Subway

One week later

"Attention to all joining the recovery of Sector A, please gather before 8!"

The announcement rang out to Maximilians' ears. He is tired. He remembers earlier in the week how the sector managed to find a hidden subway station. All he ever wanted was to rest and flex his muscles at others. He wants to feel good about his existence. He think back to the time he was with his brother. He always made sure that he would never be bullied nor sad. Now without him, he finds it hard to not feel good about himself. He looks at Shao Lin, who is having a drink with Shane at the station. He is amazed at her, seeming so calm so far during the missions. Without doing anything related to her looks, she already has friends all on good terms. Yet she could complete the job. He wished his existence could be justified instead of more training. He gets up with the rifle given to him and boarded the train.

Over the past week,spies in Sector B have discovered a huge abandoned subway linking directly to the The Light of Men. Though he did not know how they managed to find it. He sits down next to Hanson and Leroy, who is wearing heavy body armor and a huge hexagonal machine the size of a large dining table next to him. He so far was the only person in this group that he knows off. Though he is so busy that he would rather not talk to him.

Opposite him, Sylvie, Baku, Shao Lin and Shane were all murmuring amongst themselves. He hates Baku, always full of herself, thinking that she was the best. Even though she was...

"Why can't you be less hateful like Shao Lin?" He thought to himself as he turns around. Leroy sat alone next to Leroy's machine close to the train doors. He has been equipped with pistols and grenades. He wonders if he is able to do this, considering he just entered the group a week ago. But his guts told him he would do just fine. So far, Baku trained him intensely though there wasn't stellar results (he kept puking). The only good thing is that as part of the military in the Two Year War, he never missed a single shot during training, which impressed him. As he laid on the metal bench, the train lurched forward at speed.

The train is not the most pleasant of trains. A twenty year old cargo train with a sleek locomotive at the front similar to trains found in train stations from ancient times. Featuring a gold circle in every car, it had lush green color that tries desperately to hide in the dark while looking elegant back in the previous government's rule. But fails miserably in all aspects. The train is not in gleaming condition with a lot of dirt. They sat in the goods car behind the locomotive. Recently converted to have metal benches on each side. Behind their car, other soldiers are stationed, checking their guns. They only have five bullets full of acid capable of incapacitating the monsters. Above them, Sector B, along with Sector C, France and Spain were planning to surround the place. Even their enemies from the previous war: Britain and the pesky United States were joining in the fray. All to prevent the creature from taking over the world. Just like how these creatures wiped Sector A and The Light of Men off the map.

He sat in solitude when Shane spoke on the mike, "Hey, why are we even on the train?" She asks as a old gruff man spoke on the mike, "Yan here, there is a reason for that. I think it is time for everyone here to know the truth," he coughed as he continued, "I was friends with a scientist then for the old government. Unbeknownst to everyone including our allies, we created a monster. My group was tasked with creating three tall buildings that were in place to cover the truth. All aligned to make up a super weapon. The GALED System. Remember how they used in earlier in the week? The weapon is intended to manipulate hydrogen molecules and plasma to wipe apart populations from the face of the earth. Helping France then to deal with the US. It will ignite spectacular special lights into the atmosphere, where satellites around the globe owned by us then, direct this deadly light to its destination. By the way, the robots were also built by us mainly to defend these satellites," he sidetracked, apologizing for this interruption as he returned to his normal conversation, "Depending on the number of lights switched on, the amount of damages increases. Mutually assured destruction and fatality... But they could not use it then since our allies and our government had surrendered. They interrogated my friend and discovered the weapon where it was ordered that the country, now split into several sectors to remove the weapon. The fact that The Light of Men had this weapon still armed and ready is saying something," he paused for a bit to breathe. It seemed like the topic was too sensitive, but must be made known for them to understand what they were about to do.

Shane said nothing unlike Baku who was wide-eyed on this discovery. She wanted to react, but she rather concentrate her energy on the main task at hand. It felt unbelievable that The Light of Men was just as shady as any other organizations with secret agendas. He continued, "speaking of which, the train you guys are on is a cargo train meant to deliver goods quickly and send men quickly to each building. Since the weapon is somewhat active, I figured this place was not blown up still. You guys will be infiltrating into the building. Though the trip may be rough..." he coughed hard, the mike rattling as he continued, "Meanwhile we will deal with the monsters above!" He cuts his mike as he watched Victor get placed on the catapult in 'jet mode'.

The newly painted white robot was now transformable with large legs and limbs made to be sleek. It now have a new black painted backpack from one of the test machines for the Gundam-lookalike. On top of the now transformed and sleek legs featured two removable white colored rocket propellants from a rocket. In the back, a new shotgun with longer range is locked in place between two fins all made in place with functional rudders with four sword-like funnels now fully exposed, instead of being hidden in the old compartment. In its arms, both now looking much the same with extra armor with the old arm featuring larger hands, now had it's knuckles made to look like a sleek portion of the robot in 'jet mode'. Equipped on its arms features the two removed funnels, now combined with old guns to create large ballistic launchers, larger than both of it's arms combined. He now had two katanas, now placed in two sleek grey duplicate holders in it's thighs, each of them having fins with small but functional ailerons and flaps. The whole robot now had purgeable armor with its six rockets now situated on it's shoulder with dark blue highlights all over the robot in the form of cursive lines. The robot's head in the middle of its still yellow v-shaped antenna now had a extra sensors in the form of a mono-eye in its head, right above its newly constructed boat-hull shaped armor in its chest.

Victor sat in place vertically. It was a new position. Though he felt more uncomfortable, he felt that it was manageable. The machine was now also less painful. He looks on as the control tower in the hangar gave the green light.

"Victor Garnier, Attec Speeder Odd-Arm taking flight!" He lurched onto his seat as he announced. His legs pushing him down the cockpit, seemingly about to break the cockpit with new monitors. Heavy vibrations rocked this machine with it's newfound speed, launching into the air like a comet passing through the earth.

After a long journey in the train, the goods car vibrated violently as Baku broke the car doors to Derek's annoyance. A silhouette that Shane recognized as Jason aka Wolf Man was stopping the train, crushing the locomotive, it'a drivers dead under the forceful impact as the old train struggled to stop. Derek shot at it as it is slumped and crushed by the slow train, derailing it into a mangled mess. The soldiers, as nauseous as they were, were somewhat fine due to the train's low speed. The group marched forward as they head up the bright stairs instead of another dark corridor. The place was a huge mess. Ever since the war, the place was left as it was with large propaganda posters still featured on the walls and equipment scattered on the concrete floor. Rooms full of generators for the weapon still ran, making a strange electric whirl as they wandered in the dark. Leroy quickly deactivated the machines as the rest head up the dark stairs. Through the poor lighting still activated in this gloomy place, they went past clear windows of what looked like a dark silhouette as Derek struggled to keep up with the group. Shane, who is leading the group goes up a large dark corridor filled with black sludge to see a strange green hue amongst poor lighting. Walking slower, poised for an attack, she see Atsuki, naked with signs of near-fatal wounds in a clear green liquid chamber amongst other empty chambers.

"What the f..."