S-CRY-ed Fan Fiction ❯ Alter Ego ❯ Alter Ego Chapter 5 ( Chapter 5 )
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By: Shellbullet 
Anime/Manga: S-CRY-ed Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Sci-fi / Post-apocalyptic / Action | Type: Self Insertion | Uploaded On: 05.20.2005 | Updated On: 05.21.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 3.1K | Visits: 188 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: S-CRY-ed Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Sci-fi / Post-apocalyptic / Action | Type: Self Insertion | Uploaded On: 05.20.2005 | Updated On: 05.21.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 3.1K | Visits: 188 | Status: Completed
Alter Ego Chapter 5
When we last left me I was laying against the wall of the underground HOLY training course with a hole in my gut after getting the shit beat out of me by a DARS squad. Pretty hopeless looking right now, but do you really think I’d die that easily? (Pretty cliche, I know.)
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As my eyes close I can see the bladed tentacle of the DARS alter racing towards me to smash my head open against the wall. It almost feels like I’m going into a very restful sleep as the soothing darkness envelops me. I’m thinking, ‘So this is how I’m going to die; without accomplishing anything. I’ll never find that fire alter user and, worst of all, I let Megumi down. I guess I just wasn’t good enough.....’
Suddenly I hear Megumi’s voice, “What’s wrong with you? You made a promise to me.”
“Huh? What?”
Megumi appears in front of me and starts talking to me. “You made a promise to me you jerk.”
“What are you doing here?” I ask, kind of confused.
“I guess I’m here to try and motivate you to keep you from dying, this is your hallucination. So shut up and let me talk.”
“Oh, sorry. Go ahead.”
“Thank you. You promised to stay with me and protect me. Are you going to just give up and leave me alone. You can beat these guys with no problems.”
“Are you kidding. I have a gaping hole where my stomach used to be.”
“That doesn’t matter. You’re an alter user. With your abilities, you can do the impossible. Besides If you don’t beat these guys what’s going to happen to me? They’ll probably kick me out of the city. I have nowhere to go now; and without you protecting me who knows what will happen to me.”
After she says that, our surroundings burst into flames and this creepy laughter begins echoing around us. Suddenly, the alter user that killed my parents materializes behind Megumi. He grabs her with his taloned hands and pulls her away from me. As I chase after them he is still laughing at me as he slowly disappears into the flames around us with Megumi looking back at me with an incredibly sad look on her face. A curtain of flame finally comes between us and I lose sight of them. I look around in an effort to find them growing more frantic and angry by the second. “Megumi!! Where are you?! Say something, I’ll find you!!”
When I don’t hear a reply, I completely lose it. “AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGHHHH!!!!!!” I scream as loud as I can and suddenly the flames disappear and I am back in the alter tunnel from my dream again, facing the mirror image of myself with the advanced alter. This time, my determination drives me to grab for the image in front of me. The second our hands meet there is a flash of dark energy that engulfs me and I feel a overwhelming amount of power surge into my body as the image in front of me fades and is absorbed into me.
This new surge of power jolts me back to reality and I wake up feeling better than ever (despite the hole in my stomach). I quickly stand up with my alter energy glowing around me like an aura. The razor sharp tentacle from the DARS alter makes contact with my alter energy and instantly stops and disintegrates a second later. The main body of the alter screams in pain and one of the squad members clutches his right arm in pain and falls to his knees. The huge surge of power emanating from me causes the members of the DARS squad to take a few steps backward, almost like they’re scared of me. I concentrate and use the disintegrated matter from the tentacle to regenerate the hole in my stomach and the various other cuts on my body.
*******Back up in the observation deck*******
“Well Cougar, it seems that you were right. He was able to break through to the next level.” Said Commander Zigmar. “This one has a lot of potential, we should keep an eye on him.” Then Cougar looks at the Commander and says, “Shouldn’t we stop the test and withdraw the DARS squad? Judging by how things are going, he might just kill all of them.” The Commander smiles slightly, “No. Continue the test. Let’s see what he’s capable of.” and turns back to the monitors to observe the fight. Behind him, Cougar also watches the fight with a slightly troubled look on his face.
*******Back in the Arena*******
Once my injuries are healed I concentrate on the new power I have and my transformation begins. Large portions of the arena around me break down into alter mist and flow quickly towards me. My alter begins to form as usual but starts growing all the way up my arms and legs in vein-like patterns and fills out and develops plates and spikes all the way up my arms and legs. Armor grows around my neck that is harder than titanium but is still incredibly flexible. Finally a headpiece with two sharp, hornlike projections above where my ears are grows around my head. When my transformation is complete I open my eyes and my pupils have turned jet black. I stare at the DARS squad and grin maniacally at them.
