Post by Nicktendonick on Mar 6, 2006 22:07:16 GMT -5
Hi everyone. This is a sidestory fanfic of mine that goes along with my main fanfiction: Megaman Zero 2.5: Rescue mission. Here it is, it's not complete, but close. Also, this is rated PG-16. so the kiddies might not want to read this.
Nosfruatu
By Nicktendonick
Chapter One- Nosfruatu, The bird of death
I was given a job. It was like most other jobs for me, for I was an assassin for hire. I was also a mercenary and bounty hunter at the same time too, so I guess you could say that I was a triple threat in the underworld. My job was to kill a world leader, which is something I have done in the past before, but nothing on this scale: my contract was to kill the leader of Neo-Arcadia, a reploid known as Copy-X. My client was his right-hand man, a reploid known as Phantom. It seems that Mr. Ninja here doesn’t like his boss, so he’s hired me to “retire” him. Aside from this I didn’t get anymore details on why, but in this line of work there’s a saying: the less you know the better. Because knowing too much usually costs you your head.
So I got my materials in order to pull off this job. My trusty katana; 2 handguns: one silenced plasma handgun and one silenced lead pistol; a knife for quick kills; and my two beam sabers, which came in a sleek color. I wore a black magnetic jumpsuit. This allowed me to stick to metal surfaces when I wanted to. I also had an battle-body armor too (which is rare for people outside the military like myself), it boosted my abilities when I activate it but after a short while the drain is too much on me and I wouldn’t be able to fight at all. O yea, I almost forgot to introduce myself.
My Alias name which I am known by is called the Nosfruatu (It translates to the bird of death). I am 24 years old and I have green eyes, short black hair, and I am of medium height. Something unique about me is that I am a organic Bio-reploid: A human that undergoes an operation that makes them legally a reploid, and to be legally a reploid your internal body (prosthetic limbs don’t count) must be at least 28% machine. My body is about 31% reploid. So legally I’m a reploid. And I believe that this is one of the worst times to be legally defined as a reploid. Our government (AKA Copy-X) says that the dreaded Maverick virus has returned and it is up to him to stop it, so he starts the War on Mavericks. Unfortunately, I’m defined as one of those vile mavericks.
For those who don’t know what I’m talking about when I say the Maverick virus and the mavericks, let me give you a abbreviated history. The Maverick virus was a dangerous virus that drove reploids to madness and they attacked all nouns (people, places and things) whenever they can. What’s worse is that the infected can easily transfer the virus from reploid to reploid and these Mavericks (the title given to the infected) can think and act normal if they please, then they could go postal when they please. The maverick virus was the bubonic plague of the early reploid world. This even led the world governments to form a unified military organization do deal with mavericks; they called this group, The Maverick Hunters. About 1 and a half years after the 1st massive maverick outbreak (in which the leader of the Maverick Hunters went maverick himself and caused a massive riot with all of his followers) the so-called Maverick Wars began with the Doppler revolt, another mass riot caused by a bio-reploid scientist named Agric Doppler. Then in the following years more tragedies happened, the most important was a huge space colony that crashed onto the earth. Millions died and earth became unsuitable for the Humans, so they went underground and for 2 years reploids cleaned up the air for humans and their fellow bio-reploids to breath. Then the air was still a little harsh but at least habitable for humans. But that was a long time ago and the virus was declared eradicated at the end of the Elf wars, which was the final chapter of the Maverick wars in which the legendary heroes Megaman X and Zero defeated the monster-sized reploid Omega. But that’s not the entire story of the “maverick”.
There is also another meaning of the maverick. It unofficially means that you are against the government or in my case, assassinated a government official. But the government uses the 2 meanings interchangeably, so they label both the ones who they want dead but are not infected by the virus and those that are infected maniacs mavericks. They then send the maverick hunters after them with the hunters thinking they are just destroying infected monsters and they do the dirty work for the politicians. They also use this to get rid of all their opponents and I must say its corruption at it’s finest. Luckily in the elf wars those bastards got what they deserved, a hot painful death by Omega when he blew up the United Nations building when all those corrupt SOBs where meeting there.
In our time the president of the world, Copy-X took advantage of a certain planetary crisis and was able to turn our republic into a dictatorship with him ruling everything. When this was happening I didn’t care at all on who ruled the planet, I just worried about my next contract. I later got into politics when I got a job to kill a reploid called Anubis Necromancess. After I did the job Neo-Arcadia (the name of our new government) discovered the man called the Nosfruatu (me) killed Anubis and a security camera caught my act of murder. So they put my face on the most wanted mavericks list. So then the Nosfruatu was officially a “maverick”. What’s even more insulting is that they rebuilt Anubis, so my job basically did nothing except get me on the Neo-Arcadia’s Most wanted list.
