EchoStorm Liberation

Prologue

The story begins with a far overlooking view of one of Juno's famed cities namely Revernus, its natural beauty is at its finest, the breathtaking Central Sword namely became a popular tourist spot for any foreigners, but locals took pride of it too and mostly visited them and offered tribute to the 'Architect' who made such art long ago. There was a family who visited and paid tribute to the Architect's wonders annually. Two young children were Vincent and Tera whom their parents are Richard and Mara. The siblings usually doesn't bother about the whole tribute but Tera on the other hand, she left a tribute to her monument for the first time, a rag doll, that she named Mimicka, such toy is her only possession since she was only 3 years old. She hesitated but she knew that it would be for the greater good, she even asked her brother if he has something to offer, although he responded with a 'No'. At this moment his sister was worried he was being so selfish but she didn't let her feelings take her away, she smiled at her brother and pretended she didn't bother or cared. Their parents prayed and left flowers to the monument statue of the sword in sign of tribute, "May the great lords and ladies be remembered for the passing years" prayed by both Mara and Douglas and left flowers and other honorary tributes to the sword "Let it be..." simultaneously said by both of them.

As a moments later, they plan go to on a family outing but tragically disrupted after the huge alien like organic spore blast burst out the ground itself and caused a fissure and disturbance to the entire people within Central Sword. After a moment of silence, more spores burst upon the ground and began spewing out viscous pods which unknown alien life forms emerges from the pods. The creatures attacked every human at the ground with hardened sticks and maces. Douglas took his wields his pistol which was holstered on his jacket and shoots off the Creepers, the tough skinned creatures are awfully well persistent and bullets are seems to be ineffective. Mara took the children and rans away from the Central Sword, Douglas tried to follow them while holding off some of the pursuing Creepers. He later caught up by one of the ugly creatures and was smack twice by a mace on his body, he manage to toss the attacker off but he was too injured to move and many of them are closing to him fast, Mara noticed that her husband wasn't able to make it, " Go on without me, get the children outta here!" limping on the ground as he sway his arm, signaling to go away. But his daughter didn't care and persisted to die with him. "No! Tera!" shouted Douglas from afar, he was later embraced by his own daughter and tears began to drop in his eyes, he knew there was no hope of living further. Mara was about to run towards them but huge stalks blocked her way. "Tera, Douglas!" exclaimed Mara with sheer terror about their fates. She was later convinced that they should bail out while there is still a chance, Mara and Vincent, she grabbed her sons' hand and runaway from the spores, the city was eventually torn up, leading Vincent and his mother to take evasive measures against the spore creatures, as they were walking down the streets, they were later spotted by one of the creatures, Mara was frightened after seeing the grotesque look of its face, same to goes to her son Vincent. The creature was twice as large than an ordinary man, it held a medieval mace as for its weapon. It's hard to look at them face to face especially when you are forced to gaze upon its exposed skull.

 As it face at them both, and began walking dreadfully, she could smell the awful stench within the beasts spore hole skin, they were forced to back away slowly, Vincent eyes began to drop crystal tears, as his mother lead him at her back, she later grasped on a stray pipe, inexperienced on dealing with these aliens, she was compromised by fear. As the creature was about to run after them, Mara closed her eyes and readies herself to strike the creature as it charge towards them, but even so, right after it ran. It was immediately shot from behind by a sniper rifle, as Mara opens her eyes, she looks at the man waving at her from the top of the convenient store across the road, "Hey! Over here!" shouted the sniper, a teenager of sort. She immediately ran towards the store and opens the door with her son, they were both surprised and shocked after the 4 people inside the store took aimed at their faces, they immediately raised their hands, as the sniper earlier came down the stairs and yelled at them, "Whoa! They're cool guys, put those guns down..." said the young sniper boy who saved them earlier outside, he placed his hunting rifle at his shoulder."Are you trying to reach the evacuation point?" asked the obese salesperson at the counter as he held his shotgun and lowered it to his belly level, his shotgun was very old looking with 2 barrels, probably pre-liberty and unregistered to SIRtech. "Yes, yes we are..." said Mara as she looks at the other people wielding guns, "You won't make it without guns." said the obese guy, as he waves his hands down, signaling his companions to stand down, "Here take this." As he slide an Armac Pistol to her at the counter, it was old looking like the shotgun he held on his hands. "I don't even-" she was interrupted by the fat man, "Well, you have to, you're not gonna last a minute outside without it." everyone returned to their posts and tried take off the tension lately by returning to their said duties. Mara eventually took the pistol after she hesitated lately and reloads it back, she was scared as if she has never shot someone or something ever in her life but to survive she must. Vincent remained frightened and silent since the attack of the creature itself, she very worried about her son not to mention how would he recover from this traumatic event. "My name's Butcher" as the obese man introduced himself to Mara, and made a gesture proposing a handshake to her. "Mara, my name's Mara" She replied and then shakes his hand with weary face. "We need to get outta here" he looks outside and started hearing some buzzing noise, but nevertheless, the entire place remained at void. "The army is going to bomb this area with Dawn Watches real soon, so unless we get moving, we are not getting rescued from here." picks up ammos and supplies that he could carry. "It's going to be a long trip if ever we made through the evac point, so I suggest grab everything you can and needed" said he, and the survivors began rounding up supplies, 7 of them were almost ready to leave. As they head outside, the skies are dark, it feels like dead. They moved out, Vincent remained silent even now, while his mother remained cautious and was still worried about him, they later realize that they weren't far to the evac point until a spore burst out the ground, in an attempt to ambush them. "Move it people!" said Butcher, the spore cocoons drops to the ground a like stool dropping to the toilet, the viscous spores came out more of the hideous creatures they fought earlier, 3 people were eventually caught up and were killed gruesomely with maces. As grim as this may sounds, they were bought time to get away while the creepers massacre their companions, they finally got to the nearest Peacekeeper evac point were in military people took immediate action and care for them and held off the alien pursuers, they were planned to designated for an escort away from Revernus, with a relief, Mara finally could breathe clearly as of the moment, "You're not a bad shot yourself!" Butcher looks at her right in her eyes, smiling at her and was quite impress of what she did. "Well you know, my husband works on SIRtech..." she locked the pistol, hold it on its barrel, and was offering it back to him. "And thanks..." he later reached for the handle and was surprised she would returned the pistol to him, "Nah... Keep it, there's a long road ahead of us all, you're gonna need it." He smiled to her and politely rejects the returning of the weapon, her hands were snappy enough to get a hold on the gun barrel again, as they looked outside, a noise of a jet craft soured into the skies, "Its starting..." he referred to the bombing run he told everyone lately, as the Dawn Watches split team into the skies and find their designated area each, the simultaneous effect of the bombing run was devastating and swift, as the entire city burns to the ground and everyone on the vehicle was deeply in the hands of sorrow knowing there are people below the city. 

END OF PROLOGUE