Spaceships from all around the world escaped the hell that is happening. Humanity's first home has been taken over. Global defense armies have fallen under the control of outer world beings, who call themselves the Endstrikers.
Now, they all have to leave their homes. Their operation was a failure, and their technology couldn't surpass the power of an unknown anomaly.
"Death Core C'mon, you're being ridiculous." A female soldier slapped James on his face, booted him out of sleep mode.
"Wha-" regenerated his body fast from the amount of damage he had taken. James stood up, looking at the view outside the Spacecarrier.
"Thanks to you, we managed to lift off. But hitting with that thing on your Core, it really slows you down. Your friends are on one of the living decks. Here's the ID." The soldiers of Earth leave James alone.
"Tch... I was expecting we would do more when bringing everything to those three." He turned his head to the inside, moving to the decks. "Corruption energy... somehow I was the only one immune to those beams." Rubbing his head in frustration, James let out a tired sigh.
Looking around, seeing injured civilians, soldiers trying to calm themselves, scientists, and medical staff helping those who are in need.
["Broadcasting to every personnel / leaders across the solar system"]
["Earth has fallen, the global armies failed to protect our home, the Organization across the stars has failed to protect us all. This is the first incident that leaves traces of our failure, affecting humanity and artificial life forms."
"Today at 14:27 Earth time, the outer world beings called Calamity forces have successfully taken the world. Our final attack on them leaves no effect on their forces. We're calling out solar armies to support us in fighting and take Earth back into our hands."
"Three main leaders of calamity are located on Earth, and have the potential to invade many other planets. Be aware they are not easy to deal with, they have strange powers surpassing our technologies."]
The elevator "Ting" as the door opened for James to get off, he got to the Block where his administrator at, and his girlfriend.
"I'm back."
Kiries jumped on James, wrapping his neck and head tightly with her arms, legs, and Claws around her back. "Don't do that again..." She said with that cold tone, but full of emotion.
"Hey, you're back! I was worried there, thought u left us." Clare opened a candy box. "Want one?"
James sat down, and Kiries also let loose of him. "No thanks, I'm good."
"I thought you could defeat those demon thingy. At least you hurt them, right?" -Clare.
"It's harder than I thought. Even with my Absolute solver, it can't bring out an equation to solve; it can only counter, but it can't eliminate. I feel like something is wrong." -Jame.s
"Maybe they can do things like you?"
"It's not that simple."
"Hey James... I broke your mother's weapons... Sorry." -Kiries
"It's okay, they have plenty, and I can make a perfect replica."
Kiris kissed James on his cheeks. His smile brightened her sad, stormy face.
The door opened, "Is 404 here?" the secretary said.
"Yeah?" James got off the bed. "What does the boss want?" his tone shifted to a slightly annoyed tone.
"He wants to meet you. You probably know why"
"Yeah, yeah. I'll be there in 5."
The secretary left the room. James also gets up, stretching his body. "Does living in space affect anything for you two?"
"Nope...."
"Besides not meeting my school friends, I have always wanted to visit other planets for a very long time now." Clare jumping up and down on the bed.
"Cool. Well, let's see what the boss man has to say." His shoe turned into Heelys, and he skated down the hall. On the way, he met V.
"J?" V said. She stopped and put the case down. "Didn't expect you here." she smiles.
"Hey, glad they fixed u in time."
"My bones all shattered. They installed a new endo-skeleton for me."
"How is the medic doing?"
"Well, the engineer struggled quite a bit due to her guts, and most of the internals were decayed into liquid, but they managed to save her. Thanks to you, white boy."
"Hahaha. Thanks. What are you doing now?"
"On my way to the range, trying to adjust my body after the recovery. You?"
"The boss wants to meet me."
"Ah, well, l good luck with him, I guess."
V fistbumps with James, before he rolls off.
At the main meeting area. The slide door opened for him.
"You here." The boss said. "You want to sit down?"
"Nah, I'm good, what's the problem?"
