Total Calamity Robot Book 1.2- NEXUS

by Lucny Dauphin

  “Oh man…a new monster…!” says the shocked soldier before flying off, leaving Kyo alone.

  There was nothing but the sound of the wind, and crackling fire, as well as the echoing signs of people screaming and sirens. Kyo laid there motionless as if he was sound asleep…however, it appeared he wasn’t alone.

  There was a person on the roof approaching Kyo. This person had on a long black coat and a black hoodie over its head. The mysterious person approaches Kyo and looks down at him silently for a moment…before he then proceeds to pick Kyo up and puts him over its shoulder. The person turns around and proceeds to walk towards the edge of the building. Next, this person proceeds to now stand on the edge of the high building. Just then, a massive explosion is seen from afar. The mysterious person turns its head, watching the fireball go up in the air.

  “…And so...it begins…child,” says the deep voice of the mysterious hooded man…

  The hooded man ends up floating off the building and flies towards the scene where the fireball was seen…

  Chapter End

  Chapter 14

  Your Destiny

  Arata confronts the tall mechanical beast with anger in his eyes. The mechanical beasts’ mouth suddenly opens, as smoke seeps out of its mouth, beginning to breathe very heavily as if it was hungry to eat anything in front of it.

  “…Die,” says Arata.

  Arata leaps and swings his beam sword at the titan, but the titan blocks it easily with its left arm. Arata continues and rapidly swings its beam sword at the titan. The titan stood still, withstanding all of Arata’s swings, but it was clear its arm was getting slice marks everywhere, but still stood strong. Arata suddenly flies back, and charges right back at the titan, smashing his fist into the titan’s face hard enough to send the titan rolling hard onto the ground. The Titan is quick on its feet, stopping itself from rolling over, but as soon as it gets on its feet, however, Arata sends yet another powerful punch to the titan’s face, causing the titan to go flying back and crashing into a building and collapse in the process.

  Arata quickly pulls out the beam rifle that was placed on his lower back and flies up into the air. Arata begins charging a large blue electrical ball from his rifle. Seconds later, Arata presses the trigger, unleashing a massive blue energy wave crashing into the area where the titan was, creating massive destruction in the process. After Arata let’s go of the trigger, it is revealed that a massive crater was the result of his attack. There is no sign of the titan anywhere. Arata slowly floats down, looking for the titan.

  Moments later, his eyes widen, and he turns around, finding the damaged and torn titan before him. The titan swats Arata hard with its huge arm, making Arata crash hard through a torn building and out, crashing into the street. Arata lays there on the ground for a moment before hopping back up to his feet. Arata wastes no time and blasts to the sky gunning for the titan.

  Arata quickly slips his rifle back onto his lower back and in seconds, pulls out and swings his long beam sword at the titan once more, creating a huge slash mark across the titan’s chest. The Titan quickly flies back before charging forward once more to throw a menacing punch towards Arata.

  As the titan throws its fist, Arata blocks it with his plasma shield, causing a shockwave upon impact. Arata then kicks the titan on the side of the head hard, causing the titan to go crashing hard to the ground. Arata looks down in silence, waiting for the titan to get back up.

  Moments later, the Titan gets back up on its two feet, and suddenly unleashes a hellacious roar, one that Arata is surprised by. As soon as the mechanical titan lets out its angering yell, it smashes its two large fists into the ground. As soon as it does that, the perimeter begins to shake badly. In seconds, Arata is shocked to find many buildings begin to fall and topple over, causing massive destruction in the process. Arata witnessed this titan destroy all buildings around it, making the scenery nothing more than piles of rubble, everywhere.

  …What kind of power is this…?! thought an agitated Arata.

  “Arata!” shouts a female voice.

  Arata turns and finds Harumi flying his way.

  “What the fuck happened just now?” says Harumi, frantically looking at the destruction around them.

  “That damn titan...he literally smashed his two fists into the ground, and caused a shockwave powerful enough to tear down buildings,” replies Arata.