Also, I almost forgot to mention that the true maverick virus in our time no longer exists; it has been eradicated off the face of the earth, but Copy-X says that the virus is back so every human can be afraid of the reploids and they give Copy-X more power over their lives. But have rumors circulated that someone invented a cure to the true maverick virus, but I’ve never seen it. So now all a maverick really means is that Copy-X wants you dead and he would do so by sending you to a “rehabilitation camp” so they can cure you of the virus and release you back into society if you can be cured. To translate this into english: If you’re a reploid who’s arrested in a suspicious crime you are sent to a death camp where you’re either killed, worked to death, or brainwashed (or all 3, but not in that order).
Now I think it’s time to get back to my story on my assignment to kill the absolute ruler of the world, Copy-X. I got everything I needed to pull off the job, and a few things just in case the crap hits the fan and I set off for the base. On my way I was filled with wondering if the 500 million that my client offered me was worth what I was about to do. A thing I’ve learned the hard way is that the higher the client’s payment the higher the chance of betrayal by your client. In one case I was suppose to steal valuable data from a Neo-Arcadian base and give it to a client for 25 million. When I gave him the disk he double-crossed me and he and his thugs opened fire on me; they didn’t want to pay, or have a witness to the data. They failed to kill me and I killed them instead and I took the disk for myself; so I then decided to sell it myself. I sold it to the highest bidder for 30 million. He also tried to take it by force too, but I easily surrendered the disk and forfeited the money, since the disk I gave him was a smoke bomb in disguise (I was expecting this to happen), when the smoke bomb when off I took the money and fled. I then decided the forget trying to get a paycheck from it and I read the data for myself. It turns out it was some data on the prototype Rainbow devil Alpha models and a new project codenamed Rainbow devil Beta, this beta model was human-like and I thought it could eventually replace the X-drones. I decided to keep the data for myself and I still haven’t used that disk till this day. Maybe this data might be useful in the future.
Now after I remembered this event in my head I decided to go for it and complete the contract. Even if I didn’t get paid I would kill a very evil man that makes an assassin like me seem like a saint. With this strong resolve I went to the base and snuck in without any trouble. But this was just the calm before the storm for me; I had no clue what was in store.
End of chapter 1
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Chapter Two- Nosfruatu, the lucky man with the sneaky plan
Getting inside the base was dangerous but simple. Go in through the trash chutes. My plan was to infiltrate the base in the dead of night by sneaking through the sewage pipe that all the waste of the base came out of. It was simple, but dangerous because there might be a X-drone patrolling it, if any drone spotted me the base would go crazy and there would be no chance of escape. I got lucky; no drones were around (probably because I went in at night, since security is lowered at nighttime in this base). So using the map that my client provided I went up and found myself inside the laundry room of the most important place on our earth, Area-X. Now before I continued I checked all my weapons and I made sure that I had a plan on what I was doing. Everything had to be perfect for what I planned to do. Now I’ll explain my gameplan for this mission.
I split up what I had to do into 5 objectives,
1) Infiltrate Area-X through the sewer system- Done
2) Shut down the security cameras and other security via control room
3) Proceed to Copy-X’s throne room.
4) Kill Copy-X
5) Get the hell out of there before the base goes into lockdown.
I just did objective 1, now what I had to do was sneak into the control room and disable the X-drones and cameras, but make it seem that both are still working. This could be done by making the base’s cameras loop and then getting shutting down the drones that stood were on the path to Copy-X. Then I would have to get from the control room to the throne room where copy-X is located. My client promised that he’d make sure Copy-X doesn’t do anything to discover me, but I don’t want to put my life in the hands of my client, I’ve been betrayed too many times to rely on others I barely know.
Then objective 4 would be to kill copy-X. My client said that he would be there waiting for me, what would go down would be that as I enter the room my client would stab Copy-X in the back. Then both of us would double-team and attack Copy-X and kill him. Phantom says that then he could just let me walk out the front after we kill him, but I plan to escape the same way I came in.
