3 Days Later – ACTF HQ Washington DC
Jason sat outside the
huge building on a bench overlooking the car pack area where the battle
had happened three nights ago. He was thinking of the foes Guyver US and
Guyver 1 had faced. No one had any clue what those creatures were inside
only that they were Guyvers of some sort and not human. But somehow they
knew enough about the ACTF that their attack was only aimed at one
thing, capturing Cori Marcus. He thought it was for blackmail purposes.
But as the General pointed out, blackmailing a weaker foe in the Guyver
US made no sense. It was then they realised it was because of Cori.
Somehow they knew who she was and that she was the one of the few people
on earth who knew anything about the mysterious Relics that the Guyver
units came from. Was that the reason she was taken? If so how did they
know that?
Sean was
understandably an emotional wreck. It had being days since she was taken
and for all his power he could do nothing about it and couldn’t find
her. Sho too hadn’t taken it well. When Guyver US had passed out he had
to stand there as the alien Guyver creature appeared from the ACTF HQ
building with Cori screaming over its shoulder. Even the Gigantic Guyver
had to hold back seeing who was captured and before he could get any
sort of idea together on what to do they escaped in their ship. It was
impossible to track even for him as it flew away cloaked from sensors.
Jason had being trying to explain to Sean that at least she was alive.
Sean couldn’t grasp the idea why yet still consumed by the idea that
he’d failed to protect Cori. But it would eventually sink in he hoped
that she was alive, they wouldn’t have gone through this much effort to
capture her alive.
Jason too was worried
about her. She had made him feel welcome to chat with them whenever and
be more than just an assistant assigned to them by General Carter. She
had made it easier to get to know Sean. He had got to know her well too.
He sometimes wondered if he only allowed himself to relax himself around
them was because of her? Maybe that was what helped him get on so well
with Sean? He never brought it up but he knew to himself that after
Fiona and his family were killed he would never stop in getting revenge.
Cori helped me mellow that out a little. Jason sighed and looked at his
watch. It was eleven am. It would be an hour before the Guyver 3 and
Aptom got here along with others of their friends. Sho had being telling
the General and him about Agito and Aptom. Simply put they were going to
make things interesting. Jason sighed looking up into the cloudy morning
sky for inspiration on how he was going to approach Sean.
Fifteen minutes later
Jason was knocking on the door of Sean’s room. Sean shouted for him to
come in. The room was tidy as it normally was and sitting on the already
tidied bed was Sean reading one of Cori’s archaeology books.
“Hi Jason,” said Sean
folding a corner of the book and then closed it and put it down beside
him.
“Hi Sean, how are you
doing?”
“I… you know, it is
best to come out and just say it… I’m not doing well man.”
“Sean you can tell me
anything.”
“You’re just saying
that because you have too Jason.”
“No seriously, I
don’t give anyway my friendship to just anyone and I view you as my
friend. This will be just between us not even General Carter will know.”
“Jason don’t lie to
me, you have to tell him everything!”
“No I don’t, the
General knows there has to be something’s kept between you and I and no
one else. It’s the only way we can trust each other. More importantly
the only way you will trust me!”
“I guess so…”
“Sean, I promise on
the memory of Fiona that nothing you say to me now will go to someone
else unless you want it too,” said Jason.
“Jason you don’t need
to do that man. I trust you,” said Sean deeply sighing as he did. “I
don’t know what I should do? How the hell am I meant to help the ACTF
when I can’t look after my own wife?” asked Sean. Jason could hear the
hurt in his voice. He knew it well himself.
“Sean when I lost my
family, my parents, my sister and my newly married wife I learned one
simple truth. Nothing I could do would get rid of the hurt, but I could
do one thing. Make sure I could be here and ready to get revenge in
their name! You are lucky! Cori is still alive out there. I wish I was
in your situation and would give anything to be able to see any of my
lost ones again. You need to only make sure you are ready to act when
the time is right to get her back!”
“I’m sorry Jason…”
said Sean.
“Sorry for what?”
“For me being like
this the last few days.”
“Don’t get me wrong
Sean, I understand why you’re hurt and doubting yourself. But it won’t
get her back. Now get your ass in gear, we’ve another Guyver and a
friendly zoanoid to meet!” Sean smiled for only a moment at that and got
up. Jason was right he’d never see Cori again if he wallowed around in
self-pity.
It was an hour later
Agito, Aptom, Mitzuki, Tetsuro, Shizu and Natsuki had yet to arrive at
ACTF HQ. It had being a long trip from Japan made longer by having to
take buses all the way from San Francisco to Washington DC. But as Agito
promised, it might have being a long trip but it kept them under the
radar of Chronos. Soon they would be outside the Washington DC and would
meet up with an ACTF patrol that would bring them the rest of the way.
They were all surprised by how well organised this resistance movement
was going by what Sho had told him through the Unit. Agito though said
nothing more as the other talked and sat back into his chair thinking
about the past. Years ago he suffered his greatest defeat in the USA at
the Chronos Arizona base. Being here back in the USA reminded him of
that.
He believed back then
that he was the only person fully capable of destroying the Chronos
organisation and ultimately ruling humanity as Zeus the God who cast
down Chronos. He had taken the Gigantic Armour from Sho. An action that
in his mind was proving himself superior to Sho’s will. The Gigantic
Dark he attacked the Chronos Arizona base along with four Libertus
Zoanoids and their Leader Griselda the zoalord from of Shizu. They were
the work of Dr Alfredo Hekkaring the former number two Scientist of
Chronos who he had freed. Back then they had proved to be far more
capable than any zoanoid in Chronos including the hyper zoanoids.
When he attacked the
Chronos Arizona base he should have won that day. Getting into the base
was relatively easy. Zeus Thunderbolt had commandeered a Chronos
helicopter and with Shizu his trusted companion and zoalord they entered
the base. The zoanoids were powerless against her will and allowed them
free access to the transport lifts within the base. But Chronos soon
realised what was happening and the lift halted as the base went on full
alert. He though was already at the centre of the base. The four men
with him and Shizu jumped out of the lift which had a view of the vast
insides of the Chronos base and fell towards the floor of the base.
Agito then activated his Guyver armour and jumped after them followed by
calling for the Gigantic Armour. The four men turned into their Libertus
zoaforms followed by Shizu into her zoalord form. All five of them then
clung onto the huge form of Gigantic Dark as he flew down to catch them
who landed softly on the floor of the base below.
All that now stood in
the way of them was the dome protecting the central core of the bottom
of the Chronos Arizona base. It did not last long as Shizu then ordered
the Libertus to change to mode B. All four of them had their shoulders
change from into a high powered bio-blaster. All four fired at once
breaking the dome. Gigantic Dark with barely any energy used calmly
tunnel his way into the lower chamber to claim his prize. But to his
surprise three Zoalords stood against him protecting the Ancient Relic
ship of the Uranus. Above them Shizu and the Libertus slaughtered four
hundred plus zoanoids and hyper-zoanoids. Despite the odds Gigantic Dark
mortally wounded Yentsui tricking the zoalord to use his own powers
against himself cutting his upper body from his left shoulder to the
right side of his lower chest. Gigantic Dark proceeded to use his head
beam to then burn the forest that the zoalord Waferdanos who to his
surprise was never a human being. At this point victory was in his grasp
and then Sho pulled the Gigantic Armour from him!
Agito did not care
that Guyver 1 was in a battle of his own. He had not cared that Guyver 1
faced the might of four zoalords when he pulled the Gigantic Armour from
him previously months ago. That day he paid the price as not only did
Guyver 1 take the Gigantic Armour off him but he also locked Agito from
using it ever again. This left Guyver 3 almost in a state of shock and
facing the might of Hamical Valkus and Waferdanos. At that moment
Griselda appeared explaining that the Chronos base was set to
self-destruct and there was only two minutes left! The four Libertus
were still alive. Quickly he formed a plan of attack that would still
let him win declaring they would do this in one minute!
Guyver 3 opened fire
first sending a gravity ball towards the zoalords and as they were
distracted and were shielded by Valkus, Guyver 3 then sent three gravity
balls towards the Relic cracking its surface at the point of impacts.
The heavily wounded upper remains
of Li Yentsui were lying face up on the hair of Waferdanos beside
the other two Zoalords. He was the first to see the Libertus were moving
along the top of the chamber. At that exact moment as the Libertus fell
towards their target a ripple in reality appeared between them and their
target. It was only there a moment and from it appeared Imakarum. He
acted immediately and fired a hail of gravity bullets focused towards
and disabling two of the Libertus and with his psionic powers grabbing
the third and flinging it into the air and towards the burning forest of
Waferdanos. The 4th Libertus latched on to the core of
Waferdanos who pushed Hamical Valkus away from him. Agito did not hear
what Waferdanos had said to Hamical nor did he care ordering Shizu to
activate Mode C of the Libertus attached to Waferdanos.
The Libertus glowed
white and a moment later before the zoalords could react exploded. But
it was barely enough to kill Waferdanos who was in ruins but did not
fracture the Relic. Imakarum had landed beside Valkus shielding him and
the still living remains of Yentsui from the blast. Guyver 3 knew he’d
lost the element of surprise had gone for his Libertus and a man he
thought dead had returned to shatter any hope he had of defeating
Chronos this day preventing him access to the core of the Relic. Below
him and Shizu he sensed the remaining Libertus still alive on the forest
below. He ordered Shizu to make it attack the zoalords in Mode B. As it
did he dragged Shizu with him as he tunnelled out of the chamber. The
base didn’t explode nor did Imakarum follow them after he’d killed the
remaining Libertus. He could guess the reason, even with the empty
Arizona Base Valkus would have had some way to shut down the
self-destruct countdown mentally. Imakarum would stay there to insure
Guyver 3 did not try to sneak attack the fallen zoalords and finish them
off completely.
That day marked a
turning point in Zeus Thunderbolts war with Chronos. Two months later
his base was attacked by new Chronos Apprentice Zoalords. Most of the
movement was wiped out, Shizu, Hekkaring and he barely survived the
battle. Shizu suffered more than any others taking severe damage. Five
months afterwards they were now established in Japan. Effectively in
hiding and no longer a fighting force. It took everything Guyver 3 had
managed to salvage to save Shizu. Effectively Hekkaring had to put her
in stasis saving her life until such time he could find a way to save
her. Over the last five months Agito formed a new plan. The plan was
simple; ally himself once again with the Guyver 1 and through him
inflict as much punishment as possible on Chronos for what they did to
him. But even he had to admit that the plan would be harder to pull off
without Shizu. Then Hekkaring gave his young master an idea.
He was involved in
the technology in Chronos that made it possible to copy a memory from a
living being to a machine. Chronos had extensively used the technology
making information gathering a fine art where scouts or even zoalords
could easily transfer information they had seen. If that was possible
they could make a human clone of Shizu from samples of her blood taken
before she was transformed and then transfer the memories from her
injured zoalord body to the human clone. Once the had completed this
process he too would go into stasis due to the lack of the vaccine they
had as he too would soon die due to the anti-rebellion virus that all
Chronos scientists had inside them. The bus came to a halt and Agito’s
thought snapped back to the present. Looking at Shizu beside him
reminded him of just how lucky he was that she was here to support him
through all this. She was the only person who knew of the house in Japan
and what lay beneath hidden in a secret chamber in the basement.
