Amour'd Core | Chapter 004 - Destroy the Tester AC

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Amour'd Core | Chapter 004 - Destroy the Tester AC | FINAL

[transition fade in from black]

[BG: Room_01.png]

[VFX: Room_Dust_01]

[VFX: POV_cold_breath_01]

INTERNAL  "I heard someone say once, "Human beings are incredible- they can adapt to anything in such a short time, and survive." 

" "Surviving isn't living", that someone should have added.

"I thought "I've been here for a few days now and I'm still freezing."

" "When the hell am I gonna get a break from this?" "

"When does surviving level off and plateau into comfort?"

"The literal cold, hard truth is that it never would. Warmth did not exist in the wilds of Rubicon."

"The heat of the planet itself had almost separated from the surface in the Fires of Ibis, like a sickly febricity that kept Rubicon in a perpetual cold boil."

"Its heartbeat spirited away from its mutilated body."

"...I couldn't help but feel a kindred pity for the both of us, having been robbed of who we might have been meant to be."

"And I envied the disparity between a mere human being and celestial body for its life span, for its chance at a natural restoration with enough patience."

"Who knew how many rotations I'd have left?"

"I did have some mortal advantages to buy time, though."

"I was warm blooded enough that I had acclimatized to the cold. I could survive the harsh temperatures encroaching on my meager shelter and survive."

"This was either fortunate, or unfortunate, depending on the sum of the equation encompassing the weather and my mood."

"Looking back now it seems like it should have been so easy to ask Walter, "Hey, can I have another blanket?" "

" "I can't sleep. Can we allocate some more heat in my cabin?" "

"Even if he had said 'no' there was nothing stopping me from getting up and looking around for some kind of insulation."

"There were moving blankets on the lower level, and I knew they were there- I just didn't think to take them."

"Instead I ruminated, unaware, distracted. All my actions, internal."

[vfx: Room_light_flicker_01]

"I simply didn't have whatever makes you get up and go. Whatever makes you ask for something."

"Whatever fuel inside of you that powers your self-preservation-"

"I might've had enough for emergencies… but only maybe."

"I felt like a moody child. My thoughts wound in circles, purling in a slow cyclone of naivete."

"It felt… like weakness."

"Whatever they had done to me made me feel like I had to be told to address my basic needs, and I couldn't remember if I’d ever been like this past infancy."

"Until I was commanded to act I simply endured my surroundings. Occasionally, a sapling thought would form that equivocated to something like "I wish I wasn't so damn cold." 

"That line of thinking might have been met with a rebellious counter-thought, "It's not so cold I'll die!" but no solutions were rendered from my vacant, glacial brain."

"That cavity in my head may as well have been empty."
"No solutions. No actions."

"Just passive survival."

[sfx: comm_alert_phone_01]

[sfx: open_phone_01]

[sfx: phone_answer_01]

"I'm not sure how long I sat there stewing in non-thoughts before the next alert from my handler came in on the communicator."

"Responding to the familiar sound on my comm I opened it and answered obediently. There was the slightest twinge of faint optimism in Walter's voice." 

"He must have been relieved to have found the work."

HANDLER WALTER "Got a job for you, 621."

[sfx: WALTER_got_a_job_for_you_621]

"It's an open call from the Arquebus Group."

INTERNAL "An open call… it must be urgent. They don't care who gets it done."

HANDLER WALTER "Head out now, there's a small window on this job. I'll patch the briefing through."

621 "...Yes, sir."

INTERNAL "The response was all but dispensed from my mouth, delayed by a failure of autonomy."

[sfx: phone_close_01]

INTERNAL "Without another word I ended the call, and in a single motion snatched up my untroubled helmet and spun into my jacket. I would fasten everything on the way."

[sfx: clothes_rustling_01]

[sfx: helmet_on_01]

"My rerouted brain had no trouble maximizing the efficiency of my body's movement- even in the most useless ways."

"Without a shred of compunction I marched to the dock."

"I had been commanded."

[sfx: metal_footsteps_hurried_01]

[transition fade to black]

[transition fade in from black]

[BG: cockpit_01.png]

INTERNAL "The side walls of the core locked together. The joyful sound of metal pieces becoming one reverberated around me and bounced off the walls of the garage."