But back to reality I would have some trouble getting to and taking over the control room. It is small and my client said that there are 2 X-Drones and 2 reploids watching the security camera and one more watching the X-drone status. Which means if I’m caught on camera or dispose of any X-drones then I am royally screwed. This is where my magnetic jumpsuit comes in handy. I activated it and I crawled on the ceilings to pass by the X-drones and I used my instincts and my looking-around-the-corner skills to sneak around without being spotted by the camera. I finally made it to the Control room entrance. I was getting nervous about this; I was facing downward with my back on the ceiling thinking about how to rush the 5 in there. After a few minutes found my gameplan, and I went over it in my head like this. “I’m gona open the door, in one hand hold the two E.M.P mines between my fingers and hold by silenced pistol in the other hand. Then as I throw one of the emps on the 1st X-drone I’d shoot the guard nearest to the alarm in the head, then I’d throw the 2nd EMP on the 2nd drone then shoot the other two men and kill them. Them I’d shut down the security X-drones and set the camera to loop. So then I can…”
Just then the door opened. A Woman reploid walked out. She had synthetic flesh and looked human, she was a blond. She walked under me and I saw the rest of her body. She had a really good figure, the whole body completely infatuated me. The door closed behind her and I exhaled in arousal (As you might guess I have a weak spot for beautiful women, in retrospect I was lucky she didn’t hear me exhale). I continued to watch her as she stretched and cracked her fingers, this snapped my back to my situation, If she noticed me above her I’d would be so screwed. And I grew more nervous, something I don’t do often. But I continued to look down at her; I then noticed something that almost ruined my mission. I saw a bead of sweat trickle down my face very, very slowly. Since I’m above her the sweatdrop would fall on her head, then she’d look up, and then I’d be screwed. My mind raced for a solution. But before I could finish thinking the drop dropped off my face. I made the impulse to move and I moved my hand and I caught the salt-water drop. I held myself from sighing in relief. I now realized that I could take her out now and only have to deal with 4 people. Also they might not pay attention when I open the door, thinking it’s this woman.
She turned around and faced the door, as if ready to open it. I was ready to make my move. I positioned myself so my legs were keeping me attached to the ceiling. My face was right behind her. With my two hands I grabbed her head, this scared the crap out of the woman, she had no idea that I was about to snap her neck. As hot as she was (and trust me she was very hot) I had to subdue her or else I’d be exposed. Even though I only saw the back of her face I knew I she was scared for her life. “Sorry girl” I thought in my head as I twisted her head and I her neck snap. “Wow, guess she was a bio-reploid too.” I though. A good weakness in a lot of reploids was that the human-like ones all had the weakness that their processors and cyber-brain were all located in the head. So by giving the neck-snap you could possibly sever the main connections to the cyber-brain and basically disable the reploid. Sometimes the auto-repair function in some reploids can repair the damage by themselves, but those are rare cases.
The woman fell to the ground out cold and I dropped to the floor on her body so I wouldn’t make a loud sound. I got the emps in my left hand and my gun in my right. With the gun I pushed the open button and the door opened. The two reploids were male and didn’t seem to look at me, the X-drones on the other hand did look at me. The light of both X-drones glowed a bloody red and they started to move their arm cannons at me. I was ready for this, “just like I planned” was what I was thinking as I flung the first EMP mine on the X-drone. The mine went flying and it hit the X-drone making a fierce sound as it attached itself and the X-drone’s eye shorted out and with electricity sparking from the body. The two men and the X-drone looked at the downed drone in horror. My guess was that they thought “What the hell?!” as the two men moved their eyes from the drone to me, the men’s faces turned into a face of terror and the X-drone looked at me and primed it’s armcannon. I threw the 2nd EMP at the last X-drone, it saw it and it tried to intercept it with a shot, but before it could fire the mine hit it and shorted the drone out. I then saw the two men looking very afraid of me. One of them started to move towards the right to the alarm to turn it on. I shot a round of my pistol at him. Both saw the bullet for only a second before it penetrated the 2nd man’s head. I saw some blood come from the head as it went through the flesh and went into his cyber-brain. Then a second later the man’s eyes opened up as big as they could and his jaw widened, his face motionless. He then dropped dead on the floor. My gun was a special type that fired a type of ammo called butterfly bullets. When the bullet penetrates the target and stops moving, spikes then come out of the bullet piercing and damaging the target even further. A shot in the brain with a butterfly bullet will kill the target when the spikes come out, regardless if it’s a human brain or a reploid cyber-brain.
The first man (the one to the left) stood there paralyzed in fear. We both knew that he was next. I pointed my gun at him, and he stood there staring down the barrel of the gun. I saw his eyes how they were beginning to tear, this man really felt that I was going to kill him and he only had a moment to live. My finger was on the trigger.
“he’s next” I thought to myself, “Goodbye…”
My finger began to squeeze the trigger, “Harry, you shouldn’t do this… the man’s… he may be the enemy but he’s innocent, he doesn’t deserve to die.” I began to have a conversation in my head as I stood there with the pistol at his face, I was walking closer and closer to him and the gun was getting closer to his head. “I have to kill him… But I promised I wouldn’t kill innocent victims like this guy if they don’t pose a threat. What should I do?” I was starting to get into a conflict with myself. “Should I kill this man?”