A short distance away
Jason, Sean and Sho stood by the steps to the main entrance to the ACTF
HQ. They were going to be the ones to greet Sho’s group from Japan.
General Carter didn’t want to overwhelm them with people to great when
they arrived to the base and he himself would greet them later when
they’d settled in. He had informed his officers about Aptom and that
there would be a friendly zoa-form on the base and for the men to learn
who he was and not to shoot on sight. Sean looked around the outside of
the base. All signs of the battle three nights ago had since disappeared
and the only sign of battle now being the increased amount of patrols
around the base. He didn’t really want to talk about it but knew Sean’s
friends would have questions, a lot of questions about three nights ago.
“Here they come,”
shouted Jason pointing towards the far end of the bases massive car park
as two big Humvees came into view.
“They’ll be hungry
after such a long drive,” said Sho.
“Don’t worry General
Carter doesn’t leave anything to chance, the canteen is ready them. Chef
will have some traditional Japanese food ready,” said Jason.
“I like the Chef, how
did that man find such good sushi?” asked Sho.
“It’s one of those
mysteries in life. The man is amazing, somehow he kept us all well fed
and meals interesting over those years we were all underground,” said
Jason. Sean simply nodded in agreement and said nothing. He was still
not in a talking mood unless he had too. The two Humvee’s pulled up to
the steps and out came their passengers. Mitzuki ran straight towards
Sho and kissed him. It was a sore thing for Sean to see given what
happened three nights ago. But he kept his cool knowing they’d not seen
each other in weeks and were doing what was natural. He only hopped he
would be doing the same with Cori soon.
44 minutes later – Conference Room Alpha
Introductions were
done and General Carter, Colonel O’Neil, and Sean sat one side of the
large table and on the other side were Sho, Agito and Aptom sat down to
their chairs. To the top of the table was a large display screen which
at the moment was turned off.
“Gentlemen, welcome
to the A.C.T.F. Headquarters. I hope you are impressed by what we’ve
managed to achieve,” said General Carter.
“Yes General, I’m
very impressed! The day you took back your city changed the world.” said
Agito. The others in his group looked rather curiously at him for saying
this. Indeed they had done well, but what was the angle Agito was
playing?
“Thank you Agito, I
can see from our intelligence and from talking with Sho a lot of our
success is thanks to your efforts and that of Sho’s and Aptom that has
weakened Chronos, even though some of those actions would be
questionable,” said General Carter looking directly at Agito as he said
the last part of that sentence.
“Unfortunately
General Carter as you understand there are times when questionable
decisions have to be made,” said Agito.
“But did you have to
make a point with our Capital City at huge cost to those around the
Pillars of Heaven?”
“Yes General I did. I
did not know of the ACTF or that there was an American Guyver who had
built a resistance movement. I only knew my resistance movement which I
lead called Zeus Thunderbolt and it had to make its presence felt and
wake the world up to the idea that Chronos had some opposition,” said
Agito.
“And indeed you did,
but at a heavy price,” said General Carter.
“Unfortunately
General when Guyvers battle Chronos there can be large cost of lives. It
was not just unique to my battles with Chronos,” said Agito. Sho let out
a deep sigh knowing he was referring to him and the battle in Tokyo
against the Dragon Lord. Chronos had still to this day yet to rebuild
large sections of the ruined city and the cost of lives to both human
and especially zoanoids were immense.
“It was you who lead
the Zeus Thunderbolt. We tried to make contact with your resistance
movement when its headquarters were based in New York. But we were too
late. You must have being the man they simply called “Boss”? Asked
Colonel O’Neil he knew it best at this point to move from that subject.
“Yes that was me,”
said Agito.
“Gentlemen, I think
it is best we come back to this point and other day. At the moment we’re
here to discuss Chronos Island,” said Sho. He knew of what Agito had
done as the Gigantic Dark but in the end everyone here needed each other
to have some chance against the Chronos forces that would meet them
there.
“I agree totally Sho.
It is understandable what you two had to do in your battles with
Chronos. They have forced us to defend and attack our own cities. Any
past misgivings need to be let go so that we can defeat them,” said
General Carter.
“I guess this is my
turn then. I’m sure Sho told you of my abilities?” asked Aptom.
“Yes, he has,”
answered General Carter.
“Good, I was able to
infiltrate Chronos newest base. They call it “Chronos Island”, it is an
artificial island that they built up above sea level. Inside this base
is a Space Craft. Chronos call this Ship the War Relic. Carbon dating
put it at twelve thousand years old, far less than that of the ships
that Sean, Sho and Agito’s Unit were found in.” said Aptom
“Carbon dating from
the Utah site put that ship at slightly over a million years old,” said
Colonel O’Neil looking at ACTF paperwork marked Top Secret. Sean
recognised the document, it was produced by Cori. He wondered if that
document had somehow being leaked to the red alien four armed Guyvers
and was it the reason she was kidnapped. He would speak with Jason about
this later, as at this moment in time he now was the only person he
trusted in ACTF.
“The War Relic is
also different in design and pyramid in shape instead of oval.” said
Aptom.
“What do you suspect
is inside it?” asked General Carter.
“Tetsuro has a theory
on this. When I was linked to the Japanese Relic it showed me a vision
of the past. The Creators had made their army the zoanoids. Then they
linked one of the Units with a human. That made him into a destructive
force that destroyed everything earning the name Guyver which means in
their language “Out of Control”. His theory is that my Unit was never
designed for war. That it naturally became war like because the Creators
had designed the host for war and it adapted to suit us. He further
believes that the reason this new ship is called the War Relic is
because this is designed for war and that any dormant Unit inside that
ship would be also.”
“A Warrior Unit,”
said General Carter.
“Indeed,” said Sho.
“Why has Chronos not
captured this Unit already?” asked Colonel O’Neil.
“They are unable to
do that safely. If you tried to drill into a Living Relic Ship it would
dissolve any drill before it got anywhere near a vital chamber. In the
past they sent in hundreds of zoanoids inside the Japanese Relic, only
one survived the journey long enough to bring back three Dormant Units.
A War Relic might prove impossible for them to enter safely without a
Guyver to open a passage,” said Agito.
“It’s only a matter
of time though before Chronos get inside or those Red Alien Guyvers
discover the base,” said Sho.
“It is a fortress
island, for those Red Alien Guyvers and for us we have the same problem.
Chronos Island has the best of Chronos zoanoids and most likely one or
more Zoalords or their Apprentice Zoalords,” said Aptom.
“It does make me wonder though and this is not meant to be insulting but
why has Chronos not crushed your resistance movement?” asked Agito.
“We have fought hard to get this far, I can’t see what makes you think
Chronos hasn’t used their full force against us,” said Colonel O’Neil.
“He is correct
Colonel, we haven’t faced the full might of Chronos, they have being
holding back for some unknown reason,” said General Cater to the
surprise of all in the room.
“The question then
General is why? Chronos took over the Earth in one day, crushing all
forms of resistance quickly and effectively. According to witness
reports they even deployed the Dragon Lord Zoalord against US forces
based in the Middle East that had put up and effective resistance
against the zoanoids even detonating a nuclear missile to earn a
temporary victory that they then lost against the Dragon Lord himself
who survived the blast. Chronos were effective and made lethal use of
all their forces to achieve their gaols,” said Agito.
“I don’t understand
why you’d say that as Chronos have escalated and used more effective
zoanoids and even a zoalord against us and almost killed Guyver US,”
said Colonel O’Neil.
“That event proves my
point Colonel, Taylor Smith is the most lethal Guyver killer ever
created by Chronos. He had disabled Guyver US only to be removed from
the battle by Alkanphel who actually saved Jason from his subordinates
attack,” said Agito. On hearing his code name Sean focused his eyes on
Agito. He didn’t like this man but he’d to agree with him on his point.
Why would Chronos not press their advantage?
“I have also wondered
why we have being so successful. From all reports we received since we
should have faced very serious opposition in the form of the Enzyme 3, a
zoanoid simply put that is impossible for our Red Armours and even the
planned Blue Armours to kill. It’s very blood and fluids are capable of
dissolving a Guyver,” said General Carter.
“The Enzyme 3 is not
only the most lethal foe of a Guyver, it is also capable of neutralising
my weapons as well, the man who experimented on my body to make me an
adaptable zoanoid capable of absorbing other zoanoids and their
abilities designed the Enzyme 3’s to correct his mistake and kill me. It
has a heightened immune system capable of resisting my attack and a
virus that causes any wounds it does to my body not to heal.” said
Aptom.
“It makes no sense,”
said Colonel O’Neil.
“What doesn’t make
sense?” asked Aptom.
“Why they would
remove such a perfect killer from battle,” answered the Colonel.
“I believe it is
because they are moving them to protect Chronos Island,” said Agito.
“Or people in the
Port of Miami have confirmed what you believe Agito. Large containers
marked ‘E-3’ were seen and were transported to a large ship of theirs
the same day we took back New York,” said General Carter.
“That type of zoanoid
doesn’t have skin designed to withstand fire. In fact judging by the
hair that covers a large percentage of its body maybe a flamethrower
style weapon or incendiary rounds would be effective against it, but the
heat and fire from the weapon would need to be very intense to counter
act their hyper healing,” said Aptom. He wondered if napalm breath he’d
acquired from Darzerb would have being enough, but he doubted it because
Hamical Valkus designed Darzerb whose abilities he’d absorbed and Dr
Valkus had designed the Enzyme 3 to counter.
“You saying they heal
so fast that they can literally out heal being burned alive?” asked
Colonel O’Neil.
“I’ve acquired
Bio-Missiles by absorbing a Hyper Zoanoid called Gaster. Against Enzyme
3 though the zoanoids hyper healing actually cruse the missiles before
they can explode on piercing their skin, unless fire burned their body
completely to ash there is a strong possibility Enzyme 3 would
regenerate,” answered Aptom.
“How have you being
able to defeat such a monstrous creature?” asked Colonel O’Neil
“Every time we’ve
encountered them a Guyver be it I or Sho we have needed help to defeat
them. Without a hyper zoanoid or zoalord to control them they act on
pure killer instinct. They are always in a team and are bread to be very
aggressive with only one goal, to kill. Without them being held in place
allowing us to use a mega-smasher on them they are impossible to kill
for a Guyver alone,” said Agito. Sean had said nothing other than hello
throughout the entire meeting but this grabbed his attention. Agito was
reckoned by Sho to be the most aggressive and deadly Guyver he’d
encountered. Yet even he was saying that for a Guyver alone it would be
near impossible for a Guyver to defeat a team of Enzyme 3. He really did
have to ask himself why Chronos had removed the Enzyme 3 from the USA,
surely it made the most sense to have them here to face them now?
“What exactly held
them in place for a Guyver to his weapons to kill it?” asked Colonel
O’Neil.
“I will need to start
at the beginning to fully explain that. We were once allied with group
of rebel Chronos Scientists from the former Relics Point in Japan,” said
Sho.