"It's nothing. Besides, we have to find a way to increase your power, if we want to win this war."
"Is it because I'm the only one who can damage those things?"
"Yes. You're more powerful than us. That's why we need you."
"What kind of upgrade this time?"
"Observing from the previous battle, we noticed they are a form of power like energy. That's why kinetic can affect them. But not enough. So we change our point of view to this."
The hologram displays footage from a lab on this ship, where a converted being is confined to a test table.
"This one used to be a corpse on earth, We managed to capture one and study. Noticed how they are the same form as those three?"
"Go on.."
"I believe if they used to be a human, they must have a soul."
"kill their soul..."
"The figure has been motionless like it died, and is slowly fading away."
"How can you killed a soul..?"
"Absolute solver..." He takes out a Cube, "This thing used the same version of yours. Like you learned, this feature helped the user fix and solve everything. So, I removed the safety protocol and increased the dangerous activities associated with this thing. Let me tell you something, James. The absolute solver has already existed ever since the original cube still on Earth. You can say we borrowed its magic power for hundreds of years."
James looks at his chest. "Do you know how it's done?"
"It seems like my tool tore the soul of that thing out of the original host, and then destroyed it using an unknown force."
"So if we remove the safety on my absolute solver program... then..."
"Only you and I have this version, We tried to upgrade it, mine was lucky to find, yours was natural."
"Heh... how funny. Remove it for me."
"Good." The boss called in the tech-scientists, and they removed his chest and plugged him into their computer. Codes and signs began to load in.
"Interesting..." a scientist said. "Our source code can't interfere with his system."
"What? Dammit that woman."
"What else can we do, sir?"
The boss looks at the cube on the table, "Let him assimilate this."
"Are you sure? This is the only thing we had besides him."
"I trust 404, even though he tried to kill us before. Do it."
The cube was placed next to James's core inside his body, wires connected, and it instantly fused. The screen changes the word "locked" to "engaged".
"Okay, he's ready."
"Good. Get some rest, 404. We'll figure out what to do next."
"Hey, I gotta ask, what does my mother like? You must know her, right?"
The man with the mask looked down, and he took a deep breath, like he wanted to avoid this. "She was a great person, she was just like an angel. A long time ago, when she was still in love with a man, a flower emerged. She lost her limbs and her husband. We managed to hide the giant threat away from innocents, keeping their lives in blue and green. But for her, they take everything away from her. Out of pity, we took her in. She was strong enough to survive that."
He stopped for a bit. "When I looked in her eyes, I only saw rage and vengeance. She escaped her room and stole a D-blood tube. When they get to her, we only see wreckage filled with strikes and punches on the wall. She slaughtered the third flower all by herself."
"Damn... So, what happened after that?"
"Her baby, you were safe, during her time working with us. The D-blood can't reach you when you're still inside her belly. Everything was great, she saved, not leaving anyone behind, and she was the strongest. Doing all for you. Until the fourth attack comes."
"The flower dust..."
"You were infected when the attack directly struck the base. Your mother managed to save everyone but not herself. The flower then got killed. And those words haunted me to this day."
"What?"
"When I go. Please, save my son... whatever you do to him... I want him to be the one who saves the world."
The boss stopped, looking at James. "Maybe she's the reason why you are the chosen one."
James has a change of thought, his mind displays the last picture of his mother. "All for you..." His mind was dazzled with thoughts and words. He left with an unknown question.
"Am I a weapon or a savior?"
That night, inside his room, lying on the floor, leaving the two beds for the girls. The cold can't bother his frozen body of metal.
Sleep mode keeps his mind occupied, like dreaming. But it's more than just slumbering, it keeps him from the madness trying to take over.
"Most of them died from insanity."
James woke up from the sudden noise. He instantly turned on the X-ray just to see nothing in the distance.
"I'm hearing things.... Jesus"
[sleeping...]
"Wake up, idiot!" James got slapped, but not from the outside world.