[sfx: core_lock_01]

[sfx: metal_machine_settling_01]

"The safety bar descended and embraced me. The pressure invigorated the muscles in my chest that had gone quiet and refreshed my posture."

"I took advantage of the shift traveling through my frame, and readied the rest of me as the interface awoke." 

[sfx: clothes_rustling_02]

"Then the briefing came online."

"The familiar glow of the screen flooded my cramped, dark core with bellicose light."

[sfx: mission_briefing_beep]

[vfx: briefing_load]

[vfx: walter_briefing_online]

[vfx: mission_briefing_arquebus]

[vfx: mission_briefing_arquebus_to_schneider]

"The imposing white logo demanded my gaze amongst the shadows, and soon I heard the acquainted voice of Arquebus' mercenary liaison."

ARQUEBUS CORPORATION "To all independent mercenaries- this request comes from Schneider of the Arquebus Group."

[sfx: PATER_to_all_independent_mercenaries]

[vfx: balam_tester_ac]

INTERNAL "A slew of familiar logos marched on and off my screen. Faceless emblems of corporations- different symbols of the same things."

"The image of an unfamiliar machine appeared. Stolen data, no doubt."

ARQUEBUS CORPORATION "Dafeng, one of our corporate adversaries allied with Balam, has recently introduced a new tester AC."

"It's a prototype model from an external architect, featuring extensive assembly optimizations."

"In the hands of an experienced pilot, it will pose a threat far too great to ignore."

"This brings me to the request. Intercept delivery of the tester AC and destroy it."

"C 95,000 will be rewarded to the handler or independent account upon first party confirmation of mission completion."

"The Arquebus Group looks forward to news of your success. Briefing over- and happy hunting."

[sfx: PATER_happy_hunting]

[vfx: briefing_end_arquebus]

[sfx: briefing_end]

INTERNAL "Even in my newfound distrait circumstances I knew that briefing was troublingly vague."

"As always the Arquebus representative retained a water-thin layer of biting hostility that lay under the surface of his voice."

"A tester AC from Dafeng… extensive assembly optimizations…"

"Optimized in what way, I wondered. What could be the nature of its advancements?"

"An external architect implied that the design didn't come purely out from Dafeng's or Balam's engineers."

"Was this the work of joint-corporate development? Or were there other independent architects on Rubicon?"

[sfx: garage_mech_loadout_01]

"My stimulating daydreams were rudely interrupted by the rumble of the shifting hanger."

"Walter's voice, still online, cut through the settled silence."

[sfx: WALTER_stay_sharp_621]

HANDLER WALTER "The target may be a product sample, but it's still an AC. Stay sharp 621."

INTERNAL "Though it was fleeting, I caught his encouragement."

[sfx: helicopter_blades_01]

HANDLER WALTER "We're above the target. Are you ready?"

[branch_AAAA_open]

Choice_A: INTERNAL "I'm ready."

Choice_B INTERNAL "I don't want to go."

[Path_A]

621 "Yes, sir."

HANDLER WALTER "Good. Dropping now."

[Path_B]

621 "..."

[sfx: Walter_Hmph_01]

HANDLER WALTER "Wake up, dog. Time to work.."

[branch_AAAA_close]

INTERNAL "The liaison… he hadn't mentioned whether the craft would be unmanned or not…"

"The realization pushed me to the earth in tandem with the increasing gravity as my AC and I plummeted from the mobile garage."

[sfx: boost_01]

"I boosted to break the fall, hoping to shake off the weight of the unwelcome epiphany, too."

621 "Focus."

[sfx: mech_drop_01]

[vfx: viewport_online]

[BG: contaminated_area_02]

[vfx: snow_01]

[sfx: main_system_activating_combat_mode]

INTERNAL "We were closer to the target than I had realized."

"I perched my AC atop a sturdy looking building and quickly studied the putative landscape. I was becoming accustomed to this miserable place."

"There was something captivating about the rotting albedo."

"Orchid-colored blankets of dust and snow and fog embellished the dreary industrial landscape, unable to settle in the steady chaos."

"I was out of the wind at least."

"Without thinking, my hands pushed my AC into action. I was on the move."

[sfx: boost_02]

HANDLER WALTER "We've got a read on the target dead ahead. Now's the time."