Their alter immediately regenerates the arm I destroyed and lashes out with all of it’s free tentacles. I effortlessly dodge every single one, moving too fast for them to even come close to hitting me. After I dodge them in midair I grow jagged blades from my arms and legs and they start to crackle with black and dark blue energy. “TWILIGHT EDGE!!!!!!”, curved blades of black/blue energy fly from my blades and sever the tentacles in dozens of places. As the tentacle pieces hit the ground and dissolve, I land on the wall across the arena from the alter and use grappling spikes created from the feet of my armor to stand effortlessly on the wall. From my perch I taunt the DARS squad, “ Come on guys. That won’t work on me now. You have to do better than that.” I smile dangerously, “Unfortunately, I’m not going to give you the chance.” I jump down from the wall and land lightly on the ground. “Let’s see how you do in the dark!” I create dozens of sharp, dense spikes on my arms. I yell “SPIKE SHOWER!!!!!!” and fling them at the lights on the ceiling. They all hit their targets and, in a spectacular shower of sparks, disable all the lights in the room. “Let’s see if you can find me.” I say as I use my new powers to melt into the shadows and become virtually invisible. With my senses enhanced far beyond what they are in the first form of my alter I can see the DARS squad is standing back to back with their alter close by, trying to find me, I can hear their rapid breathing, and even smell the sweat dripping from them. As I stalk around them in circles I say “What’s the matter, can’t see me? Because I can sure see you.” I laugh insanely, my voice seemingly coming from all directions at the same time, confusing them even more. “You’re pretty tough together, but let’s see how you do when I take you out one by one.”
I grow a barbed harpoon type of blade from my right arm and fling it at the closest DARS squad member. The harpoon hits it’s target and punches straight through his chest and pins him to the floor as he falls. Almost instantly one of the arms of their alter disintegrates and doesn’t grow back. The remaining DARS soldiers spread out a little bit more and disengage their alters in an effort to try and find me and I see my chance to take out a couple more of them.
I creep up behind two more of them absolutely silently and grow scythe blades from my gauntlets and simultaneously slice them down the center of their bodies. Before their bodies hit the ground and before the others are able to retaliate, I am gone again. I can still see them standing around, paralyzed with fear, or indecision, or both.
“Come on! You guys can do better than this! I’m getting bored and you guys are dropping like flies! I guess you just aren’t worth my time anymore.” I effortlessly pick off two more DARS soldiers, hoping in vain that they would be able to put up some semblance of a fight, but I am extremely disappointed at how weak they are.
“You are all so WEAK!!!” I yell at them from the darkness, the disgust just dripping from my voice, “I am on a whole other level from you now. There is no reason for this to continue any longer. I’m going to finish you all right now.” I reveal myself from the shadows and begin to gather my power. The remaining DARS members turn toward me and frantically scramble to regroup and attack me. I clasp my hands in front of me and focus my power. I create a curved double bladed sword from my armor in my hands and it begins to pulse with dark energy. The DARS squad sends their alters after me as a last ditch effort to stop me. Before they get to me I say “SPECTER BLADE!!” and I rush straight at them. As I run past their alters I slash them to pieces and as the alters fall to the floor and dissolve, I then turn my attention to the remaining DARS squad. I run towards them with my sword still in hand. I decapitate or bisect all of them in the space of about six seconds, saving the squad leader for last. The last thing he sees is my face bathed in shadows, with my eyes glowing ever so slightly in the darkness right before my blade goes through his chest. Now that I’m finished, I reabsorb the blade back into my armor and walk away from the arena towards where the finish line is. With my new power I am able to make it there in no time.
I walk calmly into the finish point and I hear a buzzer sound, signaling that the test is over. Then I hear a voice over the intercom system, “Congratulations! You have successfully completed the assessment test. Please exit through the door behind you.” I smile broadly and deactivate my alter. When my alter is gone I start walking towards the door to leave. Or, I try to, but I immediately collapse and fall flat on my face. “Ow...... Well this isn’t good.” My whole body hurts so much that I can’t even move. I just lay there drifting in and out of consciousness until I feel some people pick me up, put me onto a stretcher, and begin to rush me out of the area. That’s the last thing I remember before completely blacking out into a dreamless sleep.