"Ow..." rubbing his cheek and looking up, "Wait, I feel pain?"
"You are inside your head." The figure with dark color hair stands in front of him.
"Oh, it's you. How come you can talk to me now?"
"Remember that gift they gave to you?"
"Why is that related to you? I haven't turned on combat mode. Also, how do I acknowledge you?"
"That's because we share the same system. That means we can use the AS. That's how I can talk with you. For simplicity, you've got a voice inside your head now."
"Right, that ability can solve the most impossible nonsense thing, like how to reverse diseases to cure."
"That's just the surface. There are more things in the deep when it is fully used."
"My head looks empty, don't you think?"
"Kinda. Anyway, I think you can't win this war."
"What?"
"Yeah, not without leaving a dozen corpses. You might lose them also."
"Kiries and Clare are fine, they can't be hurt if I were still here."
"Believe me, those beings are more than the devil. They will find out about them soon or late."
"Tch, what can I do?"
"Well, it's up to you to decide. If you fight along with them, all of humanity and your kind might be erased."
"Ok, let me sleep."
[rebooting systems]
Opening his eyes, he saw the cold ceiling and was afraid.
"I hate my alter ego...." He took a deep breath and let it out. James got up and put on his jacket. he looked back at Clare and Kiries sleeping, his eyes glitched a bit. "Together we all die beside one..."
The door opened as he stepped out.
The Space fleet shone by the sun when it was time for they to wake up.
Clare slowly woke up from her dream, her eyes looking around the room, and she spotted the note on the table. Rubbing her face, she turned up the computer and read the note.
"Hey guys, James here, don't follow me." She was confused before the alarm went off.
"What?!" Kiries blasted off her bed and hit the door. "What's going on?!"
"James leave this..."
"What?"
They got out of the room, seeing the guards running to the destroyer's cannon.
"Kids, stay away, that core is crazy!" a guard said.
"James!" Clare and Kiries said at the same time, Kiries lifted Clare on her Claws and crawled on the ceiling.
Outside, where the blaster is aiming at Earth. James yanked off the ammunition inside, hacking the ship's system to control the weapon.
Clare and Kiries rushed into the crowd where the guards were trying to pry open the stabilizing room to access the outside of the ship.
Clare took out her tablet, "James! What are you doing?! Get off that thing!"
[order-] [deleted]
"Sorry, Clare, Kiries, but I'll handle this alone."
Kiries went berserk, using the gauntlet strike into the door with a devastating kinetic force to open it. "JAMES! NO!"
[firing]
The destroyer cannon fired with a light-speed round, a living bullet trying to follow the promise of his loved mother.
[all deploy pods disabled, recovery time: 20mins]
"That's enough for me."
On the grey sky, piercing through the cloud, the converted roam the surface of the earth, searching for survivors, and preparing to invade. They look up at the bright beam falling at the speed of light.
Shockwave from the explosion crushed everything around the ruins. Debris was falling like rain around the crater.
[Death-Core deployed]
Horde of shadow demons charged into the crater and flew down with their spiritual blade arm. Combat mode engaged, the battle mask lights up with a burning red beam of heat, melting those creatures.
The laser beam swept around the crash site, James flew up, and drew his blade. His claws appear next to his sides, the halo pulse an electromagnetic field. He dived down to the street once used to filled with people. Slashes exploded, cutting everything surrounding him. he dashed forward, onward to the Fortress, made from destruction and held down by Giant chains.
The enemy keeps charging at the single man. The fire burning beam and spikes at him, attacking him with those cursed claws.
James stabbed and ripped, he tore the converted in four, broke their soul, folded them like a towel, and crushed their head with brutal kicks. Guns switched, spraying enhanced rounds with the Absolute solver. shotguns shredded their body into puddles, galting guns cutting edges like chainsaws, and rocket pods unleashing and regenerating tracking missiles.