  Suddenly, the titan lets out its hellacious roar once more. Everyone is startled by this scream, as moments later, a plethora of solar bots begin to appear in the distance.

  “You’ve got to be kidding me…!” says an angry Harumi.

  “Soldiers! Can you hear me!” shouts Arata, pressing a small button onto the right ear helmet.

  “…Damn, no response…!” says Arata.

  “Many of them are down for the count after what’s transpired. Most of them have to be under the rubble,” says Harumi.

  “Listen Arata. I had most of the soldiers to retreat, because of what that titan just did to the city,” Explained Kimiko through Arata’s speaker. “It’s as Harumi predicted. Many of them are either dead or trapped in the rubble as they went to assist the people,”

  “Damn…so even civilians may have been killed…!” says Arata, clenching his fists.

  “You two are going to have to handle this once more…” says Kimiko.

  “…No matter, we got this,” says Harumi, cracking her knuckles.

  “After we complete the mission, we need a serious readjustment for the soldiers,” says Arata.

  “What do you mean by that?” asks Kimiko.

  “…Maybe we should just have A.I. built soldiers,” replies Arata.

  “What?!” says a shocked Kimiko.

  “The soldiers of Galaxus are worthless. Plain and simple,” says Arata.

  “Don’t say that Arata! You know they aren’t!” shouts Kimiko.

  “I have to disagree,” says Harumi, chiming in.

  “Kimiko, we’ll discuss this later. We have business to attend to,” says Arata, swooping down after the titan.

  Harumi is left with the mass solar bots coming her way, however, she looks very confident, as she always looked so far in the chaos that’s ensued.

  Harumi suddenly begins firing many yellow energy shots out of her hand, shooting down many of the solar bots in the process, however, most of them are smart enough to evade and come after Harumi even faster. Harumi quickly pulls out her two beam swords and charges forward, sliding through the wave and slashing all of the solar bots apart while doing so. Harumi stops and sees she is surrounded by many of the solar bots. Harumi takes a deep breath before turning and decapitating two solar bots. Most of the solar bots gang up on her, however, Harumi turns her body into a tornado, sticking her arms out with her swords in hand, slashing away at all the solar bots that's coming her way. She was a spinning blade, and all the solar bots became crossfire.

  Meanwhile, Arata lands back to the ground and wastes no time to charge towards the titan. The two of them begin throwing punches, with each connection of their fists causing shockwaves, making large pieces of rubble float around them in the process. Their slow connection of punches soon became fast connections, and the acceleration kept getting faster and faster. Arata is able to punch the titan square in the face, causing it to fly back. Arata quickly pulls out his beam rifle and fires a round of energy shots at the titan, causing the titan to be engulfed in a blue smoke. Arata keeps firing, as the blue puff of smoke gets bigger and bigger, however Arata is shocked moments later, finding the Titan fly out of the smoke like a speeding train, and is able to strike Arata hard, punching him in the face making Arata crash into a large pile of rubble in the process.

  As Harumi stops herself from spinning, she looks on surprised to find more solar bots around her. Her expression of shock quickly turns to rage, as she charges forward and continues slashing apart the many solar bots around her. As she goes on a rage attack, she is quickly blindsided by the titan, who grabs her b
y the foot from below and wasting no time, pulls and throws her crashing into the rubble hard. The titan is now on top with its solar bots, looking down at the destruction of the city.

  Amongst so much destruction, there is still one building that was still standing. The mysterious black hoodie man was on top of this deteriorating building with the unconscious Kyo over his shoulder. The man drops Kyo to the ground, and seconds after, Kyo’s eyes pop open, looking up at the dark cloudy sky. Kyo sits up and is jaw dropped and the destruction all around him. He gets back up to his feet and walks forward slowly to gaze more at the scenery. Moments after, he witnesses Arata and Harumi both fly towards the crowd of solar bots and titans that were floating in the sky. Kyo watches in awe as the two super soldiers fight off against the enemy. They manage to take down the solar bots with ease, but as soon as the small fry were taken care of, they once again get swatted back to the ground hard by the titan. Kyo, watching all this, begins clenching both of his hands, looking on in anger.

