The moving car, armed with transparent camo, drifted through the desert. At the wheel, Clare watched the dry emptiness of this constructing sector of the country. Kiries stroked James's hair and touched his skin. In the driver's seat, his core was attached to the main frame of the car.
"So... Umm... You are Clingy to him, huh?" Clare said she had placed her phone down after watching the news about where she lives.
"I told you already..." Kiries said.
"right, right..." Clare thought, 'Is this what they called a crazy lover? James looks like he saw horror after that kiss'
everything was boring, besides the freaky stuff happening in the backseat. After two hours of driving non-stop, they finally spotted another facility in the north. which Kiries assumed was the place where they kept one of his core's parts.
"There is it," James returned to his body "You sure this is the place?"
"Yes... their activities are always saved into the private network, especially important work like building you from a corpse. You will remember soon, love..."
When she touches his lips like a hungry tiger, James begins to question why he let her do this.
No time to waste, the three move in after using high-tech stealth gadgets, making them invisible, swiftly getting into the main door of this machine facility and the elevator without getting seen. They could blast their way into it, but Clare doesn't want to see innocent people die.
Getting down to the lowest floor where the elevator could take, this is where they transport material from other companies who provide technology and research.
Clare, James, and Kiries hide behind crates, watching rows of Cores, people, and big machinery working; they are just normal workers who don't know the secret beneath the curtain.
"I wonder where those guys are Living"
"They live here, inside the facility, provide their family far from home"
Clare gets down "Do they experiment on living humans like you?"
"Yes, thousands of young, innocent men and women die or suffer from the transformation"
"Hm, I wonder what my mother feels when knowing she is lowkey hurting those souls"
the sounds of a metal plate dropped down, and James found a secret tunnel filled with emergency lights, "Hey, I think I found a way down. This is where they use drones to transport supplies," he switched into his Cube form, and he dived head first into the path. Next is Clare and, finally, Kiries, who places the placental plate back using her claws.
The three easily reached the deeper floor, where they found themselves inside a cargo holder containing stacks and stacks of dangerous labels signed on metal boxes.
"Are those boxes saying Ultranium? James?"
"Oh yeah, the hardest material ever created, said to be harder than diamond over 5,000 times," he said, prying a box open. They are metal, but very light, like a piece of wood, even though the size of a TV." He squeezed his hand, slowly crushing the metal cube.
"There's a lift over there," Kiries pointed to the giant transport, able to carry thousands of tons of scrap metal.
They got on the lift, pressed the touchscreen panel, and began to descend.
"This place is huge, bigger than the place in my hometown." Clare looked around the place that could only exist in a higher-tech future.
"Your home town..?"
"Clare found me there, where I was deactivated"
"I see... that mark on your hand is the administrator code, I supposed."
"It's amazing, without it, I wouldn't be here with him"
Kiries doesn't want any girls to be around her man, but this time, she has to agree with Clare. "Thanks... for saving him..."
"You welcome, Kiries" she smiles.
James silently watches them, his eyes continuously scanning the below area just in case.
After 10 minutes, they descended to the lowest floor, beneath the surface, over 700 meters
first thing they saw was a blast door, along with other empty forklifts. They stepped out of the lift, approaching the blast door.
"I wonder what they do down here," Clare said
"From the documents I received and the past, and the stuff I have been through... few of the facilities will study the Dark liquid named D-blood, a few will create Core weapons and testing on the human body"
"Why underage people, I must ask? Since you two look 18 but still 15?"
"I don't know, but one speech I heard back then, their heart tissue is fresher than us, the assimilation process will have more chance of keeping them alive better than older soldiers"
Clare feels a chill down her spine upon hearing that creepy thing from Kiries's deadpan voice.
"Let me hack this door real quick." James stepped up to the terminal, his hand transforming into many liquid metals, seeking their way into the gaps to bypass.
There was an electric spark flickering out of the machine, but there was something they didn't expect. When the door started to open, strange devices inside the crates broke out and attached themselves to Clare's legs and Kiries's chest. The devices flashed out a bright light before teleporting those two away.
James looked at the two being brought away, stunned. "NOOO! Clare!!!"
From inside, four RPG, armor-piercing rounds flew right at Him, one dug straight into his stomach, one stabbed his right eye, one hit the ground, and the last flew straight at his neck. The rounds exploded, and the impact crushed the titanium alloy skeleton structure, setting him on fire with multiple shrapnels shot out. He blasted into the crates and crashed into them.
"OH FU*K ME!" he raised out the crates, charging at the soldiers with murderous intent. His claws show up, and they slash two guys, instantly turning them into human pancakes. Pick up the guns and turn on the gravity shield, the bullets and missiles ricochet like a flow of water with the rock in the middle, and the laser bends from the force of his barrier. James opens fire, two machine guns blasting the whole area, shredding the core and robots into Swiss cheese.
Turning the guns, he held into flash grenades, he crushed them to make a huge flash, temporarily blinding the enemies, he flicked at the last three men, his right arm reconstructed into a power fist, and jet elbow increased the impact speed. His whole arm dived straight through three meats and splattered the walls behind those poor guys.
