some cartoon characters from the show his daughter watched in her free time.

The other thing he knew about his daughter was that she was a lot more talented than she have ever showed. But, her nervousness in doing anything while having people she know watching her will cause her to fail no matter what. If only she managed to get through that, then his daughter, MIKI TAMASE, will undoubtedly be the greatest daughter of all time and he will be so proud of her!!!

"Dad, w-what are you s-saying, I d-don't have t-that kind of f-fear!!"

Ah shit, did I said that out loud!? was his thought as his face went pale from panic.

It was then he heard muffed laughter coming from the outside of the door, who would darn to laugh at my concern toward my daughter!?

Sliding the paper door open, he saw the prime minister and shogun fall onto the floor, laughing till tears coming out from their eyes. Oh it's just the prime minister and the shogun-wait what.

He quickly turned around as he heard rustle of tree right outside the window and saw a freaking Tenno walked into the room and handled a piece of paper to his daughter.

"T-thank you for the signature, Excalibur-san!"
"Finally, a kid that speak Japanese to me!"

Finally regain his composure, the undersecretary general yelled out.

"What is going on here and why are all of you here!?"
"I never thought you two would have a dinner here, and I got really bored for the past month."
"I really should have known it was your idea, Shogun... but to drag a Tenno into this!"
"Oh don't mind me, I'm having the time of my life right now."

And by that he meant playing rock paper scissor simultaneously with the daughter of both the undersecretary general and the prime minister. Despite needing to focus on two side, he won every single round because Tenno is bullshit.

While seeing his daughter enjoying herself with another teenage girl close to her age was a good thing, another entirely unrelated thing came into the general mind.

How in the world did they all went into the same inn and yet no one know about it at all? There should be at least some news to increase the security force on site.

Then a gun shot ringed in the air.

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Everyone was alerted by the gun shot, even if it sounded far and yet close enough. The shogun's royal guard and the bodyguards quickly drew out their pistols, watching down the hallway for any possible threat.

To Excalibur, he was already used to this, way too much in fact, to the point that he didn't react to the gun shot because it was so far away, leaving him wondering what's going on with his hands forming two paper while the two teenage girls looked to the door with fear in their face.

Who ever done that was not nice at all.

Excalibur focused down on the sound, the gunfire was constant and rapid, something automatic, and sounded slow enough to be a rifle. It was then he realized he heard this before, guns on this Earth used chemical propellant to propel metal projectile, so they all have a similar sound. This gunfire was completely different from it, in fact, it's probably an entirely different weapon.

"No...this can't be..."
"Excal?"

He stood up, and in the next blink of an eye, he was gone.

"Follow me!"

All eyes quickly turned their sight to the hallway, despite the Tenno running on the paper wall with an unbelievable speed, there's not a single sound except from his yelling just now. Everyone quickly followed him, trying to keep up with his inhumane pace.

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This cannot be, this cannot be!!!

Excalibur rushed down the empty hallway and stopped just right outside the storage room. The wooden door was written with a sign saying 'Staff only', but as if a space ninja would care about that right now. Whatever gunfight happened inside have already stopped, but Excalibur still preferred to investigate the situation out.

Opening the door, he noticed a stairway going down a level, toward the underground level. He twitched his right hand, and a circular device dropped from his sleeve and onto his hand. Clicking the device, the glaive sprang out three sharp blades and Excalibur walked down the stair with readiness in each steps.

Even before walking down the stair, Excalibur have already smell something fresh in the air.

The smell of blood, lots of it.

As he walked down the stair, he saw the basement light, flashing from mechanical malfunction or something else. By the time he got down, it went back to normal. But what happened down here was definitely not normal.

What happened here was a massacre, he recognized two foreigner inn attendants, now spread all over the floor in bloody chunks along with at least 3 others, judging by the amount of limbs and blood all over the floor. Over on the other side of the room, was five workers who were tied up with rope and naked, wearing in only underwear, fainted onto the floor.

Clearly they have been switched out by these group of foreigner here. All over the wall was bullet mark, but it's one completely impossible to make with Earth weapon. These were burn marks, dug deep in to the wall with miniature explosions.

And the rifle that was lying on the floor was clearly not an Earth weapon, as if there's any Earth organization that paint their boxy energy gun with boring grey colour.

But the most worrying thing was painted on the wall, with blood. It was a insect like sign, with a bunch of diamond repeating downward inside a face. It was the sign of...

"Stalker...but how!?"
"I would like to find out more on your 'friend' there."

Shocked by his sudden presence, Excalibur turned his back around and holstered his glaive back in his sleeve as the shogun continued to walk down the stair.

"Don't worry, I called my guards to stay up there, you can talk."
"How did you know about him?"
"When 'him' starting to killing this group of people here are part of this group called, The Allegiance."
"Allegiance?"
"The Intelligence Bureau of the Imperial Ministry of Home Affairs have already tracked down several of their hideout on Japan and was about to raid them until the BETA suddenly came and disrupt all police raiding mission. To the Allegaince, it was a miracle of them as they believed that BETA are their lord and saviour, came to liberate them from this hell by consuming them."

At that point, Excalibur stumbled a bit from what he just said.
"What kind of nutcase would believe in that kind of bullshit!?"
"They don't, most were forced refugee who would be more than pleased with a roof on top and a full belly daily. Ironically, Allegaince was quite capable in feeding the refugee of fallen nations. They might have funding from some other organisation, but the Ministry is still trying to find the source."
"Okay, a religious terrorist organization that believe in giant monsters as their God that also somehow get funding from somewhere because there were people that really believe the only way to save Earth is to destroy it, got it, but...why would he...oh...the Allergy were trying to kill us just now, aren't they?"

In seconds, the Shogun's face was twisted back and forward between a serious look and back to his care-free silly look.
"H-how in the world could you mispelled that oh god...hahahaha..."
"Can you please be serious for once?"
"I'm trying darn it. Just, leave that aside for now. Right after your arrival, this 'he' went on a rampage that took out almost all of the Allegiance hideout the Imperial Ministry knew in Japan, and judging from report on the west, 'he' might have just took out the head of the Allegiance. However, Allegaince was still an active organisation and they can recovered from this crippling blow. Now, mind if you tell me about your 'friend'?"
"...I guess 'he' don't take it well when someone else is trying to kill his target."
"What happened between you and him?"
"...You know what? I was waiting for a chance to talk to you about this, but with this happening and your death is coming sooner than I have thought, I need to tell you this...about the betrayal."

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"And to the world of fire and brimstone! The hive shall bring us salvation by bringing us to a better world! Let us embrace death, for as our body is consumed by the servants of the hive, we will gain passage to heaven itself!"

Any normal people that managed to get here will certainly be disgusted by the complete lack of sanity here in this massive hall. The crowd just stared at the priest with eyes full of empty, and yet they yelled out praise and cheer to the BETA, empty of spirit and will. Looking at the crowd, the priest, wearing full military gear with a rifle hanging on strap under his left hand, lifted the microphone with his right as he yelled out next part of his practiced speech.

"Before we are saved by the lord himself, we need to prove that we have the right to enter the heaven gate! We need to arm ourselves and fight back against the heretic. Even if we died, our bodies and souls will be absorbed into the hive! Fight, will all your might! Fight, will the last draw of your breath! Despair, not when you were still armed! We will end the reign of the heretic! And the apocalypse brought forward by THEM, the TENNO!"

"Down to the heretic! Down to the Tenno!"

The two lines was repeated by the brainwashed crowd over and over. The priest smiled as another batch of recruit was recruited.

"Now, pick up your weapon, comrades! These are no ordinary weapon, gained from the hive itself! Stronger than any heretic made weapon, they will help to guide you through your journey. Go back to your designated room after you have grabbed your equipment. AMEN!"

Several veterans, armed with strange boxy weapons, opened up grey metal crates with a press of a button. Inside, there's more than enough guns to arm an platoon, and there's dozens of these boxes on the stage. The recruits walked toward the crate and grabbed a rifle each before going back to their line.

While the priest was overseeing the arming process, a wave from his comrade from the backstage made him walked down the stage.

"Any good news from the east?"

His comrade could only shake her head.

"It's been 2 hours since their last report, they failed their last task."
"Damn, may the hive guided their soul."