“Relics Point, it was
the Chronos facility where you tried to capture a Creator Spacecraft.
When Chronos destroyed it they then inadvertently caused the creation of
the Gigantic Armour?” asked Colonel O’Neil.
“Yes, after the
battle while I was inside the Gigantic Cocoon and Agito was lost in the
Rocky Mountains they began to die off because of the Chronos
Anti-Rebellion Virus which requires a Chronos supplied supplement to
keep at bay. To save one of their team and to continue their resistance
against Chronos they turned one their members into a Lost Number
zoanoid. That man was Toshiaki Hayami,” said Sho.
“Sorry to make you
stray further from the point, but this is important to know. You’ve
mentioned this type of zoanoid before, what exactly makes a zoanoid a
‘Lost Number’ and different to other zoa-forms that someone would want
to be one?” asked General Carter.
“A Lost Number is the
result of mutation during the process to turn a human into a zoanoid.
The results are unique to the zoanoid in question but the one thing we
all have in common is that unlike normal zoanoids is that Chronos cannot
clone a Lost Numbers battle type hence why we’re given that term. The
reason that Hayami wanted to become a Lost Number, Colonel O’Neil is
because of another side effect. Lost Numbers are harder for Zoalords to
control allowing us a near human level of freedom to fight against
them!” answered Aptom.
“Hayami made himself
into zoanoid type called Bio-Freezer. He had the ability to control the
temperature around him and reduce it drastically freezing zoanoids on
the ground around him and could cause a small river to freeze up. It was
with his help that I was able to defeat the last of the Enzyme 3’s that
had attacked us while Sho faced Zoalord Imakarum. Once the zoanoid was
frozen with the Guyver sonic attack it was shattered to countless
pieces,” said Agito.
“What happened to
Hayami?” asked General Carter.
“He…” said Sho as he
was cut off by Aptom who asked, “Can I answer this please Sho?” Sho
nodded his head signalling it was ok. They had both taken the death of
Hayami badly, but for Aptom he’d to live with his sacrifice forever.
“I was captured by
the Zoalord Kabral Khan and held captive in the main Head Quarters of
the Japanese Branch. They used me as bait to draw Sho out into a battle.
They fought their way to me and released me. But what they did not know
was that Kabral Khan has an ability to take over the body of a host and
replace their brain with a false brain that he can control. Guyver 1 and
Hayami had to face my mind controlled body. During the battle Guyver 1
discovered that if part of my body was cut off that Kabral Khan would
destroy it because he would unable to control it. Hayami was mortally
wounded buy my mind controlled body. But he also froze it in place.
Guyver one mega-smashed it obliterating the false brain controlled body.
Hayami sacrificed himself freezing part of my body inside his wound. I
then regenerated inside his body he had seeded to him,” said Aptom.
There was a lot that Aptom left out of that night’s event. The Gigantic
Guyver going Exceed to face the Dragon Lord and the huge cost in both
human and zoanoid lives. The strange flash that consumed Kabral Khan’s
body as he froze him to death that made his body disappear before and
robbing Aptom and the memory of Hayami of its final revenge. But for
both Sho and Aptom there were events they did not like to talk about as
it was still too raw.
“His sacrifice is to
be admired Aptom and remembered, he fought to save a lost comrade
against the odds and gave everything so that you could continue on his
fight,” said Colonel O’Neil.
“Indeed Colonel, it
is for him that I volunteer to be a test fire target for the development
of the Blue Armour weapon systems the ACTF will make to fight the Enzyme
3,” said Aptom.
“Are you sure you’d
want to do that?” asked Colonel O’Neil. He could only guess what pain
Aptom would suffer putting himself through that.
“For everything we
have being through and those who we have all lost and what we will face
at Chronos Island I will do what is needed to insure the plan is a
success,” said Aptom.
“Ok then, I’ll talk
with Dr Drake and tell him what we need of him,” said General Carter.
“Irrespective of that
General, I feel we should attack Chronos Island before they enter the
Warrior Relic! We have to attack now!” said Sean. It was the only thing
he’d said throughout the entire meeting other than hello. That along
with his stark message took everyone a little by surprise.
“Sean, we’ve not
spoken much. But as a fellow Guyver I understand how hard it must be to
understand just how dangerous an Enzyme 3 is, how difficult it can be to
defeat and just how costly it is to fight against them when your friends
are nearby. You don’t want to face them unprepared,” said Agito. Like
Sho and Aptom he too had lost heavily to Chronos. While some might
consider Agito to be ruthless in his ambition this was one of those
times that he spoke from the heart. Sean sighed and sat back down into
his chair.
“You’re both correct.
We can’t wait forever on Dr Drake to upgrade the Blue Armour but nor can
we attack them now with the resources we have at present. We will
assault Chronos Island in one month,” said General Carter. Everyone in
the room agreed, including the reluctant Sean.
While they talked
Shizu, Tetsuro and Mitzuki were on tour of the base with Jason. The
General had arranged for a translator to help him with the tour but as
it turned out she was not needed due to all three being able to speak
good English. All four of them had done most of the tour and were headed
towards Dr Drake’s lab.
“Can you tell me more
about the Red Armour?” asked Tetsuro.
“The Red Armour was
originally an exoskeleton suite designed for use in outer space and was
invented by Dr Drake. I think the original intention was for something
that people could use up there and to move about safely outside
spaceships doing whatever work was needed. Years ago, long before he
knew of Chronos the General and Dr Drake met. The General saw the
potential of his design from a military viewpoint. Dr Drake has worked
for years on converting the original design to something that could work
down here. Two years ago he finished prototyping and we began to build
the Red Type Battle armour in our Underground Base,” said Jason.
“The ACTF designed
and manufactured all the Red Type Battle Armours underground?” asked
Tetsuro. Judging from his tone Jason realised he was finding it hard to
believe.
“Our Underground base
was a massive Cold War installation. It was designed over fifty years
ago and built forty years ago. It was designed then as an ultra-secret
base that would still function even if the surface above was obliterated
by nuclear war,” said Jason.
“But that does not
answer how the ACTF could make such advanced anti-zoanoid weapons in
such a short period of time,” said Tetsuro.
“It’s being joked by
some members of the ACTT that the General somehow knew of Chronos even
before FBI realised what Chronos was after the fall of the LA branch to
the Guyver US five or so years ago. That’s not really important, what’s
important is that he took over the base fifteen years ago to see him
through to retirement which should have happened five years ago. During
that time he had already seen the base through its renovation and
modernisation,” explained Jason. Tetsuro and the others listened
attentively as he explained the past events of the ACTF.
“Why would the US
Government bother to modernise an old Cold War base though?” asked
Tetsuro.
“The US Government
knew very little about this. But the military saw that the Chinese and
other rogue nations had the possibility of launching nuclear war heads
at the USA or that some terrorist might somehow smuggle a device into
our country. The idea was to have the former Underground ACTF base ready
if such an event were to happen,” explained Jason.
“It would be safe to
say there was a large element of luck involved in the ACTF being allowed
to form?” asked Tetsuro.
“Yes, it is safe to
say that. Timing is everything I guess,” said Jason.
“Sorry for all my
brother’s questions,” said Mizuki.
“It’s no problem at
all Mizuki, this is what I expected,” said Jason.
“Sho warned you?”
asked Mizuki.
“Yup, though ‘warn’
is such a strong word, he just informed me that Tetsuro liked technology
and would most likely have many questions,” said Jason.
“It was probably a
warning and you’re just being nice, but I can’t help but find this both
amazing and exciting that somehow an organisation like yours survived in
a Chronos controlled world!” said Tetsuro. His face was like a kid in
awe of the situation.
“Yes I have to admit
we were lucky, but it doesn’t feel that way. Almost everyone in the ACTF
has lost someone or more to Chronos.”
“We’ve all lost loved
ones to Chronos Jason, we try our best in their memory to help those
that can fight Chronos.” said Shizu.
“Hopefully you all
being here with ACTF will let us help you with that burden Shizu.”
“That is what makes
me worried,” said Mizuki.
“Why would you be
worried about the ACTF being able to help the Guyvers?” asked Jason.
“I’m worried because
if the ACTF is here to help Sho and Agito what is the need for us being
here?”
“The ACTF would never
try and pull you, Shizu or Tetsuro away from Sho or Agito. It would be
silly to even try. You’ve all being here helps them feel at home, simply
put we want you here,” said Jason.
“Sorry Jason, Mizuki
tends to worry a lot over nothing,” said Tetsuro. His sister then
quickly slapped his shoulder as he laughed. As they smiled they walked
down a different coloured corridor and a sign saying ‘Research and
Development’. Just as they turned a corner in front of them was a group
of heavily armed soldiers and a woman who was sitting by a screen.
“What is this place?”
asked Shizu.
“We’re about to pass
into one of the most secure zones in the ACTF HQ,” answered Jason.
“What is she looking
at on the screen?” asked Tetsuro.
“If you are a zoanoid
or not,” answered Jason.
“How…?”
“I don’t know, but
it’s always correct,” answered Jason as the woman behind the screen
smiled as Jason and his group of guests walked on.
“What would they have
done if one of us was a zoa-form?” asked Shizu.
“They would have
asked me to confirm what to do next,” answered Jason.
“But if you were not
here?” asked Shizu.
“If you did not look
like Aptom who they now know is the only allowed zoa-form on site, they
would try and detain you,” said Jason.
“Did the use of these
scanners allow the ACTF to make an underground base with people they
trusted and then knew were not zoanoids?”
“Yes indeed Tetsuro.
Throughout different military and FBI buildings we had had Dr Redmond’s
Zoanoid scanners secretly in place under the pretence of National
Security and to prevent terrorists entering the country. Only personal
cleared got to work on the ACTF base and updating its huge underground
Cold War era facilities. I only got to see the place after X-Day,” said
Jason. Tetsuro though wondered how ACTF could create such technology and
just how long they really knew of Chronos. He decided it best though not
to push that now. Anyway he liked a good mystery and this would give him
one to work on. They arrived then to a very large reinforced door.
Beside the large door was a large sign that said ‘Testing and Training
Room’ and below that ‘Class A Access Only’.
“What was this room?”
asked Shizu.
“It was previously a
room where Chronos had zoanoids fight against each other,” answered
Jason as he put his hand on a hand scanner by the door. It took five
seconds before there was a beep and a green light. Long enough for
Tetsuro to wonder why it was taking so long. “It takes a few seconds to
see the blood still flowing in my hand,” said Jason knowing the question
was about to come.
The door opened
revealing a huge long room. It was like entering a totally different
designed section of the base. They’d entered into a corridor area that
surrounded most of the inner section of the room which had the thickest
glass Tetsuro had ever seen. He walked up and knocked it and it felt
like knocking metal. Then his eyes focused on what was happening inside
the room. There literally was a battle going on between three Red
Armours and three Blue Armours. He noticed though they were not using
live rounds as a Blue Armour had used its jump back to avoid an attack
from a Red and then returned fire of its hitting the Red Armour with a
large blotch of paint.
