It was indeed the end of my vacation.
My father and I searched for my youngest brother for months. We were devoted to finding him, he had a tracker on his suit but it led to a dead end, guess he wasn't wearing his suit.
There was only one clue, but it led to another dead end.
After my father ran off, I believed his story, within the months of our team up, I remained with my eyes open, Never Negligent of the past my blood father and I shared.
During the months, I frequently asked him about the day he had been kidnapped, He never once changed his story and held patience with excessiveness as if he wasn't telling a lie, a fib, or being untruthful.
Something about how he told the story felt... too genuine for it to be a lie.
I eventually learnt to forgive him.
Anyway...
Date: September 29th, 2029.
At this point, I'm back in Genoble. Awaiting further orders from Josue or Nathaniel even...
As I was in the middle of flying to Josue's HQ, I heard more intense Bawls of danger, Howls of agony and shrieks of fear coming from below me.
An exclamation of surprise appeared on my face as I witnessed robots belonging to the same hacker group attacking the city, once again.
I flew down off the building and defeated the robots myself, only to look up at random and witnessed a dozen(×3) of them soaring above me with intense speed.
Luckily, I wore my vigilante attire in case of something like this happening once again.
I haven't heard from HQ, the city nor the hackers prior to this encounter so I wasn't prepared for such an attack.
The robots kept coming and coming and soaring above me on the street, leading me to believe this was going to be an all out attack.
A person from HQ had contacted me, he told me about the many robots attacking main HQ.
Josue took over 4 cities, there's 30 bases of operations throughout the cities, if Karlous was willing to attack the greatest we've ever been attacked, this attack scaled way larger than the last.
When I arrived at Josue's main HQ, Josue was in the lobby taking down a robot, surrounded by piles of robots. I counted quickly in my head, it was 40 robots.
He informed me on how he had just arrived from a meeting in Geneloque, but came back to find the lobby filled with machines and his staff dead or missing and I knew he was telling the truth because, as I looked around there were dead bodies everywhere too.
On my comm, connected to my main armor as well, Artus bellowed with rage as I heard metal clinging and clanging through it.
Artus yelled through "We got metal dummies in ehdinlok!" as Urgently I ever heard him yell before...
I wanted to ask him what he was doing in Ehdinlok, but instead I assured him I was on my way, no time for small talk.
Shortly after, Ember connected and made weird sounds before she yelled "We got an abundance of atrocious creations in Alyi, as well!!" as Urgently as Artus yelled through...
I was stuck between two choices, Artus or Ember, I had unbreakable confidence in both of my sibling's abilities.
I had no choice as well, while in the middle of choosing, a dozen(×4) of those mechanical atrocities suddenly surrounded me as I witnessed more soaring above to destroy the city.
I REALIZED that's what they were up to during their disappearance. They were up to nothing but planning everyone's demise. He practically spoke about watching me, studying me, then taking away everything I loved... I didn't think he did the whole city also, so selfish of me.
Without hesitation, I dashed to bash, thrash, smash, crash and hash after finding some sharp pieces of the road they DESTROYED. I was able to take down over 40 of them before reinforcements arrived.
I'm still not sure, but I blacked out once more after reinforcements arrived and when I awoke, a great deal of robots resembled visiting a scrap heap.
I woke up, sight blurred and a burnt taste in my mouth. During this time, I had confusion on my mind, but a mission set.
Get to my penthouse to get my armor equipped.
I had no choice, of course.
I chose to save Ember since my gear and penthouse was in alyi, one of the many cities taken for good intentions by Josue and his wealth.
I flew from building to building and hurried to my penthouse, equipped my gear, got my custom sniper, equipped it on my back. Grabbed my special issued custom dual handguns designed by me and professor Jikolsen in my early days that survived miraculously amazing all these years.
Also, I grabbed my high tech retractable Sword and placed it in my bag.
After gearing up, I flew out the window and on my way to Ember.
Together, we did away with the surrounding robots in Alyi, then ventured off to assist Artus, honestly, he could always hold his redness better than Ember all these years anyway, he would have a better survivability I'd guess...
By the time we got to him, he had left but cleared out each robot in the area. Turns out he didn't need much help.
Some short time after he left, he left us each a message on our built in gauntlet comms... Turns out a buddy of his called him for backup at a base all the way in Ehdinlok so he ran off to help him.
After hearing the message, we left off to him and made our way to Ehdinlok ourselves.
He gave us the exact location for which Ehdinlok HQ he is going to, when we got there.... Him and the buddy who called him were fighting off the bots present in the building.
After Ember and I joined in combating the robots, his friend had on a weird gas mask which we all ignored at the time.