All over the east, Allegiance hideout simply faded out, as that...black thing killed everyone in every single hideout, leaving a trail of blood that leaded to nowhere. Even the Master, who have wrote out plan and made funding for the Allegiance to operate was killed by that thing. The last remnant of Allegiance tried one last attack on assassinating important figures in Japan, but even that failed.

However, while they failed in the east, having the help of this weapon merchant would certainly increase the success rate of Allegiance operation. If only that guy wasn't such a douchebag.

"Ah, have you heard the news? You failed you task!"

Wearing a long baggy blue dress that seemingly came from an older time, the clown was surrounded by several spacesuit wearing henchmen with giant boxy helmet, armed with their own boxy rifles, and yet, pieces of metal and gadget all over the uniform would imply that its appearance was a foil to its capability. Other than that, there's massive collar right on his neck that seemed to have more function that being a crappy pieces of fashion accessory.

"The original plan was to have hundreds storm their embassy, not five on a goddamn restaurant. Just the rifle alone won't be enough if we have manpower that low."
"It seemed I have overestimate the fanatical might of your crowd there."

The priest's face twitched for a moment, but just a moment.

"We need a better plan than just storming with wave of man, either give us better weapons or more recruit."
"A little lesson for you, priest, if you want to negotiate, try negotiate from a superior point."
"!?"
"You are the beggar here, priest, not me, who still have more power than you could possible imagine."

This make him more furious than ever before, maybe he really shouldn't have accept this devil deal, but Allegiance really need firepower after Master was killed.

"Oh well, I'm going to give you new toys anyway. If you say pretty please."
"What!?"
"Say. Pretty. Please."
"...Pretty please."
"Good boy!"

With his pride all went down a drain, the priest could only frown as the clown clapped his hand, ordering his henchmen to open up the crate. It was an army of robot, walking on two legs with a guns sticking on its top. Oddly, the robots walked with fluidity like an animal. Another clap from the clown, and four legged robots of various sizes walked out of their container. The massive one, the sized of a tank-class, crawled out of the crate while the smaller one just jumped out of it.

"And last but not least, more guns."

Another crate was opened with a clap from the clown and in it was stack of energy weapon of unparalleled destructive power.

"Now, lets make a deal. I give you toys to play with, you go and mess things up for me. Deal?"

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"Dad, I'm hungry."
"Don't worry, Tama, I will figure something out!"

So, let's start describing current scenario.

Bad news, everyone almost got killed by terrorists.
Good new, terrorists were deader than dead.
Bad news, they also poisoned the food.
Good news, it's only expired food that they put in, apparently even terrorist can run into budget problem, so all other customers got off with stomachache.
Bad news, everyone is still fucking hungry.

"All that waiting and talking and all I got was drinking a few bottle of sake..."
"You are not the only one disappointed here, Tenno..."
"Damn terrorist is ruining everything, leave my family reunion alone dammit!"

Even worse news, everyone was drunk, well, almost everyone. No way would the adult allow underage teenage to drink sake, and Tenno can't get drunk.

"Guard, GET ME FAST FOOD!"
"Shogun, at least order someone that suit your positi-"
"EXTRA LARGE CHEESE BURGER, AND DOUBLE THE FRIES, AND NO COKE. I WANT PEPSI!"
"Erm.....er....as...you order..."
"Wait!"

In the midst of chaos and emptied sake bottles, a white hand raised high up by Excalibur, getting the attention of all eyes in the room, he channeled through the void to reach back to the Clan base.

"Let see if there's someone in the kitchen....okay there is....hey Rhino...is there any left over for the dinner?....oh...well....we got attacked by these group of people called themselves Allergy......no they don't use infec-yeah....they kind of poisoned the food so we are getting hung-"
"HUNGRY!? NO ONE IS HUNGRY UNDER MY WATCH!!!"

It was a surprise to everyone when a loud voice blared out from Excalibur, so loud that everyone's ears were ringing from it but it was a voice of a deeper tone compared to Excalibur's voice. After the ringing stopped, they saw Excalibur, lying on the floor, suffering the most from the voice.

He's only half way through getting up when a flat metal container flew through the window and smashed him right in the back, neatly placed itself right onto the table.

"Oh, dinner is here."

And as if nothing had happened at all, Excalibur sat down properly and opened the container. Wonderful smell came from the box as the steam obscured the food hidden within. Only when the steam dissipated did they know what they will eat.

"...Pizza?"
"Meh, good enough."

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"This, this is not good."

One would be lying if they weren't feeling panicked right now. Overseeing the SHADOW network, the director tried to contain the situation that was being completely out of control.

The SHADOW network, short for Spaceward Hardwares for All-Round Defensive Ordnances and Warhead, was a networked system composed of three components, a lunar orbit surveillance network, an early-stage nuclear launch platform at Lagrange 1, and a final interception line made up of a group of nuclear attack satellites in Earth orbit.

The point of the SHADOW network was to prevent further landing of hive core units by knocking them out of trajectory, at least, that's the theory.

So far, the SHADOW network have only knocked a single objects out of its trajectory. And the current objects have been wrecking havoc on the SHADOW network. First, the lunar surveillance satellites was destroyed by something. It's just one screen of nothing and suddenly it's all static. Then, the early-stage nuclear launch platform at Lagrange 1 was destroyed after releasing its payload of nuclear missiles, all missiles were destroyed before impacting with the object.

Now, there's only the final interception line left to attack. The nuclear attack satellites in Earth orbit were often being upgraded with new optic and sensor in order to achieve better accuracy and precision. There's no chances to miss with Earth at stake here.

"We have visual on the object!"

Finally, after 3 hours of overseeing the operation, the director was finally able to see the true appearance of his enemy on the large strategic screen on the wall in front of him. It's looked like a flying hive, large formation of rock all over the long tower like object, with bluish glow coming from the back of the object, acting like giant thruster. Whatever it was, it's big.

"Interception trajectory calculated."
"Fire!"
"Missiles launch initiated."

20 minutes, just pass 20 minutes and the missiles will reach the target and destroy it with the power of the sun. The director held his together, praying to whatever God out there, but it didn't work.

Just 5 minutes later and the nuclear missiles were destroyed into a cloud of debris, there's already prediction that the BETA will deploy space unit with laser to intercept nuclear missiles sooner or later but to start so quickly...

The alien of the east was making the BETA stepping up their game, aren't they?

"What's the landing trajectory?"
"W-what?"
"Where will the damn thing land!?"
"Erm, coordinate is.....is.....Japan."
"Be more specific!"
"Yokohama, Japan! Sir!"

It's only matter of time before the nuclear attack satellites in Earth orbit were destroyed by the object, but until then, it's better to prepare than despair.

"Get me the president."

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And Holy shit Christ, why did I spent 5 fucking hours on writing this.

I literally wrote out three time the average word count of my snip, why did I burn out so hard!?!?!

So yes, alien-hating terrorist, return of Alad V, interrupted meal, and giant space monster.

This chapter have it all!!!

I think I can leave this golden rule out for Warframe crossover.

When in doubt, involve Salad.

And next chapter review.

More character introduction!

ARCHWING!!

INCOMING!!!

Still no nova explosion unfortunately.

trooperist · Jan 17, 2015

So now there's Corpus involved? Should be interesting.

dragonkid11 · Feb 1, 2015

So yeah, school happens, a lot of stuffs happen.

But I will at least finish this arc here.

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Chapter 7-1

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The dizziness of the drunken meeting still impaired his vision despite the impossibility of being drunk for being a Tenno, clearly alcohol was more bullshit than void magic. Though it wasn't as worse as other party in the meeting considering he can still walk away from the inn on his own.

That meeting have just reminded Excalibur that even simple casual political meeting in an inconspicuous inn can end up being potentially deadly and hazardous with crazy fanatical terrorists going gangsta with plasma rifles, which it's just another way of saying it's Tuesday for Excalibur.

Except it's not Tuesday, which day was it again?

"Mister Ichimonji, which day was it today?"
"Ah, Sir Tenno, I'm not Ichimonji, he have to deliver some cargo across the world today. It's Monday by the way."

Once again, it's really hard for him to recognize people that just looked too plain for him...

When you have been fighting in a world where you recognize enemy by their stylish armor and big ass guns, and notable commandeers by the fanciness of their hat, it's a lot more harder than you think to recognize people by subtle facial feature.