"Jason do you know
how to use this new armour?" asked Tetsuro
"Yes, its like an
extension of your body and has cool H.U.D. targeting system inside the
helmet that can track multiple targets at a time, and Sho should know
that well as I was the one who managed to tag him with it last week."
"How did you "tag"
him," asked Tetsuro.
"I shot his throat,"
answered Jason.
“With one of those
paint balls?” asked Tetsuro.
“No, it was a live
round test!” said Jason.
“You WHAT!?” shouted
Mizuki realising what he’d meant.
“It was a test to see
if the new Blue Armour was capable. Sho wanted to see this himself and
told me to hold nothing back,” said Jason.
“You really didn’t,”
said Tetsuro.
“Sorry, but I play to
win,” said Jason.
“Even for a Guyver
what would have hurt!” said Mizuki.
“It did, he could not
disengage the unit for a few minutes while it healed his throat,” said
Jason.
“I guess it did prove
the Blue Armour was capable,” said Tetsuro. He was still stood looking
through the window throughout the whole of the last part of the
conversation. He was mesmerised by the sight of the armours still mock
battling.
"Everyone has their
weakness you just have to find it,” said Jason.
“What if you’d hit
his Control Medal,” said Mizuki.
“We’d not be having
this conversation. At a best case I’d have knocked out Sho and then the
Unit would have taken over and killed me the threat. Worst case his Unit
would have gone out of control and again I’d have being killed by the
Bio-Creature it would have become,” said Jason.
“Did Sho warn you
before the Test fight?” asked Mizuki.
“Yes, indeed he had
warned me and so had Sean! Trust me, I aim to win but I’m no fool. An
out of control Guyver is the last thing I want,” said Jason sounding as
calm and professional as possible as they now neared another room that
was to the back right of main observation level. They could see this
room through the reinforced observation windows and it had blacked out
window down to the test battle. There was a door between the observation
level and this room and the group had arrived at it. Once again this
door had yet another hand scanner and Jason put his hand against it. A
few moments later the door opened.
“Who is it?” asked Dr
Drake as Jason and the group walked into the mostly empty observation
room. Dr Drake was a middle aged man with glasses with greying hair in a
white lab coat that looked like it was now a little shabby. He handed
even turned his head still looking attentively at the screen and was
finishing a long note on a tablet device.
“It’s Jason O’Conner.
I’ve our guests from Japan with me.”
“Ah welcome to the
Testing and Training Room,” said Dr Drake as he turned from his screen.
The group walked closer to him then he shook their hands as the Doctor
was introduced to them by Jason. Tetsuro though was barely now paying
any attention to the conversation that was starting. The room was full
of computers, video equipment, a large window through which you could
see two groups of armoured men fighting, and from where he was sitting
Dr Drake could watch everything. Tetsuro looked at it all and wished he
could join the Dr in designing and testing these fighting armours. It
was instantly a way he could help Sho and their battle with Chronos.
Elsewhere in the base
the meeting between ACTF and the Japanese Guyvers and Aptom was over and
they were all now leaving the room. Agito was happy with how the meeting
had gone. The ACTF was an organisation he would happily fit in with. He
had only once concern, Guyver US.
“Sean do you have a
moment to talk in private?” asked Agito.
“Sure,” said Sean but
he was dreading what would Agito want to talk about. He was guessing
that it had something to do with his attitude. The last thing he wanted
was another lecture no matter who it was from.
“It’s obvious you’re
under a lot of pressure and I know why. But you need to be better handle
your emotions so that those that took Cori pay for what they have done
not those around you who want to help,” said Agito.
“But I don’t even
know who took her!” shouted Sean. He knew has he shouted it that was the
wrong thing to say but he couldn’t stop himself from saying it. General
Carter and Colonel O’Neil were close enough still to hear Sean shout.
The Colonel went to walk towards them but the General stopped him and
shook his head. “Let him blow off steam,” said General Carter. Sho and
Aptom had already turned a corner and were on their way to meet up with
Jason and the rest of their group and didn’t hear the commotion.
“You being angry at
the wrong people about it will not save her or help us find out who took
her,” said Agito, his calm demeanour almost annoyed Sean more than what
he said. But he couldn’t help it and Sean knew Agito was right on the
mark with him.
“Being angry is not
something I can just turn off!” said Sean.
“It’s something
you’re going to have to learn to turn off, you’re a Guyver you need to
get better at it or more of your friends and the ACTF will lose people
because of it!” said Agito. Sean didn’t respond to that and neither said
anything for a few seconds. Jason hadn’t put it as blunt as that to him
but it was true what Agito said, if he remained like he was now people
would lose lives. Even Guyvers needed support in the end, even him.
“I’m sorry Agito,”
said Sean as he then left Agito to look for Jason. Agito’s first meeting
with the American Guyver went better than he expected, he hoped now he
would be a good ally as he turned back towards General Carter and
Coronel O’Neil and walked towards them.
“So what do you think
of what I have done here Tetsuro,” asked Dr Drake. Tetsuro had broken
away from the rest of the group as Jason talked with the Mitzuki and
Shizu about how the armour works.
“If you mean the new
armour, you have done very well. They are meant to be able to handle
anything up to the Gregore Zoanoid type,” asked Tetsuro looking closely
at a Blue Armour which dodged an attack from the slower Red Armour by
using is booster rockets to propel it backwards a few feet.
“Yes indeed they
are,” said a smiling Dr Drake. Tetsuro was still looking at the fight
below and not really taking any notice as he chatted away he asked “Ah,
what are they doing down there?”
“They are testing the
new armour against the old.”
Tetsuro, now paying
attention he asked, “Are the group painted in Red wearing the old
armour?”
“Yes indeed they are
the ones painted red. Let's go down and you can take a closer look,”
said Dr Drake.
Tetsuro
enthusiastically agreed and the doctor went out of the observation room
leaving the women with Jason and went down a set of stairs to the lower
level were Dr Drake put his hand on the panel and the door opened and
they went inside. The room the test battle was happening flashed a blue
light and on the screens of the combatants a warning screen shot up and
all ten armoured combatants stopped.
"Men stand at
attention," ordered Dr Drake as Tetsuro and the doctor went towards the
nearest man who was equipped with the red armour.
"The red armour is
the older type of armour designed to give our men a fighting chance
against the lower Zoanoids. It is shown itself to be fully capable of
that job so it is in mass production and in about a week we will have
around four thousand produced and deployed. The Blue Type is the armour
that Jason up there used and fought Sho last week and had him in a bit
of trouble. The Blue Type is currently in the prototype stage and what
you see here are all that has being produced.”
“What were the
upgrades that where done to the blue type armour,” asked Tetsuro.
“Mostly all upgrades
where on the armours movement and firepower. We found on the red type
that though it provided adequate muscle enhancement that it suffered a
serious lack of mobility and speed. So when the blue project came along
we concentrated most of our research on that part of the armour. It now
lets the wearer to run at a normal pace and with hover jets can reach
speeds up to 100MPH, jump twenty feet and sixty with jets, armour is
lighter but just as strong, can even climb and has use of nearly the
full range of human motion. While my team and I concentrated our
research on the armour, the Army designed a new weapon for long range
combat against the Vamore type Zoanoids. It is basically a larger
version of the anti-zoanoid rifle and has superior targeting, ammo, and
range.”
“Has the new armour
been fully tested?”
“Yes, in the
technical sense but their testing has not being against anything serious
in combat yet other than fighting Guyver 1,” answered Dr Drake as Sho
and Aptom also entered the room though the direct main entrance. A few
minutes later they were followed by Sean who chatted with Jason.
Chronos Island
Taylor Smith stood at
the bottom of the huge complex looking at the War Relic. Close by him
the concrete floor bore the marks of Aptom’s battle with the Neo Hyper
Zoanoids. He had being upset with Alkanphel when he said he viewed being
sent here a demotion. He still viewed it as such but he obeyed the order
of the Leader of Chronos. He had no choice in that regard. Alkanphel’s
will was his even if he didn’t like the idea. But as he looked between
the War Relic and the marks on the ground he smiled, it was only a
matter of time but sooner or later the Guyvers would be here, he would
kill them then!
“What is it now Drano,” said Taylor Smith as he turned around to see the
well-dressed brown hairs man walking towards him.
“Some humility wouldn’t be unbecoming of you Lord Smith,” said Alfrid
Drano.
“I was not selected
to be a Zoalord because of my humility Drano, it is best you remember
that,” said Taylor Smith his eyes glowing faintly as his annoyance of
being put under this man’s command showed itself.
“I remember many
things Lord Smith why you were selected as a zoalord is not one of them
as it was not by my choice,” said Alfrid Drano
“No it was not your
choice; those who chose me did you. I am your equal and I am not your
subordinate Drano!”
“Correction Lord
Smith, we are both the subordinates of Destrol, and he expected you at
the command meeting that ended fifteen minutes ago.”
“That presumptuous
ponce, he is not as special as he believes! I’m here for only one
reason, to kill or capture the Guyvers! I’m not here to follow your lead
or his!” Taylor Smiths eyes changed to a full glow as he almost shouted
out those words.
“The Elite Zoalords
will hear of this Lord Smith.”
“Ha! The Elite
Zoalords, their numbers are few and it is only a matter of time before
Lord Alkanphel selects replacements for their fallen members! When I
hand him the Control Medals of the three Guyvers he will elevate me into
their rank!”
“Believe what you
will Lord Smith,” said Alfrid Drano as he turned around and left his
fellow Zoalord. None of the other Apprentice Zoalords would dare to have
said what Taylor Smith had said. Why Alkanphel had let him live was a
mystery. Taylor Smith smiled as he left, he didn’t care if he’d insulted
Alfrid Drano or Destrol they would not have the glory he was destined
for!
Alfrid Drano entered
the lift which brought him up from the lower levels toward the core of
Chronos Island. It took a lot of control to remain calm in the presence
of Lord Smith. He disliked the man and was in total contrast to the lead
Apprentice Zoalord on Chronos Island. Alfrid Drano respected Destrol as
he was different to all the other Apprentice Zoalords. To be around
Destrol was like being around an Elite Zoalord in that he could feel the
pressure to comply to the Zoalord. Simply put, there was something
different about this man compared to the other Apprentice Zoalords.
Minutes later Alfrid Drano arrived in the command room of Chronos
Island. Destrol stood looking at the large displays that towered above
the terminals Chronos personal worked on. On the middle screen was
Taylor Smith.
“Presumptuous Ponce,”
said Destrol as Alfrid Drano walked up beside him.
“Pardon me Lord
Destrol?”
“Is that what he
called me?”
“Yes, it was. How did
you know?”
“Lip reading is a
useful talent Lord Drano even for us Zoalords.”
“Indeed, what will we
do with Lord Smith?”
“He will get what he
wishes,” said Destrol as he then smiled.
September 2011 – One hundred miles north east of Chronos Island the
Stealth ship U.S.S. Defiant
Jason stood looking
at the Prototype Blue Armour that was in front of him. He’d far less
time than he would have liked testing it.