INTERNAL "The target was close, but Walter's impeccable piloting in the low cloud-cover had granted us the advantage of stealth."

"Their rendezvous point was in the middle of nowhere. An unremarkable air transport with no public flight path lay in wait on a low makeshift helipad."

"They had clearly gone out of their way not to be noticed."

[branch_AAAB_open]

Choice_A: Commend Arquebus

Choice_B: Commiserate with Balam

[Path_A] 

INTERNAL "Arquebus' Intelligence seemed like to be a force to be reckoned with."

[Path_B] 

INTERNAL "...And I was about to liquidate the fruits of their meticulous endeavors.".

[branch_AAAB_closed]

[sfx: boost_01]

INTERNAL "From here I could see the AC was already active and standing guard near by the transport."

"Its surveillance movements betrayed its operator… no doubt- this was a human pilot."

"My wretched excuse of a heart sank in my chest."

"My throat agreed, plunging downward to join my heart and tightening. Trying to choke me."

"Trying to stop me."

"I wish it had."

"I felt a swell of cold, concentrated adrenaline- a byproduct of the augmentation. A chilling pins and needles feeling that excited my body yet calmed my nerves."

[sfx: coral_adrenaline_01]

"The world slowed down as my reflexes seemed to surpass time itself."

"The desire to overtake my target overrode everything."

"Synthetic instinct thundered through my body-"

"-drowning out the screaming voice within me to hesitate- to halt."

"My machine was an extension of myself, searing unimpeded through space only serving to heighten the anticipation of the chase."

"Burning the very air around me to oblige the deliverance of judgment."

"I had become a predator."

"Without even processing that I had fired, the transport all at once erupted into a fiery plume, its fuel igniting with hellish vivacity."

DAFENG STUDENT PILOT "We're under attack!"

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_viewport_load]

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_speak]

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_idle]

INTERNAL "The pilot's fresh training kicked in, and he immediately moved to the offensive. His distress signal flagged on my viewport."

[sfx: gunfire_01]

"He had no callsign. The interplanetary symbol indicating a student pilot flashed on my screen, as if desperately begging me to stop."

"The sanctuary it promised had no jurisdiction here."

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_hit]

[sfx: mech_crash_01]

"I heard his panicked voice echoing through the speakers and around my body."

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_speak_surprised]

[sfx: male_pilot_it's_an_independent_01]

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_idle]

DAFENG STUDENT PILOT  "Must be the locals… No, it's an independent!"

HANDLER WALTER "The pilot's just a trainee on delivery duty- but don't let your guard down."

INTERNAL "Human voices snuck past the roar of boosters and titanic gunfire into my cockpit and clamored for me to stop."

[sfx: gunfire_01]

BALAM OPERATOR "Independent Mercenary Raven, ceasefire!"

[FG: Balam_operator_head_fade_in]

[FG: Balam_operator_head]

INTERNAL "Her voice was desperate. The corporate aid would not come in time."

BALAM OPERATOR "I repeat! Indep-"

[FG: Balam_operator_head_glitch_out]

INTERNAL "The communication was promptly cut by my handler."

HANDLER WALTER "Ignore it."

[sfx: WALTER_focus]

INTERNAL "I had barely registered it. The lavender world blurred around me and my prey."

"The Tester AC was brutish looking- ugly- unrefined, but I could tell it had tremendous power. The way it moved beguiled deadly potential, just as the briefing had forewarned."

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_speak]

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_idle]

DAFENG STUDENT PILOT "I'll deal with the merc. I've been training for this."

INTERNAL "Walter couldn't stop comms in close proximity. I would be forced to hear this child meet his end."

"A child untested enough that he couldn't yet fathom what failure really meant. His youthful confidence propped up by his training."

"He had skill, but it was eclipsed by assurance."

"As if to fight back those very thoughts, Walter's voice interrupted the chaos."

HANDLER WALTER "His ACS has reached its breaking point. Go for a direct hit."

[vfx: Stagger_alert_01]

[sfx: plasma_sword_hit_01]

INTERNAL "As if commanded by divinity my pulse blade obeyed, and smashed into the tester AC, which stubbornly defended its precious cargo."

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_hit]

[sfx: mech_crash_02]

"The pilot trembled inside the quaking AC, beginning to feel the force of reality."

