The Hivemind and the riskrunner rest inside the building for a while, reinforcing it.
The Hivemind goes upstairs, finding a lock door and a key hole.
He looks into the keyhole and spots a trap inside.
A shotgun aimed to trigger at the door when the door is opened.
"Not opening that."
Morgan says, walking towards a keyhole and checking inside.
Finding a small group of bags.
He tries opening the door, but it's locked.
He breaks a vase and grabs a shard from it. He attempts to pry it open.
Fails.
Another attempt,
Success.
The door is opened, revealing its contents.
Before he walks in.
He is met with a man holding a crossbow pointing towards his head.
Spotting an AGENT device.
"Fucking hell?"
Said a guy with bandages on his head.
"You an agent too? Or are you a traitor?"
Morgan says, trying to be calm about the situation. As his flies fly around, strangely not attacking the man.
"You could say I am a traitor, but I'll help you. Do not report this to HiCom."
The man said in a calm manner with multiple voice cracks possible due to burning or blunt force trauma?
(Seems familiar.....)
"What is your ID and name?"
Morgan said, in a much more relaxed manner.
"You might be surprised about this, but Mao Zedong. Zeta4684."
The man said.
"Jesus, your the target HiCom wanted us to kill."
The hivemind was shocked.
(I forgor the hivemind was blind)
Meanwhile.
20 minutes before Reunification part 2.
Sewer system.
Footsteps can be heard, approaching a group of unknown individuals.
Heavy clanking of metal scraping the floor.
The murky waters splash every step it takes.
"Do you feel like we're like being watched?"
Said 1 individual, clearly paranoid.
The other shakes his head.
Red dots can be spotted in the distance.
4.
Approaching the group.
The darkness around it made it hard to distinguish.
It steps into the light revealing a man.
Wearing kill-warrant goggles.
He silently approaches the group.
Before sprinting at insane speeds to take down one.
"Hu-!"
Before the individual's head got cleaved off his body.
A person besides him spots him and fires upon him.
The man uses the corpse as a meatshield.
The others try to escape his wrath.
Meeting only a swift blade, some were actually successful.
The man tracks them down and grabs a gun from a dead member of the group.
Finding one.
Trying to hide in a corner.
He thinks of a plan to shoot them through the walls but the caliber makes it implausible.
He punches through the brick walls.
And pulls the man's arm out of the wall decapitating his prey's arm.
(Let's call this guy, the hunter. Interesting no?)
"Bounty accomplished."
A module In his kill-warrant goggles spoke out.
The man walks away.
As the target dies of bloodloss.
He climbs up a ladder up to the surface.
Seeing only the dark clouds in the sky.
He eventually gets up to the surface meeting a woman with a crown walking towards a building holding a modified sledge hammer.
"Crime database: Deserter, murder, theft."
The module spoke out.
The man shrugs and silently sprints to the rear of the woman.
Preparing his axe for a strike on her back.
But spotting a red outline on a tower.
A sniper.
Meanwhile.
The hivemind and Mao Zedong the berserker were discussing their situation and how they can survive.
Until the riskrunner opens the door spotting the berserker.
"MORGAN! ARE YOU SIDING WITH THE ENEMY!?" The riskrunner shouted.
Preparing to grab his sling-mounted Vulcan.
"Now now, I've been talking to your friend right now. So uhhhhh-"
Said the berserker.
"Trust me Gordon, I am not siding with the target. But I'll not kill him for now." The hivemind said.
The riskrunner is still cautious, but listens in just watching.
"Alright, hmmmm we should wrap this out for now. We need to survive and once we find our team Mao. You're gonna be probed, then killed." Said the hivemind.
"Sadly, sadly."
The berserker says.
15 minutes later.
The pilot and the rest of the agents are wandering around, eventually going back to the crossroads.
Using their specialized respirators to survive and see through the storm's toxic smog and mist.
They see the castle, repaired and actually looking pretty fortified.
They also spot the warehouse, spotting a group of agents fighting another group of agents.
They observe them from afar.
Spotting the 2 groups fight each other.
"Jesus, dang the 6th wave already came?" The Blitzer said, surprised.
"Seems so, But I do have to question why the fuck is our colleagues fighting each other?"
The pilot said, checking his AGENT device.
"Not so sure, but we'll have to focus on surviving."
The crosslink said, the contagion growing in minutes inside him making half of is hair pale white due to the lack of melanin in that area.
"Aight, let's go. We can't let anyone spot us for now."
