Across the Threshold: Cold War Prelude 05

Across the Threshold: Cold War Prelude 05

In Caleum city

Omnidec and Mordecai left the main hospital and entered into the kitchen of Louise's apartment. Over the counter, the owner Louise looked at Mordecai with concern but when Omnidec noticed this, she looked away. On the table Tarrot and Flip sat with plates of  food prepared by "So," Tarrot called out from the table "What's the plan, now? Do we still regroup?" "Yes. The amulet is now fully charged so we should go ahead and get the others before anything goes south." "Who's going to use the F.U.Z.O.R.?" Flip asked munching on a hot pocket "Well..." Omnidec said before pausing, "huh, did not think about that. I assumed that Vertrus would use the F.U.Z.O.R. for his secret project." "Secret project?" Mordecai asked. "To use the Sigma core and the F.U.Z.O.R. in order to create a weapon capable of rivaling G Zero's power." Omnidec answered, he turned to Louise and said "G Zero is who we are trying to stop, a walking requiem chip if you will." "Actually, " Mordecai said "G Zero is not a walking requiem chip. He's basically a NULL Unit who has the built in ability to control requiem energy to it's fullest potential without the need for requiem chips. Secondly not mentioning sigma, you also need to get a power source strong enough to get the F.U.Z.O.R. running." "We have the artifacts," Flip said lifting his helmet to eat the burrito, "We can drain their energy and just give what's left to those red dragon guys!" Suddenly a sound of glass breaking was heard, and everyone turned to see Louise with a shocked look on her face. "What!?" She screamed her face slowly forming into a mask of  disgust. "Flip" Tarrot groaned facepalming as Mordecai moved towards Louise. "Wait! Calm-" Mordecai started as he approached her before Louise punched him in the face and ran off. "You alright?" Omnidec said catching the draken. "Yeah." Mordecai said, taken aback by what just happened. "You should talk with her." Tarrot said drinking from his mug causing Mordecai and Omnidec to turn to the older Homunculus, "before she call the CPDF." Flip got up but Tarrot grabbed Flip's shoulder. "I was talking to Mordecai, Flipp, besides he is the one she trusts the most." The knights looked at Mordecai after he got up. "Yeah um, excuse me!" Mordecai said be fore following Louise and calling out, "Hey wait!"

Outside, Mordecai sees Louise dialing on the phone. "Louise!" Mordecai called out causing her to turn and dropping  her phone. Realizing who it was, she demanded with a tense look her face "Why?" "What?" Mordeaci said. "Why are you with those people?" Lousie demanded. "To be honest," Mordecai said "the reason I initially joined with Verdtrus is because I owed him my life." "Owed him your-" Louise asked putting a hand on her feathered brow, "Wait, you're not making any sense!" "Sorry, the planet where I'm from, Earth Gaia was in the cross hairs in a massive interplanetary conflict between two massive superpowers for it's unique energy source, Requiem Energy. In response to this, Lightbringers incorporated, the group I'm worked with, was charged to create an army to protect the people's independence.  However Verdtrus and I discovered that Lightbringers were part of a group planning to become a superpower themselves and wipe out half of the known galaxy with G Zero, the final evolution of the project and the strongest being in the galaxy. So I help him steal the F.U.Z.O.R. prototype and the NULL Units in order prevent the development of G Zero, but we some how crash landed here." "But why the red dragon army?""I don't know why," Mordecai answered "but I'm sure that it's a temporary thing at best. If I know Verdtrus, he wouldn't do something like that for no good reason. Look, I understand you probably hate me for doing this, but I have nothing left in my life." "Look I don't hate you, I-" "You want to know why we joined Verdtrus?" Omnidec called out causing the two to jump, "It's because we want to survive." "Why should I trust you?" Louise said starring the humonculi down. "It's because if we don't bring down Lightbringers and the 14 Jewels, a lot of people are going to die. One of the Jewels is here right now and we can't take any chances." Louise crossed her arms, saying "I need more than some sob story." "I promise you that we'll deal with the Red Dragon army. What you want to know?" "Why side with them in the first place!?" Louise pressed. "I don't know why," Omnidec said "but that Jewel, Beowulf, has the CPDF wrapped around his finger and we can't afford to take chances. When we're finished here, I promise you'll never see me or my friends again!" "Fine." Louise said "But what is it about this guy that is so bad?" "Many of the Jewels are the strongest soldiers in Lightbringer's arsenal. Just one is enough to level an entire army in minutes and we don't have enough resources to combat this threat." "Guys!" Flip called out, "You should see this!"