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_speak_determined]

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_idle]

DAFENG STUDENT PILOT "The Redguns need this AC…! I can't fail this mission!"

INTERNAL "The bubbling compassion in my heart blistered and collapsed with each opening he gave me- there were so many."

"He was pitifully outmatched."

"His indomitable machine drew the fight out, eating every blow, asking for more, and I was too eager to strike."

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_speak]

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_idle]

DAFENG STUDENT PILOT "Damn it! I can't die like this."

"I can't die to a merc who kills only for credits."

[sfx: gunfire_02]

INTERNAL "The surrounding structures meant to obfuscate their escape had now cornered him."

"His training had given him control of his AC, but not enough to outmaneuver me."

"It was tragic."

[branch_ABBB_open]

Choice A: Stall

Choice B: End it quickly

[Path_A]

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_speak_determined]

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_idle]

DAFENG STUDENT PILOT "I- I will get this AC to Commander Michigan!"

INTERNAL "Something stirred in my opponent."

[sfx: boost_02]

"He had found some sudden source of inspiration, and I could see his demeanor change. A second wind rose up within him."

"He advanced aggressively, using the terrain to his advantage."

"There was more awareness in his movement now."

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_speak_surprised]

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_idle]

DAFENG STUDENT PILOT "I'm… keeping up with a real merc! My training is paying off!"

[sfx: gunfire_02]

INTERNAL "He was shadowing me. A handful of his shells hit their target but I deflected them, and the damage was minimal- expected." 

"We danced."

"He had found new sure-footedness in patterns woven by my piloting, yes, but he still couldn't quite reach me."

[sfx: boost_03]

"He couldn't close."

"There wasn't time for him to learn on the job."

"Our AC's scorched the mud and snow beneath our feet. The filthy water level was rising, but nothing else had changed."
"What he perceived to be keeping up was me guiding him into a more vulnerable spot, though he continued to be aware of his cover."

"I let him fire at me. I played defensively."

"I…"

"I don't know whether I wanted to protect him… or if I wanted a better fight, but I remember thinking…"

" "Please." "

" "Please." "

"You have to close this distance! You have to push me back!"

"If you don't-!"

[sfx: gunfire_01]

“…”

"The skirmish dragged on. I had let the window of opportunity open for reinforcements to arrive."

"He wasn't pressuring me, or fending me off, he was simply following me. Trying to learn from me-"

"-The way that children fight."

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_speak]

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_speak_surprised]

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_idle]

DAFENG STUDENT PILOT "I may just be a cog in a machine, but my job matters- Augh! No!"

[sfx: weapon_eject_01]

INTERNAL "His AC ejected its shoulder armaments. He was running out of ammo."

"He should have ejected himself, but I knew he wouldn't."

"I knew the type. He imagined that cockpit as his casket until the bitter end."

"-And when the bitter end decided to reveal itself he would be too frightened to remember to leave."

“Training hadn’t shown him a glimpse of death’s real face.”

HANDLER WALTER "There's no variation in his attacks, and he's not fully armed... Land a direct hit. It's time we wrapped this up."

INTERNAL "I listened, and changed my movements."

"The new attack pattern combined with his draining artillery and stamina had finally extinguished the young pilot's kindled hope."

"I was tired of this charade of a dance too, and Walter's voice was hard for me to ignore."

[Path_B](proceed)

[branch_ABBB_Closed]

"My mouth had gone dry. My blood was cold. I could feel it coursing with every move of the controls."

"My sensations began to separate, and I felt myself watching my AC from outside even as I felt the buttons press against my fingertips."

"My AC moved in close."

"He open-fired dead at it."

[sfx: bullet_ricochet_01]

"The machine danced around the trajectory of the bullets and kicked him effortlessly. Almost mocking him."

[sfx: mech_kick_01]

"An unimaginable amount of force sent him flying into the waiting open jaws of a trench, tearing the walls of rubble and sending up thick curtains of dust."

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_scream]

[sfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_AAH]

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_idle_damaged]

[sfx: mech_crash_01]

DAFENG STUDENT PILOT "AAAAAGGHHH!!!!"

INTERNAL "He knew."
"He was scared."

