V.9
The Ganesh massive surprise attack caught a lot of superpowers in precarious situations. Massive amounts of ships and lives were lost, with nothing to gain.
This is a huge wakeup call to everyone fighting the Ganesh, especially since they received GT weapons and drones. Everyone has been treating Ganesh like some walking cash cow.
Now they once again realized that the cash cow is a demonic bull who will devour them the moment they become complacent, and they did become complacent.
And now they paid dearly for it. In GFA alone, several squadrons were destroyed during the surprise attacks.
The number of lives lost was just too many. GT also suffered some losses as some shadow units were caught in the attack, their situations unconfirmed.
So when the GFA was having an emergency meeting, GT too began preparing for the tumultuous times.
Only their main agenda is different. GFA was concerned about recuperating their loss, as opposed to GT, on the other hand, planning on how they can extract their remaining shadow units undercover. Dove and Michelle are against it, of course, being in the shadow unit, they themselves know the risk when they become a member of the unit. And extracting undercover shadow unit members would be throwing away all their hard work.
In fact, Oda was against it, but Arc's order of not saving lives that can be saved is one of the thing He ordered explicitly to all of them.
So Yuri suggested, "why not let the shadow Units who were undercover decide for themselves, whether they want to be extracted or not."
Dove and Michelle nodded.
Those two are no longer the same as they used to be. Being a shadow unit for several years gives them a new perspective in life. They are no longer naive powerless girls whose lives are at the hands of the criminal organizations.
They are also aware that these decisions would mean losing brothers and sisters of shadow units who considered themselves one family.
After a few more minutes of convincing, Oda finally relented and agreed to Yuri's suggestions. Still, he also placed Legion on standby, for he is the only one capable of rescuing those shadow units that are stranded or missing instantly.
Legion placed transmission points all over the bright galaxy, and those transmission points served as communication relays as well as teleportation points for himself and his legions.
Only Oda and Gaia are aware of it, not even Dianna knows it. Oda didn't think it was necessary to inform a lot of them. The fewer who know it, the better. Legion is considered GT's number one secret weapon. His identity and existence are a secret that only system personnel are allowed to know of his existence, and even so, not all system personnel are made aware of it.
And using the Legion to rescue the trapped shadow units is Oda's last resort. Of course, the shadow units who were undercover are not exactly powerless as they were given specialized survival kits that can help them in various situations.
These survival kits consist of several things.
* full-fledge mechs
* personal warbots
* variety of weapons and devices
* health solutions
* food solutions
* emergency communication device.
And many more. This kit was the culmination of all the knowledge and experience of all shadow units.
Every undercover agent of shadow units was given a standard storage ring. This is a rank 3 storage ring created by a multi-purpose manufacturing factory or (MPMF) using many rare materials from all over the bright galaxy as well as from the main Universe.
So far, only about a thousand of those rings are made because of the rare materials needed to make it, even with their connections to the first bank, as well as several alien merchants who are capable of going to the main Universe. It's still not enough to arm all shadow units with storage rings. So they prioritize giving them to the units undergoing dangerous missions. Of course, those rings have severe safety features, if anyone other than their owner wore it, it would explode killing the person.
Fortunately, the ring can also change its form using several pre-installed designs like rings, bracelets, and different kinds of accessories. This will serve as camouflage and will prevent anyone from detecting its real functions.
The kit will significantly increase the unit's survivability, and true enough, some managed to survive Ganesh's attack even when everyone else besides them perished.
Leah and Kurt are one of the few shadow units undercover in the Coalition, they were some of the few sent to spy on the Coalition to learn how they operate as well as learn all their secrets.
Leah and Kurt are from the same generation of shadow units; they were one of the first victims of criminal organizations Dove and Michelle were able to rescue in their first few missions.
Leah can still vividly remember how bad her condition was when Dove and the rest found her. Drugs were pumped into her system as she was asked to sell herself, many of her memories of that time are blurred because of drugs, but she can clearly remember how much pain she was in, as she was being used as a Guinea pig after she lost her value to the syndicate. She can remember how every waking moment she prayed to someone to end her suffering only to wake up again in so much pain.
But all that changed when two beautiful girls barged in her holding cell. Despite the smell and filthiness of the place, the two girls smiled at her, held her hands, and said. "Its ok, you are safe now."