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Five Days Later
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I see a growing light as I fight my way back from unconsciousness. Slowly my vision focuses enough for me to see blurry images of a room with a lot of white in it. I can also see someone sitting next to my bed. My vision clears a little more and I see that the room I’m in appears to be a hospital room and the person sitting next to me is Megumi! She is sitting in a chair next to the bed and it looks like she is sleeping. I sit up (with a little effort) and lean over close to her.
“Megumi.... Megumi.... Hey get up.” I say as I poke her really hard on the side of the head.
“YAAAHHH!!” SMACK!!!
Before I realize what happened she screams and belts me across the face really hard, sending me backwards back onto the bed. “OW!! What the hell did you do that for!!! I’m injured here!!!”
“Well you scared me you ass! It’s like a refl......” she trails off as she realizes what just happened. She screams “You’re awake!!!!” and runs over to the bed and hugs me as hard as she can.
“I won’t be for long if you don’t ease up!” I say in a strangled voice. She gasps and quickly lets me go. She blushes a little bit and says, “Sorry about that. You were out cold for almost a week. I guess I got a little carried away.”
“Meh, it’s alright I guess.” an uncomfortable silence passes and I say, “Umm... So did anything happen while I was out?”
She quickly composes herself and clears her throat before talking. “Well, um, I’ve heard through the grapevine around here that the people in charge have restarted some kind of “re-development” project that was started a few years ago but had to be put on hold because of money problems and constant sabotage from Inners.”
“Why are they starting it again after all this time?”
“I don’t know. It probably has to do with the increased funding that HOLD has received and that HOLY has increased in size since the last re-development project.”
“Hasn’t there been any resistance from the Inners?”
“Yeah, of course. There have been a few scattered and unorganized uprisings against HOLD units from both small human militia groups and native alters. But they don’t last long, all the groups that have fought have been completely crushed and sent to labor camps or imprisoned at HOLY. There haven’t been any serious attacks yet. But there is already some talk of preemptively sending fully armed HOLD divisions on patrol routes to restrict rebel activity.”
“Yikes. Things are really starting to heat up. Good thing I had all that rest, I’ll probably be put on active duty soon.”
“Yes, you definitely will be.” says a familiar deep voice from the doorway.
We look over and see the Commander standing there.
We both quickly try to compose ourselves and salute but he holds up his hand and says, “It’s alright, take it easy. No need to stress yourself while your off duty.”
“Thank you sir.” I say and relax back onto my bed. “Um, can I help you with something?”
“I came by to congratulate you on passing the skill assessment and tell you that you will be our new covert ops and close combat specialist. But I also came here to ask you about a more serious matter.” He says as he hands me a file folder. “We captured a certain alter user a few days ago and we were following the typical procedure for dealing with alter criminals when he escaped from his cell, posed as a HOLD soldier and managed to get to the lounge area before blowing his cover and attacking me and several other HOLY members. He then took one of our personel hostage and managed to make an escape despite our best efforts.” While he is talking I open up the file and instantly notice the picture of the “alter criminal” inside. ‘Holy shit! It’s Kazuma!’ I think to myself. I manage to keep my face completely straight while the Commander keeps talking. “If you didn’t know, no one has ever escaped from HOLY. And I was wondering if you have ever encountered this particular alter user during your time in the Lost Ground.” I quickly consider my options in this situation and since I still don’t like HOLY I decide to lie. “No, I’ve never come across this guy before. But if he managed to escape from here he’s gotta be good.” I close the file and hand it back to the commander. He stares at me for a second and says “I see. Well since that incident we have had repeated problems with this particular native alter attacking our patrols and encampments. I thought I’d warn you about him before I put you on active duty since you might become a target.”
“Thank you for the warning but there probably won’t be a problem.” I say back to him.
He looks back at me and says, “I hope you’re right. Once the doctors give you a clean bill of health you will be put on active duty; this will probably be within the next day or so since you are conscious now. Enjoy the remaining time you have off.” He salutes at us, we salute back, and he leaves.
“Wow, why didn’t you tell me that they caught Kazuma and he managed to escape?” I ask Megumi.
“I was getting to that but the commander showed up before I could.” she replies, sounding a little annoyed.
“They have no idea what a major enemy they made. Once this guy gets something in his head he does not give up. EVER. Why do you think I hate fighting the guy?”