The same could be said
for the team of Ex-Navy Seals that ACTF assembled in their ranks
to join him on this mission. They were all hardened members of the ACTF
who like him spent a long time in the former ACTF HQ underground. They
all like him had either battle experience and or a large amount of time
built up training in the Red Type Battle armour. This armour in front of
him though was a far different animal. It was faster, stronger, equipped
with custom weaponry developed with Aptom’s help. But running through
his mind were the many ways it could go wrong, the jump packs for one
required an expert touch and the Doc’s team were still fine tuning the
Armours OS to compensate.
But all of that
didn’t matter, what mattered was Chronos had to be stopped and they had
to take the risk of using this experimental armour considering what they
were up against. It was something they had never witnessed from Chronos,
the Enzyme 3 and to make the matters worse it was them who had to hold
that best off the Guyvers as much as possible so the Guyvers could help
Aptom defeat the Neo-Class Hyper Zoanoids that also guarded the base! It
really made him wonder about what Agito had said; why had Chronos not
used such forces already against the ACTF? Also why did Alkanphel appear
to save him? In the end it matter not why he would kill that freak for
what he did to him. He didn’t know how but someday he would finish him!
Jason sighed, it was
time. He turned around and headed to the crate that held his armour, the
Seals had already suited up in their armour, opening a panel on the side
of the crate and pressed the button inside it. The side of the crate
opened up and two bars moved out holding between them his armour. The
legs extended and the armour stood upright and the bars moved back into
the crate. Then the back of the armour opened up waiting for its user to
climb inside. Usually you would use a small staircase to climb inside
the armour but out here Jason had to stand on the back of its leg and
climb into the armour. Once inside the armour fully activated. Jason
then commanded the armour to turn on the secured satellite link to ACTF
HQ. As he did the HUD display on his helmet lit up and he saw the status
of the other twenty fine members of his team Armour. All the other team
members like him showed a fully active status and 100% ammunition level
apart from the three members of the team that where there as ammunition
holders for the other team members, their armours modified mainly as a
supply function for this mission.
“Command, Expedition
Strike Force ready,” said Jason through the interlink system.
“Operation Go,” said
Colonel O’Neil though the interlink from ACTF HQ in Washington DC.
No more words needed
to be said. Everyone knew their next actions thanks to constant drilling
and training. Along the walls of the room they were in where blue
modules hanging at their armoured forms shoulder height. Each one of
them walked up and turned around and linked a panel at the back of their
armour to the blue modules. These linked to the armour and as they moved
forward and the modules came off the wall the duel propeller systems of
the sea module became visible. The USS Defiant an experimental stealth
warship was retrofitted by the ACTF core of engineers to be able house
the Blue Armours and its passage ways expanded. The ship floated along
two pontoons and had black painted armour running along it and a
sharpened edge to it to lower its profile. To radar systems it barely
registered as anything more than driftwood or a small single person
boat. At the back of black ship a large door opened backwards and became
a platform that lowered into the sea below. The now sea ready Blue
Armoured group moved down the platform into the sea.
It was a daytime as it made no difference to attack a Chronos base at
night-time or day due to a large amount of Zoanoids that could see with
a natural night vision. Chronos personal patrolled the top outer ring of
the circular artificial island. In the sea though it was the aquatic
zoanoids that surrounded the island which knew of the attack first as
the lead two Blue Amours fired their harpoon weapons through their heads
then recoiled the cabled bolts back into the launcher module. As the
team of Blue Armours got within range of the Island four different team
members moved towards the lead positions in their formation. The modules
on their backs opened to reveal a missile system. Within seconds of
killing any aquatic zoanoids within range the patrols around the island
didn’t even have the time to change into their zoanoid forms as they
were bombarded by sustained missile fire for ten seconds obliterating
most of patrolling zoanoids on that side of the island and blowing open
the passageway into the building.
“We’ve an opening,
move in before the close it!” ordered Jason as he and the other Blue
Armours closed in within jump range.
“Colin’s your squad
target the left side as we jump to the door and Roger’s your squad right
side,” ordered Jason as he commanded his armour to rocket into the air
closely followed by the rest of the team. As ordered the two five man
squads of Colin’s and Rogers while in the air laid down covering fire
blasting the approaching zoanoids before they could find cover or get
close to the now landing Blue Armours. With their explosive zoanoid
armour piercing rounds any zoanoid out in the open was quickly cut down
by the precise short bursts of fire.
“Remember, conserve
your ammo. Team Roger’s you’re on point after the entry team. Team
Colin’s protect our rear.”
“Sir, yes sir,” said
both Lieutenants Roger’s and Colin’s. Four of the Blue Armours arms
extended large spikes as they moved forward and to the head of the
group. They entered the building first with the rest of the team quickly
following. Jason didn’t need to remind them to keep in tight formation
this had being drilled into all of them and years of experience thought
them, separate from their team mates and they would most likely die.
Deep inside the
Chronos Island Taylor Smith left the lift at the bottom of the base and
looked at the pyramid shape of shape of the War Relic. The Blue Armours
of the ACTF were attacking the base. As he suspected they would be
coming here.
<“Enzyme 3’s, come to
me now!”> ordered Taylor Smith.
Inside the command
centre of the base Destrol and Alfrid Drano looked at the quickly
disappearing display monitors as the Blue Armoured ACTF soldiers shot
each one out on their way to the War Relic.
“Is it wise to trust
the defence of the War Relic to him?” asked Alfrid Drano.
“It is the will of
Alkanphel,” said Destrol. Alfrid Drano nodded his head and smiled and
thought to himself how if there was such a force out there called Karma
this would be how Taylor Smith would be repaid for his deeds.
The team of ACTF Blue
Armours were now making their way inside the building. Chronos soldiers
and zoanoids were everywhere. The close combat team though made short
work of them shoving electrified spikes that had come out of their
armoured fists into the head of any zoanoid that got too close and by
their guns. The battle continued to move towards the centre of the upper
complex. But even with the best formation possible a large group of
zoanoids managed to break their ranks as they passed by a doorway
killing the two Blue Armoured men that entered the room to check it.
Seeing the commotion
behind him one of the lead armours turned back and ran towards the
zoanoids attacking the middle lines shouting “get out of the way”. The
group split falling back leaving room for the lead armour to get at the
zoanoids. The lead armoured man cut into the ranks of the attacking
zoanoids. But inside the group of zoanoids was a man dressed in a lead
uniform. There was a blast as he turned into the Neo-Hyper Darzerb. He
reached out with his huge right arm and picked up the lead armoured man.
He in turn shoved his two forward spikes up towards the arm only for the
spikes to crumple and the electricity to be absorbed by the creature.
Just as the Neo-Hyper Darzerb started to laugh and crush the head armour
of the lead armoured man his armour exploded into a ball of energy
blasting the large creature against the opposite wall of the room and
obliterating its whole right arm and upper side.
As the blast field
disappeared there stood the Guyver 3. His control medal glowed along
with his eyes as the air vents over his mouth cleared. Guyver 3 was
impressed. Seeing the Neo-Darzerb stirring trying to getting up this
creature was a feat of bio-engineering. Guyver 3 then fired a number of
pressure cannon blasts at the fallen neo-hyper zoanoids legs crippling
the creature and hitting its other arm blasting a hole into its
shoulder. Before it had the chance to begin to regenerate Guyver 3
opened his right chest armour plate revealing a mega-smasher cell.
Neo-Darzerb only got a chance to look up and see the glow around Guyver
3’s chest area as the mega-smasher fired obliterating him. The powerful
blast consumed him and then blasted through the wall and all the way
through out over the sea.
“So that is what it
is like to be in a building when a Guyver uses his mega-smasher!” said
Destrol looking up at the corner of the room where the ceiling had
cracked and some dust was falling into the room. Alfrid Drano didn’t
answer him as he and a few others continued to look around for any sign
of the room collapsing.
With Guyver 3 having
revealed himself he made short work of the zoanoids near by him. His
head sensors moved on his head as he quickly gaged the location of
zoanoids around him. Not sensing any Enzyme 3’s nearby he the blasted
his way through a concrete wall and then dived through the hole he’d
just made to attack a team of zoanoids that where running towards the
Blue Armours. Jason couldn’t help but be impressed as he looked through
the hole made by Guyver 3 and his H.U.D. tried to read through the dust
what was happening on the other side. Flashes of light and sounds of
pain gave him enough of a clue to know Guyver 3’s reputation was well
earned.
After ten more
minutes of battle the team had made their way to the viewing area of the
Core of Chronos Island. “This Chronos base has aspects similar to both
the Relics Point and the Chronos Arizona facilities. Look down there!
That is a massive blast door that they use to close off access between
levels,” explained Guyver 3 pointing out of the window right down to the
insides of the base.
“Is there any way
through them?” asked Jason.
“Yes, with the power
of the Gigantic Armour Sho can do it,” answered Guyver 3.
“If that’s the only
way, then there is no point in waiting,” said a Blue Armoured person
standing beside them. Smashing his way out of the safety glass that
overlooked the inner ring the Blue Armour man jumped out away from his
team mates. Gravity quickly took hold as it looked like he would be
plummeting to his death. Then a ball of energy engulfed the armour
disintegrating it and the Guyver 1 appeared as the smoke cleared quickly
then followed by merging with the Gigantic Armour. Still in free fall
the Gigantic Guyver’s back armour fired its bio-thrusters as he then
rocketed towards the giant mettle barrier that blocked entry to the
lower levels. Energy collected around his right knuckles as he then
power punched his way through the giant barrier. Once again Chronso
Island shuck with the force of the blast as Gigantic Guyver then flew by
the barrier. Below him he could see in the distance at the bottom of the
base the War Relic.
“Jump packs at the
ready men, use control jets to aim and get through the whole Gigantic
Guyver as made and get ready to fire them as we approach ground level,”
ordered Jason. All the other Blue Armoured people nodded their heads in
acknowledgement. Jason wondered if this was possible, but everything the
HUD interface from his armour reported back to him said it was. Dr Drake
gave these armours an advanced AI for a reason and he hoped his trust in
the man would prove to be well placed as he ran towards the opening and
jumped! Moments later he was followed by the remaining Blue Armours and
Guyver 3.
Control jets fired
and all the Blue Armours took control over their decent along with the
Guyver 3 they all made it through the hole made by Gigantic Guyver with
ease. Jason looked down at the floor below which was approaching him
fast. Below he could see the Gigantic Guyvers shield activate as a
Neo-Zektole fired his blasters at him. As they expected Chronso would
resist and not give up the War Relic without a fight and the Neo-Class
Hyper Zoanoid was making sure they got one. As the Neo-Zektole looked up
and saw the Blue Armoured men falling down around him he moved his arm
towards them. But he never got a chance to fire as the Gigantic Guyver
then leaped forward with all the speed he could muster and then power
punched Neo-Zektole in the gut sending it flying backwards towards the
War Relic.