It's not like people actually showed their face back in the origin system if their are insignificant cannon fodder, which leaded to even more confusion. At least the Tenno learned to acknowledge rank by the complexity of insignia on the uniform.

Recollect from his thought, the driver already showed the permit to the MP on the base entrance, allowing access into the Hakuryou base. Vauban already have planned quite a massive list of upgrade to improve the capability of the base as it will serve as the Tenno command base until it rendered obsolete, but so far the base still looked normal like a common military base should except for one place.

The Humvee stopped just right before the entrance of the temporary Tenno command base, an automatic metal gate flanked by another two MPs. Excalibur stepped off the Humvee and the two MPs saluted him as he walked towards them. The card scanner scanned his access card as he retrieved one of his pockets sewed into the uniform, and the gate opened just as the red LED light on the scanner turned green and a 'beep' can be heard.

The reason why it's a temporary base is because it's just an quick fabricated building using Corpus technology, connect to the main base through an underground tunnel, nothing notable except for being more high-tech than everything else in the space as well as energy gun turrets everywhere in the building.

The building included an advanced lab for G-element analysis, enclosed hanger with capacity of up to 30 Lisets, as well as basic accommodation such as kitchen, relief room with the latest Corpus technology in entertainment and toilet for high ranked human personnel. It's obvious which room have the most gathered in.

But first, a walk to the kitchen, if Rhino isn't here, he's probably back at the Clan base. A 40-60 chances annnnd he's here.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Hey Rhino, I would like to thank you in your effort for contributing your midnight supper to our stomachs."
[Unstoppable Invincible Impeding Moving Object][Rhino]: "Great, how was it? Did you finish it?"
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "That sushi pizza that you made was great! Just the right amount of wasabi and sashimi and fish roes, but I still prefer the peperoni pizza. As for finishing it..."

It was quite an effort to finish all three of those extra-extra-large pizza even with the combined force of three old mans, two teenager girls and one space ninja with literal bottomless stomach. Excalibur have to painfully finish almost than half of the pizza by himself while others left and went back to their home. It's delicious, but it's quite stuffy to actually finish it.

Note to self, Rhino's midnight supper can feed an army. Always ask for a specific amount.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Barely finish it. Please don't send too much next time....if there's one."

Also, Rhino have temper when it's come to people that don't finish their meal, you think Stalker is persistent? Then you haven't met this Rhino yet... Still couldn't possibly be worse than Valkry after her first breakout.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Oh...and I told the Shogun about 'that' ".
[Unstoppable Invincible Impeding Moving Object][Rhino]: "Well, you have to, sooner or later they will need to know if they want us to be their allies."

True, but while it's the right thing to do, is it the right action to take? Excalibur could only look downly as he's deep in thought. A pat to his back snapped him out of it.

[Unstoppable Invincible Impeding Moving Object][Rhino]: "Whatever the case will be, it will be fine just like always!"

And then Murphy happened.

...

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Rhino."
[Unstoppable Invincible Impeding Moving Object][Rhino]: "Yes?"
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Sometimes I just want to say Fuck you."
[Unstoppable Invincible Impeding Moving Object][Rhino]: "Welp."

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"Shogun!"

Normally, Tsunemori Saionji would have gotten out of the bed and prepare for the next meeting on his long arranged list of daily activities. After all, being a supreme military commandeer of Japan while being a member of House Saionji with history stretched over a thousand years and also granted with long list of titles that was as lengthy as this paragraph, Shogun Saionji have barely any time to rest at all after the last war against BETA.

However, even with such strong spirit, 12 bottles of sake were still going to do some number on his sobriety. And he would prefer his guardsman to give him 5 more minutes of sleep. Unfortunately, if his guardsman was rude enough to interrupt his sleep, it's definitely something important.

Still in his pajamas and yawning for air, the Shogun got off his bed and said.

"You may enter."

The female red guardsman opened the door and quickly gave a bow to the shogun.

"What was it that require such haste?"
"The BETA is about to attack the mainland!"

Damn, he just can catch a break can he, neither the Tenno can as they must fight the BETA as well. Still, have the BETA sneaked onto the mainland through the mainland China or what? Did they just skipped Sadogashima island?

"In what direction were they coming from?"

He can see it, the female guardsman looked grim with an expression that suggested that she haven't seen anything this worse before.

"Up."

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[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "How in the bloody Earth did you missed that!?"

Gathered at the base command room, Excalibur stood in with Vauban, Oberon and Rhino on the right side of the room while the base commandeer, Oraka Genshouko and Dr. Yuuko Kouzuki stood on the left.

On the strategic view screen, was a 2D image of round Earth with a circle following a curvy line that stretched from a point on the moon, with the other end reaching Earth, more specifically, Yokohama, Japan. Some 20km away from this military base.

That's...rather dangerous close.

"There's only 40 minutes left on the clock before it arrived."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "40 minutes!? How, with such predictable path, that whatever surveillance system you have managed to miss that!?"
"Japan was never focused on dealing with threat from the space when it's fighting its own battle on the land, our satellite could only spot target on the ground as long as the cloud wasn't obscuring. It's the big states such as America, Soviet and Euro Union that have eyes in the sky toward the space."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "It's still not going to take them that long to spot it right?"

That, or they intentionally delay the report for whatever reason they have, possible to force the Tenno to reveal their secret trump card f they have one.

Dr. Yuuko can't say that, not if there's a chance that a spy is in this base right now. It came no surprise that this base have captured some 20 spys from CIA, KGB and other black ops organization for having the highest concentration of Tenno in the entire world. While their attempt at covert ops against Tenno was laughable considering the Tenno have done many more covert ops before their family name even existed, it's still quite risky and she should discuss this in a much safer place.

"Technical issue was not unheard of, and there's only one object detected from the moon before this one, but no one know whether that was a BETA pod or something else entirely."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "You should have told us about that, we can easily put more effort than that with out Lisets."
[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "Lets leave this one out for now, we are running out of time."

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"At around 4.00 A.M, an object was detected launching from the BETA hive 11 on the moon on a course to Earth, with predicted course indicated the object is heading toward Japan with Yokohama in the center of the landing point. The 207th training flight will be renamed 207th Tactical Armored Flight for this mission and will be on standby at the base in await for next order."

In just days after the Tenno have driven the BETA off the Sadogashima island, the 207th training flight underwent their long delayed Comprehensive Skills Evaluation and passed it successfully. Both classes of the 207th training flight constantly competed with each other as rivalry, but just as they were in the same flight, they were all shocked when they have to face the frontline even with two weeks left on their TSF piloting training.

Even Sergeant Marimo looked stressful, not the kind from being teased as being abandoned by Dr. Yuuko having a space aline that can meet all her needs, but one that reminded her of painful past experience, and everyone knew veteran have seen things that no one should.

"Come on guys, chill!!! We have all the Tennos in this base, even if we can't kick the BETA off the land on our own, they will figure something out!!!"

While one could see that Cadet Chini was being nervous about the operation as well, her squadmates couldn't help but admired that she can still keep calm even in this situation.

"Cadet Chini,normally I will give your 20 push ups for interrupting me, but that will come later, for now... 207th Tactical Armored Flight! This will be your first assignment! Remember everything that I have taught and do better than your best!"
"Yes, madam!"

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[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "Even if we managed to destroy it, the debris will still fall onto Japan and calling that terrible would be an understatement."

The last taken image of the Object was showed on the strategic view screen. A massive 2 kilometers long organic space craft that looked like a hive monument on its front while the end continued to expand like the root of a tree. Essentially, it's a giant cone tree of doom.

[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "The best we could do is to damage it as much as possible and hope it doesn't land too hard."
"The predicted damage model is not acceptable, there have to be some way to send it off target with brute force from your Lisets."
[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "There's thrusters on its back, and if this thing managed to launched off the moon on its own, I doubt all the Lisets we have can send it off it course. Assuming we pushed with 100% efficiency and not being engaged with moon type BETA on its surface."
[Unstoppable Invincible Impeding Moving Object][Rhino]: "There's another way we can do this."