I’ve always had a soft side to me, even though I don’t normally show it. To tell the truth, I hate killing innocent people. Those people did nothing wrong, they don’t deserve to die. But the anger and hate inside me drives me sometimes to do things that are…well…very evil. That evil consumed me once, and ever since then I vowed it would never get the best of me, and I also swore that I’d never kill an innocent again. But also on that day I swore that I would never take a job that involved hurting innocent people but take jobs in which I would fight against the evil, greedy, and corrupt, to send the bird of death to them and destroy those that prey on the innocent. I know this sound idealistic, even to me it seems silly; but when you yourself was once a victim, you never want to make others experience that hell. Without knowing it I created a code for myself. One that gave me a worth of self, one that gave me my honor back.
“ Well, that leaves one choice, hope it works”. I came up with an idea. By now the gun was point blank at the guy’s head. I knew that if I gave him the chance he might do something. I let go of my gun and it began to fall towards the floor, the man looked at it as my thrusted my hands at his head and grabbed it. I gave twist and herd his neck snap. His eyes grew large as he lost consciousness. I had just snapped his neck, but unlike the girl there was no snapping of bone, there was just the herd sound of a simple snap of a wire ( proof that I severed the head’s connections). This guy will most likely live, Neo-arcadia has a policy not to repair the broken reploids but to save the damaged ones. But the dead ones they don’t bring back; well except for that Anubis guy. I still don’t know how they bring back the ones who’s brains were destroyed (which noadays means the reploid is dead), since Copy-X himself condemned the act of reploid DNA resurrection himself I really wonder how, I did destroy his Cyber-brain, maybe he had a spare.
Anyway, my gun was on the floor and I reached down to get it, when I did look down I saw the reploid I had just made near dead. His eyes were still filled with horror and his face showed fear too. I felt a little sick for doing that to the man, but I convinced my self that I had to what I did, or else I would fail. After I pick up my gun I decided to move on with my mission. I dragged in the women I dealt with earlier and then shut the doors. Using the control room’s map I found the quickest and safest route (in terms of running into reploid troops) that would lead me to the throne room. Then I shut down the X-drones that guarded the path and made all of the cameras in the base loop. I remembered my objectives and what I have currently done. Objectives 1 and 2 were complete and next I had to get to Copy-X’s throne room. So I set off.
On the way, I began to think about what exactly I was doing. “I am on my way to murder the ruler of the world. If I should succeed then what will happen?” Normally I don’t wonder about stuff like this, but I for some reason I began to think about the consequences of my planned action. “Copy-X has been leading the world into decline ever since he took over, and he’s turned our world into a bigger hellhole then it is now. He does deserve to pay for his actions manipulating the planet. But if I kill him, who’d take his place…I guess this Phantom guy will. He did give off a good first impression, so maybe he’s better then Copy-X. I guess if he’s not I’ll strike him down too. Or maybe he could make me his 2nd in command… now that’d be cool. I could make sure good comes out of this if that happens.” I then noticed the I was at my destination. I had reached Copy-X’s throne room. I stood infront of the gate-like door. Infront of me stood the room in which my target resides. “If I get a headshot in with my Butterfly gun, then I could easily end him and send him to hell”. I readied my butterfly gun and checked the rest of my weapons: The katana I kept hidden in my black sheath (from long range I didn’t look like I had the sword when I wear this jumpsuit, but if you look close you could see it), the two beamsabers on my sides, the plasma handgun, the 2 generades I stole from the security room, and my Butterfly gun. I opened the door and the two halves opened up and disappeared into the ground and ceiling. When the door opened I saw the giant room.
I saw Copy-X… without armor. Every time Copy-X addresses the public in any form or mater he always has his battle body activated and on, this was the first time I have ever seen the dictator without armor. It felt like I was seeing a completely different person; the image of the armored Copy-X was the only way we (I mean me and the rest of the world) know Copy-X only by his look with armor. He was looking the other way) and my client also there with his arm over Copy-X’s back. Copy-X had short black hair and was dressed in a blue outfit. His look was something that resembled someone who just went out for a daily jog. It looked like they were looking at something the other way. “This is perfect” Ran through my head. “I can get rid of him right now…hurry and don’t waste this chance”
With my Butterfly gun I took aim, I knew with my silencer on my gun he’d never hear it. My finger was on the trigger. I held the gun with both hands to perfect my aim, taking in all variables. This shot was perfect and would hit Copy-X square in the head. I pulled the trigger, and in that moment I started a chain of events that would change my life forever.
