Volume One | Chapter One - Part Three

"Aiko!" Hazer slowly but viciously moved the boulders out of place.

He carefully picked up Aiko cradling her in his arms. Walking slowly back to Niko, he placed Aiko on the ground next to her twin sister.

"Aiko! Aiko!" Niko sobbing gently shook her sister trying to get a response.

In the meantime Hazer checked Aiko's pulse, it was slow giving him a semblance of hope.

Suddenly they heard a thunderous crash on the other side of the cluster of concrete rumble.

In matter of seconds the mysterious entity burrowed through the concrete.

What they saw was a black and red crystalline monster baring it's teeth at them and pincer arms. The latched out at them.

Niko covered her ears crying uncontrollably. Hazer hugged her tightly.

Out of nowhere green beams struck the alien creature infuriating it. The creature spun around facing the new target.

As a gust of air blew up into the sky a twenty foot mecha clad in white and red landed.

The exoskeleton resembled the body composition of a man but metallic in nature. The left arm wielded a rocket propeller system and the right wielded a shield.

Hazer looked up in surprise at what he saw.

"The Barrage Valkyrie?" Hazer muttered out loud.

The Barrage Valkyries' face lit up, the red showing it's eyes and mouth.

"Takashi, Barrage Valkyrie engaging target!" The Barrage Valkyries' mouth lit up brighter as the male pilot spoke.

It fired a barrage of rockets at the creature exploding on impact. The creature toppled to the wrenching in pain.

The Barrage Valkyrie then flung its shield as plasma came alive around the edge.

Slicing off one of the creatures pincer arm.

Through the Barrage Valkyries' imaging system, the pilot could see Hazer and his twin sister's in amongst the concrete rubble.

"Hazer! The hell are you doing here!" Takashi shouted.

All of a sudden the creature launched itself onto the Barrage Valkyrie wrapping itself twenty foot mecha.

The Barrage Valkyrie back handed the creature smashing it into a concrete building.

"Hazer get yourself and your sisters out of here!"

"I can't Aiko's injured!" Hazer shouted back. The Barrage Valkyrie picked it up through it's systems.

"Damn it!" Takashi grunted to himself, the Barrage Valkyrie hoisted its shield into a defensive position.

Behind the mecha a creature similar to the the one it was currently fighting busted through an apartment block.

The Barrage Valkyrie spun around charging up the plasma cannons on it's head readying to fire.

However the creature before it launched itself at the mecha again latching it's pincers around it's shield.

"Get the fuck off me!" Takashi shouted.

It lifted its shield into the air then fired the plasma cannons into the creatures chest, instantly killing it.

As it turned around, the second creature had already launched itself towards Hazer and the girls.

Takashi realised it was too late but he tried in his earnest to do something.

That soon changed when a cluster of green plasma beams struck the creature below.

The creature let a wrenching scream, piercing Hazer and Niko's ears whom closed them with their hands.

After the creature was struck it was soon followed by a jaw spike attached to a tendrils.

Clutching it's jaw upon the creatures back, it instantly snapped the neck quickly followed by it's head being ripped off.

Both the alien creatures started to dissipate into particles. The particles were then sucked into the Barrage Valkyries' centre. Where a spherical light shone.

The second creatures particles were sucked into the second Valkyrie which soon landed upon the ground.

It's dark purple clad body making it a sight for sore eyes.

"No surprise seeing you here...Scarlet Valkyrie" the Takashi muttered through the communications system on board his Valkyrie.

The two mecha behemoths stood in the street staring one another down.