It was, quite an unexpected answer to come from a less intellectual Tenno that shouldn't have thought of any complicated plan in dealing against this catastrophe. Even Vauban and Dr. Yuuko were looking at him with doubt.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur]: "Rhino, you sure?"
[Unstoppable Invincible Impeding Moving Object][Rhino]: "Using the Rhino warframe was a lot harder than you bunch thought, learning to calculate and unleash stable gravitational anomaly was more than just stomping the ground hard. So yes, I have a plan against that thing."
[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "What do you suggest us to do?"
[Unstoppable Invincible Impeding Moving Object][Rhino]: "We will use its power against itself.

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And I really should start editing earlier chapter and post them on fanfiction net now.

dragonkid11 · Feb 4, 2015

Chapter 7-3

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Question!

How do you change the direction of a force when you don't have enough power to do so?

The answer is using leverage.

It could be as easy as using a piece of wood with a rock beneath to lift up object too heavy for your strength or doing complex action such as a Judo throw to lift an opponent that weights heavier than you.

Another question!

How do you do that in space against a multimillion tons space monster?

That's up to Rhino to figure that one out as he detached out of his Archwing, Elytron, just as he fired a [Warhead]. The target for the [Warhead] wasn't the BETA dreadnaught, it's his feet.

The shockwave of the explosion alone quickly spread half a kilometer wide, sending Rhino towards the tip of the dreadnaught several times the speed of sound.

In the end of all his planning, it still involved one giant stomp, [Rhino Stomp] to be precise.

Upon impact, however tough the starship grade chitinous armor of the dreadnaught was, it cracked for hundreds meters with spiderweb-shaped line all over the surface. Then it stopped as time stood still.

The entire dreadnaught stopped moving in relative to Earth for just a split second, but the damage was already done.

An ocean worth of blood gushed out of crack, whatever organic component was behind the chitin armor was squashed into bloody paste, all while Rhino laughing at how his plan succeeded until a gesyer of blood sent him flying.

But, that was just a small bonus compared to the real plan.

The pieces of armor cracked from Rhino's time-slowing [Stomp] was traveling at much slower speed than the rest of the dreadnaught, as it continued to move towards Earth, the pieces will cut deep into its fresh. While it was an impressive work that would have wrecked a small town, the crack was quite small in relative to the size of the 2km long dreadnaught, but, it's still one huge crack that did a number onto it.

It have two options, it either continues on its current course and suffers extreme damage to its innards as the cracked armors are not moving with the rest of the body, or steers away from them with whatever thrust system it has to reduce the damage, but this lengthens the time needed to reach Japan.

The thing chose the latter, with hot plasma thrusting out from its rear engine as it moved itself away from time-frozen armors.

[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "The object have moved away from its original trajectory, now destroy it!"

Vauban spoke, right at the base command room of Hakuryou base to relay the squad on the situation.

This is where Nova's showtime come.

She looked right at the rear of the dreadnaught, it's massive engine shooting out stream of plasma that reach out to dozen of kilometers behind it. It was a beautiful scene and she's gonna blew it up!

Her feet connected with Loki's feet, with a [Bloomer] sandwiched between each of their feet. The remote control bombs detonated and sent her flying toward the dreadnaught just before she detached from her Archwing, an Elytron as well.

She flew through the empty space, straight toward the dreadnaught, no maneuvering, no spinning, just free space flight with initial brute force of the explosion. Just a tiny humanoid figure right besides the giant space monster, she have to time this one right.

Within a second, she ripped the space between her and the dreadnaught with a cast of [Worm Hole] and quickly entered it. It was a good thing that she remembered the important lesson of 'Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing goes out.'

In the next moment, she was engulfed in burning plasma that rivaled the heat from the surface of the sun with pressure comparable to pressurized lava deep below the surface of Earth. But she never forget her purpose here even from the tremendous punishment.

To blow shit up.

A cast of [Molecular Prime] with all the energy from her energy reserve was more than enough to prime the engine full of antimatter and she was pushed back to the wormhole and out again against the torrent of burning plasma.

Her shield was depleted and she was still on fire. But she would be lying if she said it wasn't worth it. Just as she got out, the antimatter reacted with matter of the engine, and the dreadnaught lost all of its mass from one massive explosion that looked like the second coming of a sun.

It was unfortunately that she couldn't look back in time to witness the glorious explosion, but she just figured that a cool gal don't look at explosion when they happened behind her.

[Nothing but Ghost of Silent][Loki][Archwing: Itzal]: "And I got it recorded all in my codex scanner! All in super high definition quality at 10000 frame per second! I wonder how much I can sell this for."
[Incoming Explosion of Absolute Awesomeness][Nova]: "Take my money, JUST TAKE MY MONEY AND GIVE ME A COPY!"

Nova, still on fire, floating aimlessly in space while waving his hand high above her head.

Excalibur chuckled at her some distance away while Rhino too floating aimlessly but tried not to move around so much.

[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "Great job Excalibur! We can move into phase 3 of the plan now to salvage whatever G-element left on the dreadnaught before it reenter atmosphere and crash land somewhere on China."

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur][Archwing: Odonata]: "Alright, team, lets go for some nice salvaging. Rhino, Nova, get back onto your Archwing."

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To Sumika Kagami, this was one shocking experience, it was kind of like a waking call of a sort. Telling her that despite BETA have been forced back to China by the combined force of the Tenno, UN and Imperial forces, the BETA was still a real actual threat that can shake up people's life.

"Double check your bag, Sumika. Make sure you didn't miss anything."

She looked out of her window and spotted her dad standing outside of the house. She gave a simply reply before walking toward a small bag, used to store her personal items and essential products such as food and extra clothing. Checking that it's all here, she gave a brief look toward her room, a room that might be destroyed in the crossfire.

Having a satisfied feeling, she grabbed the bag and walked down the stair, but she noticed the washroom door was opened. If it was any other day, she would have closed it down, but instead she just looked at the mirror in the washroom, looking at her short pink hair and young pretty face that should have been smiling, there's only a gloomy look here.

It was loud, all the alarm and people outside doing whatever they can to get out of this place. It probably won't come as a surprise that death still happened despite the BETA never reached the city at all.

Still, it was scary. Another two steps brought she to the front door and she twisted the knob, giving her a full view of the panic.

All her neighbor were doing the same thing as her family did, packing up the important stuffs in luggage, baggage or whatever they have. Surprisingly, while everyone was rushing for their own survival, there's not much panic here, it probably came from the center of the city where more valuable stuff can be looted.

"Sumika, you ready to go too?"

It was Takeru Shirogane, looking down at her with his own pair of brown eyes, that matched his short brown hair. Just for once in her life, she never noticed how serious he can look like if he was.

Her idleness was however interrupted by the screeching of tire, looking at the source of the noise, she saw three military trucks with two troopers jumped out of their back each.

"Civilians, please stay calm, another transport will be here soon. Children first, then the women!"

With so many moving towards the trucks, she only have one question in her mind, what about mom and dad?

"Just go, my girl, we can go in on the next one."

She could only gave off one last tearing glance before moving into the truck with Takeru, along with other children and teenagers on board. Soon the truck left her neighborhood and she continued to wave back to her parent until she can't see them anymore.

It's just, sad. Even her childhood friend was dripping tear from his eyes.

Maybe, just maybe, all this were just a bad dream...

!

"Hey, Takeru, look!"

She pointed to the outside of the cover and toward the sky, where a bright dot can be seen high up there. Considering the four Lisets that went straight up just now, no point for guessing what happened.

"Wow, I guess we will be going home soon after this!"

This brought some snicker onto the truck, everyone suddenly looked a lot less gloomy now. It's finally time that Takeru's silly personality managed to pay off.

"Hey, I got a great idea, how about we talk with each other until this truck stopped at wherever it was? Maybe some introduction first? I'm Takeru Shirogane and this is my stupid childhood friend Sumika Kagami."

That earned him a painful smash onto his back, which he just merely replied an 'Oh!' while everyone in the truck laughed. Even the soldiers chuckled at the scene. This was probably the opposite of what everyone expected to have, evacuation should have been a sad experience, not one that brought smile on their faces.

A short blue headed decided to raise up her hand, right besides her was two more blue head, one at her height, the other just reached to her chest.

"Well, I'm Haruko Kashiwagi and this is my younger brother, Taichi and little Kenji."

And the conversation continued on, at least for now.

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"My lord, you don't have to do this!"

But the Shogun cared not for his guardmen's worry. He continued to walk towards his own personal TSF hanger without a stop in his pace.

