Logbook #039 - The Troubles

The sound of laughter could be heard as a sparkle of white and blue covers up the dark environment of a strange room.

With the sound of power drills, metallic clanks and also shafts being pulled, twisted and turn, the sound of muffled pained cries could be heard as the laughter died down due to over-exhaustion.

"Are you enjoying it pretty one?" A maiden slightly greyed and donned in a bloody ripped off lab coat questioned a body that was attached to her surgical table and tightened with a bolted chain.

"Don't worry, it won't hurt that much after I am done with you..."

As the figure smiles and chuckles in a psychotic manner, she reaches to the table beside her as she reaches for a tool made shift out of scalpels, tungsten wires and a switch to pulsate electricity from her corrupted guardian crystal to the device. It channelled through her hand before it activated the device

Cackling in the excitement, the maiden turns towards her crowd of onlookers, aka her hostages as they were forced to watch the whole scene while being cuffed and also threatened with guns by rotting soldiers that worked for the mad scientist.

"You, the black hair that helped me earlier, come here!" Calling out to a familiar soldier donned in a captain's uniform. She grinned and bit her lips in silence, as she listens to the order given by her capturer.

Walking slowly towards the scientist, the scientist smiles and licks her lips as she immediately takes her device and electrocutes Captain Shanina.

"Ahhh...!" She screams in pain as she felt the electricity coursing through her brains. Feeling as if she was going mad, she saw a doubler vision of the scientist that smirked back at her as she then kicks her to the floor.

"Hahaha...you Continuum are pathetic. Bunch of child soldiers, how stupid. Not even your backup that tried breaking into the embassy had a fucking chance." Truth to be told, the attempted infiltration held by General Shriway and the German General managed to succeed in a task in over the embassy.

Not wanting to lose any more soldiers than they already did, they had to immaturely retreat as they had to hide and contact the United Nations to help them out with the more proper and experienced soldiers they had.

Unfortunately, the scientist didn't realize that Mr Endicrite and his newly found partner Doctor Parabel managed to get in through Infected manipulation and were watching over the scene as of now.

"Come on, answer me!" The scientist screams as she scratches her neck before stabbing hard and deeply into the torso of the captured guardian with her experimental torture device.

Due to the lack of organs, red crimson blood didn't seep out of the experiment but rather an aura that poured out as if clouds chained with. weight. Literally nicknamed "smoking to death", the pitiful experiment had to endure the pain she was treated with as she laid motionless without any sort of energy to think or make an escape plan.

The only thought in the experiments head was just her sister, her mother and her master that was so kind to her ever since they first met. As small drops of tears dripped from her tear ducts, she watched the ceiling as she watches her vision go blurry with a pink burst of shadows.

"Darling..." She mutters softly as she slowly loses her consciousness and. closes her pair of eyes.

"Yes, she's now in my hands. See! I told you this is how you do it best!" The scientist laughs out ass she grins and swiftly turns to the spectators. "IS IT GOOD? Is it what you want?"

As mad as the scientists was, no one had a say in her work. Whether she was actual professional or was just insane due to her own Axis Transformation, everyone stayed quiet from mercs to civilians.

In the corner of the lab was a shattered glass window with two pairs of eyes peeking in. As the right one was being scared shitless, the being on the left who was rather not feeling so good, watched closely as its eyes bled red slowly.

"Shin...ae..." It whispers as it cried silently. Holding onto the pain of its odd altered change, the person watched as the whole incident happened before their eyes.

Watching after the beautiful innocent scientist to its left, he gestured her to stay quiet and sit still as he uses his enhanced movement to zip from a corner and vault a gap as its tendrils latched and climbed onto the ceiling without any sound.

Somehow being able to keep its conscious self-aware self without being manipulated by the bio-mother. This zombie, no, this would be hero William Endicrite would do what his past self failed to do before. Save someone. "Must safe...friends..." he mutters in his half-intelligent self as he stalks his prey from above.

Not wanting to see his beloved captain get bullied left and right again, he sneakily attacks the axis soldiers who kept an eye on the hostages as the scientist was busy stabbing and kicking his captain who tried her best to avoid screaming in pain and indulging the scientist who loved the sound of screams.

What a strange turn on, she thought. she spits out her mouthful of blood that emerged from the deep ends of her injured guts, as she felt the clinking of her broken ribcage as it makes cracking and audible echoes of breaks.

As William shoots out a tendril off his infected arm, he then penetrates it through the last bamboozled axis soldier as he absorbed the clone, making him stronger and even worse in his infection form.

The hostages keeping quiet, a little confused why this strange figure is helping them, they stayed quiet as they guessed it was probably a guardian or some sort of soldier with enhanced abilities.

Kicking and bullying Shanina one more time, the mad scientist then combs her head back as she looks back at the hostages, only to get a little confused. "Huh?" She confusingly mutters to herself.

"Where the fuck did those idiots went? She asks herself as she shakes her head. "Oh well, not like they can move anyway, look at that, one of them even pissed their pants."

