The Undying Warrior

Prologue

Earth

Earth is in shambles, a desperate Resistance relentlessly, and almost unsuccessfully battled to Central Command; the last standing symbol of Father's power. With the surveillance system for Father gone, an assault team lead by commander Leon, invaded Father's tower to capture or kill him. After a well executed capture, a massive squad of combat helicopters each carrying Ootheca warheads sent Father's authority crumbing to the ground, along with his tour--under Father's orders. However, those killed in the tragic scene also included Leon, and the entire resistance assault force. The Resistance, hoping they could end the war once and for all, had taken a turn for the worst.

RD, Rosary, Leon, and Fran are gone, the Executive and Coastal Sector have both been evacuated leaving only the Corporation forces in the once powerful cities, destroying them completely. Chief has--yet again--returned after his second defeat to kill that single AC pilot. Rejoined with Carol, Chief has one more weapon that he is confident will do the trick--Exusia.

"The experiment was a failure." Said Carol in an emotionless voice. "You're no different from the countless corpses that lay buried in this wasteland. You continue to fight, knowing you're sealing your own fate." She continued flatly. "Such insignificant, foolish beings." She finished in an almost disgusted tone.

The orange and white tetrapod flew in high boost towards the place Chief was said to be located. The only thing that made him a little uneasy was the fact that Carol, Chief's accomplice, had told him. It was what used to be a large city that now lays in the Contaminated Area, ravaged by nuclear warfare. Large cone-like almost glowing clouds of chemicals and clouds pulled into into a circular pattern were still present from the nuclear fallout.

  "Oh I wouldn't say that." Mused Chief. "Perhaps fighting was what humans were meant to do." He said in a dark voice.

  "Interesting." Replied Carol. "But that's nothing more than a theory."

Chief's AC, the mighty Exusia (Muiltiplayer version) unfolded its huge metal wings and the arms slid from there sockets.

  "Very well, let's test it." Said Chief enthusiastically. "You should be able to handle this." He said to the tetrapod that stood before him.

In Exusia's chest, the large blue radiating orb of energy formed and was afterwards covered up by massive armor plates, followed by a very loud humming noise that pulsed whenever Exusia moved. His enemy immediately went into scan mode to analyze his weaknesses and A.P. levels. What he saw was less then settling; the A.P. was over 200,000, and was at least 1,500 in K.E. (Kinetic energy) and C.E. (Chemical energy). T.E. (Thermal energy) was over 3,000, but luckily (for the tetrapod) there were no T.E. weapons in sight, aside from Exusia's arsenal.

This was going to be quite a battle.

Chief launched forward at the AC and deployed the massive laser blades at the edge of the wings. The tetrapod saw this maneuver coming and dashed to the bottom of a collapsed building and boost jumped up it's side. Chief looked at the top to see it in ready position, a deployed Erbsen SC62 sniper cannon aimed at Chief. He dodged the first high-velocity K.E. bullet and shot a volley of Laser and high-explosive rounds at him. Being in ready position, this prevented the AC from dodging all the fire, and was struck by an effective portion. Dropping his A.P. down to 29775, and staggering him. Chief read an effective hit on target from his H.U.D. (Heads up display), and moved to fire again, when he was struck by two sniper cannon shells. This did a serious number on Exusia due to K.E. being his main weakness, and dropped his A.P. down to 182,937.

  "He has skill..."

At this, Chief decided to kick this battle up a notch. He shot upward just as another sniper cannon bullet whisked by him, just missing his left wing, and hovered there. A strange and very loud buzzing noise emitted from it at it's wings slowly straitened out and the arms joined them. Another round flew at him--only to simply bounce off of the transparent red shield that now encased Exusia. The AC disengaged ready position and threw the sniper cannon off to the side, and brought it's Seidenbaum SR13 sniper rifle to it's unfilled hand.

Suddenly, Exusia shot over the AC in flight mode, the same humming noise still being heard. Only now, there were two solid beams of fire shooting out of both the laser blade frames while Exusia flew in a circular pattern. As he turned, the AC watched in almost horror as the right beam--the one angled downward--sliced the remaining part of a building clean in half. The beam was moving towards the AC at an alarming rate. Closer...

Closer...

Only one building away...

The Glow showed on the AC's orange--

It dashed in high boost to the side, nearly cutting the tip of his sniper rifle off, and fired it and the Tansy RF12 in it's right hand. These rounds, like the other, bounced sheepishly off. Exusia's attack lasted for about another minute before it rocketed straight at the AC and did a stabbing motion with the now short but insanely powerful blades, nearly obliterating the building behind the AC. This attack, unfortunately, missed, which gave the AC a chance to return the favor.

The assault of K.E. bullets damaged Exusia, his A.P. was now down to 161,559. Chief was fascinated, he never thought a normal AC would've been able to last at least five minutes against him. Chief glided around two buildings and shot at the AC, lasers and high-explosive rounds blasing. Most of them missed, but fortunately for him, the AC was looking in the wrong direction, not seeing which way he had gone and not being able to turn fast enough, so Exusia closed in and struck with both laser blades. He read an effective hit on his screen, and stopped. He looked down to see the AC, and almost burst out in laughter. There was no torso left on the AC, just the legs which had only three still attached, and the top half was at the side of the legs without a right arm. With a large explosion, the remains of the once dreaded AC and it's pilot, were gone.

"Oh, what a shame. It was so fun playing with him, I almost wish he was still alive..." Chief thought sarcastically.

Exusia launched into the air and prepared to fly.

  "Oh well, I guess all good things must come to an end." He said sadly.

Exusia extended it's long metal wings and flew at sub-sonic speeds away from the battleground. One of the easiest ways to leave this part of the contaminated zone is to go straight through one of the large cloud-cones, also it would take him home faster. If one was to try to go around it, the pressure and air-pull from it would either kill you--if you aren't in an AC--, or just pull you into the inside anyways. Chief decided on the easier path--no point in making the effort. Within minutes, he was closing in on a massive whirling cone. He could feel the sudden change of wind, going from a gentle breeze to a forceful push, as he got closer. As soon as he flew into the cone, the wind stopped completly and Chief was left flying in what beared a strong resemblence to a stadium. Only this one was close to a mile in diameter. But as he got closer to the center, some very wierd things started happening.

The cone started changing color. What once was a dull green-ish was now an almost glowing cyan blue. Chief suddently noticed that the cone was also shrinking in diameter very quickly, and he started getting sucked upward--almst like a change in gravity. Noing desperate times called for desperate messures, Chief dissabled the boosters and folded in the wings. Tis seemed to slow his accent, but soon got faster. The cone edge was now only a few hundred feet away and closing rapidly, and was now solid blue. Chief went with a really bad idea and faced completly downward, and went full power boosters. This time unfountunetly, nothing happened, and chief was finally pulled into the top of the blue and now as thin as the Exusia's wingspan.

  "Welp, I guess this is fate. I wonder what's on the other side..." Chief siad quietly as the bottom of the cone parted from the ground and colapsed into the top.