Said the pilot, climbing down the steep mountain cliffs.
The agents climbed downed following the pilot.
Wandering from the crashed deathsquad ship to the valley.
And eventually. To the outpost.
They scavenged the tables, and lockers. And got upstairs.
The sounds of explosions, the buzz of experimental nanobugs.
And gunfire roars in the distance.
The thick blue mist almost made the agents that were scavenging almost invisible to the untrained eye.
They decided to camp in the valley for a little while.
Hiding, preparing and planning.
Meanwhile.
The Hunter is fighting a familiar woman, it's Jade.
(Oo.)
(The protagonist of the main timeline)
Trading and evading blows.
The arbiter slams her hammer into the ground launching her high up.
She looks in another direction and prepares a shotshell and punches it.
Propelling herself into the Hunter.
STATIC.
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BEGIN MEMORY LOG.
"You know how to use your knuckleboom right?" Said a man.
"I am new to it, but I'll promise you I'll master it! Sir!"
Jade says, saluting her higher up.
"Aight remember this, punch when you fully extend your arm out. When are you about to do it ok?" The man said calmly, sipping a canister of water.
Jade prepares a shotshell waiting until she fully extends her arm.
Boom.
But sadly, it's the normal close ranged variant.
She was too late.
Attempt 2.
Success, she realized.
She had to somehow count to 0.6 seconds.
She could probably do this via thinking of music.
"Jade! Nice! Now do another or do 50 helljacks."
Said the man.
She was nervous, but she was determined.
She raises her fists to prepare a longshot variant of the shotshell.
Sweating.
She fully extends it out and DING.
Punches it.
The longshot hits a dummy.
Evaporating half of its torso..
She lets a sigh of relief.
Sitting down.
The man claps, while grinning in the process. Seeing the blood on Jade's hands. Dripping into the ground.
"That's enough. Dexio."
A woman said, grabbing him by ear.
END OF RECORDING.
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The arbiter slams her hammer down again, cocking the cocking mechanism.
She does a close ranged shotshell to disorient the Hunter.
The Hunter slashes the arbiter's cheek.
The arbiter dashes to the opposite direction to avoid more blows.
She thinks of a good plan.
She loads her Dragon's breath rounds into her Knuckleboom.
And gets ready to do a long ranged shotshell.
The Hunter sidesteps into the arbiter's rear.
Kicking her onto the ground.
She rolls to dodge the incoming flurry of slashes and strikes.
She raises her arm and fully extends it out, punching it for extra range.
FLAMES erupt everywhere.
As it almost hit the hunter.
The Hunter retreats into the distance.
"Holy fucki-"
Jade said, collapsing into the ground exhausted.
Her group of raiders approaches her offering to help, she denies them.
And stands up.
She goes eastward, her men following her.......
The sacred gate.
14 minutes before the storm hits this part of the planet.
A portal opens up, revealing an ominous figure.
A vessel.
He walks and walks, wandering from place to place.
Eventually meeting what he sought the Usuper
Deus.
"So your the one who's causing alot of problems for reikgon."
Said the apostle.
Summoning a shadow beyond shadow hunters.
An abomination of malice created for one singular purpose.
To murder, and to serve the hivemind of the reikgon.
Deus, tries to liberate the abomination.
But reikgon itself does not allow it.
The hand doesn't even come out.
She can't even summon her shadow hunter.
She grabs a spear, stabbing the vessel in his heart.
But he remains unfazed.
He continues to bleed but still attacks deus.
With tendrils that spewed from the very ground they were standing on.
The abomination charges into deus knocking her down.
Before snapping her neck.
"YOU HAVE PLEASED REIKGON."
As the blood of the dead deus spews.
Her Reikgon parasite leaves her lifeless body to find a new host.
The storm approaches as the vessel leaves the abomination to rot.
Meanwhile.
The riskrunner converses with the berserker.
The hivemind just listening.
They eventually got over it.
So they decided to pack their containers/bags and get out of the building.
Wandering from place to place.
From helmstreet, to Greensboro street.
They eventually go into a dark forest.
And wandered far enough to see the familiar lands.
The crossroads.....
TO BE CONTINUED.
Authors note: Holy hell, that was long.
Sorry for the wait! I had to do assignments. I'll swear to make more as soon as possible!
Also plus, check out Cold rot!
Been doing a triple Collab with 2 writers.
Also check out hollowsvelle, really good suggestions and interesting OC's.