“Well something big is happening alright. We’ve been getting more and more activity in the intelligence division and there have been much more troop activity lately. They are gearing up for some kind of major operation that is going down very soon.”
I seem lost in thought for a second before replying. I smile slightly at her and laugh, “Heh. Well whatever it is I’d better be ready, things are going to get very interesting very soon. I can feel it.”
END CHAPTER 5
TO BE CONTINUED......
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When we last left me I was laying against the wall of the underground HOLY training course with a hole in my gut after getting the shit beat out of me by a DARS squad. Pretty hopeless looking right now, but do you really think I’d die that easily? (Pretty cliche, I know.)
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As my eyes close I can see the bladed tentacle of the DARS alter racing towards me to smash my head open against the wall. It almost feels like I’m going into a very restful sleep as the soothing darkness envelops me. I’m thinking, ‘So this is how I’m going to die; without accomplishing anything. I’ll never find that fire alter user and, worst of all, I let Megumi down. I guess I just wasn’t good enough.....’
Suddenly I hear Megumi’s voice, “What’s wrong with you? You made a promise to me.”
“Huh? What?”
Megumi appears in front of me and starts talking to me. “You made a promise to me you jerk.”
“What are you doing here?” I ask, kind of confused.
“I guess I’m here to try and motivate you to keep you from dying, this is your hallucination. So shut up and let me talk.”
“Oh, sorry. Go ahead.”
“Thank you. You promised to stay with me and protect me. Are you going to just give up and leave me alone. You can beat these guys with no problems.”
“Are you kidding. I have a gaping hole where my stomach used to be.”
“That doesn’t matter. You’re an alter user. With your abilities, you can do the impossible. Besides If you don’t beat these guys what’s going to happen to me? They’ll probably kick me out of the city. I have nowhere to go now; and without you protecting me who knows what will happen to me.”
After she says that, our surroundings burst into flames and this creepy laughter begins echoing around us. Suddenly, the alter user that killed my parents materializes behind Megumi. He grabs her with his taloned hands and pulls her away from me. As I chase after them he is still laughing at me as he slowly disappears into the flames around us with Megumi looking back at me with an incredibly sad look on her face. A curtain of flame finally comes between us and I lose sight of them. I look around in an effort to find them growing more frantic and angry by the second. “Megumi!! Where are you?! Say something, I’ll find you!!”
When I don’t hear a reply, I completely lose it. “AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGHHHH!!!!!!” I scream as loud as I can and suddenly the flames disappear and I am back in the alter tunnel from my dream again, facing the mirror image of myself with the advanced alter. This time, my determination drives me to grab for the image in front of me. The second our hands meet there is a flash of dark energy that engulfs me and I feel a overwhelming amount of power surge into my body as the image in front of me fades and is absorbed into me.
This new surge of power jolts me back to reality and I wake up feeling better than ever (despite the hole in my stomach). I quickly stand up with my alter energy glowing around me like an aura. The razor sharp tentacle from the DARS alter makes contact with my alter energy and instantly stops and disintegrates a second later. The main body of the alter screams in pain and one of the squad members clutches his right arm in pain and falls to his knees. The huge surge of power emanating from me causes the members of the DARS squad to take a few steps backward, almost like they’re scared of me. I concentrate and use the disintegrated matter from the tentacle to regenerate the hole in my stomach and the various other cuts on my body.
*******Back up in the observation deck*******
“Well Cougar, it seems that you were right. He was able to break through to the next level.” Said Commander Zigmar. “This one has a lot of potential, we should keep an eye on him.” Then Cougar looks at the Commander and says, “Shouldn’t we stop the test and withdraw the DARS squad? Judging by how things are going, he might just kill all of them.” The Commander smiles slightly, “No. Continue the test. Let’s see what he’s capable of.” and turns back to the monitors to observe the fight. Behind him, Cougar also watches the fight with a slightly troubled look on his face.
*******Back in the Arena*******
Once my injuries are healed I concentrate on the new power I have and my transformation begins. Large portions of the arena around me break down into alter mist and flow quickly towards me. My alter begins to form as usual but starts growing all the way up my arms and legs in vein-like patterns and fills out and develops plates and spikes all the way up my arms and legs. Armor grows around my neck that is harder than titanium but is still incredibly flexible. Finally a headpiece with two sharp, hornlike projections above where my ears are grows around my head. When my transformation is complete I open my eyes and my pupils have turned jet black. I stare at the DARS squad and grin maniacally at them.