"We are not prepare for something like this, and even if the Tenno dealt with it, they too have to come up with a hasty plan that is full of holes and openings."

"But even then you don't have to join the field yourself!"

He only glared at her briefly before looking at his own magnificent metal steed. The technicians, all hired based on their skill and experience, were readying his Kai Zuikaku, colored in brilliant purple that was once considered rare as the dye was hard to produce in large quantity.

"Is she ready yet?"
"Ah, my lord. She ready on your go!"
"Great, I will be down there soon."

He then walked toward the changing room without any effort to dignify his appearance to his female guardmen that were following right behind him.

"...my lord, at least let us help you to don your fortified suit."
"I'm not a kid, Yakusukyo."

Taking off his usual morning uniform, his back was still quite a sight to the guardmen. The surgeon have made sure that the synthetic muscle grafted onto his body won't stood out too much to outsider with a layer of synthetic skin covering it. But it still looked unnatural to trained eyes.

Muscle Dystrophy, it was something Tsunemori Saionji already have since he was just a mere child. Yet, despite fate was fighting against him, in the end he managed to pass the difficult TSF piloting test with flying colour. A 'simulation ace' if it wasn't for his sickness.

Today will mark the first day where he step onto the battlefield for real.

Someway, fate itself will fight against him but...

Now that you know the truth, what will you do for your people?

...he have his answer already.

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How, how in the name of Hayden Tenno did it went wrong!?

In just seconds, things went from perfect to complete failure.

In just seconds, they were down to two men.

In just seconds, the BETA revealed their tactical ingenuity that overwhelmed them.

Excalibur thought back to these seconds, wondering what just happened and reminding him not to underestimate his opponent again...

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That moment, they were all relaxed, thinking the fight was over. Just a moment of alert-less state and it cost them badly. From the dead carcass of the dreadnaught, three organic ships, half a kilometer long suddenly pop out of its front and flew toward the planet at impossible speed.

There was no visible thrust, no long stream of plasma left in the black void. Just three long black object disappeared into the atmosphere.

Rhino noticed it and could only muttered a single "Wh-" and even that wasn't a complete word as three Raptor-class rammed straight at him, strangling him while pushing him straight into the atmosphere. Burning all the way down.

Nova was instead hit by a massive purple beam, much more powerful than anything else the BETA fielded as the visible beam sent her flying down into the atmosphere.

Excalibur and Loki looked back at the source of the beam, and noticed the dreadnaught was clearly not dead enough with its exposed flesh twitching and glowing with regular pulses.

If BETA have feeling, it's probably looking at them with immense anger.

[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "Rhino and Nova have gone off the radar! What the hell just happened?!"
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur][Archwing: Odonata]: "Vauban, we are not fighting a dreadnaught, it's a voiddamn carrier."

And one with rather excessive amount of weapons, and the surface below will soon face its wrath as Excalibur watched it fired a row of glowing broadside straight down.

[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "SHIT, INCOMING!!!"

Then there's no longer a voice on the other side.
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You know the franchise is obscure when the internet hate you for searching it.....

Just a small cameo and I had to search on some even more obscure NSFW website. When I somehow cannot stealth search on my damn smartphone for some damn VSN reason.

I also find out that Age have more than one semi-canon incest route game, but that's another story that I would like to forget right now.

Fallenblades643 · Feb 4, 2015

Hm, its changed from an infestation to an invasion.

They need some back up. In the way of a Rail.

dragonkid11 · Feb 5, 2015

Hmm....well, the last two paragraph felt a bit too fast pace for me.

Probably have something to do with my writing fatigue when writing close to midnight.

Here's my revised version, hope you guys enjoy it.

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[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "That went smoother than I expected."

Said Vauban as he watched the team moved in onto the giant carcass of the former BETA dreadnaught as they salvaged useful material off it.

With a body size that was equal and if not, larger than some low phase hive, the G-element within the vessel could be they most successful salvaging ever.

Unfortunately, the rising greed of using the exotic elements in his latest expensive experiment was halted by a sudden warm pool of disgusting liquid splatted onto his back.

He glanced back in shock and saw a young woman, one of the operator in the room puked out her breakfast and her knee gave way. On the other corner, he saw another young man fainted and a loud stud followed as his face met the floor.

[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "What!? Chemical attack!?"
[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "Nah, they probably didn't see so much gore from something this large before."

Ah, true, it will take something for people to get used to the gore, to see something the size of an asteroid bleed and explode would be one new terrifying experien-wait a second!

[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "Why the hek are you here, Nyx!? Excalibur specifically told you not to get close to high ranked human! You and your void-be-damned mind-wrecking shenanigans can get out here!"
[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "Eh? Come on. Let me see some of them for once, I'm down here anyway because I was wondering what rustled the jimmies of this entire base, turn out it was cheap BETA made Cthulhu-lite trying to violate Japan again. I can see someone have already suffered some bad sanity rolls, not as bad as my last night session though."

Nyx turned her attention from the two operators that definitely seen better days and towards the purple haired Doctor and stared at her for more than a moment, something definitely spiked her curiosity in the head of Dr. Yuuko.

[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "Ah, I can see why you took interest in her, Vauban. Radical thinking ideas way beyond that of her fellow Japanese who were still quite stuck in the past. Even some ideas that might make the Corpus kidnap her with force of millions for what its worth! And obviously, even without my power I can see you are not the only one interested at just her look..."

"Oh great, now there's two of them..."

Vauban briefly wondered who Dr.Yuuko was talking about as the doctor rolled her eyes from her comment, but another word from Nyx left him with more questions.

[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "Oh..OH! I can see you did some bad things as well, but don't worry, whatever your reason was. We did far worse with reason more in vain than yours!"

Oh shit, now she done it. The doctor's eye just budged out at that statement, and one thing was clear in her eye, fear and shock.

"How did you!?"
[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "Dr. Kouzuki."
"!?"
[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "We can leave this discussion for now, we still have a job to do."

There was a serious tone to his voice, and the doctor understood why as she kept her mouth shut.

And as if the universe was on queue with the drama, thing immediately changed for the worse.

"Three objects detected, coming out of the dreadnaught and on direct course to Yokohama!"

This brought everyone attention to the large strategic TV screen in the room, watching through the perspective of the Tenno as three long black objects flew straight into the atmosphere, picking up staggering speed as they did so.

[Unstoppable Invincible Impeding Moving Object][Rhino][Archwing: Elytron]: "Wh-"

And before his word was finished, three black objects rammed him, looking at the radar, Vauban saw his attitude dropping rapidly.

Back at the screen, Rhino was struggling against three Raptor's class, entwined in their numerous tentacles and one trying to bite him with mouth full of teeth at the center of its front. The screen was soon filled with flaming red and ceased to connect.

He glanced back at the radar and was shocked at that Nova's attitude was falling rapidly too, but her HUD was already down before he could see what happened.

[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "Rhino and Nova have gone off the radar! What the hek just happened, Excalibur?!"

There's only two perspective left to watch from the screen, Excalibur and Loki, and they both were staring at the still living dreadnaught.

If BETA were actually being with feeling rather than organic robot that followed some skewed programming, the dreadnaught were looking at them with angry with several giant eyeballs exposed through the cracked armor.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur][Archwing: Odonata]: "Vauban, we are not fighting a dreadnaught, it's a voiddamn carrier."

Violet glowing lines spread from its rear to its laser eyes on its exposed fresh and the eyes that were facing downward glowed with intense brightness as they sent a deadly wall of beam down onto the surface.

And there's only one place for the laser to go.

[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "SHIT, INCOMING!!!"

Earthquakes and explosions silenced his warning.

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How do you guys think of this one?

Also, I can only write down the next two parts in the next week due to some circumstances. So, sorry for delayed update again.

dragonkid11 · Feb 13, 2015

Oh boy, maybe I'm taking this a bit too serious but it certainly took me a while to realize I lost the main theme of the fanfic straight from the beginning.

And that is go nuts and fuck logic.

Basically, what I'm saying was this fic is not cracky enough, hell, it's not even remotely crackly like I wanted it to be. It's just not dramatic enough.

Or maybe it's because I always put my fic right in after I wrote it out, only checking for grammar error and generally being too tired to give a damn afterward, which is costing me a lot.