The still falling
Blue Armours opened fire on the zoanoids below clearing the way for them
to land. Guyver 3 using his gravity controller accelerated and flew
below the falling Blue Armours and started to pick off zoanoids with
rapid head laser fire before landing on the ground a few feet away from
Gigantic Guyver. A few seconds later Jason’s Blue Armour fired is jump
packs as it reached optimal distance from the ground cushioning his fall
as he landed. Moments later the rest of the ACTF forces landed around
them. With raw fire
power they kept the zoanoids at bay killing zoanoid after zoanoid in the
open area around them. The exception though was Neo-Zektole who got up
after Gigantic Guyvers power punch revealing a cracked bleeding area
around his gut and a group of four Enzyme 3’s that were running towards
the Gigantic Guyver and Guyver 3. The anti-zoanoid bullets did not
penetrate Neo-Zektole’s armour nor cause enough damage that an Enzyme
3’s regeneration could instantly heal what was done to it.
“Aptom and Sean,
you’re up! Kill those Enzyme 3’s!” said Jason as he opened fire on a
group of zoanoids in the distance.
Two of the Blue
Armours broke off from the group and moved towards the fast approaching
Enzyme 3’s. The Enzyme 3’s immediately broke up moving away from each
other. Aptom was experienced enough to know what this meant, there was a
zoalord monitoring the battle and he was wise to order the bestial
Enzyme 3’s not to make themselves an easy target to them.
“Sean a zoalord is
commanding them be careful,” said Aptom through the Blue Armours
communication system.
Sean was thinking the
same thing. He remembered what Aptom, Sho and Agito told him of these
lethal zoanoids. Shortened lifespan, very powerful with blood designed
to dissolve a Guyver but require a hyper-zoanoid or a zoalord nearby to
control them. It was time to activate there was a zoalord nearby and he
was expecting their surprise. The armour around him blew apart as a ball
of energy surrounded him, moments later stood Guyver US. Immediately he
started firing head laser shots at the Enzyme 3’s trying to get their
attention. One of the Enzyme 3 ran towards him. The other three moved
towards Gigantic Guyver and Guyver 3.
Aptom bust out of his
Blue Armour as he changed into his zoanoid form. He ran towards the
Enzyme 3 that was running towards Guyver US. He stopped and as the
Enzyme 3 continued towards him Aptom froze the ground around him. Ice
formed around the legs of Enzyme 3 and it slowed down. Then to shock of
both Aptom and Guyver US the ice around the feet began to melt as
quickly as it formed. They could both sense the temperature of the
creature rise as then the air around it turned to visible waves of heat.
“Fall back Guyver US,
only Gigantic Guyver can take these on!” said Aptom realising quickly
that they had being updated against his most powerful attack.
<“Sho, help Sean,
I’ll finish of the Neo-Zektole,”> said Guyver 3 through the units.
Guyver US had already
committed to running at full speed towards the closest Enzyme 3. Even
after acknowledging what Aptom said and meant it was too late he had no
choice but to fight. Guyver US fired his head beam cutting the Enzyme 3
through the throat. Then stopping still he quickly fired a pressure
cannon blast at the already fast healing hole blasting it apart again.
But as he did two of the other Enzyme 3’s now closed on him from both
sides. Before one of them could get to him though he was consumed by a
giant gravity ball fired by the Gigantic Guyver answering Agito’s
request with action! Guyver US turned to the other advancing Enzyme 3
and fired his sonic disrupter bursting the creature’s eyes.
Elsewhere Neo-Zektole
found himself of Guyver 3 as he emerged from under the ground behind
him. Before Neo-Zektole could even turn around to face Guyver 3 his legs
were sliced off by Guyver 3’s vibrational swords who then continued on
in one smooth motion to cut Neo-Zektole’s head off. Guyver 3 did not
wait for Neo-Zektole’s regeneration to catch up with the damage he’d
done and he opened one side of his mega-smasher. The blast fired and
consumed Neo-Zektole then continued on towards the left side of the War
Relic and continued to obliterate a number of zoanoids to the side of
the War Relic before hitting the walls of camber.
Gigantic Guyver now
stood side by side with Guyver US. His head sensors twitched as he
sensed the uninjured Enzyme 3 now flying down on top of him.
“Keep those two busy
regenerating I’ll kill the one above us!” shouted Gigantic Guyver as he
took off up into the air. Aptom and Guyver US did just that. The Enzyme
3 flying towards Gigantic Guyver didn’t have a chance as the spike on
his chest expanded and he quickly became a living comet and smashed
though the Enzyme 3 reducing it to nothing but a blood splatter. If it
were a normal zoanoid that would not matter but as chunks of Enzyme 3
hit the ground below a first size chunk hit the left arm of Guyver US
before it had the chance to dissolve. This had an instant reaction
burning into the Guyver armour. The pain for Guyver US was excruciating
and he lost focus and keeping the other Enzyme 3 at bay.
Battle groups Roger’s
still lead the group of Blue Armours towards the War Relic and group
Colin’s made sure that no zoanoid took advantage of their flank or back
positions. Zoanoid after zoanoid was gunned down by the firepower of the
Blue Armours. The Armours converted to carrying extra ammunition worked
perfectly and were keeping their comrades fighting. Jason still focused
on the mission looked for any signs of bio-blaster zoanoids that could
change course of the battle. But then out of nowhere the Neo-Thancrus
de-cloaked in the middle of the Blue Armour battle group. Two slices
later and Captain Rogers and Specialist Lucas were both cut in half. Two
of Blue Armours turned towards the zoanoid and fired, but it cloaked
once again and jumped high into the air out of the way of the incoming
bullets. Both Blue Armours ended up shooting each other the anti-zoanoid
rounds proving to be just as effective for cutting through their amour
killing them both.
“Watch your fire this bastard can cloak” said Jason through his
amours communication system as he looked around for any sign of the Neo
Thancrus. But there was no sign of it at all.
“Armours deploy
Smoke!” ordered Jason. Immediately a canister on the back of their
armour opened and smoke started bellowing out filling the area around
them. Captain Colin’s was the first to spot him shooting towards
Neo-Thancrus and blowing apart it’s left arm also hitting the left
shoulder pod that contained one of his bio-blasters. Neo-Thancrus let
out a roar as the pain of the attack coursed through him. But the
zoanoids healing quickly put an end to the pain and his right side pod
glowed and pointed towards Captain Colin’s. Out of the smoke speared
Guyver US. His right vibrational sword extended and in full leap he cut
down through the right side put and cut off the Neo-Thancrus’ right arm.
“GET OUT OF THE WAY!”
roared Guyver US. The Blue Armours knew what was coming next and had
being trained well. Captain Colin’s armour relayed the position of
Guyver US and Neo-Thancrus and had being programmed to alert the others
in the group the optional position to be in if a Guyver needed to use
its mega-smasher! Those blue armours including Jason’s that where in the
line of fire between Guyver US and the Neo-Thancrus immediately knew
which way to command their jump packs to fire to get them quickly out of
the way. As Guyver US opened both of his mega-smasher plates he could
see and sense through the smoke the Blue Armours jumping out of the way.
The mega-smasher fired and consumed Neo-Thancrus and then continued on
towards the back of the chamber away from the War Relic.
With the Neo-Hyper
Zoanoids defeated that left the Enzyme 3’s being the only major threat
left. Gigantic Guyver power punched in the direction of the remaining
two Enzyme 3. The energy from that alone caused a destructive wave that
crippled and fractured the two of them. Their regenerative abilities
meant though that they were not yet defeated. But with his experience
battling them Gigantic Guyver knew this already and all the gravity
controllers on his body glowed as he then fired a large gravity ball
towards their fallen bodies which consumed them and cracked and consumed
the ground around them.
The smoke cleared
around the Blue Armours. Jason could see now that the Neo-Hyper Zoanoids
and the Enzyme 3’s were all dead it was time. “Sean! Lucus is dead, we
need to get into the War Relic now and retrieve the Units,” said Jason
to Guyver US who was still close by them.
“Ok Jason, let’s do
it!” Answered Guyver US, any reservations he had in the past about
giving “weapons” to people disappeared long ago once Chronos showed it
was capable of taking over the entire world.
“Captain Colin’s, get
the men into position you’re in command while I’m inside the War Relic.”
“Sir, yes sir!” “You
head the man, move out,” ordered Captain Colin.
All of the Blue
Armours and Guyver US who moved to the front of them made their way
towards the Relic. To their sides Gigantic Guyver and Guyver 3 continued
battling zoanoid after zoanoid. Chronos had not yet given up.
Taylor Smith looked
on at the battle. He imagined what that smug bastard Alfrid Drano would
be saying right now about his grand plan on capturing or killing the
Guyvers. The Neo-Hyper Zoanoids had all being killed. The Guyvers and
those annoying armours of the ACTF were a stone throw away from the War
Relic. He was a failure as a commander! His eyes glowed as rage filled
him.
The Blue Armours and
Guyver made it to the side of the War Relic. Captain Colin ordered the
armours to take up a defensive position around their current point.
Guyver US’s control medal glowed as he commanded it to open. Then Jason
and Guyver US entered the inner chamber of the Relic and the passage
closed behind them and then the room started to fill with what looked to
be water.
“This is what Sho
described isn’t it” asked Jason as the watery substance started to cover
his armour.
“This is to clean us
before we go further inside the Relic,” said Guyver US remembering his
conversations with Sho about the Japanese Relic he had entered.
This War Relic was more like how
Sho had described compared to the Relic he had being in at Utah.
“This never happened
to you though Sean,” said Jason.
“No it did not but
all Relics are not alike, you can breath in this water somehow so don't
worry if your armour somehow fails. Once this passage fills, hold my
hand and I'll bring you to the units.”
“Okay, if you say
so…..” said Jason as the liquid rose past his head.
The chamber finally
filled. To Guyver US’s surprised as he looked at his arm which still
bore the damage from the exploding Enzyme 3 the armour began to rapidly
heal. In only a few seconds it fully regenerated including the
vibrational sword. Jason noticed it too.
“That was an
unexpected bonus,” said Guyver US as the next passageway opened and
Guyver US and Jason made their way to the heart of the Relic where the
units would be held. They were approaching an organic wall and Jason
thought they were going to a dead end but with a glow of the control
medal on Guyver US, the walls started to open up leading to the room
with the Guyver Units. They floated down to the floor but this room was
different than the room where the Japanese Guyvers where found. There
was not three inactive Guyver Units but only one lying in a pedestal in
the centre of the room. The unit was shaped different than a normal
Guyver unit and had a pyramid shaped Control Medal.
<“Sho, Agito there is
only one unit and it has a pyramid shaped Control Medal,”> said Guyver
US.
<“Sean it must be a
Warrior Unit,"> said Gigantic Guyver.
<“Yes, it must be,
but why only one?”> asked Guyver US.
Jason looked at the
Unit in front of him. The plan was simple; a Blue Armoured person would
retrieve the Unit and bring it back to base. He was not meant to be here
but he knew what Specialist Lucus roll would be. The Guyvers were
reasonably sure that under all the metallic armour the Unit wouldn’t
activate and as planned the General could then select a Host. He picked
up the Unit and had a closer look at it thinking the fact that his Blue
Armour would stop it merging with him. The unit started to glow in
acceptance and before he had a chance to move the unit grabbed him. It
ripped through the blue armour plating that he had on and started to
merge before he or Guyver US could even react.
<“Oh shit!”> said
Guyver US.