Their alter immediately regenerates the arm I destroyed and lashes out with all of it’s free tentacles. I effortlessly dodge every single one, moving too fast for them to even come close to hitting me. After I dodge them in midair I grow jagged blades from my arms and legs and they start to crackle with black and dark blue energy. “TWILIGHT EDGE!!!!!!”, curved blades of black/blue energy fly from my blades and sever the tentacles in dozens of places. As the tentacle pieces hit the ground and dissolve, I land on the wall across the arena from the alter and use grappling spikes created from the feet of my armor to stand effortlessly on the wall. From my perch I taunt the DARS squad, “ Come on guys. That won’t work on me now. You have to do better than that.” I smile dangerously, “Unfortunately, I’m not going to give you the chance.” I jump down from the wall and land lightly on the ground. “Let’s see how you do in the dark!” I create dozens of sharp, dense spikes on my arms. I yell “SPIKE SHOWER!!!!!!” and fling them at the lights on the ceiling. They all hit their targets and, in a spectacular shower of sparks, disable all the lights in the room. “Let’s see if you can find me.” I say as I use my new powers to melt into the shadows and become virtually invisible. With my senses enhanced far beyond what they are in the first form of my alter I can see the DARS squad is standing back to back with their alter close by, trying to find me, I can hear their rapid breathing, and even smell the sweat dripping from them. As I stalk around them in circles I say “What’s the matter, can’t see me? Because I can sure see you.” I laugh insanely, my voice seemingly coming from all directions at the same time, confusing them even more. “You’re pretty tough together, but let’s see how you do when I take you out one by one.”
I grow a barbed harpoon type of blade from my right arm and fling it at the closest DARS squad member. The harpoon hits it’s target and punches straight through his chest and pins him to the floor as he falls. Almost instantly one of the arms of their alter disintegrates and doesn’t grow back. The remaining DARS soldiers spread out a little bit more and disengage their alters in an effort to try and find me and I see my chance to take out a couple more of them.
I creep up behind two more of them absolutely silently and grow scythe blades from my gauntlets and simultaneously slice them down the center of their bodies. Before their bodies hit the ground and before the others are able to retaliate, I am gone again. I can still see them standing around, paralyzed with fear, or indecision, or both.
“Come on! You guys can do better than this! I’m getting bored and you guys are dropping like flies! I guess you just aren’t worth my time anymore.” I effortlessly pick off two more DARS soldiers, hoping in vain that they would be able to put up some semblance of a fight, but I am extremely disappointed at how weak they are.
“You are all so WEAK!!!” I yell at them from the darkness, the disgust just dripping from my voice, “I am on a whole other level from you now. There is no reason for this to continue any longer. I’m going to finish you all right now.” I reveal myself from the shadows and begin to gather my power. The remaining DARS members turn toward me and frantically scramble to regroup and attack me. I clasp my hands in front of me and focus my power. I create a curved double bladed sword from my armor in my hands and it begins to pulse with dark energy. The DARS squad sends their alters after me as a last ditch effort to stop me. Before they get to me I say “SPECTER BLADE!!” and I rush straight at them. As I run past their alters I slash them to pieces and as the alters fall to the floor and dissolve, I then turn my attention to the remaining DARS squad. I run towards them with my sword still in hand. I decapitate or bisect all of them in the space of about six seconds, saving the squad leader for last. The last thing he sees is my face bathed in shadows, with my eyes glowing ever so slightly in the darkness right before my blade goes through his chest. Now that I’m finished, I reabsorb the blade back into my armor and walk away from the arena towards where the finish line is. With my new power I am able to make it there in no time.
I walk calmly into the finish point and I hear a buzzer sound, signaling that the test is over. Then I hear a voice over the intercom system, “Congratulations! You have successfully completed the assessment test. Please exit through the door behind you.” I smile broadly and deactivate my alter. When my alter is gone I start walking towards the door to leave. Or, I try to, but I immediately collapse and fall flat on my face. “Ow...... Well this isn’t good.” My whole body hurts so much that I can’t even move. I just lay there drifting in and out of consciousness until I feel some people pick me up, put me onto a stretcher, and begin to rush me out of the area. That’s the last thing I remember before completely blacking out into a dreamless sleep.
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Five Days Later
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I see a growing light as I fight my way back from unconsciousness. Slowly my vision focuses enough for me to see blurry images of a room with a lot of white in it. I can also see someone sitting next to my bed. My vision clears a little more and I see that the room I’m in appears to be a hospital room and the person sitting next to me is Megumi! She is sitting in a chair next to the bed and it looks like she is sleeping. I sit up (with a little effort) and lean over close to her.