[Eradicator mode ready]
He jumped off the Cliff, looked down to see the Earth's core being harvested. He flew to the castle, dropping a nuke grenade straight down to the centre.
"Boom..." The fortress turned into bricks, a shockwave blasted everything around, destroying it completely.
He landed on the other side, watching the sight.
"Here we are..."
The Trio of calamity appeared, they stare at him, wanting to kill the machine that did all of this.
"You're brave and cocky to go alone, unlike last time"
"Just kill that man Xeon..."
They did something, something activated inside their head.
James felt the sudden chill, he closed his eyes. But to his surprise, only the things behind him were crushed into nothing.
The Trio disbelieved. James smiled under the mask.
["Absolute solver functioning, it constantly solves and gives better outcomes, and will never stop until the problem is gone"]
He feels his regenerating ability has gone faster. He teleported behind the Three. "HAVE A TASTE OF YOUR OWN BULLET!" His right arm changed into a mechanical fist, punched them with enough force to erase matters into oblivion.
They separated, standing from three directions, roaring out like a hellhounds.
"We will bathe in your blood!" the Smiler charged at James, spikes strike from the ground every path, Isan glides in the air. Invisible force reduced James's movement speed to negative, it aimed at his Core. His Claws grabbed its head and slashed its body.
James gets his speed back, his tail stops Jzon the brute from his dimension breaker, the darkness hammer with uncountable weight freezes above his thin tail. James Slammed Isan to Jzon, materializing out of a Giant energy cannon, blasted them with a charged shot, sending them flying into the broken building in the air.
Turned his attention to Xeon, but instantly got half of his face torn off, James blocked its attack, kicked its legs, but still standing, its separated body parts turned into Spikes. They stabbed him, James blasted them off He yanked the head, his left arm turned into a 10-barrel super shotgun with a 20kg Slug and blasted him.
Xeon rolled on the ground with its body parts, stumbling, painfully getting up.
"Painful? Good, for once I believed in ghosts and demons, some say a soul can't be cut, but he said f##k that." James takes out his dual blades, Jzon dives in with its pile bunker arm aimed at James's heart, billions of burning spears surround the giant area.
James blocked the attack, Isan appeared and took Xeon away, James split Jzon in half, from a vertical cut, then in four with a horizontal slash. His claws tore Jzon's energy body, keeping them from recovering. "Your soul belongs in the void." His swords pierced the invisible soul orb, and the crack from the space itself broke into pieces as he withdrew his blades. Jzon faded into nothing.
The billions of spears dived in. He let out a crazy smile under the mask. [Absolute speed activated]
Each single spear travels three times the speed of sound, each 0.5 seconds, they bounce off his blades, dive in again and again until they break.
"What in his name is that thing..." Xeon said.
"They found out a way to kill us..." -Isan
"Humans always evolved, but these machines are far beyond adapting."
James broke out of the Spear cell. Speed up, he ripped off the normal human skin. Armor and advanced muscle machine wrapped around the endoskeleton. [Eradicator mode activated], his claws changed into a destroyer lancer, three Sharp head armored covers the long mace inside. His body changed completely into a war robot formed like a demon.
"You all die today!" his voice glitched deep.
Lightnings and fire with red color charged his body. He raised his Lance, aimed at those two.
"It's time... summon her, the Angel of calamity" -xeon
James flew at them, struck his weapon, exploded, and the sight of his lance crushed their body into oblivion. Their soul erased his weapon rose, striking their body, each strike sending shockwaves, the power of this mode directly attacked, bypassing their resistance to grasp their soul. James got out of the crater, raising his weapon and screaming in triumph. The converted are still coming. He slammed his weapon, summoning robotic soldiers, holding chain swords, they all dived in and attacked cruelly and brutally.
They fight and fight until she comes. From the ground, a ring of red fire opened a portal from the other world. creatures made from abomination rock flesh escaped and joined with the converted. Follow them behind, the true angel of death arrived.
[Unknown entity detected / getting datas: D.C-000]