<“What’s happened
Sean?”> asked Guyver 3.
<“The Warrior Unit!
It ripped through Jason’s armour like it wasn’t even there and
activated!”>
<“Get the hell out of
there it’s not safe!”> ordered Gigantic Guyver fearing what an out of
control newly activated Guyver could do. He didn’t need to tell Guyver
US twice. He was already on his way out of the War Relic!
But as he exited the
War Relic he wondered if it truly was safer than facing a newly merging
Guyver as he saw Zoalord Taylor Smith appearing into the Relic chamber
with sixteen Enzyme 3’s!
“Ah there he is! I
will kill all of you Guyvers and bring your control medals to Alkanphel
as a gift!” shouted Taylor Smith.
“I’ve heard others
like you from Chronos who said this before. They are all dead!” shouted
back Guyver 3 as he stood beside Gigantic Guyver and Aptom facing the
incoming group.
“Captain Colin, keep
the men focused on the other zoanoids,” said Guyver US as he ran towards
the other Guyvers and Aptom through the group of Blue Armours. He didn’t
have time to answer though as Guyver US was not stopping for a
conversation and a few seconds later he was with the other Guyvers and
Aptom.
“What no sarcastic
response from Guyver US?” shouted Taylor Smith still walking calmly
towards the Guyvers with the Enzyme 3’s walking beside him.
“I show you what
sarcasm is when I snap your neck with my foot!” shouted back Guyver US.
“Ha ha ha, we’ll see
who snaps whose neck Guyver US,” said a smiling and laughing Taylor
Smith as he ordered the Enzyme 3’s to attack.
“I’m going to fucking
kill him,” said Guyver US.
“I doubt you can only
Sho in his Gigantic Armour has a chance against him,” said Guyver 3 but
Guyver US didn’t listen to him. A month of frustration and not being
able to find Cori had eaten at him for too long and Taylor Smith didn’t
need to say much against Guyver US for him to take it personally.
<“Sho look out for
Sean,”> said Guyver 3, Gigantic Guyver though didn’t have time to
respond as he get ready for the fight of his life charging his shield as
Taylor Smith fired a plasma ball towards him. The shield held as
Gigantic Guyver then returned fire with his head beam forcing Taylor
Smith in turn to shield an attack. To Taylor Smith’s surprise his shield
barely absorbed the attack pushing him back along the ground. But
Gigantic Guyver didn’t have time to keep focused on this one foe as the
amount of Enzyme 3’s just made it too dangerous to do so. Gigantic
Guyver knew sooner or later he might have to use his Giga Smasher but do
so would mean the Gigantic Armour being out of energy and returning to
the boost dimension for it to regenerate. No he had to use the other
weapons at his disposal. Energy surrounded his knuckles on both hands as
sent two power punch waves towards the oncoming group of Enzyme 3’s
crippling them.
Guyver 3 had a simple
plan to disable the Enzyme 3’s so that Gigantic Guyver could kill them
later. Opening up with rapid head laser fire and targeting their legs he
quickly disabled the three Enzyme 3’s that ran towards him. But to keep
them that way he had to keep blasting away at them to keep them disabled
and their regeneration at bay! Aptom worked much like Guyver 3 knowing
his body could be badly affected by the virus these creatures contained
that affected his healing if cut by them. Aptom too kept them at bay
using a combination of freezing the area around him and laser fire. But
as before this only managed to slow them down he could not freeze them
completely.
Guyver US with his
vibrational swords extended ran straight towards Apprentice Zoalord
Taylor Smith. Two Enzyme 3’s were directly between him and his target.
With all the speed he could muster he side tracked the first and with
the edge of his right arms blade cut the legs from under it without
getting any blood on him. With the other Enzyme 3 almost on top of him
though he could not enough distance between him and it. Guyver US cut
the legs from under it but the blood that sprayed got onto his left arm
around the base of the vibrational sword. The reaction was instant and
the sword fell off as the blood dissolved the bio-armour around it but
Guyver US did not care of the pain his objected was there in front of
him and that smug bastard was smiling at him!
Guyver US fired his
head beam at Taylor Smith’s smiling face but with a simple shield
manoeuvre the laser shot was blocked. Returning the favour Taylor Smith
fired his zoa-crystal missing his intended target but hitting Guyver
US’s right shoulder blasting it apart and disabling his arm.
“Ha, ha, ha I thought
you were supposed to be killing me,” said a laughing Taylor Smith as
Guyver US roared in pain.
“I… will… kill… you!”
said Guyver US as he fired his sonic disrupter at the face of Taylor
Smith but again the Apprentice Zoalord shielded the attack and jumped
forward towards Guyver US. Injured and in pain and lacking the
vibrational swords he could not stop him from shoving his enzyme
enhanced hands through both of chest plates and deep into his chest.
“Do not worry Guyver
US. Your friends will be joining you in death soon!” said Taylor Smith
as he as face to face with Guyver US. Even though blood started pouring
out of the air vents in his face and he was in intense pain Guyver US
still turned his head to the side to see what he was one about. The
others were not faring much better than him due to the sheer numbers of
Enzyme 3’s. Even Gigantic Guyver who they had hoped might be immune to
the Enzyme was not as one of them sliced deeply into his back with its
claws.
“Hah, even the
Gigantic Guyver is not immune to a creature that good old Dr Valkus has
updated to deal with pests like you,” said Taylor Smith as he ripped his
hands from Guyver US’s chest. Guyver US could barely stand. Blood and
bio-material covered the ground around him. He had to fight to keep from
blacking out but through sheer determination Sean managed to stay in
control. His gravity controller glowed as he fired a hastily charged
gravity ball from one hand towards Taylor Smith. Taylor Smith though
easily shielded the attack.
“Is that your last
attack before I rip that Control Medallion from your head Guyver US?”
Out of the corner of
his eye Taylor Smith barely saw the attack in time as he shielded
himself against four gravity balls that slammed off his shield and the
ground around him knocking him back from Guyver US. He looked towards
his attacker still standing at an entrance he Guyver had made into the
War Relic. Taylor Smith immediately realised this was not a Guyver he
recognised, he was dark blue, with light blue pointed shoulders and as
his eyes focused he realised it had a pyramid shaped control medallion!
“This changes
nothing! I don’t give a fuck who you are Guyver, I will kill all of you
today!” said Taylor Smith as he fired a plasma ball into Guyver US’s
chest blowing it apart and turned towards the new Guyver. He said
nothing, only his control medal glowed as he then started to run towards
Taylor Smith.
<“Reserve team Beta
attack this new Guyver now!”> Ordered Taylor Smith. From the top of the
chamber through the hole Gigantic Guyver made ten more Enzyme 3’s
appeared flew down towards the new Guyver.
The new Guyver’s head
sensors moved back and forward and it then looked up towards the
approaching Enzyme 3’s. A mere second later it fired constant blasts of
sustained head beam fire along with duel gravity balls fired from both
hands at the approaching attackers. Their delicate wings were no match
for the laser fire and even with their enhanced healing it was not
enough to regenerate in time to stop four of the Enzyme 3’s splatting as
they crashed onto the hard concrete ground around the new Guyver. The
other six landed around the new Guyver and attacked. The new Guyver
jumped high into the air and back flipped up and over the group that had
lunged at him. But as he landed the Enzyme 3 that he landed behind’s
tail whipped back and its barbed spiked end cut through his gut and out
the other side and then ripped back out. Taylor Smith looked on
satisfied with the result as blood and bio-material form the new Guyver
covered the area around him.
“Your would-be
saviour is going to be killed just like you Guyver US,” said Taylor
Smith as he looked back at the fallen body of Guyver US. Sean did not
know how he was still awake to hear that he could only put it down to
pure determination to kill that bastard that did this to him. But as his
eyes focused on the new Guyver he saw something that Taylor Smith had
not yet noticed. The new Guyver had a shield of sorts that covered its
body and it was now focused around and holding his wound together.
Taking its chance another Enzyme 3 jumped towards the new Guyvers head
with its right clawed hand ready to rip out his neck. The new Guyver
though reached out and instead grabbed the Enzyme 3 by the neck. The
Enzyme 3 tried to claw at the Guyver’s arm but was unable to scratch
through it. Moments later the forward point on the new Guyvers arm
expanded along with his vibrational sword slicing through the next and
out of the side of it. The Guyver was covered in blood from doing this
but to Taylor Smith’s and Guyver US’s surprise the new Guyver was no
longer affected by it and the Enzyme did not dissolve any part of him.
As the two Guyver’s looked eye to eye the pyramid control medal of the
new Guyver started flashing followed then by Guyver US’s control medal.
At that moment Jason became conscious of what was happening and realised
he had merged with the Warrior Unit.
“That’s not fucking
possible!” screamed Taylor Smith at the Warrior Guyver. He fired a
constant barrage of plasma balls at Warrior Guyver. But as the green
balls of energy exploded on impact around they did nothing to the
Warrior Guyver other than pushing him back a little from the force of
the impact. Guyver US’s though barely capable of doing it laugh at the
sight of what he’d seen.
“I might not be able
to kill him. But I’ll fucking kill you!” said Taylor Smith looking back
at Guyver US as he fired a plasma ball at him. But to the surprise of
both of them it had little effect as it exploded harmlessly against his
body.
“How is that
possible?” asked Taylor Smith as Guyver US dragged himself off the
ground.
“I do not know but
you deserve everything you are going to get!” said Guyver US as he fired
his head beam though Taylor Smith’s kneecap.
“I’ll rip you apart
with my bare hands!” said Taylor Smith as he pulled himself up into the
air rather than falling to the ground. He then flung himself onto Guyver
US knocking them both over with the force of the impact. Taylor Smith
then tried to rip into the head of Guyver US to get at his control
medal. But he soon realised that his clawed hands were not capable of
doing so. Guyver US then used his gravity controller to flip then both
over so that it was Taylor Smith on his back then proceeded to pound the
zoalords head with elbow, forearm and firsts in a mad rage. Seeing that
Guyver US was now in control of the situation Jason realised that
somehow his Unit had transferred the immunity to the Enzyme to Guyver
US. He had to do so now for the other two Guyvers.
Gigantic Guyver stood
back to back with Aptom and Guyver fighting off the Enzyme 3’s keeping
them at arm’s length while making sure they could not get at the Blue
Armours behind them who were now desperately low on ammunition. But even
with the power of the Gigantic Guyver the pure numbers of Enzyme 3’s and
their fast regenerative powers meant it was a tough task and the
Guyver’s and Aptom bore the scars of those that got too close. But as
the last wave of Enzyme 3’s grouped together Warrior Guyver ran through
the group of Enzyme 3’s slicing them apart as he did so with his four
vibrational swords as he made his way towards the Guyvers.
“Get the fuck off
me,” roared Taylor Smith as he shoved Guyver US into the air off him and
then jumped up to his feet as Guyver US moved so he too was standing
face to face with Taylor Smith.
“You’ve lost your
advantage asshole,” said Guyver US. His Guyver Armour had recovered to
cover all the wounds on his body. It was only a matter of time before he
fully regenerated and had access to his vibrational sword and
mega-smasher weapons and Taylor Smith knew this.