At first, she thought she was dreaming, but when she woke up, she was in a facility with drones and droids taking care of her as well as other victims like her. Of course, at first, she didn't think it was a good thing, after all the pain she has been through, she didn't think anyone would do anything for someone without getting something in return.
But after several days, her condition gradually got better and better. The drugs in her system that were killing her were systematically flushed out and without any after-effects. She didn't experience any signs of withdrawal nor received any backlash when the drugs wore out.
And even more surprising, in just a few days, she was already strong enough to move around, she knew what kind of condition she had been in. She often thinks it's all a dream, and any moment she will wake up back in her filthy cell.
It was also there she met other survivors or fellow victims. Even so, she remained skeptical about the organization's true motive, who rescued them as they are clearly not from any government agencies. So she was surprised that after a few weeks of recovery, the doctors told her she was completely cured and free to go home. They are even giving her some money to start over and begin a new life.
The hidden agenda she was waiting for never came. And when she heard that a few victims are asking if they can join or help the organization that rescued them without asking for anything. The few human personnel told them that they were forbidden to say anything to them. Being a part of the organization is a lifetime commitment, and so the crew told them to use the money they got and start a new normal life.
Despite the crew's refusal, many victims like her wanted to be a part of it. So they began doing chores and things to help out in their own way, she too became interested in joining. It's not like she has a life to go back to.
And then, one day, their persistence paid off when one of the organization's officials, a burly man, appeared and gave them a chance as well as a choice.
The man said, being part of the organization would put them into even greater danger. And after what they have been through, they all deserve a normal life.
She also sees the two girls who rescue her. And when Dove and Michelle told them their life's story, she broke down and cried for who knows how long. She finally found her calling.
On the other hand, Kurt had an even more tragic story. For a long time, he refused to say anything, and only when they got selected as an undercover agent to be sent to the Coalition and working together for a long time was she able to pry open his lips.
It turns out Kurt's family took a loan to one of the loan sharks and one of the most vicious one at that. So when his parents failed to pay up their loans, the loan shark killed his parents in the most brutal way he knows and that happened in front of him and his sister, after that they were taken away, and his sister was sent as a prostitute and died several years later at the hands of one of her customers who like to beat girls.
On the other hand, he became a runner for drugs, but when one day he slipped up and got caught by the police along with the drugs he was transporting. And after being jailed for several months, the moment he was released, his boss beat him up close to the death for losing the drugs. He was then sold to a mad scientist who used him as test subjects on many of his experiments. He refused to talk about the details but she can imagine what it feels like as she too experienced similar things.
What Kurt failed to mention is that the scientist who bought him was a brutal and maniac homosexual psychopath, and every night he and his fellow psychopaths friends would do all sorts of things to Kurt and his fellow lab rats. Kurt's master likes to torture things, and Kurt was his favorite.
But because of GT, their lives were changed and because of the camaraderie of the shadow units. Along with the rest of the shadow units, they found themselves the family they all longed for.
Of course, that doesn't mean they forgot all about their past, their resentment, and their anger. They didn't, and GT wasn't going to force them to forget. In fact, GT gives them a chance to get their revenge as long as no innocent lives would be affected.
He can still remember the night he visited his former master, on how he released all his pent up frustration and anger. However, he felt neither joy nor satisfaction for his revenge but only an end to his past.
After that, he dedicated his life to Grand Army to Shadow units and became one of the best agents, and being selected to be undercover is proof of it. After all, to be undercover in space, one needs to complete more than two dozen A-rank missions and complete all training exercises. Especially the training to operate mechs and war machines in space. He and Leah had completed several missions on space, as well as several mercenary missions. In other words, they are veterans to all kinds of situations, so when the Ganesh launched their surprise attack on the squadron they are part of, they were able to escape during the commotion. Unfortunately, their mechs were damaged during their escape, so they were forced to take shelter on an unknown planet.
And also because of the new weapon of Ganesh that fried all electronic equipment similar to EMP only several times more powerful than any EMP they knew. That even with the shielding technology of GT, their communication was still greatly affected.
And because they didn't know that, the moment they tried to contact GT, their portable communication device was severely damaged. Now they are stranded on some unknown planet, and luckily it has intelligent civilization, so they could communicate just fine. The problem is they are quite primitive like the earth, before world war three.
EDITOR: King of Mortals.