End of chapter 2
Nosfruatu
By Nicktendonick
Chapter One- Nosfruatu, The bird of death
I was given a job. It was like most other jobs for me, for I was an assassin for hire. I was also a mercenary and bounty hunter at the same time too, so I guess you could say that I was a triple threat in the underworld. My job was to kill a world leader, which is something I have done in the past before, but nothing on this scale: my contract was to kill the leader of Neo-Arcadia, a reploid known as Copy-X. My client was his right-hand man, a reploid known as Phantom. It seems that Mr. Ninja here doesn’t like his boss, so he’s hired me to “retire” him. Aside from this I didn’t get anymore details on why, but in this line of work there’s a saying: the less you know the better. Because knowing too much usually costs you your head.
So I got my materials in order to pull off this job. My trusty katana; 2 handguns: one silenced plasma handgun and one silenced lead pistol; a knife for quick kills; and my two beam sabers, which came in a sleek color. I wore a black magnetic jumpsuit. This allowed me to stick to metal surfaces when I wanted to. I also had an battle-body armor too (which is rare for people outside the military like myself), it boosted my abilities when I activate it but after a short while the drain is too much on me and I wouldn’t be able to fight at all. O yea, I almost forgot to introduce myself.
My Alias name which I am known by is called the Nosfruatu (It translates to the bird of death). I am 24 years old and I have green eyes, short black hair, and I am of medium height. Something unique about me is that I am a organic Bio-reploid: A human that undergoes an operation that makes them legally a reploid, and to be legally a reploid your internal body (prosthetic limbs don’t count) must be at least 28% machine. My body is about 31% reploid. So legally I’m a reploid. And I believe that this is one of the worst times to be legally defined as a reploid. Our government (AKA Copy-X) says that the dreaded Maverick virus has returned and it is up to him to stop it, so he starts the War on Mavericks. Unfortunately, I’m defined as one of those vile mavericks.
For those who don’t know what I’m talking about when I say the Maverick virus and the mavericks, let me give you a abbreviated history. The Maverick virus was a dangerous virus that drove reploids to madness and they attacked all nouns (people, places and things) whenever they can. What’s worse is that the infected can easily transfer the virus from reploid to reploid and these Mavericks (the title given to the infected) can think and act normal if they please, then they could go postal when they please. The maverick virus was the bubonic plague of the early reploid world. This even led the world governments to form a unified military organization do deal with mavericks; they called this group, The Maverick Hunters. About 1 and a half years after the 1st massive maverick outbreak (in which the leader of the Maverick Hunters went maverick himself and caused a massive riot with all of his followers) the so-called Maverick Wars began with the Doppler revolt, another mass riot caused by a bio-reploid scientist named Agric Doppler. Then in the following years more tragedies happened, the most important was a huge space colony that crashed onto the earth. Millions died and earth became unsuitable for the Humans, so they went underground and for 2 years reploids cleaned up the air for humans and their fellow bio-reploids to breath. Then the air was still a little harsh but at least habitable for humans. But that was a long time ago and the virus was declared eradicated at the end of the Elf wars, which was the final chapter of the Maverick wars in which the legendary heroes Megaman X and Zero defeated the monster-sized reploid Omega. But that’s not the entire story of the “maverick”.
There is also another meaning of the maverick. It unofficially means that you are against the government or in my case, assassinated a government official. But the government uses the 2 meanings interchangeably, so they label both the ones who they want dead but are not infected by the virus and those that are infected maniacs mavericks. They then send the maverick hunters after them with the hunters thinking they are just destroying infected monsters and they do the dirty work for the politicians. They also use this to get rid of all their opponents and I must say its corruption at it’s finest. Luckily in the elf wars those bastards got what they deserved, a hot painful death by Omega when he blew up the United Nations building when all those corrupt SOBs where meeting there.
In our time the president of the world, Copy-X took advantage of a certain planetary crisis and was able to turn our republic into a dictatorship with him ruling everything. When this was happening I didn’t care at all on who ruled the planet, I just worried about my next contract. I later got into politics when I got a job to kill a reploid called Anubis Necromancess. After I did the job Neo-Arcadia (the name of our new government) discovered the man called the Nosfruatu (me) killed Anubis and a security camera caught my act of murder. So they put my face on the most wanted mavericks list. So then the Nosfruatu was officially a “maverick”. What’s even more insulting is that they rebuilt Anubis, so my job basically did nothing except get me on the Neo-Arcadia’s Most wanted list.