The robots kept coming and coming, during this time, my mind was focused on the robots, but now, I am sure the year of their disappearance were them building the things.
The robots had your average machine guns built in, so we had nothing to worry about, the armor I created for us all were far more durable enough to withstand the firepower.
I ran out of ammo eventually, so I utilized my sword instead, together, though Ember was quicker than me, we dashed and slashed quite wonderfully.
It seemed no matter how many robots we destroyed, there were infinite of them. They wouldn't stop coming.... until they all halted in sync all of a sudden.
As the robots halted, so did we in confusion and shock, I turned around seeing the robots clearing the way for someone, he was important.
Once all the robots cleared the way, a man wearing armor similar to my siblings and I walked calmly between them.
He was clapping, leaving us continually confused.
"Bravo Mysterious Aluin and friends! My name is in fact Karlous Billzebrizzy!" He said with unwavering confidence...
I didn't let him finish saying what he wanted, Anger, frustration, confusion, a whole pantheon of emotions hit me all at once after I heard him say that name.
The same event happened to me, I blacked out once more, when I awoke, this "Karlous Billzebrizzy" was dead and his blood, on my hands.
When I awoke, Ember and Artus, being present and awake at the time, informed me on everything.
I can't go into exact detail, the result is too gory to explain properly. Here's the basic gist: I didn't show any mercy, according to Ember.
"Bro, we have to get you help on that temper!" Artus jokingly said to me, I could see the hidden fear in Artus, not of me, but this consistent "state" I keep blacking into somehow.
I tried to Ingore the "state" or whatever at the time, yet later on with the piles of evidence I had,
I Deduced that it wasn't my anger forcing me into this.... "State" of power.
I remember always feeling genuine frustration, frustration at a level higher than what I can force on myself. A level of pure frustration that hit me when I supposedly "Showed no mercy" towards Karlous at the time.
Later that day, Ember asked me, "Where was this mysterious power during our military years?" To which at the time, I had no answer to that question of hers, AGAIN.
Weeks went by, no attacks, no Karlous, it seemed I had ended him.
The Aluin trio were back to their special assignments.
We were to confront a scientist who specializes in various types of gases. Fear, depression, poison, hallucinatory, etc...
Josue's R&I team led us to his location, we confronted...
We subdued minion after minion while trying to reach him at the bottom. The lab he created was extremely long and confusing, it was hard for us to navigate our way through, so we just kept knocking out guard after guard.
We finally reached him at the 12th floor, below the building.
As we entered closer and closer to his door, I spotted a vapor coming from under the door, A miasma that smelled like intensely old milk came to my nose.
I warned my siblings, who told me they didn't see the disgusting vapor, but they still put on their gas masks before I punched open the hard steel door.
The scientist we're after stumbled with trepidation. His face was hidden behind a gas mask, his coat was brown and dirty as if he had been rolling around in mud. The eyes that did show, resembled someone who wishes to live.
The second person however didn't move an inch, he turned around to look as if he was cautious and prepared for a fight.
I quickly recognized His buddy had the same body armor as Karlous, the one I killed, after seeing him, it was a bolt from the blue. My jaw wanted to drop once I grasped the truth.
I still can't explain the feeling, I was prepared for a fight, yet, I was so shocked that I couldn't move.
Karlous placed his hand comfortingly on the uneasy scientist and ordered him to stay silent, then he walked near us, doing a black-hearted chuckle.
Even though his voice was disguised like ours, he began laughing and said with confidence, "Ahahaha, you seem as if you thought I was dead, no, no, of course you knew I wasn't dead, my life is devoted to you paying for what you did" As he then crossed his arms.
His assumption was correct, I knew he wasn't dead, yet he had caught me off guard.
"Why are you so hateful of me?" I asked him with sheer ignorance.
He didn't give me an answer...
Instead, he simply held the left side of his helmet with and began whispering.
"Tell me, Mr. Aluin, I know you've smelled the odius concoction we're making here, but what's the most beautiful sound you've ever heard?" Karlous asked.
I actually gave an answer, I yelled angrily "my wife was the most beautiful I've heard!", then I charged at him with all my might, without warning, without further hesitation. I was so focused on getting revenge, I forgot about my powers.
As I charged at him, he stated calmly "Wrong-o buddy!" Then through a large and blinding smoke bomb that filled the entire small laboratory room. The smoke lasted a while, I can breathe smoke without consquence, yet I can't see through it.
By the time the smoke cleared, Karlous, the chemicals and so on, had disappeared, alongside the scientist we were after.
A note was left behind, "Duped by your own form of matter!" In his place.
