Soul

"You don't have to do this you know?"

The creature trembled, falling to his knees, panting heavily with cold sweat. Wheezing uneasily amidst the ringing of his ears. Blind and deaf. He limped slowly to the stunned royal guards, desperate to aid his broken pride with frozen gazes. He stammers to face Energy Breaker still holding on from her injuries. Struggling to watch her lift off her helmet once more.

The killer intent was there. Leeching into her skin for the whole world to see. To act out in front of everyone like any species in the universe. She wanted to do what he had expected so far in gladiatorial combat. A one man street. Her intentions far too compelling for simple ignorance with that hollow gaze upon his dawning realisation at her plan.

His family's actions were not to be…

His fate is sealed, his role as king now a questionable poets dream. The moment he returns to the confines of her graze, the floodgates would open. All of his hope a parasitic mouthful. Wondering why he stopped short. Unable to understand the disappointment between him and his once reigning fathers, hollering in their frustration of a creature unable to sustain his kingdom without force. Denying his fate befalling on the role of king. He had the chance, a final blow to something that was always done. Yet he stopped, unable to seek glory and noble intentions he had planned long before.

"These bounds still mean something to you isn't it?"

She faces the creature, slowly turning away from the relay of her words. Confused why she still seemed so nonchalant. His heart beat fast, terrified to speak to his royal guards slowly raising their rifles. Still sticking loyally to a creature with nothing left to lose.

"This denial is after all why you suffered... To ensnare yourself from the world you seek..."

She turns to leave his provided spear by the floor. Sitting by the tainted floor with her knee raised in the air. Defiant of the guards pointing their guns towards her spot. Uncomfortably squeezing her in from her partners. Anxious. Awaiting their next step against the obnoxious woman now poetic in her stance.

"What do you want? You won after all. The only thing awaiting is my downfall in history."

The creature turns to face her, relaying his words back at his foe. Unable to look at the translator filling his silence with the slushing of fluids across it's body. Still proud in its prowess of their technologies.

"To understand and not to understand… isn't that so pitiful…"

She sighs, talking slowly from her adrenaline rush. The look on the creature's eyes were nothing after the trade of blows, yet his silence was too strange to sit by. She turns to face the creature staring back at her, unsatisfied with her poetic ignorance.

"What do you want? Why don't you get to the point-"

He growled at her nonsense. Slowly facing the creature with his twitching eyes. Enough of her stagnant brooding. His patience is wearing off. He doesn't know if this nonsense would continue, but his claws were ever ready now on board if she did.

"Why don't you understand yourself? You seem more tormented by your fears during that battle of yours."

The creature blushed, stopping to think of her words after the translation. Confused as to her response. He raised his eyebrows, surprised at her calling his insecurities out like fish on the sand.

"What?"

The shuffling of feet lamented his thoughts, alerting him at the change of shadow rising from the ground to meet his gaze. Still stiff from her damaged space suit.

"Take care of yourself. Maybe then you truly can fight me at your best."

She bows upon her foe, leaving him with his child still cradled to his arms. Staring with trembling palms. Traumatised by his experience on the planet. Trauma he no longer has to experience in his life.

For now.

"Sure…"

He smiled warmly, getting up to his feet and bowing in return. Struggling to respectfully pay back at the woman he sees as trustworthy. His guards froze at their spots, uncertain of what to of such a gesture.

"We'll be back shortly for talks. Get prepared for that. As for the Ambassador of Earth, I appoint… you…"

Her group stood aback, gasping at his decision upon its translation. Their eyes wide at the alien pointing firmly at her, confused at his choice of ambassador. They turned to look upon the faces of his guards. Blank with reluctance.

Derek looks at Shane, now blankly confused to his statements. Gritting her teeth with disgust. Swallowing the words she had spoken too soon.

Perhaps she bit more than she could chew…

"U-Umm… as the Ambassador of Earth, I am honoured… but why? You do realise the governments down below won't accept this at all?"

She stammered, worried at the statement he had made. Much of her life was dedicated to fighting and testing of her physical strength from those liquids if claims were true. To simply shoot the gun before thinking would simply be too hasty.

Does he really know what he is doing?

"Your battle against me is more than enough proof for your right to such a role. If there are any changes to this arrangement, I'll kill you myself. Is that fine with you? My rival?"

The machine stares at her, awaiting her response for translation. Coldly ignorant of her cold sweat trickling down her face. The stares of his armed men didn't help from the creature clutching his child.

"Umm… yeah…"

She sighs, turning towards Atsuki and Baku who shrugged their shoulders with their hands, fiddling deep in their pockets on their hidden phone. Reluctantly accepting her new position unlike Derek staring in silence. Completely out of the pond. At the rate it was going, the worldwide populace would reject her immediately. Another punching bag for Alfred to laugh at. If he ever laughed.

Thinking too much would get her killed. Even if she got the position, the prospect of being taken away for her breakout and insubordination would leave her reeling for years. These charges probably too much for the humiliated monster to stand by.

A one way street all over again…

"Good. Be prepared for the damages your planet has to pay as a whole. We'll see you then."

"W-w-wait!"

Shane tries to call upon him, eager to change something they had no control over but his guards only blocked her path. Ignorant of her pleas.

She turns around to face her group, sulking in disgust at his pettiness. The wishes of furrowing their frustration now gone with his absence. The planet she lived and breathed had some blame to share, but with the state they are in, any form of currency won't be enough for what they had planned. No negotiations would be effective. All left to be in debt of this one problem caused by a minority of individuals.

They had lost…

"You deserved this kind of treatment."