Also, I almost forgot to mention that the true maverick virus in our time no longer exists; it has been eradicated off the face of the earth, but Copy-X says that the virus is back so every human can be afraid of the reploids and they give Copy-X more power over their lives. But have rumors circulated that someone invented a cure to the true maverick virus, but I’ve never seen it. So now all a maverick really means is that Copy-X wants you dead and he would do so by sending you to a “rehabilitation camp” so they can cure you of the virus and release you back into society if you can be cured. To translate this into english: If you’re a reploid who’s arrested in a suspicious crime you are sent to a death camp where you’re either killed, worked to death, or brainwashed (or all 3, but not in that order).
Now I think it’s time to get back to my story on my assignment to kill the absolute ruler of the world, Copy-X. I got everything I needed to pull off the job, and a few things just in case the crap hits the fan and I set off for the base. On my way I was filled with wondering if the 500 million that my client offered me was worth what I was about to do. A thing I’ve learned the hard way is that the higher the client’s payment the higher the chance of betrayal by your client. In one case I was suppose to steal valuable data from a Neo-Arcadian base and give it to a client for 25 million. When I gave him the disk he double-crossed me and he and his thugs opened fire on me; they didn’t want to pay, or have a witness to the data. They failed to kill me and I killed them instead and I took the disk for myself; so I then decided to sell it myself. I sold it to the highest bidder for 30 million. He also tried to take it by force too, but I easily surrendered the disk and forfeited the money, since the disk I gave him was a smoke bomb in disguise (I was expecting this to happen), when the smoke bomb when off I took the money and fled. I then decided the forget trying to get a paycheck from it and I read the data for myself. It turns out it was some data on the prototype Rainbow devil Alpha models and a new project codenamed Rainbow devil Beta, this beta model was human-like and I thought it could eventually replace the X-drones. I decided to keep the data for myself and I still haven’t used that disk till this day. Maybe this data might be useful in the future.
Now after I remembered this event in my head I decided to go for it and complete the contract. Even if I didn’t get paid I would kill a very evil man that makes an assassin like me seem like a saint. With this strong resolve I went to the base and snuck in without any trouble. But this was just the calm before the storm for me; I had no clue what was in store.
End of chapter 1
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Chapter Two- Nosfruatu, the lucky man with the sneaky plan
Getting inside the base was dangerous but simple. Go in through the trash chutes. My plan was to infiltrate the base in the dead of night by sneaking through the sewage pipe that all the waste of the base came out of. It was simple, but dangerous because there might be a X-drone patrolling it, if any drone spotted me the base would go crazy and there would be no chance of escape. I got lucky; no drones were around (probably because I went in at night, since security is lowered at nighttime in this base). So using the map that my client provided I went up and found myself inside the laundry room of the most important place on our earth, Area-X. Now before I continued I checked all my weapons and I made sure that I had a plan on what I was doing. Everything had to be perfect for what I planned to do. Now I’ll explain my gameplan for this mission.
I split up what I had to do into 5 objectives,
1) Infiltrate Area-X through the sewer system- Done
2) Shut down the security cameras and other security via control room
3) Proceed to Copy-X’s throne room.
4) Kill Copy-X
5) Get the hell out of there before the base goes into lockdown.
I just did objective 1, now what I had to do was sneak into the control room and disable the X-drones and cameras, but make it seem that both are still working. This could be done by making the base’s cameras loop and then getting shutting down the drones that stood were on the path to Copy-X. Then I would have to get from the control room to the throne room where copy-X is located. My client promised that he’d make sure Copy-X doesn’t do anything to discover me, but I don’t want to put my life in the hands of my client, I’ve been betrayed too many times to rely on others I barely know.
Then objective 4 would be to kill copy-X. My client said that he would be there waiting for me, what would go down would be that as I enter the room my client would stab Copy-X in the back. Then both of us would double-team and attack Copy-X and kill him. Phantom says that then he could just let me walk out the front after we kill him, but I plan to escape the same way I came in.