James slides his arms out before consuming the bodies into the material; he begins his way into the facility.
"Clare! Kiries! Where are you guys!?"
running down the hall, finding the security room where he believes they will have security cams around the facility. He sprints and sprints, pushing away the scientists who aren't involved in this, except the guards and hired mercs.
Slammed into the security section, he threw in spiked grenades, they levitated in the middle of the room, shooting dozens of small needles at high speed, easily hitting vital spots of humans and Core, making them bleed to death or having failures in their guts. Straightly finished with the remaining, Jaame hacked the terminal, checking from eye to eye and scanning for his administrator.
after about 2 minutes, he finally sees the figure matched with the description, "45# section 3-testing area"
immediately turning around, only to see a blue flame right inches from his face. The skin on his face gets drier as the blue flame makes contact, and his skull, eyes, and internal objects get broken in half, the skull being pressed, eyes popped. More projectiles hit his body and crashed him through the wall. A sharp weapon slammed right at his core. Although the impact makes him sink through the floor, his core remains intact. A big hole dragged nearly the entire section down, objects falling, even hitting his body.
"What the heck..."
the hole on his chest, on the flesh wound, freezer the D-blood, making it harder to regenerate his chest. James gets up from the debris, seeing ice blocks sharpened into spiky pointy arrows raining down on him. he uses the gravity barrier to deflect the rain of ice before shooting a ray beam at the cold smoke from above.
[Entity detected: A.C-098-M / M1na]
a spike clashed with the barrier, white and blue spark at it, drilling through his defense and passing through his face. James ducked in time, 40% of his right face was torn away. No fear, he knew this was another weapon they made to counter him, smiling his mechanical eye looking at the descending figure, a slim core wearing a hoodie, hooded her head, a dark mask with a huge X on it. There's a dark halo shaped like a crown on it, standing on the titan scythe, the temperature seems to be lowered, making water particles around her smoke and vaporize.
"Hello, 404. I'm here to bring you back," she said, posing on her scythe, raising her hand and placing her chin on the other, greeting James.
"Sup, I believe you're the one they developed down here"
Mina giggles dangerously, "Correct new gen. You want to save those girls, right? well, you just hit a boulder the size of an iceberg"
"Heh, Nothing much as a mountain ready to be harvested. But I will deal with you fast. My admin is waiting"
"What? Don't care for a little chitchat? After all, there's another one coming for them..."
he understood what that meant. James tried to get past her, and he flew up to the hole that she crashed into, to his surprise, there is a forcefield zapped him, and high voltages burned the muscles.
"Dammit!" he charged his fist, ready to blow the field, but who could let a valuable leave, Mina sent out her ice army, machines fused with frozen corpses flying angels fired freezing beams at Him, they broke his right arm with ease. James's claws appeared, they slashed the angels, grabbed their heads, turned them into incinerating grenades, and threw them at Mina.
She stands there, letting the grenades form an ocean of fire around her. Dived straight from the ceiling, his claws spread out with electric sparks, violently pushing for a devastation strike.
Mina grasped her palm on the left, and a symbol shaped like a snowflake appeared on her hand, the temperature began to drop below -100 degrees Celsius the flame had been put out, her plan sucking snow, and ice, condensed, glowing with the blue light of void. Right before the Claws of a thousand-ton hit, she slammed her chest with the focused energy, along with the loud "THUMP."
The power of the Claws blasted away everything, shaking the entire facility. Ice enemies disintegrated from the shockwave, and their molecule cells broke apart and were consumed by the fire.
Smoke begins to fade, James lands down, his arm regenerated back, watching the big crater under his feet. "Huh... that easy she must be delusional"
when he turned away, he met with a slice cut, decapitated his head.
"What?.."
Mina created a blizzard storm and freezer James's body. She kicked him, and the entire human skin fell apart, leaving the endo-skeleton to crash into the ice block.
"Unlike the previous guy you met, I don't think I would be easy to defeat. " She emitted a blue aura, some kind of resistance, that absorbed the entire blast.
James rose from the freezing ice, his core bled out D-blood and covered the skeleton. He regenerated his entire body, along with two long Blades. "Right, I guess it's time for combat mod,e" [activating] his battle mask switched on, James getting into his attack pose, his tail pointing ready to stab, his claws on two sides cracking knuckles to throw hands. Seeing that, Mina wickedly laughed, she slashed the ground and slammed her chest with the condensed energy. fFlashed, her aura gets brighter.
"Let's hear the Thump thump from the beat of your heart, CHAAARRGGEE!" raising the scythe, her ice army broke through the freezing snow, armed with swords and shields, diving head straight at the Death-core.
James swiftly slashes those goons with the red hot blade, vibrating at 40 thousand rate per second each blade.
His claws sell punches with high prices, crushing skull to skull with high accuracy it grabbed a minion, turning it into a high caliber sniper, aiming at Mina's head, James fused the words, reconfigured them into bolt round, and the sniper charged up instantly when he loaded the bullet it.