  “…They’re going to die…!” says Kyo. “They…always think they can end things just with the two of them, and each and every time it results in mass destruction, and with their lives on the brink of death. This time…they’re really going to die…!”

  “So, what’re you going to do about it?” says the deep voice.

  Kyo’s eyes widen and turn around, shocked to find the hooded man before him, standing there silently with his hands behind his back.

  “…Who are you…?” questions Kyo, “…Thinking about it…why am I even up here right now?”

  “You have a chance to change things here. To change not only yours but “their” destiny as well,” says the hooded man.

  “Change destiny…?” says a confused Kyo.

  “What will you do? If those two heroes die, they’ll be no one else to stop the threat. All of the soldiers have either perished or are trapped under heavy debris,” Says the hooded man.

  “What…?!” says a shocked Kyo.

  “You despise their actions against the fellow soldier’s who’ve fallen, but now they’re in a position to where ‘they’ will fall. Is it possible they need that ‘3rd’ key, to save them?” says the hooded man. Kyo looked on in shock at the man’s words.

  …It’s as if he knew me or something…! thought Kyo.

  Suddenly, a huge explosion is heard. Kyo quickly turns around and looks down to find Harumi and Arata desperately trying to fight back against the titan.

  The Titan is unfazed by their struggling punches. Harumi goes to kick the titan to the skull, but the titan counters, punching her hard in the stomach. Hard enough for Harumi to cough out blood before falling to her knees before the titan. The titan punts Harumi to the chest, flying her back and crashing into debris. Arata yells in anger and charges at the titan, throwing a flurry of quick punches at the titan, but the titan appeared too quick for Arata. As the titan evaded most of Arata’s punches, Arata quickly charges a yellow energy ball in his left hand and fires at the titan’s face, causing a massive explosion in the process. Kyo could see nothing but a puff of black smoke where Arata and the titan were. Moments later, Arata is seen walking out of the smoke, and soon rolling onto the ground, as his armor is now blackened and damaged, with sparks flying out of it. Arata’s eyes were dazed and looked as if he was going unconscious. Arata sees the titan slowly approaching him through the heavy fog, but Arata could do nothing but lay there in pain.

  “Damn…! Dammit!” shouts Kyo, “I can’t believe this is happening right before me and there’s nothing I can do…!”

  Kyo falls to his hands and knees, head lowered, clenching onto the tiny pebbles on the roof of the building, “…How…how can…I…save them….?” whispers Kyo, “…Just so that monster…does not take even more lives…!”

  Suddenly, Kyo hears a loud buzzing noise. Kyo raises his head and is shocked to find even more solar bots appearing, slowly floating down from the sky. Kyo quickly gets back to his feet, turns around, and storms towards the hooded man with anger in his face. He grabs the hooded man by his coat and gets in his dark face.

  “Tell me! What can I do?! If you have anything to save them, just give it to me! I’ll do it!” shouts Kyo.

  “…So you wish to change destiny here today…?” questions the hooded man. “…To change your destiny, and theirs?”

  “Yes!! I’ll change my destiny to save everyone! And I’ll change their destiny to show that two can’t do it!! I just don’t want any more people to die, dammit!” Kyo exclaims in anger.

  The hooded man suddenly slaps something onto Kyo’s wrist. Kyo quickly backs away from the man and looks at his wrist. He’s shocked to find a wrist device there. It was the face of a dark blue robot with bright red eyes.

  “…You’ve chosen your destiny. You cannot turn back now,” says the hooded man before turning and walking back, slowly vanishing into thin air. Kyo looks on in shock as to what he’s just witnessed but soon turns his attention back to the wrist device the mysterious man gave to him.