Enjoying in her bloody and deadly experimentation, she then turns around back to the surgical table as she reaches her enhanced arm onto her ear. "Yeah, yeah, sure..." Like a mad person, she spoke to her palm as if it was someone as she gestured it as if a mouth was moving.

Crawling down from the wall, William holds onto the jacket Shanina and slowly pulls her weak body back. Realising who it was after a short quiet mind of thoughts, Shanina held her aching stomach as she watches her soldier risking his sickly life to end someone who was already worse than they were.

Swinging his tendril arm towards the mad scientist, it grabbed onto her shoulder as she was suddenly turned towards him.

"Grhhh...!?" She grunts as she suddenly felt a rush of pressure on her numb hand. Watching the figure that has hold of her, she smiles and laughs softly as she smacks her freehand onto a button beside the surgical table.

With an electrical surge, she melts off the tendril before she massages her numb hand back to full as she picks up her makeshift torture device. "Glad you came for the show. 'She' was waiting for you. The Bio-Mother."

"Huh..?" He questions as he watches the figure behind raises slowly from the cold hard metal table that was her slumbering bed in her nude self as she tilts her neck and watches the figure being robotically twisting and turning as it got up slowly.

"I managed to hook up your weak guardian with the main heart of the Bio-Mother, and by heart, I mean crystal." Just before she could end her sentence, William sighs and stabs her stomach immediately with his tendril as she was then swung to a wall-side to his left. He had no time to listen to a stupid side conversation as he was already busy trying to hold onto the multiple voices in his head.

Spitting old black blood from her mouth, the scientist looks down as she raises her back to the wall, as she sees a huge gaping hole in the middle of her stomach. "How, what...?" She thought in her head as she then drops consciousness due to the loss of blood.

"Master....?" Shin-ae questions as a voice popped in his head.

"Shin-ae, don't worry I will save your body." He replies in his thoughts as he charges towards the husk of his younger guardian companion who was now being controlled by the Bio-mother.

As he swipes with his claw towards Shin-ae's body, the husk then easily evades it and appears behind him as it strikes him with a strange blade made out of skin, flesh and guts.

With his enhanced hearing, he too dodges it swiftly as he drags his heavy momentum by clawing onto the ground as it left deep long cuts onto the concrete pavement.

"I know you can hear me, impurity..." A voice called out in his head louder than the others. As he watched the husk closely, he hears the voice disturb him once more.

"I am your mother, the one that gave you my blessings."

"Bollocks, you are not my mother..." He replies in his head as he then dodges another strike from the strange embedding blade.

"You are just a manipulator that decided to ruin our small little community of a population." He replies as he then dashes once more towards the husk and strikes it with his claws.

"As if The Happening incident wasn't enough..."

Missing his attack, he then pushes his heavy arm and spouts out another tendril in a swipe as he tries to avoid attacking the innocent hostages that were slowly gaining strength and slowly taking their chances in escape as the enemies were being distracted.

With gunfire and sounds of slaughter outside of the embassy, their footsteps were practically muffled as the sounds of constant fighting echoed throughout the building's interior and exterior.

"Son, you dare disobey me? Why? After what has happened. You need to listen to me. Please..."

Trying to manipulate and take over William's mind, he did his best to avoid being disturbed as he defended himself from the many attacks that the husk hands to him through swipes, strikes and also overheads.

"Just tell me where you are, 'mother'." He questions as he then takes a small window and pins down the husk onto the ground as he then entraps it with his claws and tendrils.

Looking towards the sound of a door creaking, he watches as his backup Rose, Aqua and Faltina arrive as they brought along Chau-min who was running as fast as she could with her special aid kit. "Just in time..." He mutters as he felt a burn on his chest and right arm. As the colour of purple and yellow glowed, a burst of sparks could be seen from the ceiling lights above as the building's electricity turns off.

Darkness, Total darkness. All sound, no sight. Making sure he doesn't leave off his grasp onto the feeble body of Shin-ae, he shuts off communications with the bio-mother as a blinding light hits his face. "Uhhh.." he moans as the flashlight was then averted from his face and towards the husk.

"Damn, Will, you look more fucked up than Shanina over there." Rose teases as she shines her torchlight around as she guides her teammates to head over him and the injured Shanina.

"Thanks to your scientist friend, she managed to catch hold of a signal to contact us and send in your location."

Kneeling, Chau-min then takes an injection from William from a syringe she recently distilled, extracting some blood and then containing it into a plastic flask.

"Will, bear with me, the antidote will now be inserted, so hold in the pain for a while." Chau-min smiles as she rubs his little hair that sprouted from the side of his head. Injecting his back with a deep syringe. A blue liquid is inserted into him which made him feel sick and slowly lose his strength.

As the antidote did its course, his claw slowly retracts back into his hand. Major Agua and Faltina then take out special cuffs and latches them onto the ground as it then penetrates through the concrete before locking on the wrists of the husk that once held Shin-ae.