Mina thrust the scythe ahead, recoiling like a slingshot, and propelled herself forward with the enormous weapon in her grasp.
The bullet propels itself with C-X, a high-explosive compound stuffed inside the Titanium shell. It is then pushed using a magnetic field like a railgun. Finally, it exits the barrel. Second, gunpowder continues to burn, achieving Mach 10/second.
"Dodge that," he said.
The bullet makes contact with the shield on her body, it explodes into pieces, making her aura dimmer by 80%.
Appeared in front of him, she brought the scythe upward, slicing his body. The gun shattered like ice. The claws stabbed, blocked, and the uppercut. She got grabbed by the foot, and James tried to decay her molecules, but by the counter-solver, he could not assimilate her unless she was dead.
He then tried to break her leg, but she slammed her chest again, the shield froze his arm, frozen and getting colder. The arm begins to shatter, and the ice begins to decay into nothing, no trace.
She kicked his head, breaking out of the claws by shutting them off, then snapped her fingers, calling down a snow meteor to hit him. More than 50 car-sized ice ball hits.
James was frozen, but before he got sliced, his exo skeleton busted out from the skin, activate his absolute solver, he brought two walls from the ground to crush at her, then applied more debris. Regenerated his body back, James's mask unleashed Super heat vision. The beam melted through the concrete, and he sliced the ball in half.
"Tsk...."
"Ha! You thought I would die that easily?"
Mina slashes her weapon, and a straight freezing wave with a thickness of 0.5mm flies at James. He transforms into a cube and maneuvers around the battleground, avoiding the slashes.
Flying to Mina and giving her an Emp shock, it managed to slow her down a bit before she grabbed him and slammed into the ground. James created a tendril and spiked it up, Mina countered with her minion.
Taking this information he scanned, he flew up before she slammed her scythe right at the cube. Reformed back to the human body, his tail charged up an EMP blast, and his claws fused with his arm to create a massive Gauss cannon the tail loaded the gun, and it glowed up like a bright star inside the darkroom.
"EAT SH#T AND DIE!"
A giant energy shot flew out of the barrel after a strong roar from the machine.
"THUMP THUMP"
the shot unleashed a massive electric shockwave, the floor collapsed, and any close device inside the facility was burned into crips.
The two fell to the below floor, descending further into darkness. James blasted out from the dust, tendrils with sharp heads shot out from his right arm, they stabbed Mina and managed to damage her, but not very effectively. The tendrils froze immediately.
"Nice one, I'll give you that." Mina stood up from the broken pieces, her body with a few small holes leaking black blood. She slammed again, and the shield recovered. "Can you hear the Thump Thump?" she said with a sadistic tone.
This time, James can see the shield has been increased, able to sustain more damage.
"You are really wasting my precious time..." he placed his hand on the ground, Absolute solver symbol showed up beneath their feet, "Suppression!" the mark locked on her.
Mina feels a strange force that slowing her movement speed, her program getting slower than usual.
"Nanovirus... how original..."
"the thing that killed billions of electronics decades ago, it won't fry your main board, but it will surely get you killed." James transformed his left arm into a rail cannon, and he fired it instantly. Mina, even tho was suppressed, still managed to avoid the fatal hit. She unleashed the winter storm, the temperature rapidly dropping from 10 degrees Celsius down to -1000. James could feel his body decaying, and he was forced to form a heat shield, keeping it around his body until there was a countermeasure.
He ran at Mina, fist-fighting her ice power, his claws and fists went into barrage mode, and the forces from each attack were equal to a continental missile.
Mina stood there, not moving, letting him unleash what he could. once she was satisfied, Mina Slashed, the clean-cut exposed his core, and winded down the sharp edge, James had to eject out of the body, and once more, he wasted more material he stored.
"With this rate, I will run out of assimilated matter to reform my body." he thought to himself.
regenerated his body again, his mask unleashed the laser beam again, Mina used the scythe to split the heat vision.
A plan popped into his head, and James decided to risk it, he flew other, arms and legs wrapped around her body.
"What are you doing?!"
his body started to freeze. his body creates microscopic injectors, protected by a heat shield. they managed to bypass her shield, but only for a few seconds. not wasting more time, he injected a good amount of nanobot.
Mina punched him, his body crashed, broken into pieces. the metal skeleton frozen in fear, the A.S symbol on the floor faded away.
"What a weak attempt of yours, face it buddy, you cannot break my defense"
"Yeah..." he smiled, his eyes staring sharply at Mina.
"What you Smilling for?"
"Oh... it's your weakness"
"What?.." [WARNING: shield integrity dropping rapidly]
Mina got a short circus, she stumbled back, dunno what he just does "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!"
"The power of decaying!" [new weapon system updated]
James regened his arm, he gave her a fist, breaking through her ice shield, red nano light sparkling in the air around them multiplying. his punch cracked her mask, and she flew straight into the frozen wall.
"You, underestimated the superior being in this world, and it's time I thrive from what left you will become!" [researching disintegrating-nano virus]
"THUMP THUMP"