"Whether it was the shock of the mechs connecting, or his scream, something came rushing up within me to my fingertips just as my AC was closing the distance."
"Whether it was consciousness or fear I'm still not sure."
"And as I swerved the manual controls to end the fight with a swing of my blade I…"

[branch_AABB_open]

Choice_A: Pushed forward

Choice_B: Pulled back

[Path_A] 

INTERNAL "I pushed hard with my left hand. Harder than I needed to."

"I had to end it… maybe I could make it painless."

[sfx: plasma_sword_hit_01]

[sfx: AC_explode_01]

"The light of the pulse blade cut through the battered machine, disengaging the core, and igniting the fuel cell."

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_destroyed]

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_defeated_dead]

"Orange and gold flames and sparks erupted forth as the AC fell into the gray lake, disrupting the water as it found peace."

"The damage delayed the pilot's final message before it escaped from the black box."

DAFENG STUDENT PILOT "I… I just… I just wanted a callsign of my own…"

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_transmission_end]

INTERNAL "His final words just before he had been… defeated."

[Path_B] 

INTERNAL "...I pulled back- I broke the movement."

[sfx: boost_03]

[sfx: plasma_sword_hit_01]

"The sway caused my pulse blade to cut the front of the tester AC wide open, but the core was intact. Otherwise that should have been the final blow."

"Then- his machine staggered forward. It was badly damaged, and through the faults I had cut I could just make out the placement of the core."

"I had to move fast."

[sfx: mech_crash_01]

"I boosted forward, pinning the mech against the battered trench. Its fuel was nearly spent from the length of the fight at the hands of the amateur pilot."

"My instincts to simply react rattled against the makeshift plan I had just cobbled together."

"I saw the pilot shaking in the lock box as my AC pinned his craft down."

"The damage to his camera was apparent, but the cockpit looked intact."

"Neither of us were trained for what I was about to do."

"Disengaging the auto action from my AC's left arm, I cranked it forward, and opened the pulse blade."

[sfx: plasma_sword_hit_02]

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_destroyed]

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_defeated_alive]

[sfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_weeze]

"The motion lanced the tester AC in half, just above the waist joint- cleanly cutting the battered chest away from the reinforced waist."

"The core falling to the ground from that height would be a beating, but not a fatal one."

HANDLER WALTER "621, what are you-

[sfx: plasma_sword_hit_01]

INTERNAL "As the torso clattered like thunder to the ground I plunged the blade into the shoulders, tearing and twisting the arms away from the body."

[sfx: plasma_sword_hit_02]

"The heat from the blade only further disfigured the machine." 

[sfx: plasma_sword_hit_01]

"I pierced the extremities of its corpse over and over."

[sfx: plasma_sword_hit_02]

"It was completely mangled. Its parts were now pieces."

"Its field data, useless."

"Its fuel cell, empty."

"Its pilot, alive."

"I could hear him wheezing on my comms. The ragged breath of life." 

[vfx: DAFENG_STUDENT_PILOT_transmission_end]

"I wouldn't be getting any thanks from either side, and I doubted Dafeng would be praising his performance later."

[sfx: ambient_snow_BG_01]

HANDLER WALTER "Knock it off, 621! It's a scrap heap. We're done here."

[sfx: WALTER_hnrgh]

INTERNAL "He grumbled. I could hear palpable annoyance in his voice. I would get a scolding. My opponent would, too."

"...But at least we survived."

[MARKER_002]

[branch_AABB_closed]

[sfx: mech_boost_01]

INTERNAL "..."

"It was over."

"None of the transport staff had survived, and the new tester AC lay utterly demolished- no longer a threat."

"...No longer moving."

"The adrenaline began to fade, the pins and needles receded, and I dared not look back."

"Following the active coordinates Walter had sent me I set off, leaving the scene of destruction behind."

[sfx: boost_01]

"It had all felt so long. Time had been slow, but seeing the clock on my dashboard I realized it had only been minutes."

"...To think a life so short could be cut down in even a fraction of that."

[MARKER_002]

"I don't know what I was thinking, pulling that stunt."

"I didn't deserve to label anything I did as 'the right thing'- even this…"

"But all the same… I can't say that I felt regret about it."
[transition fade to black]

[END]

Asset List (Ideal)

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