I wondered about the note for a minute, until Ember got me back on track.
We apprised the R&I team of Karlous' usage of possible built in comms later that day, once we returned to Genoble.
The R&I team were able to hack into his comms after a few days, we heard he was speaking to someone, he was speaking to a male, the male told of karlous' current location, Karlous asked "They can't hack these comms, right?" To whoever he was speaking to, yet he didn't answer him, I noticed.
Once I remembered the location, I rallied much of my allies. I rallied, 30 of Josue's men, Artus, Ember and Nathaniel. We raided the building Karlous was in with absolute power, Josue's firepower was top tier, body armor was over-efficient.
The building was being evacuated as we shot down any man fighting back, any man that was armed, was gunned down by Josue's forces. Josue was tired of the terrorist threat with a passion, murdering the innocents, assumptions were made by those firing back at us.
It was an all out war in the building.
As my team finally made it to the room Karlous occupied, we bursted in without warning, Karlous didn't even give off one bit that he was afraid of us, he couldn't fight the team back, he was outnumbered.
I rushed in first out of all us to subdue him. I'm not going to lie, I wanted to Rip him to shreds. He had the strength I had when in my hay day, in my young day.
We took him back to what could be thought of as our "police department" and such... . Mainly for questioning about everything.
I didn't find it weird at the time that it didn't take much for us to get him to talk, too focused on him talking. He told us everything, how there was also a mole in the R&I team... explains just about everything.
I asked him, "Who did I kill to make you so hateful?" As I remembered his babble and notes about that.
He didn't get the chance to tell as our building started getting attacked by the very robots we've been combating for a while.
When alarms and explosions went off around us, Ember turned to the masked bastard and yelled "There's another bastard working with him, it was a trap!"... That I did wonder about, how she knew, I'm not much of a detective anyway. Sure, enough clues were released, I realize now.
The bastard's distorted and maniacle chuckle from the helmet gave me an uneasy feeling. I knew something was about to happen, he had a plan...
I grabbed him by his arm and threw him into the wall, the bastard wasn't chuckling after that, I ran alongside Artus and Ember to check things on outside, the robots, again, were causing up a ruckus.
Robots from the air when we made it outside blasted me from above, sending me flying back inside by their explosions, then the robots outside as they surrounded us began to spray gaseous stuff from their palms.
There was somehow a dozen(×6) of them this time. Artus and Ember began attacking, yet the gas they were spraying took effect quick enough, slowed them down, then finally made them fall to their knees.
Artus and Ember were affected by this stuff first as they left their helmets inside, I always keep mine, I activated the gas mask feature of my helmet so I wasn't affected.
I assume it was a poisonous gas of some type, but you know, also telling by how Artus and Ember grabbed throats as if it was difficult for them to breath.
As they were defending themselves from the robots, they didn't go far from each other, a tactical advantage of teamwork, I ran as quick as I could, carried Artus and Ember on my shoulders as I ran to deliver them to safety, but.... It was too late.
I sat them down on the ground and removed their gauntlets to check their pulse, there wasn't one on either of them.
I sat for forty or so minutes, crying on them. Hatred rising, questions arising, regret setting in, murderous intent becoming engendered.
The robots all suddenly fled before my rampage of destruction could start, I rushed and hurried back to Karlous in the building, tore apart his armor, tore off his helmet and grabbed him by his throat when I got there and realized he didn't flee like the coward he is, he sort of couldn't flee, Josue's men had him trapped.
I roughed him up a little, asked him his story, asked him the mole's identity, asked him how he wants to die.
He told me his story, he told who exactly he was, who exactly he became after seeing what he saw.
"I am abilo Gebara and My father was Berto Gebara, you might know him as "Sound tenamo", gillipollas." Karlous yelled after I had beat him senseless.
The memories at the time came back as I recognized the boy, I remembered now, the exact way his father died.
I never knew his name though...
It was a frigid afternoon, yet it was a relatively dark one. The city was thriving ever so featurelessly.
I had just boarded his airship, we couldn't shoot it down as he had hostages inside, he was able to hack our city moniters and In doing so, he got our attention.
Berto said with confidence, "I am Sound Tenamo and hello, Ehdinlok city. I know this city is run by a very, very, very wealthy man who calls himself, Josue, last name unknown. I called to say, Hey Josue, bring me 200K or I incomprehensibly kill all of Ehdinlok with my most powerful invention to date and all at once. If you don't believe that I have the ability, then you'd be foolish to take the risk, I'm not bluffing!" Stunning and putting fear in everyone in the city.
The most disgusting part of it all was he said that all with pure confidence and excitement.
The situation was hours long, we tried coming up with a plan to stop him for a while.