I already know I have some paraphrasing problem but then again, this fic started out as a half-assed idea and I only wrote it because i was bored.

I will finish chapter 7 and then during the Chinese New Year, I will reedit chapter 1 and possibly chapter 2 if I can into an absolutely fabulous and escalating fic.

The plot will mostly be the same, but it will wear a complete new face. No more exposition, just pure ridiculous awesomeness. Still unfortunately limited by my wording skill, but I must change it for the better.

Once again, I will post the revised one onto fanfiction, posting back here in SB seemed more like...likes whoring.

Of course, after Chinese New Year holiday which will last a week, I will continue chapter 8 and 9, the last two part of Muvluv: Cutting Canon Arc 1, would be bad to tease all of you and then abandoning it.

Until then, I thank you all for support so far.

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Chapter 7-4

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"Excalibur, he's the leader of the Tenno and he can cut down BETA faster than the blade used by the TSF. Compare to that, it might as well be a toothpick!"
"Nah, I like Oberon more. He smites down the BETA with his hammer and he walked throughout Japan, healing people like a space monk!"

It might be a bit wrong for Sumika to worry about her childhood friend being wooed away by some other girls that she didn't even know living in the same neighborhood before they were being evacuated because the city might get hit by something, but it's still a worrying fact that the girl managed to make more progress in minutes than her in years.

She just not interested in the Tenno. Yeah, the Tenno were so awesome that the government actually lifted the ban on showing BETA to the public to improve the morale through the nation through their action report, but she only cared about going where Takeru will go.

She sighed, maybe she might not have a chance with Takeru to begin with, but she just wanted to try until it was completely fruitless.

But she can worry about that later, she thought, and looked out of the cover. The evacuation pretty much grind down to a hall with a traffic jam this horrible, a city of this size will take hours to evacuate complete, let alone in 10 minutes.

Looking up into the sky, she noticed something bright came straight down onto the city, it's was the same beam as the one fired by the Laser-classes. And there's a whole volley of it, enough to cover the city.

!?

Tears swelled up in her eyes and overflowed down on her cheek.The thought of meeting with her parent again might just be a dream now.

"Erm, Sumika, what's wrong?"

Takeru's concerning voice draw her attention back into the truck, maybe she gasped or something and alerted them, now everyone looked worried. The laser firing probably stopped just as they looked out or they really were worried about her.

"Ah, it's... nothing."

Quickly, she wiped off her tears and looked outward again. Another beam came down just as she looked outward and everyone noticed this one. It's just one though, and it looked rather large.

...strange

"Erm, is that beam getting closer?"

It doesn't look like it, it hard to tell whether it's just enlarging in size or not. But the answer soon came clear as car started exploding like a volley of missile firing out of its bay.

"Oh God, it's a giant laser beam...OH GOD, IT'S A GIANT LASER BEAM COMING OUR WAY!!!"

Takeru and some others passenger were already banging at the rear window of the truck, trying to tell the driver about how they were all going to die. And Sumika couldn't help but think how helpless they are when people running out of their vehicles was engulfed by the incoming laser beam.

Whether it was the constant banging or the driver sudden noticed he have a rear view mirror showing his doom from above, the truck suddenly turned right to get off the highway.

She have no idea whether it's too late or not as the truck sudden fall and all she could see was blackness.

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Vauban stood back up after noticing the danger have passed. Beneath him was Dr. Yuuko, gasping for air after Vauban holding her too long to protect her. he even threw a [Bastille] grenade onto the ground just to make sure no debris get through, but it seemed the room remained completely intact even after the barrage.

[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "Odd, after a orbital bombardment like that, we should have been covered in mountain of rubble. Either this base was sturdier than I expected or someone was protecting us."
[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "I bet it's Frosty! That, or sister parrot, who went somewhere offshore with captain tentacle."
"Elena, is the communication working?"

Already gotten used to Nyx's odd and somewhat amusing commentary of her kind, Dr. Yuuko quickly tried to reestablish command along with Base Commander Oraka.

"Negative, all the communication devices are powered down and the backup generator is not activated, Dr.Yuuko"
"Get someone to check out the generator. In the meantime, we need eyes outside to check the current statue of the city and I really need fresh air."
[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "Let me escort you, my lady."

A walk outside the base command room and while some places were more shaken up by the bombardment, it's not something a quick repair can't handle. Opening the last door to the outside of the base, the air suddenly dropped several degree Celsius down and snow flowed into the base.

[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "Frosty, ya out there?"

Nyx walked out onto the field of white that have covered every inches of the base, and Dr. Yuuko could only admire the protection given from the warframe as she rubbing her hand in an attempt to warm herself up.

Vauban quickly lent her his coat, covering her torso most of her body with it, now she couldn't help but wonder whether there's an actual body in the warframe as she can see all the working components of Vauban's suit in clear sight.

[Frozen against Mercy of Time][Frost]: "Enjoy the weather?"

It was Frost, looking massive with his white long coat wearing warframe, standing right on the top of the base.

[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "Not for a single moment, what are you doing up there?"

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Finishing the daily watering of the strawberry plant, Frost put down the watering can and lied down onto his traditional wooden chair.

It's kind of habit even back onto the clan station where he just prefer watering, caring and harvesting the plants on his own and only does he used machine when he was unavailable. Preparing a meal even before the ingredients were completely grew can result in some extraordinary fresh meal, as if the food was still alive as you put it in your mouth.

Frost probably couldn't be called a true Tenno, he doesn't have the tendency of looting everything on sight and prefer a more passive approach to anything, even in combat. In his opinion, casting [Snow Globe] pretty much solved everything. In the end, he's more of a base caretaker that preferred a simpler and peaceful life.

Sure, his..erm...wife? girlfriend? soul mate? was far more into fighting than he was. But they always synchronize their feeling with each other more often than not. And now, he's preparing to grow some fresh Earth-grown strawberry for Ember's favorite strawberry icecream.

To being able to eat some land-grown food was such an expensive delicacy back home, he could start an entire industry just from there's rows of plant pot. But nope, too ambitious for him.

It will be at least a week before the plant were ready harvest, until then, he just need to wait.

He was almost about take a short morning nap until he saw a second sun glowing through his straw hat.

[Frozen against Mercy of Time][Frost]: "Bloody Hayden..."

And the rest is history.

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[Frozen against Mercy of Time][Frost]: "I might have cast one or two [Snow Globe]"
[Cleansing Light of Ground Walker][Oberon]: "I fairly this is way more than 'one or two', my friend."

The goat headed white frame finally spoken, and when the base was almost the size of the a small town and yet it was still covered in white, you can't really doubt his statement.

"Dr.Yuuk-Wow, it's freezing here! Erm, Dr.Yuuko, communication have been reestablished."

A combat ready MP showed up, heavily breathing white out, even his thick armored uniform didn't do much against the cold, but this wasn't really ordinary coldness. It came from a Tenno, so expect void bullshit.

"Good, let's get back in."

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Rhino was not amused. Being tackled by three of those Raptor-class and immediately gotten himself deorbited into the atmosphere was not fun. The BETA refused to let him go until they were burned by the reentry into charcoal, only then can he struggled out of their grasp.

But it's too late. he can't get back out into space and the city of Yokohama was already being bombarded with laser firing from above.

He tried to at least get back to the Hakuryou base, but his Archwing have been bent in ways that it shouldn't. He could only eject out of it and he need to find Nova, fast. His keen Tenno sense quickly detected his fellow allies, falling unconscious in the air below him, and her Archwing was intact enough to lift them both back to base.

Arms on his side, he dived down onto her and slowed down just before colliding.

A quick peek to his HUD showed his attitude was 16000 meters and dropping rapidly, so he better wake her up fast.

He tried slapping her, but it seems he hit too damn hard and knocked her even deeper into slumber. Pinching her buttock only result in her leg reflexively kicking him between his legs. With his giant codpiece in place, it probably hurt her more than she does to him. He's running out of time, but wait, he have one option left!

[Unstoppable Invincible Impeding Moving Object][Rhino]: "Boom."
[Incoming Explosion of Absolute Awesomeness][Nova][Archwing: Elytron]: "AH, where am I, why are we falling, why am I in so much pain!?!?"

Well that worked, it was not even a loud 'boom', just the word 'boom' was more than enough to jolt her back to the living.