But back to reality I would have some trouble getting to and taking over the control room. It is small and my client said that there are 2 X-Drones and 2 reploids watching the security camera and one more watching the X-drone status. Which means if I’m caught on camera or dispose of any X-drones then I am royally screwed. This is where my magnetic jumpsuit comes in handy. I activated it and I crawled on the ceilings to pass by the X-drones and I used my instincts and my looking-around-the-corner skills to sneak around without being spotted by the camera. I finally made it to the Control room entrance. I was getting nervous about this; I was facing downward with my back on the ceiling thinking about how to rush the 5 in there. After a few minutes found my gameplan, and I went over it in my head like this. “I’m gona open the door, in one hand hold the two E.M.P mines between my fingers and hold by silenced pistol in the other hand. Then as I throw one of the emps on the 1st X-drone I’d shoot the guard nearest to the alarm in the head, then I’d throw the 2nd EMP on the 2nd drone then shoot the other two men and kill them. Them I’d shut down the security X-drones and set the camera to loop. So then I can…”
Just then the door opened. A Woman reploid walked out. She had synthetic flesh and looked human, she was a blond. She walked under me and I saw the rest of her body. She had a really good figure, the whole body completely infatuated me. The door closed behind her and I exhaled in arousal (As you might guess I have a weak spot for beautiful women, in retrospect I was lucky she didn’t hear me exhale). I continued to watch her as she stretched and cracked her fingers, this snapped my back to my situation, If she noticed me above her I’d would be so screwed. And I grew more nervous, something I don’t do often. But I continued to look down at her; I then noticed something that almost ruined my mission. I saw a bead of sweat trickle down my face very, very slowly. Since I’m above her the sweatdrop would fall on her head, then she’d look up, and then I’d be screwed. My mind raced for a solution. But before I could finish thinking the drop dropped off my face. I made the impulse to move and I moved my hand and I caught the salt-water drop. I held myself from sighing in relief. I now realized that I could take her out now and only have to deal with 4 people. Also they might not pay attention when I open the door, thinking it’s this woman.
She turned around and faced the door, as if ready to open it. I was ready to make my move. I positioned myself so my legs were keeping me attached to the ceiling. My face was right behind her. With my two hands I grabbed her head, this scared the crap out of the woman, she had no idea that I was about to snap her neck. As hot as she was (and trust me she was very hot) I had to subdue her or else I’d be exposed. Even though I only saw the back of her face I knew I she was scared for her life. “Sorry girl” I thought in my head as I twisted her head and I her neck snap. “Wow, guess she was a bio-reploid too.” I though. A good weakness in a lot of reploids was that the human-like ones all had the weakness that their processors and cyber-brain were all located in the head. So by giving the neck-snap you could possibly sever the main connections to the cyber-brain and basically disable the reploid. Sometimes the auto-repair function in some reploids can repair the damage by themselves, but those are rare cases.
The woman fell to the ground out cold and I dropped to the floor on her body so I wouldn’t make a loud sound. I got the emps in my left hand and my gun in my right. With the gun I pushed the open button and the door opened. The two reploids were male and didn’t seem to look at me, the X-drones on the other hand did look at me. The light of both X-drones glowed a bloody red and they started to move their arm cannons at me. I was ready for this, “just like I planned” was what I was thinking as I flung the first EMP mine on the X-drone. The mine went flying and it hit the X-drone making a fierce sound as it attached itself and the X-drone’s eye shorted out and with electricity sparking from the body. The two men and the X-drone looked at the downed drone in horror. My guess was that they thought “What the hell?!” as the two men moved their eyes from the drone to me, the men’s faces turned into a face of terror and the X-drone looked at me and primed it’s armcannon. I threw the 2nd EMP at the last X-drone, it saw it and it tried to intercept it with a shot, but before it could fire the mine hit it and shorted the drone out. I then saw the two men looking very afraid of me. One of them started to move towards the right to the alarm to turn it on. I shot a round of my pistol at him. Both saw the bullet for only a second before it penetrated the 2nd man’s head. I saw some blood come from the head as it went through the flesh and went into his cyber-brain. Then a second later the man’s eyes opened up as big as they could and his jaw widened, his face motionless. He then dropped dead on the floor. My gun was a special type that fired a type of ammo called butterfly bullets. When the bullet penetrates the target and stops moving, spikes then come out of the bullet piercing and damaging the target even further. A shot in the brain with a butterfly bullet will kill the target when the spikes come out, regardless if it’s a human brain or a reploid cyber-brain.
The first man (the one to the left) stood there paralyzed in fear. We both knew that he was next. I pointed my gun at him, and he stood there staring down the barrel of the gun. I saw his eyes how they were beginning to tear, this man really felt that I was going to kill him and he only had a moment to live. My finger was on the trigger.
“he’s next” I thought to myself, “Goodbye…”
My finger began to squeeze the trigger, “Harry, you shouldn’t do this… the man’s… he may be the enemy but he’s innocent, he doesn’t deserve to die.” I began to have a conversation in my head as I stood there with the pistol at his face, I was walking closer and closer to him and the gun was getting closer to his head. “I have to kill him… But I promised I wouldn’t kill innocent victims like this guy if they don’t pose a threat. What should I do?” I was starting to get into a conflict with myself. “Should I kill this man?”