"Fuck, it hurts...!" William shouts in pain as he felt the burning sensation in his back and overall body. The infection and tendrils dropped from his body like rotting flesh.

The ammonia smell that seeped out spread throughout the room as it gave a disgusting smell. Luckily the others were wearing a gas mask, so they wouldn't fear smelling such an awful scent.

"There, now you are human again, and also handsome..." Chau-min teased William as he grins as the syringe was removed from his back. "Now, what do you think?"

"I think you are as beautiful as ever, silly doctor..." William complimented her as he gets up and tears off the uniform which was already torn up to bits.

"I suppose, her mother and sister knew what happened to her?" William asks as he points to the husk of Shin-ae.

"...Yes...." A voice whispers in his head, sounding similar to Shin-ae itself.

"Right... so we will have to wait for the elders to arrive so they can contain your girl there, in the meanwhile, let's go help out the other injured person in the room,"

Rose says as she then heads slowly to the mad scientist who has now fallen unconscious due to heavy blood loss.

"That's a heavy blow there, Aqua, Cat, are you able to fix an injury such as. this?" She questions in an awe of the huge hole appearing in the middle of the scientist's stomach.

"Yes, it's fixable. If it weren't for our guardians. " Chau-min replies as she jogs towards the scientist with her heavy first aid kit. "Goddamn, Will, your attack killed her in one blow but she's lucky because it missed a vital organ."

"I mean...I don't know." William replies as he shrugs and waves towards Doctor Para who was hiding in a corner, watching everything. "Come on up, silly doctor. It's safe now."

As he gestured with a smile, he massages his shoulders with a twist as he minds everyone's business in doing their task as he watches after the captured husk.

"Mother are you still in there?" He questions the husk with a smirk.

The mouth opens slowly as it replies to him in a soft tone. "....yes, what do you want...traitor?"

"Your location, where is it?"

Grunting and snarling, the husk then gave up as it then stares straight into his eyes with bloodshot pink. Feeling as if her job was done and the end of the world is probably slowly in her grasp in her maximum power. She acted overconfident and di the inevitable.

Telling him the location, he then writes it down on his notepad as he then notifies his comrades. "Alright, that settles it, it is at [REDACTED], Munich.

"Ok then, Rampage, Doctor Para, you are going to take this virus capsules and head there. Mind you, you have to take along these two people too." Faltina replies as she guides two unfamiliar people towards him and the doctor.

"You two, you are alive...?" Doctor Para asks as she slowly smiles in happiness. "How?'"

"I mean, simple really. Continuum came here just in the nick of time. Heck, we helped with half of the figthing too." The dark skinned lady replied as she reloads her assault rifle's magazine. It was of a bulpup action fitted with 5mm rounds, enough for simple creatures. It had a compensator attached and as well as a vertical grip to keep hold in its recoil. Eventhough, not really needing it, she decided to keep it on her gun as she was given free options to pick whatever she wants and keep it.

"You three know each other?" William asks in curiosity as he boldly showcases his thin bare torso. Scratching his head, he then combs back his hair as he adjusts his newly-given glasses by Faltina.

"Know? We worked together. We are part of the Global Corps. Well, was." The dark-skinned lady replied. "I thought Continuum had records of us."

"What the...fuck? Why are the Global Corps in Germany?" William asks as he was surprised by the sudden change of events. Looking left and right, he inspects the ladies who were different in height, age and also looks. Doctor Para looked the youngest and shortest, yet the dark-skinned lady looked the oldest and more trained in her muscular size. The other one, well, looks like any lady he would see from a millitary firm with a lab-coat on.

"That's confidental but it is about finding our rogue ex-partner Katherine, better known as Vulture. She is also trying to rid off the Bio-mother and was trying to find her location through spying and weapon trading in underground firms. That's all it is from her perspective." The lady next to the dark-skinned lady replies as she shakes her head.

"Gunner Winosa, also known Kyana. From the Ethiopean National Defense Force, ENDF." The dark-skinned lady replies as she hands her hand to William.

"Private William, also known as Rampage. From Continuum and the Endicrite Company."

Pointing towards the lady in the coat and the doctor, WInosa smiles and explains about them. "You know Doctor Para, she's one of my partner's friend, her name is Doctor Specialist Augustina, who is the person who is beside me. Other than that, I suppose you have met Doctor Commander Welter too, she's our mastermind for most of our missions."

"Nice to meet you." Doctor Augustina replies.

As the four got to know each other, they then realise the time and head off towards the entrance of the embassy. Entering a helicopter that was already starting its rotor, General Shriway gestures to them to hurry up as they climbed onto the vehicle.

"Guys, meet Specialist Bridgette and Major Damonica, they are both demolitionist and they will help us in our ambush."

"For now, prepare yourselves. We got something big and nasty, and it's only up to our skills that can end it. I wish each other , good blessings."