  Kyo, silent, turns back around and walks to the edge of the building, and watched, as Arata gets back to his feet against the solar bots that have now landed in front of him. Arata pulls out his beam sword once more and limps forward. As the solar bots’ bolt towards him, Arata yells in anger and slashes two solar bots with ease, still limping forward to the main target. 3 more solar bots charge forward, but Arata swings his blade horizontally, cutting all 3 solar bots in half in the process, continuing to limp forward, closer to the titan. The titan begins breathing heavily once more, as 4 more solar bots charge after Arata. Before Arata could perform once more, a large energy ball comes crashing at the last 4 solar bots, destroying them completely. Arata stops, as Harumi limps her way over to Arata. They both stood side by side, eyes hazy, body weakening, but still, standing strong against the powerful titan.

  “…Heh…we’re going to die here at long last, huh?” says Harumi.

  “…No…we can’t give up now…!” says Arata.

  The titan lets out its hellacious roar once more, but the Assassin Enforcers were unfazed by it. Debris begins floating around the titan, before the titan springs towards the weakened warriors. The two stood there and clearly, didn’t have any strength left to block, or even counter. It appeared time was up for them. All of their near-death missions was going to end here…

  “…Not calling for help…more soldiers to help…nothing…huh?” whispers Kyo. “…You two are something else. Sure badasses indeed…but it’s time you two be saved for once, rather than saving your own... Time I return the favor…!”

  Kyo leaps off the building and places his two fingers onto the wrist device...

  The Titan ends up punching Arata in the face again, sending him crashing hard into a larger pile of debris from afar. The Titan quickly raises its arm up in the air above Harumi’s head. Harumi looked at the titan, body frozen while holding on to her right arm. The Titan was moments away from smashing its arm onto Harumi’s head.

  [Dynasty of Spheres H.Q./ Monitor Room]

  “Arata is in heavy critical condition and is now unresponsive!” shouts a female operator.

  “Fuck…! I can’t believe this…!” says an angry Kimiko, “Teleport them back to sickbay, now!”

  “They don’t have energy left in their Assassin Morphers to activate the teleporter! There’s no way to send them back now!” shouts another operator.

  Kimiko turns around and puts her hands above her head, clearly stressed as what’s about to come.

  Dammit…! They’re really going to be killed…! thought Kimiko.

  “…We have a reading!! Someone is approaching the battlefield!!” shouts an operator.

  “What?!” says Kimiko, turning around, shocked at what she sees next…

  [Tojisa City]

  Harumi watches in shock to find a dark blue battle-armored soldier in front of her, raise its forearm above its head, and stop the titan from crashing its arm onto Harumi’s body. The titan looks down and
sees the blue armored soldier’s piercing bright red eyes. The blue armored warrior kicks the titan to the stomach hard, pushing the titan back far and crashing into rubble.

  “…Who…?” whispers the words of Harumi before falling to the ground, laying there now unconscious. The blue armored warrior turns and looks down at Harumi’s damaged armor. The armored warrior shakes its head before turning its attention back to the titan and walking towards it…

  [Dynasty of Spheres H.Q./ Monitor Room]

  “Who is this person? I’ve never seen battle armor like that ever…!” says a shocked Kimiko.

  “The armored soldier is now approaching the target…!” says an operator.

  “…Harumi Watanabe is now unconscious and in major critical condition now…” says another operator.

  …I don’t know if you’re friend or foe…but please…save those two…! thought a worried Kimiko…

  Chapter End

  Chapter 15

  Nexus

  The blue armored warrior reveals its face before the titan, and it was none other than Kyo Hayashi, under the armor. Kyo observes the titan pull itself out of the rubble and quickly charge towards him. Kyo puts back on his visor and charges at the titan.

  The titan throws a punch at Kyo, but Kyo easily dodges it and sends a powerful kick to the titan’s face, causing the titan to go flying back and crashing into a building that now crumbles onto the titan as soon as it makes an impact with it. Kyo stands there silent. Kyo removes his visor once more and looks at the scenery of destruction all around him.

  “…I feel…different…like I’ve always done this…” says Kyo, looking down at his hands, “…I’ve never felt so powerful in my life…!”

  “Hey…! Y-you…!” says a man.

  Kyo turns his head slowly and finds the injured and bloodied Arata walking slowly towards him.