Eventually, they decided to send me in alone, I had the greatest stealth ability at the time. Nathaniel as always was sent on a somewhat more drastic mission for Josue.
I used my stealthy suit to take this stealthful approach to stopping the threat.
I finally made it to where he was hiding,turns out he wasn't hiding as large shutter behind him were all open.
When I got to him, he was holding his hips as if his back was injured and staring at the city from above.
I attempted to sneak up from behind him, but he turned around unfortunately, he held up a trigger for the device, I assume.
He threatened me, he told me to stay back or else, I listened without hesitation, fearing he would push the button despite me being ignorant of what it actually did.
Suddenly, his hand was shot off quicker than my eyes could perceive, he reacted as anyone who can feel pain and just got his arm shot off would, I felt bad for him.
Right when I got close to him, was about to bandage him up, then take him to custody for all he has done, the sniper who shot his hand off, blasts him between the eyes.
I remember now but I saw then that even though I did nothing this time, my face... or more so helmet and armor was posted all online.
Every news, media, etc source online, that's where I got my nickname originating from Ehdinlok... "The mysterious aluin".
I still have no idea who killed him, I just know... I was the one being credited for his death. My conscience weighed on me, for one: whoever stopped him deserves the credit and two: Murdering a man, still who's about to murder everyone, isn't the way I wanted to be remembered.
I got over it after a while, and continued to live.
Anyway...
He told me more information that was important to Josue's men, not myself... after he told it all, I heard screaming coming from downstairs.
I ran to check it out, I saw a man with a bonified katana slaughtering Josue's men too quick for me to jump and attempt to save them.
After he slaughtered them, he spotted me, zeroes his katana my way, and again, his voice was changed assumably like mines, he said as he stared at me with dead eyes, "You've got my brother, you're not taking him out the same way you did our father gillipolla!" And All with confidence in his voice.
I responded "Do you know what he did to deserve his death?"; Truly wondering if he knew.
"He was a good father, he wasn't going to kill them, he wasn't going to do anything, he just needed the money for us, alright... his super weapon made him go broke!" This mysterious kid of his told me.
"Are you sure about that?
I've read his file, I've read what he did in Goodbaven in his prime days. He was likely going to push the button even if we gave up the money. If his weird fetish with sound drove him to mess up his life, he didn't care about you anyway!" I asserted to the kid.
The kid threw a crybaby fit going on and on, until I grew frustrated with him. I grew angry, irritated, vengeful and hateful of it all, I.... Blacked out once again and when I awoke once more... The mysterious kid and his brother, Karlous' bodies were laying next to me.... one dead, one bleeding out.
The one alive was Karlous and he said, "You're a disgusting monster perra!" He yelled as he lyed on the ground, coughing up blood.
"I guess that'll make two of us, cabrón!" I responded softly...
He bled out shortly afterwards, after I sat on his brothers body, the armor had no sharp pieces on it, though it was similar to his and mine.
I saw later on, on the CCTV Josue had installed inside... I was an absolute, remember earlier when I said I still have no proof?
I meant I didn't want to believe that was me.
He saw me collapse on the ground, he stood in place looking confused, likely wondering why I collapsed.
I stood back up 5 minutes later, my helmet and stuff was still on me, I was standing in place... Still and menacing but frozen in place... having a stare down with him.
He had pulled his sword out and got into a gyogo no seigan no kamae stance, a traditional Japanese sword stance and circled me, still seeming confused and off focus.
As he attempted his first slash, I did something I normally can't do... My whole body formed into smoke, then re-formed back regular directly behind him.
Once I was behind the Karlous' brother, I got him into a choke hold until he was knocked out.
I then grabbed him by his neck and held him there, for... I didn't count how long, I just held him up, staring at him for a while, then I stuck my WHOLE HAND THROUGH HIS HEAD, destroying the helmet.
Karlous came limping downstairs, significantly bloodied, once he saw what I did to his brother... He came rushing at me with tears of hatred and fear... I simply twisted around some then THRUSTED my fist through his stomach... Then I collapsed as he collapsed.
I was afraid of myself when I reviewed the CCTV footage, I would never kill anyone as savagely as I did in the footage.
Never...
I fell to my knees, crying and grieving everyone I lost... Over something so stupid, to this day, I have no idea who killed "Berto Gebara" at all.
No clue, no footprints left, nothing on the bullet... NOTHING!
Even though I'm the ruler of Genoble and all of the cities Josue took over... Losing everyone, atleast for the reason I did... Still fill me with grief, sorrow, regret and wonder... Wonder about how it all could've been If Josue elected someone else to the case.
THE END!|