[Unstoppable Invincible Impeding Moving Object][Rhino]: "Knocked out of orbit, dreadnaught still alive, Yokohama in danger, get back to city NOW!!!"

Without replying back, Nova turned up her Archwing and flew in the general direction of Yokohama, all while Rhino sitting on her back.

[Incoming Explosion of Absolute Awesomeness][Nova][Archwing: Elytron]: "Could you at least move your codpiece back, it felt a bit disturbing."

A few shuffling around and Rhino just gave up and stood on her back instead. I don't think there's any metaphor for this situation except for oversized rodent that might as well be strangling the eagle all the way down from its weight...

Reaching the city but still flying in the air, Nova's Archwing starting to smoke. Rhino couldn't spare a though to that as he struggled to block and reflect back any laser that hit him. One miss and they will fall onto the ground on fire, oh wait, they already are on fire.

[Unstoppable Invincible Impeding Moving Object][Rhino]: "Go home already, you damn dreadnaught!"

He not sure whether the Dreadnaught, not quite one as he didn't get the information yet, was trying to bombard the city or shooting him down.

It's quite successful in doing either.

Finally, her Archwing finally broke down and they both spiraled out of control. Casting [Iron Skin], Rhino hugged Nova and made himself land first onto the hard black road. The bitumen cracked as the two Tennos crashed onto it, continued grinding against the hard land and only stopped after smashing into a convenience store.

Only construction workers looking at a map will recognize there was a road here, now it's just gouged out dirt with underground piping spraying water out. The exploded store was barely intact, and it's only by miracle that the whole building didn't collapse on its own.

Still covered by an ablative silvery layer, Rhino slowly stood up, lifting Nova onto a chair, grabbed a nearby orange juice bottle, and drank it content by popping the bottle open with his grip strength.

He have just experienced freaking reentry and crash landed into a convenience store, nothing can stand in his way for fucking orange juice.

Grabbing another orange juice bottle, he calmly walked out of the store and looked into the sky, finally the dreadnaught have stopped firing, maybe Excalibur have finally done it, he thought.

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dragonkid11 · Feb 16, 2015

Final part for Chapter 7.

Now I can work in peace on earlier chapter, I really need to train my patience.

Also, yes. Ember and Frost is one of my ship in the game. Maybe I will come up a sidechapter for them or something later in Arc 2.

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Chapter 7-5

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[Nothing but Ghost of Silent][Loki][Archwing: Itzal]: "This is not good, not good at all."

The gauss gun in his arms wound up as energy charged in its capacitor, ready to unleash the fury of kinetic energy onto the space monsters on its receiving end.

One shot, two downed. But for each shot he hit, two more filled its place.

[Nothing but Ghost of Silent][Loki][Archwing: Itzal]: "I have no doubt that this space wang was a carrier now."

While he remain undetected by the BETA through a cloak of [Penumbra], the BETA was closing in rapidly and it will only be the matter of time before one of them accidentally rammed him.

If he moved, the invisible cloak will fade and they will immediately know where he is like a damn hivemind not unlike that of the Infected.

The only path left is to shoot as many of them as possible before they got too close for comfort.

His only teammate left wasn't exactly in a better place than he was either but...

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur][Archwing: Odonata]: "Is this the best you can do!? Come on, I'm already here, what are you waiting for!?!"

It was as if the worsening state of the situation didn't faze him at all, and he would be pitying the BETA had the BETA didn't do a sneak attack on them.

That's like, cheating! Only Tenno can do sneak attack on people!

Putting that aside, Excalibur kept focusing on wrecking the Carrier apart on its exposed fresh, cutting deep gashes that spewed out enough blood to drown men on what he think was vital parts.

The incoming Stalker and Raptor-classes were clearly sent towards him to lead him away from the Carrier, but Excalibur have none of that and slashed out another laser eyes off the Carrier instead.

Another salvos of homing missiles launched out of his Archwing and popped a fews more Laser eyes on their own. But it still wasn't enough.

The fact that the BETA was still sending tremendous amount of BETA against Loki was a proof that the BETA have more reserves than they have thought and they wanted to stall out this battle of attrition as long as possible.

After all, what else could you lost when you will die as just another meteor impacting the Earth? The BETA have calculated the only logical conclusion and the Tenno is not gonna let it fulfill its purpose either.

The massive BETA carrier having been firing at the surface below for more than a minute now. Even a actual reinforced military base would have problem withstand such heavy punishment.

But the worry can wait later, a Raptor-class was heading directly at Loki, his Velocitus couldn't charge up in time and he was forced to move. The cloak disappeared and Loki quickly rerouted energy into his Archwing.

[Nothing but Ghost of Silent][Loki][Archwing: Itzal]: "Funnels!"

[Fighter Escort] drones launched out of his Archwing, and surrounded the offending Raptor, covering it with a barrage of laser, the creatures quickly lost weight as it was cut into ribbons.

But now that the BETA knew where he is, they are no going to give him any opening anymore.

Loki reversed away from the BETA, only to find himself back to back with Excalibur.

[Nothing but Ghost of Silent][Loki][Archwing: Itzal]: "How it's going? Mister Promised of Victory?"
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur][Archwing: Odonata]: "It was a good run."

So, two Tennos, facing BETA that might just be numbered in the bajillion, which side will win?

The answer to that will be postponed further as a volley of missiles knocked a hole in the BETA formation.

"I apologized for such a long delay, Sir Tenno. Our squadron have gone around the world to deliver important cargo, several kilotons of it."

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur][Archwing: Odonata]: "Ichimonji!? AHAHAHAHAHA! The cavalry has arrive!"
[Nothing but Ghost of Silent][Loki][Archwing: Itzal]: "Who?"

Through the hole in the BETA broken formation, four white arrow shaped spacecraft appeared and coming in at high speed. Stream of smoke came out of the HSSTs as missiles were launched out and exploded on the space swarm.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur][Archwing: Odonata]: "What's the plan?"
"The HQ must have been knocked out from the orbital bombardment. I will give you a briefing since you have destroyed majority of lasers facing our direction and I will prefer you continue to do so ASAP. Right now there's five missiles armed with S-11 warhead in each of the HSST, we were also armed with missiles and 120mm recoiless autocannons but we would like to have you as our escort to ensure our S-11 armed missiles hit the Carrier right in its vulnerable. We only have intersecting time of 300 second, so thin out the herd fast."

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur][Archwing: Odonata]: "We can handle that, now lets get the Moby Dick."

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Heavy footsteps from 13 men and women in skintight fortified suit were heard as they marched out of the changing room, though it was more 1 man and 12 women.

The personnel that was working in the hanger stopped in their track and saluted the TSF pilots with utmost respect, especially to the one walking first in front of all.

The men has worn a fortified suit with a colour that was only fitting for one position, purple, for the Shogun of Japan.

"Oh when was the last time I have worn this when I was still training as a TSF pilot..."
"That would be 8 years ago, my lord."
"I don't to be reminded of how old I was, Yakusukyo."

The red royal guard could only blushed to such a response. The Shogun have always been a carefree man who tried his hardest in loosening the coil of stress in the heart of his men. In this kind of battle against a previously unknown threat, casualty will be high, even the Royal Guard will take a major hit to its rank and file.

As the elevator brought him up to the cockpit, the Shogun, seeing his gorgeous personal TSF, coloured in radiance purple that was only exclusive to him and him only, didn't noticed his men knelt down on the ground behind him as he entered the TSF. Only when he closed down the cockpit and activated the camera that he finally noticed them.

"Oh...I really need to check my eyesight after this, damn me and my damn gene."
"My lord, please, we will fight in your honour and we will be victorious in your name."

From the towering purple machine, a single disappointed sigh can be heard from all corner of the hanger.

"Nay."
!?
"For the last time, no. I will fight in the field with men of Japan and allies of foreign worlds, no matter if they are the Royal Guard, Imperial Army or the Tenno."
"Please, my lord. Please think of your health."

"...I'm going to remind you all one lesson that you have been taught in your initiation as a Royal Guard. One should use their strength and potential to truly stand on top of the battlefield, but to be the greatest warrior, you must believe in what you are fighting for."
"But we will fighting for you!"

"Then believe me, as your Shogun that I too have reason of my own to be in the battlefield! I know this...was a selfish reason, but my life will be ending soon, and I prefer it to be one ended with the chaos of war. So, as your irresponsible Shogun, I should be the one begging you."

