13 The Antimatter Legion

"Are you alright? Can you hear me? Do you remember your name?" 

March looked at the man worried since he is the only one alone, she thinks that if a lone person is in the middle of a invasion means their either injured or dead.

Thankfully the man seems to be none of those things which was weird considering the invasion.

The man on the other hand moved his head side to side still clutching his head.

"Aw, this isn't good... Can you try harder? I'm sure you can at least remember your name..." March asked for the well being of the man.

"My name is Caelus." is what the man responded.

"Caelus? Nice to meet you. My name's Dan Heng, on my left this is Erwin Linestone,"

Erwin waved a greeting.

"and to my right this is March 7th."

March then smiled in recognition.

Dan Heng then explained to Caelus about how the space station was attacked by the Antimatter Legion during their delivery to which after the beginning of the attack they had gotten to rescue any remaining researcher before going to the next zones by the request of the Lead Researcher Asta when patrolling the zone they currently search for other people.

Caelus then asked about the Antimatter Legion and Lead Researcher Asta to which was answered by March giving brief descriptions on how the Antimatter Legion are goons owned by the destruction and Asta being appointed by Madam Herta to be their acting lead researcher.

Caelus asked on where should he go to which Erwin replied towards the master control zone which he speculated that everyone who evacuated had gone there.

March then gone and exclaimed that they had the Astral Express to which she also said that they can protect him from the monsters and clean up the mess.

Caelus then asked more questions to which asked who they are with Erwin answering that they are members of the astral express and how they had a dealing with Madam Herta with how they came here from time to time.

Another question came up and asked about the astral express with March saying that a unique train that can traverse to stars and cosmos powered by the Trailblazing Aeon.

Caelus had no more questions he then wanted to go now and Dan Heng then prompt that he was going to find the security officer Arlan and that Erwin, March, and Caelus should stick together to which he then left first.

"Caelus, maybe you should take this." March said pointing to the metal bat on the ground and explained to Caelus to take a weapon since the invasion and that the path their going to right now is dangerous so he can at least defend himself.

To which Erwin now prompted to go seeing as he saw many of the legion patrolling the area up ahead and should deal with them accordingly.

With many battles through which Caelus dealt devastating blows, March using her bow and arrow to freeze them and Erwin not gonna fall behind used his terrain tool sucking up the legion turning them into bulbs of anti-matter to which then stored into his backpack.

After the battles they are in front of an elevator terminal, March interacted the terminal which didn't work, Erwin then interacted with the terminal came to a conclusion and said that the elevator seems to be in a emergency lockdown.

March then complained that Dan Heng should be here to fix it, After saying that Dan Heng spooked March by appearing behind the trio saying that this is not his expertise and that they should go to the security room where Arlan is there injured.

With the battle against the Anti-matter legion once more they reached to the security room where they found Arlan who then explained if they're together with March saying yes with them being members of the astral express.

Arlan then said "Did Madam Herta send you to help" to which Dan Heng described their place here as a coincidence, then explained that they were here to deliver Herta's package, and didn't expect the invasion form the anti-matter legion.

March then asked on why the anti-matter legion is targeting the space station to which Arlan had no explanation why but did came on a suspicious time after the security system suddenly failed then also explained Asta immediately began an evacuation during which he is suppose to protect everyone during the evacuation but ended up failing to he became injured. 

After some back and forward exchanges Arlan requested they take the elevator of the highest floor with his reasoning that he can't give the legion any chance to go through the master control zone.

To which then fought their way to reach at the top of the floor during which they found a light cone which was explained that its property of the garden of recollection and Herta has gotten them legitimately.

Nearing the top elevator March had to jinx the mission to the elevator by saying that they arrived already with not many monsters around to which she realized her mistake and confessed that she shouldn't have said that to which came a Trampler which is equivalent to a centaur but sci-fi.

After a fearsome 3 minutes in battle the Trampler has cuts, icy arrow tips, blunt armor, and a missing arm courtesy of Dan Heng, March, Caelus and Erwin ganging up on it.

Within its most injured state it screamed and many more came floating in the air appearing ganging up on the group with march shouting "Hey, sore losers! You can't just gang up on us." A drone with a circular saw blade appeared and has delt with most of them.

The group hurried not missing this chance and rode the elevator up to the master control zone.

When the group reached the master control zone Himeko is there with an excited smile saying "Why does it always have to get this exciting? Anyway at least your back."

"March, Dan Heng, Erwin, you've been through a lot." looking that the tired group of her merry members.

"I think of R&R is what we needed for now" the tired Erwin standing with hands on his knees panting so much sweat going down his head.

To be continued...

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School is back and so is my writing block, just to clarify the updates will depend on my schedule, No I'm not abandoning this, just having a break from school and writers blocks is on my mind right now after I finished this chapter the updates are gonna be longer tho also check on the author's thought on previous chapters since after each chapter im gonna write my thoughts here instead in the '+ ADD AUTHOR'S THOUGHT' button.

P.s just because the updates are long doesn't mean I'm giving up in the story, this is just a second reminder, that's all.

All thoughts on criticism are available, see you dear readers.

- Author