“Megumi.... Megumi.... Hey get up.” I say as I poke her really hard on the side of the head.
“YAAAHHH!!” SMACK!!!
Before I realize what happened she screams and belts me across the face really hard, sending me backwards back onto the bed. “OW!! What the hell did you do that for!!! I’m injured here!!!”
“Well you scared me you ass! It’s like a refl......” she trails off as she realizes what just happened. She screams “You’re awake!!!!” and runs over to the bed and hugs me as hard as she can.
“I won’t be for long if you don’t ease up!” I say in a strangled voice. She gasps and quickly lets me go. She blushes a little bit and says, “Sorry about that. You were out cold for almost a week. I guess I got a little carried away.”
“Meh, it’s alright I guess.” an uncomfortable silence passes and I say, “Umm... So did anything happen while I was out?”
She quickly composes herself and clears her throat before talking. “Well, um, I’ve heard through the grapevine around here that the people in charge have restarted some kind of “re-development” project that was started a few years ago but had to be put on hold because of money problems and constant sabotage from Inners.”
“Why are they starting it again after all this time?”
“I don’t know. It probably has to do with the increased funding that HOLD has received and that HOLY has increased in size since the last re-development project.”
“Hasn’t there been any resistance from the Inners?”
“Yeah, of course. There have been a few scattered and unorganized uprisings against HOLD units from both small human militia groups and native alters. But they don’t last long, all the groups that have fought have been completely crushed and sent to labor camps or imprisoned at HOLY. There haven’t been any serious attacks yet. But there is already some talk of preemptively sending fully armed HOLD divisions on patrol routes to restrict rebel activity.”
“Yikes. Things are really starting to heat up. Good thing I had all that rest, I’ll probably be put on active duty soon.”
“Yes, you definitely will be.” says a familiar deep voice from the doorway.
We look over and see the Commander standing there.
We both quickly try to compose ourselves and salute but he holds up his hand and says, “It’s alright, take it easy. No need to stress yourself while your off duty.”
“Thank you sir.” I say and relax back onto my bed. “Um, can I help you with something?”
“I came by to congratulate you on passing the skill assessment and tell you that you will be our new covert ops and close combat specialist. But I also came here to ask you about a more serious matter.” He says as he hands me a file folder. “We captured a certain alter user a few days ago and we were following the typical procedure for dealing with alter criminals when he escaped from his cell, posed as a HOLD soldier and managed to get to the lounge area before blowing his cover and attacking me and several other HOLY members. He then took one of our personel hostage and managed to make an escape despite our best efforts.” While he is talking I open up the file and instantly notice the picture of the “alter criminal” inside. ‘Holy shit! It’s Kazuma!’ I think to myself. I manage to keep my face completely straight while the Commander keeps talking. “If you didn’t know, no one has ever escaped from HOLY. And I was wondering if you have ever encountered this particular alter user during your time in the Lost Ground.” I quickly consider my options in this situation and since I still don’t like HOLY I decide to lie. “No, I’ve never come across this guy before. But if he managed to escape from here he’s gotta be good.” I close the file and hand it back to the commander. He stares at me for a second and says “I see. Well since that incident we have had repeated problems with this particular native alter attacking our patrols and encampments. I thought I’d warn you about him before I put you on active duty since you might become a target.”
“Thank you for the warning but there probably won’t be a problem.” I say back to him.
He looks back at me and says, “I hope you’re right. Once the doctors give you a clean bill of health you will be put on active duty; this will probably be within the next day or so since you are conscious now. Enjoy the remaining time you have off.” He salutes at us, we salute back, and he leaves.
“Wow, why didn’t you tell me that they caught Kazuma and he managed to escape?” I ask Megumi.
“I was getting to that but the commander showed up before I could.” she replies, sounding a little annoyed.
“They have no idea what a major enemy they made. Once this guy gets something in his head he does not give up. EVER. Why do you think I hate fighting the guy?”
“Well something big is happening alright. We’ve been getting more and more activity in the intelligence division and there have been much more troop activity lately. They are gearing up for some kind of major operation that is going down very soon.”
I seem lost in thought for a second before replying. I smile slightly at her and laugh, “Heh. Well whatever it is I’d better be ready, things are going to get very interesting very soon. I can feel it.”
END CHAPTER 5
TO BE CONTINUED......
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