The Royal Guard might not seen it, but the Shogun was bowing, right inside his cockpit.

Silent filled the hanger as the Royal Guard couldn't object against the Shogun, but they can't go against their duty either. In the end, they chose to compromise.
"I'm sorry for making you wait, my lord, but we will do our best against the BETA."

The statement alone brought a smile to his face and there's only one last thing for him to do before he leave towards the battlefield.

"Well then, what are you waiting for? Get in your TSF now!"

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Excalibur charged in with his [Energy Shell] activated, blocking intense laser from the Stalker-classes while his Imperator roared against them, punching holes with each bullets hitting its mark.

As the BETA closed in, he switched out for Veritux and swung the massive slab of metal down onto the incoming swarm, cutting them into pieces with each slice. It was a good thing that he doesn't see with his eyes, or else he will be blinded from the blood pouring out of the swarm alone.

Loki wasn't doing too shabby either, his own group of [Fighter Escort] cut out any BETA that tried to go towards his flank, and any that tried to fly towards his front will have a hole drilled through their body.

And it seemed the Earth force had enough to being outdone, as the HSST, being massive with their own variety of brutal firepower, blew up their own proportion of BETA swarm with missiles and projectiles.

"Ammunitions and missiles are down to 30% and 20%, you need to think something fast, Tenno!"

But it still wasn't enough for a proper breakthrough in the BETA swarm, they need to do something fast or else the HSST will be eaten up by the BETA.

Maybe...

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur][Archwing: Odonata]: "I got an idea."
[Nothing but Ghost of Silent][Loki][Archwing: Itzal]: "Whatever it was, it's definitely better than none."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur][Archwing: Odonata]: "Captain Ichimonji, I want your squadron to fly towards me."
"That's the most concentrated spot in the swarm, but I won't doubt your judgement."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur][Archwing: Odonata]: "Loki, you get over too!"
[Nothing but Ghost of Silent][Loki][Archwing: Itzal]: "I'm starting to think your idea was a terrible idea now..."

But Loki obeyed him anyway and flew towards him, Excalibur gestured and he immediately understand his plan. And the BETA swarm was having none of that and charged towards them, exactly what the Tenno wanted.

[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur][Archwing: Odonata]: "And NOW!"

Energy surged into their Archwing as they prepared a combination attack. First was Loki, unleashed a cast of [Cosmic Crush]. For just a split second, a miniature black hole was formed and pulled in the BETA at uncontrollable speed. Many were ripped into bloody gore as the sudden acceleration torn the BETA apart, but most were still heading towards the Tenno.

The plan quickly moved into phase 2, and Excalibur cast [Repel] as energy discharged out of his Archwing, BETA flying towards them were violently sent in the other direction, smashing into the BETA swarm at sufficient velocity.All these happened in the span of 1 second, and a hole was formed right in their formation.

The HSST activated their propulsion system and accelerated towards the Carrier. And the Tenno didn't have the leisure to rest either to prevent the swarm from attacking the HSST.

But they don't need to.

Massive tentacles of unbelievable length sudden lashed out from the Carrier, the squadron, while facing such sudden change of situation, managed to dodge the attack. However, it's the BETA, it never only came in one.

Several dozens more came out of the rear of the Carrier and turned toward the squadron. Maneuvering jets fired as the HSSTs struggling to dodge against massive tentacles.

But even that was just a distraction from the real threat.

Captain Ichimonji spotted three dots on radar, directly behind his tail but he calmly deployed anti-laser bomb, making the Stalker-class wasted their only shot. The rest of the squadron wasn't so lucky however, as 2 HSSTs suffered burn damage from the laser while the last one crashed onto a tentacle after her vessel have gone out of control, dooming it.

Just as sudden as it appeared, the attack stopped as the tentacle retracted back to the Carrier and Stalker-classes moved back to fight the Tenno. Looking at his screen, Ichimonji found out why, they have gone pass the intersection point, and they can't exactly turn around either.

Clearly the BETA forgot the concept of Newtonian space combat after being triumphant at their first space battle.

Maneuvering jet fired and the HSSTs turned around, still going on their original course, and fired the S-11 armed missiles.

However, without the speed gained from the HSST accelerating towards the Carrier, the missile will be even more vulnerable than going on the original pathway.

And the BETA knew that too, as the tentacles moved toward missiles to block it from ever going near the Carrier. Except that they completely forgot about the two Tennos.

With his Veritux, Excalibur sliced vertically down the tentacles on after another, preventing none of it reaching the missiles, while Loki kept firing at the tentacles, ripping it apart until it outright snap off.

The BETA swarm came back, prepared to have another battle of attrition against the two Tennos. But it was certainly amusing to the Tenno that the BETA will fell into the same trick. A [Cosmic Crush] crushed the BETA into bloody chunks and another cast of [Repel] turned their numbers into deadly projectiles, reducing the swarm.

This time, it's the BETA that ran out of card.

The Carrier was engulfed in a burst of light of heat, and the shockwave was enough to even wipe out majority of the swarm and even the tentacles were shattered as the shockwave traveled down them.

As the explosion dissipated, the Carrier managed to be in an even more ruinous state than before, long stream of blood and gore leaked out as the exposed flesh was burned, slashed and ripped into unrecognizable state. The chitinous armor cracked and shattered until the intensity of the explosion. And the massive creature is probably dead.

"Our ship will reenter the atmosphere soon, the rest is on your own."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur][Archwing: Odonata]: "We should be able to handle this one on our own. Thanks for the help."
"You can express your gratitude when Japan is safe."
[Excessive Usage of Phallic Symbolism][Excalibur][Archwing: Odonata]: "It will be, now...is the HQ on?"

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"Commandeer, we have a signal!"
"Patch it through!"

Now that the lighting have gotten back on, the personnel can easily see that the base command room didn't exactly hold up against the barrage.

Quite a few electric lamps installed on the roof were barely attached to it through thin wire, part of the wall bulked from impact and a number of equipment have broken down, a few were being repaired by the technician just as the operation was continuing.

[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "Why is it all static!?"

And even the communicator was damaged, there was nothing but electronic noise coming from the equipment. Vauban banged up the communicator a few times, before giving up and jamming a device of his own into the it, seemingly fixing it immediately.

"To al- list-ning, th- i- -xcalibur speaking."
[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "Thank goodness, you are still kicking!"
"Any word from Rhino and Nova?"
[Cleansing Light of Ground Walker][Oberon]: "We got them a health restores, they will be back up in no time."
"Ah...good. Transmit this message to all the Tennos of Clan First Born."
[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "Ordis, transmit the message, looks like we will be having a party!"
[Ordis][Operator:Open Your Mind and Speak][Liset]: "I will, operator."

There was a few coughing coming from the communicator as Excalibur mentally prepared himself for the speech.

"Normally it should be Lotus that should be doing this, but this will do. To all Tenno in the system, today, we have faced a sudden change to a common enemy that has never happened before. We have dealt with situation even worse than this before, but never did we have a nation that truly worth its weight to protect for. This isn't just a hit to our credibility, it's a direct hit to our reputation as well, all came from a shabby intel collecting capability. We stood against worse before, and we will again."
"Loki and I will be staying up here to make sure this Carrier is dead in its truest definition. The battle on land is on your own. Vauban, how long do we have until the three objects landed on Japan?"
[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "On their current course? 5 minutes left."
"And you have 5 minutes to turn the city of Yokohama into bloody siege fortress that will cost the BETA for every inch of land that take. Focus on getting the civilian out of combat zone first, then fortify the city with our stock of restores and specters. They want the land? They can come and try!"
"That's all I have to say, remember, we are Tenno, we are the first and last line of defense."

Now the communicator is truly filled with nothing but static. But now chuckles filled up the room instead.

[Outsmart my Gadgets You Cannot][Vauban]: "He really can't make a proper rousing speech sometime."
[Cleansing Light of Ground Walker][Oberon]: "But that's the Excal we all know."
[Open Your Mind and Speak][Nyx]: "Lets not disappoint him then."

And finally did the three Tennos walked out of room, there was much for them to do now, a whole country for them to save.

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And finally I finished this chapter.

That was a bit longer than I expected. But hey, fun writing!

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