Meanwhile

In the parking lot, both Q and Wisey finally reached the wreckage as fires erupted on the hull. "(Well, rookie,)" Q said "(What's the plan now?)" "We need to get the people out" Wisey said  "(NO  (Censored)! Take out the Fires, I'll get the passengers,)" Q said moving Wisey out of the way. "Hey wait" Wisey said  "Hey wait, don't you have water powers?" "(It's just the name of the armor Idiot! It just let me fight under water! Use your freezing ability!)" Suddenly a door suddenly flew off the hinge as a clawed hand grabbed onto the ship itself. Wisey immediately grabbed it and pulled out a gunmetal figure that was similar to Kafe's transformed state. "Hey are you alright?" Wisey asked. "m..monster.." the being said before passing out, turning into his true form as catira. in his hand a chip fell out. "(Huh?)" Q said picking it up. It was a blue chip with a number 16 on it. Wisey started to pull other passengers as grabbded his arm. "(Dude! Put out the fire! I'll handle the people!)" Wisey soon pulls a card and swiping it, creating 5 small gunmetal spheres with a blue button and dial each one. Pressing the button he attached a few onto the vehicle itself where they detonated in explosions of cold air and , putting out the fires as sirens are heard in the distance. Q grabbed and pulled the chassis apart with his robotic arm to in order to make openings while Wisey threw another sphere inside the ship, dousing any fire inside. They both stepped inside to look for more survivors, pulling out the occupants one by one.

 Bartch grabbed at the dog entity's weapon and threw it towards the wall. The entity howled at Bartch, rushing him with it's claws. Bartch caught the entity by the neck and slammed him onto the ground. The entity yelped as Bartch as Bartch did this. The entity constantly elbowed Bartch in the stomach but Bartch held on for a few minutes before the Dog entity threw him off. "Shoot!" Bartch said getting up. Suddenly The dog creature dashed towards his rake but Bartch summoned his hammer, and activated the Solo Burst function of his hammer as its round head detaches. The disc shaped face stuck onto the blue canine's back, freezing it in place. "Sorry about this." Bartch said solemnly before slamming the hammer onto the disk sending sound waves all across it's body. Entity crumbled as it turned into it's true form, a blue chip. Chipp switched the G sword to gun mode and fired upon the burning monkey. The creature stumbled a bit but it does not fall, rushing the ceasarian yelling "EEEEEAAAKAAA!" "SHOOT!" Chipp said dodging the creature and quickly switched the G sword into sword mode. He slashed at the monkey, catching it in it's side. The monkey-like entity got up and threw fire balls at the ceasarian. "SHOOT!" Chipp said as the fireballs sent him flying near Kafe. Getting up, Chipp initiated the solo burst function in the G-Saber and slashed at the monkey entity causing it to disperse instantly in a flash of light revealing a reddish orange chip.

On the roof, Bakore dive bombed Scott repeatedly, forcing the sirian to move quickly as he tries to  shoot the humonculus. "Come on!" Bakore said, throwing some fireballs at the sirian, "Come at me!" Scott, now leaping from area to area now noticed Bakore stopping to shoot the next volley of fireballs shot him in the chest. The humunculi fell to the ground dropping his sword. //SOLO BURST// Bakore got up and noticed Scott aiming a charged blast at him. "Oh JUC-" Was all he could say before Scott pulled the trigger. Meanwhile Kafe kicked the fox entity when a an explosion of green light emitted from the roof. "A Solo Burst," Batch said. Suddenly a shriek was heard causing both armored warriors to turn to see the fox entity dissipating into it's chip form. "Come on!" Kafe said running inside. Bartrch turned to Chipp and said "Chipp, somethings not right here." "Look we can talk about that later," Chipp said "come on!" As the two ran inside, Bartch thought of Virginain but shook the thought to focused on the task at hand

*This

Inside Flaron and Tameron were moving down into the second floor when they heard an explosion. "What the heck was that?" Tameron said looking up. "That sounds something that Bakore would do." Flaron said "I can't believe this! Bakore shouldn't have started this, now we have to scramble to find this LOUSY chest plate within this LOUSY museum!" "Look Flaron, calm down. As long as we find the artifact, just keep calm!"  "We are basically attacking a town's museum because of Bakore's idiotic idea! HOW CAN I BE CALM!?" "Look Flaron, I don't like you being like this, we can still find a-!" "WE WON'T HAVE A HOME!" Flaron yelled, causing Tameron to take jump back a step. Both stared at each other for a few moments before they heard footsteps coming from the stairs. "Oh no." Flaron said turning and raising her staff. "Wait!" Tameron said, "I can deal with them!" "Tameron what are you-?" Flaron started before Tameron's eyes started to glow. "EVO!" Tameron said as his body started to morph. As Chipp, Bartch and Kafe entered into the same room, they see Tameron morphing into a larger form. "What the (censored)?" Chipp said as Tameron's form grew larger into a more raptor knight* form. "Alright!" Tameron said setting his weapons away, "Shall we begin!" Suddenly he charged and slammed into the three knocking them on the floor. "GO! I'll handle these guys!" Tameron said turning around. Flaron gritted her teeth and moved towards the stairs. Chipp got ups and ran after the interloper as well. "Oh No you DON'T!" Tameron said as he lunged Chipp. Kafe got up and slashed at the now transformed humonculi with his blades, getting the attention off of the Chipp. "Get that girl!" Kafe said "Stop her before she gets the breastplate." "Got it!" Chipp said raising his thumb before going after the humonculi with Bartch following as well.

To be continued..