“I still have weapons
that can kill you!” shouted Taylor Smith as he raised his right hand,
energy began to form around it and the air in the chamber began to
circle. Guyver US’s head sensors moved as he realised this zoanoids was
like one Sho described, Purg’stall who was a very powerful zoalord who
favoured ranged attacks using powerful lightning attacks. But this
zoalord couldn’t do that in a confined area? A second later a lightning
bolt shot out and only just missed Guyver US as he moved to the side.
The lightning light bolt though continued on and hit Captain Colin Blue
Armour’s blasting a hole through his chest killing him instantly as it
then continued on to hit against the shield of the War Relic.
<“Sean, get them into the War Relic! You’re still too wounded to take on
that bastard!”> said Jason through his Guyver unit as he ran towards
Taylor Smith and fired a barrage of gravity balls towards the zoalord.
Taylor Smith saw the attack coming and activated his shield protecting
him from Warrior Guyver’s attack and then returned fire with another
powerful lightning bolt towards Warrior Guyver. For a split second he
wondered how was going to get by that and keep running towards his
target when he felt the strangest of sensation as the control medal of
his Unit glowed and came to life and he knew to activate his blast
shield which appeared around him and absorbed the lighting attack from
Taylor Smith.
As they both traded
energy attacks Guyver US did not like leaving this fight to Warrior
Guyver but he had too and had ran towards the Blue Armours and focused
on opening the War Relic. As the Blue Armours started to enter he turned
around to see Aptom standing among them.
“What are you doing
here Aptom?” asked Guyver US.
“Gigantic Guyver and
Guyver 3 have being made immune, I’ve not and I’m only a liability to
them while they conclude the battle,” said Aptom. Guyver US looked
behind the group to see Gigantic Guyver and Guyver mercilessly getting
to work killing the Enzyme 3’s. With their enzyme being ineffective
against them it was only a matter of time before sooner or later either
Guyver done enough damage to kill them all. All the Blue Armours had
entered the War Relic. Aptom and Guyver US now stood guard at the
entrance as they looked back Warrior Guyver battling Taylor Smith.
“The Warrior Unit’s
abilities are impressive,” said Aptom.
“Indeed, he has not
stopped aggressively attacking,” said Guyver US.
Out from the blast
field that surrounded Warrior Guyver a blinding white beam of energy
flew towards Taylor Smith. The blast field cleared it there stood
Warrior Guyver with both mega-smasher chambers open and still firing.
Taylor Smith flew up into the air to avoid the attack as it blasted into
the outer chamber wall. From the blast damage from Guyver 3’s earlier
mega-smasher blast and now Warrior Guyver’s massive chunks of concrete
started to crack and shake off around the impact area.
Above Warrior Guyver
he could sense the atmosphere of the chamber change as high above him
there was an explosion. Warrior Guyver looked up through the whole
Gigantic Guyver made in the barrier to see the above it crumble
revealing the dark sky above. As he looked back at the smiling Taylor
Smith he only then realised what it meant as a massive lighting blot
fired down through the holes made and hit the ground in front of him
exploding into a ball of energy which knocked Warrior Guyver back.
“Hmm, I missed! I’ll
make sure I aim better with the next!” said Taylor Smith as his eyes
glowed and he focused on what he needed to do.
Warrior Guyver got back up fired a rapid set of head beam shots at the
zoalord. Taylor Smith moved his right arm in front of his head. The
crystal that covered his upper arm absorbed the laser fire and then with
his left hand energy collected and fired back at Warrior Guyver. Warrior
Guyver’s control medal flashed as he sensed the incoming danger and his
blast shield activated absorbing the blast. He knew he had to keep
pressure on Taylor Smith with Guyver US still busy getting the Blue
Armour’s inside the War Relic and Gigantic Guyver, Guyver 3 and Aptom
still busy finishing off the horde of Enzyme 3’s. He knew one important
difference between his Unit and that of a standard Unit-G. He could fire
sustained fire of duel gravity balls and surely this asshole couldn’t
sustain a shield against those and keep the focus needed to fire on him
with lightning bolts from the sky?
Lighting fired down
from above but this time it was not aimed at Warrior Guyver. The massive
lighting bold slammed into the area with Gigantic Guyver, Guyver 3 and
Aptom and exploded in a giant ball of energy. Warrior Guyver looked on
in momentary shock then sensing through the dust cloud they were still
there he turned back towards Taylor Smith and started a constant barrage
of pressure cannon blasts from both hands as he ran towards the zoalord.
Taylor Smith could see the barrage coming towards him and activated his
shield. He soon realised he’d have to keep it powered up to keep back
the constant barrage from Warrior Guyver. As the dust cleared Gigantic
Guyver stood over Guyver 3 and Aptom. His shield orbs had cracked due to
the sudden shielding needed to keep them all alive. Gigantic Guyver saw
now that the Enzyme 3’s where gone then returned the favour sending a
large gravity ball firing towards Taylor Smith.
“I will not fail
Chronos!” roared Taylor Smith as his shield began to give way to the
barrage for gravity ball fire coming from Warrior Guyver and Gigantic
Guyver. Warrior Guyver closed in on the Apprentice Zoalord and was only
a few feet away when he took off into the air. He started to glow
faintly at first then getting brighter and brighter. Warrior Guyver
could now sense the battle inside Taylor Smith’s body to control the
energy flowing though it and realised if could only mean death for those
that could not shield themselves from what was about to come!
<“Get inside the War
Relic!”> said Warrior Guyver through the unit to Gigantic Guyver and
Guyver 3. Guyver 3 looked towards the Warrior Guyver and Taylor Smith
and only wondered for a mare second why he would have shouted that
through the Unit when his eyes focused more on the zoalord and realised
the potential danger Warrior Guyver must be sensing.
“Aptom we have to
go!” shouted Guyver 3 as he and Gigantic Guyver turned towards the War
Relic and ran towards it. Aptom didn’t argue and followed the Guyvers to
the War Relic.
Then it started,
multiple large bolts of lightning started to rip the Chronos base apart
as they fired down towards the War Relic and Warrior Guyver. The
empowered blots exploded into powerful destructive blasts as each hit
the ground. As they exploded Warrior Guyver shielded himself behind his
blast field and he wondered if a few more hits would spell the end of
its ability to keep him safe and him?
“Do you hear me
Guyver? I will not fail Chronos and I will kill you!” shouted Taylor
Smith. Energy coursed through his body burning large sections only for
his regeneration powers to then heal those wounds. But even with such an
amazing healing ability the energy he tried to now contain firing his
ultimate attack multiple times was too much. The apprentice zoalord’s
body burned brightly as his healing abilities could no longer keep up
with the strain and Taylor Smith disappeared before Warrior Guyver’s
eyes as his body completely burned itself out. But it was no time to
celebrate for Warrior Guyver as the chamber was almost filled with the
explosions from Taylor Smith’s last attacks. Warrior Guyver could see
the War Relic shielding itself as a two bolts hit off it. Then as a bolt
hit and overloaded Warrior Guyver’s shield it all suddenly it all
stopped as Taylor Smith’s unnatural influence on the weather lost its
effect.
Warrior Guyver looked
up at the Chronos Island base. Taylor Smith’s attacks had gutted the
base and shockingly the metal barrier that Gigantic Guyver had power
punched through hole had being widened and the around the hole had
visibly melted and the edges were in area still glowing red in colour.
Warrior Guyver looked around for the zoalord but could not see him. Then
he heard a cracking sound from above. Looking up he realised the super
structure of the base had being severely weakened cracks from the base
moved up the massive concrete walls of the chamber. It was time to
leave!
Warrior Guyver ran to
and entered the War Relic. Once inside the shielding system of the War
Relic fully activated as it began to take off as Warrior Guyver
commanded it to take off. Inside the War Relic Warrior Guyver looked
surprised as he saw the damage done to the other Guyvers has already
being fully restored.
“Welcome to the
Guyver club Jason,” said Guyver US.
“I’d not intended on
joining it Sean,” said Warrior Guyver.
“What now Warrior
Guyver?” asked Guyver 3.
“Warrior Guyver that
is a good enough code name for me,” said Warrior Guyver.
“Yes it is, now where
are we going?” asked Gigantic Guyver
“We can’t leave the
War Relic on the ground in the USA. Chronos will never stop fighting for
it. We have to do what Sean done to the Utah Relic and send it away to
where ever it calls home” said Warrior Guyver.
“I agree,” said Sean.
Agito did not agree
but with Gigantic Guyver already nodding in agreement the majority was
against what he would wish. As the War Relic cleared Chronos Island’s
base it flew up into the atmosphere and towards the USA. Below them the
stealth ship that brought them to Chronos Island was already on its way
home.
The Ark, orbiting the Earth
The living bio-ship
the Ark was grown years ago out of the living remains of the Relic after
it was blown apart by the zoalords to stop it falling into the Guyvers
hands. Based on the plans Chronos made from the other great focalised
relics they had found it was grown in the Dead Sea. It could be said now
to be the most secure outpost of Chronos. To this day no Guyver has ever
attacked it. As such it is viewed as the safest location of Chronos.
Standing before a
bio-tube was Alfrid Drano and Destrol. Inside the bio-tube was the
damaged zoa-crystal Taylor Smith and his badly burned out upper body and
head. They waited as the lifeless looking husk to
begin to
regenerate.
“Do you know why
Alkanphel has chosen to save him?” asked Alfrid Drano.
“No I do not, but I
can only guess he was impressed by his ruthlessness and has plans for
him,” said Destrol. As he said that Taylor Smith’s eyes opened and even
though his face was badly burned he smiled.
Elsewhere in the Ark
Valkus turned to Alkanphel and asked, “Why have we allowed the Guyvers
to capture the War Relic?”
“There is much we
need to talk about old friend,” said Alkanphel. As they were speaking
Destrol and Alfrid Drano entered the command chamber of the Ark. They
both walked immediately toward Alkanphel who stood beside Zoalords
Valkus and Imakarum and bowed.
“Is it done?” asked
Alkanphel.
“Yes my lord it is
done, he has activated the Warrior Unit,” answered Destrol.
“Perfect, did the
battle go as it was foretold?” asked Alkanphel. As he said that Valkus
was surprised to hear this but was intrigued and wanted to hear more.
"Yes, even down to
the Warrior Guyver becoming immune to Enzyme 3's and transferring that
immunity to the other Guyvers,” said Destrol.
“That's impossible!”
said a shocked Valkus.
“Not any more it
would seem,” said Alkanphel as he and Imakarum turned away from the
other Zoalords and walked away from them leaving Hamical to talk more
with the Apprentice Zoalords about the battle.
“Your plan has worked
master, the Warrior Guyver is born!” Said Imakarum as he turned to
Alkanphel as they ended the room of Project X the advanced development
section of the Ark.
“Yes the first stage of my plan is covered,” answered said Alkanphel as
he looked at a bio-tube in front of him. Inside it contained a young red
haired woman. Inscribed on the lower section of the bio-tube was
“Project OVERLORD – Jenifer O’Conner”!
The End, for now!
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