I’ve always had a soft side to me, even though I don’t normally show it. To tell the truth, I hate killing innocent people. Those people did nothing wrong, they don’t deserve to die. But the anger and hate inside me drives me sometimes to do things that are…well…very evil. That evil consumed me once, and ever since then I vowed it would never get the best of me, and I also swore that I’d never kill an innocent again. But also on that day I swore that I would never take a job that involved hurting innocent people but take jobs in which I would fight against the evil, greedy, and corrupt, to send the bird of death to them and destroy those that prey on the innocent. I know this sound idealistic, even to me it seems silly; but when you yourself was once a victim, you never want to make others experience that hell. Without knowing it I created a code for myself. One that gave me a worth of self, one that gave me my honor back.
“ Well, that leaves one choice, hope it works”. I came up with an idea. By now the gun was point blank at the guy’s head. I knew that if I gave him the chance he might do something. I let go of my gun and it began to fall towards the floor, the man looked at it as my thrusted my hands at his head and grabbed it. I gave twist and herd his neck snap. His eyes grew large as he lost consciousness. I had just snapped his neck, but unlike the girl there was no snapping of bone, there was just the herd sound of a simple snap of a wire ( proof that I severed the head’s connections). This guy will most likely live, Neo-arcadia has a policy not to repair the broken reploids but to save the damaged ones. But the dead ones they don’t bring back; well except for that Anubis guy. I still don’t know how they bring back the ones who’s brains were destroyed (which noadays means the reploid is dead), since Copy-X himself condemned the act of reploid DNA resurrection himself I really wonder how, I did destroy his Cyber-brain, maybe he had a spare.
Anyway, my gun was on the floor and I reached down to get it, when I did look down I saw the reploid I had just made near dead. His eyes were still filled with horror and his face showed fear too. I felt a little sick for doing that to the man, but I convinced my self that I had to what I did, or else I would fail. After I pick up my gun I decided to move on with my mission. I dragged in the women I dealt with earlier and then shut the doors. Using the control room’s map I found the quickest and safest route (in terms of running into reploid troops) that would lead me to the throne room. Then I shut down the X-drones that guarded the path and made all of the cameras in the base loop. I remembered my objectives and what I have currently done. Objectives 1 and 2 were complete and next I had to get to Copy-X’s throne room. So I set off.
On the way, I began to think about what exactly I was doing. “I am on my way to murder the ruler of the world. If I should succeed then what will happen?” Normally I don’t wonder about stuff like this, but I for some reason I began to think about the consequences of my planned action. “Copy-X has been leading the world into decline ever since he took over, and he’s turned our world into a bigger hellhole then it is now. He does deserve to pay for his actions manipulating the planet. But if I kill him, who’d take his place…I guess this Phantom guy will. He did give off a good first impression, so maybe he’s better then Copy-X. I guess if he’s not I’ll strike him down too. Or maybe he could make me his 2nd in command… now that’d be cool. I could make sure good comes out of this if that happens.” I then noticed the I was at my destination. I had reached Copy-X’s throne room. I stood infront of the gate-like door. Infront of me stood the room in which my target resides. “If I get a headshot in with my Butterfly gun, then I could easily end him and send him to hell”. I readied my butterfly gun and checked the rest of my weapons: The katana I kept hidden in my black sheath (from long range I didn’t look like I had the sword when I wear this jumpsuit, but if you look close you could see it), the two beamsabers on my sides, the plasma handgun, the 2 generades I stole from the security room, and my Butterfly gun. I opened the door and the two halves opened up and disappeared into the ground and ceiling. When the door opened I saw the giant room.
I saw Copy-X… without armor. Every time Copy-X addresses the public in any form or mater he always has his battle body activated and on, this was the first time I have ever seen the dictator without armor. It felt like I was seeing a completely different person; the image of the armored Copy-X was the only way we (I mean me and the rest of the world) know Copy-X only by his look with armor. He was looking the other way) and my client also there with his arm over Copy-X’s back. Copy-X had short black hair and was dressed in a blue outfit. His look was something that resembled someone who just went out for a daily jog. It looked like they were looking at something the other way. “This is perfect” Ran through my head. “I can get rid of him right now…hurry and don’t waste this chance”
With my Butterfly gun I took aim, I knew with my silencer on my gun he’d never hear it. My finger was on the trigger. I held the gun with both hands to perfect my aim, taking in all variables. This shot was perfect and would hit Copy-X square in the head. I pulled the trigger, and in that moment I started a chain of events that would change my life forever.
End of chapter 2