She hears the thundering footsteps of men and women once murmuring about in the meeting room. Meeting her gaze amongst the armed soldiers raising their guns in the air. Surrounding them with haste. Their helmets illuminated the remaining robots staring outside, aiming their swords and guns against the armoured windows. Shane looks outside, noticing the edgy red machine holding a sword the size of a bus. It's paint scuffed, filled with white scratches from his clash. Beside it, a grey curvy machine held spear, hiding the giant shield attached to it's arms in two halves. An overbearing sight compared to the blocky machine behind. Fitted with a charging ion cannon still smoking from the heat. Their eyes dull, unhappy of the absence of their leader. The faces of those machines still eager to hunt down the giant lady unsure what to make of their retreat. Ready to try their luck if not for their orders.

"What do you mean?"

She turns to look at the lady with white hair, shaking her head in disgust. Smirking at their downfall despite her human heritage. Proud to lose their meaning.

"Your actions nearly caused the destruction of this planet! Now you get to watch it all unfold before your eyes! You small ants."

Her eyes were uneasy to look at. Pulling closer to her face in a show of force with the intense look of her eyes. Her calm composure did not help her pale ghostly face. Taunting her agitation in splendour. Still silently horrifying them from moving any closer to her. She can't tell if this was her power, yet

She breathed heavy, facing deeper into her face. A hollow abyss of nil thoughts. If she fights, all of the life lessons Sergio had calmed her down for would be for naught. Her purpose nothing more than a void. She gathers her strength, looking back in return in defiant hostility.

"And for what reason we should believe your claims to be deserving huh? You never even explain yourselves who you are in the first place! Perhaps you all are weak and insecure for speaking something like that!"

"You dare speak against someone superior than you!?!"

The dark skinned man rushed between the two, holding both of the women off from their violent tendencies. Disappointed his leader was more eager for pettiness than action like her usual approach. Though the more he looks at the situation, he had jumped the shark.

"Lower your guns. We did not come here to tear each other apart."

He turns to his boss, confused yet relieved from his antics. Quietly looking past his error as she greeted the intruders wrecking their home.

"Let us introduce ourselves. We are The Association. An organisation trusted worldwide with the dedication to the prevention of the prophecy. A huge event destined to wipe off the entire planet, leaving its inhabitants reeling to their extinction. This mission had been bestowed upon us by humans far into the future in the Viking era. Right now, we planned all this from the get go so that you would appear directly in our doorstep. Isn't that right Nemo?"

Verda faces Nemo, gasping at her antics behind the scenes. A child betrayed by her own parents. The only one she had since she was an orphan at the end of the war. She violently moves her about, urging some response from the blank faced wall. Turning away without shame.

"Mum… why?"

She violently sways her further, pulling her directly to face the group suspicious of her antics. Their faces unsurprised, the antics pulled upon Energy Breaker noticed by all during their visit. She turns to look at the slimy lady forming back to her original self. Looking down to face her expressionless stature.

"Look. I did it then to sustain the nation that was Sector B and our family. You saw how much of the populace is starving? All because of the government trampling upon us. But then again, this power is nothing compared to the power that is The Association."

Nemo faces the group, peering at Bryony unamused at her explanation. Her eyes twitching uneasily, a completely different monster from before. Still a mystery amongst much of the group.

A raised her arms in the air, illuminating the helmets rustled from their positions. Unveiling the men and women stuck behind their armoured suits one by one. Illuminating faces which stunned the group. Freezing Derek in his spot.

"W-w-what? H-how is there so many of one person?"

Their hairs white and pale, all similar to the lady standing right in front of them if not for the other different faces from the ground below, roughened up with their firm gaze. All at their finest hour.

"The right to decide when, where I live and what I do is just so fun isn't it? All at the palm of my hands! To be online with full control of every single weapon in the world. The ultimate key to the end of everything and ultimate prove as to how useless everyone is! Isn't this the best!?! Too bad Lord Linoleum never got to see the fruits of his labour… Or should I say Andreas Lino..."

Verda and Derek lurched forward at the sound of his name, yelling in frustration at the group they can't stand no more.

"Just because you planned something doesn't mean it'll work-"

"True but I want my deal. I want all of you to resign from your positions at The Light of Men. Be glad I'm being tame after proving my point all this time when you all started being an annoyance."

She cuts into Verda's complaints, scoffing in amusement, ignorant at the noisy yet childish frustrations of the intruders making their intent known. The metal clanking of a cyborg's legs echoed through the room, pointing directly at the warmongers unamused expression. Still not showing any signs of remorse in her words.

"All because this place was revealed? The people of earth are not chained you know!"

"Yeah and what? Bloody chaos all the time?!? Laws exist for a reason. Don't make us do another example like your lost family members or the separation of your nation!"

At that moment she cut into the conversation once more, the smell of tainted blood lingered close by. Pressing her further at the wounded man and his machines, whirling noisily like wild animals. Responding to his frustration from the grasp of the man and his walking stick.

"Y-you ordered that biased inhumane experiment?"

She faces the man, amused at the childish scenario she is in. The sounds of questions far too simplistic seemed just tasteless to answer. Annoyed at the lack of understanding that was the security of the planet.

"Yeah and what about it? It's a necessary evil for the greater good."

She subtly snickers, ignorant of Energy Breaker's increasingly frustrated expression. Ready to punch her hard if not for the armed soldiers standing by. Unfurled and expressionless. Unwavering in their efforts at the woman judging their tale of lies and deceit.

"So then… what do you decide on? You small children?"