Crimson Fury Log: April 11, Earth Year 226
It all started days ago, I was on a mission in the middle of nowhere and I ran into some pretty bad resistance from ACs guarding a warehouse housing a top-secret prototype weapon sample I was supposed to destroy. For this mission I contracted the aid of a longtime ally, an associate who goes by the codename Vulcan. He pilots the heavyweight AC Heavy Metal, using a powerful laser rifle and multi-missles. We departed for this seemingly routine mission the day after the sorty was accepted and I agreed that I�d pay him his portion of the credits earned upon completion of the mission.
We arrived there at the complex and found resistance from two unknown ACs, a heavy quadruped and a light reverse jointed AC. Vulcan told me to go in and complete the mission as he could handle the opposition out there. While he pinned the other two ACs with firepower, I made it inside. Upon entering the main complex I ran into the leader of this AC team in the large room which preceded the room that housed the target. This guy seemed well equipped, his catepillar AC was bristling with weapons, the only way to complete the objective seemed to be through him. He was motionless in his heavy AC, not moving but to aim, his shots were accurate as hell and he left me no room for error in my dodging. After a while of trying to advance for close assault but only being forced to recede and start dodging shots again I was pretty irritated, but he just wouldn�t give up in his relentless assaults, chainguns, grenades, machine guns he wasn�t going to stop anytime soon. His large catepillar AC was hell, and this pilot was ruthless, I finally took a chance and overboosted toward him quickly then veered to the right, barely dodging a large grenade, this risky manuever gave me a brief opening to knock his large chain gun off his left shoulder with a blade slash, sending sparks flying everywhere. His AC seemed to have been malfunctioning after doing this. I then quickly sliced off his right arm which held a 1000 round machine gun with an upward slash. While he was in a shocked state I tore off the grenade launcher on his back with my ACs bare hands. The pilot replied to me in a confused yet gruff voice "How... how did you...?� I backed away from him, �You are no more of a threat to me, you have failed your mission now leave. If you oppose me again I will be forced to destroy you. You are weak for not being able to harness the full potential of your AC, you were too much of an easy target.� He slowly turned as sparks flew from his ruptured arm then overboosted away and replied �You... You got lucky you cocky bastard!� I watched the damaged tank boost out of the large door as a black smoke trail followed. "You coward, a true warrior wouldn't run from death in battle... Well anyway, it's time for the completion of this mission. Still though, why did they hire such a large amounts of ACs to guard this?" I wondered how important this new "prototype" weapon was, the details aquired in the mission briefing were scarce to say the least.
After standing there for a moment contemplating, I turned and proceeded to the door he was previously guarding, it would not open due to my lack of a high enough hacking function. I activated my blade and stabbed the powerful blue beam into the midsection of the door, the door mechanism activated and it opened. I slowly walked inside and in the back a dim light shone, and under it was something in an ovular shape. Before me was a mechanism of which I�d never seen, it seemed alien in design, and upon closer examination I found that it seemed to be some type of airship. Covering this "machine" were large, strangely shaped thrusters, devices that seemed as if they were eyes, and protuding fin-like objects. Suddenly the dim lighting in the room faded, I could see nothing and instinctively started to back away from the device slowly. All of a sudden the large boosters began to emit a haunting green aura which filled the dark room with an eerie jaded glow. The room seemed to start to pulse around me, the walls almost moving, was I hallucinating? Soon the green energy started to glow even brighter under the machine. I backed away a few steps more then watched as this large ship, at least five times the size of my AC started to levitate from it�s platform. As I stood there in awe, soon after seeing the contraption start to rise, I got a message directly from the Earth Government, who had contracted me for this mission {{Raven, destroy that thing before it becomes fully operational!!}} I got a call seconds after that from Vulcan {{Crimson what the hell are they talking about?!?}}� �Blast it, it�s... too late��
- To be Continued -