Chapter 22 - Timeline

Hello everyone! Goodnight! Unfortunately, a setback has arisen. I'll have to make a quick tip, but I'll be back soon. In the meantime, there will be no new chapters. So, I wrote this quick chapter to make up for it, I hope you like it.

As you know, my story begins well before the events of Nier Automata, with the protagonist going through events that have only been mentioned in other media.

So to help the reader I have created this timeline with the relevant events, as the story progresses I will update the timeline.

Some events may be missing because they are only mentioned. I will put them when the specific date is put in the story.

Hope this was helpful.

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2003 – The Grotesque Queen arrives in Tokyo with Cain and Angelus while Alan is present at the time. The Queen becomes dust after the fight, and Cain and Angelus die to a jet missile, with Cain hitting Alan as they fall, sending him to the future.

4190 – Alan wakes up in the Kingdom of the Night, in an unknown deserted South American city. He wanders, searching for people and trying to discover what happened until he meets a woman called Novi in a hospital. SHADES attack them and both flee to her house.

4190 – Novi teaches Alan how to survive, training him physically, in combat, and with firearms. She reveals what she knows about the SHADES and the disease that killed the townspeople. The two explode a warehouse full of SHADES upon getting more weapons and ammo. One of the creatures survives and absorbs others in the city.

4191 – Alan's training continues, and Novi and him grow closer.

4192 – An army of SHADES chases Novi and Alan. The two flee on a bicycle until they become surrounded inside an office building, where they fight and get injured by the monsters. They also arrange a date.

4192 – The Basilisk emerges and chases Novi and Alan through the sewers, the two defeat the giant snake by throwing dynamite into its mouth. A SHADE comes out of its corpse and crawls towards Alan, who kills it, leaving a family photo behind when disappears.

4193/4196 – Alan and Novi grow closer, date, and marry.

4197 – Novi gets sick.

4198 – Novi dies from illness, Alan tries to turn himself to the SHADES, but they disappear, leaving him alone.

4199 – Alan goes into mourning, develops a drinking problem, and becomes mentally unstable. Other Me is born.

4199 – Manah appears to Alan, who believes she is a hallucination, but she says otherwise. She knows a way for him to see Novi again, but needs to reach the Amazon Rain forest, so they make a pact.

7645 – In the Kingdom of Night, in the country of El Salvador, in the capital San Salvador, Alan tries to reach Alaska due to rumors that his men would be there, but he is delayed by the machines that stand in his way.

7645 – Watcher torments Alan with past nightmares and something that happened in the Amazon Forest. He found Novi, but not in the way he expected, as many androids died in the process. Alan remembers his pact and the mark is above the heart, showing what he sacrificed for more power.

7645 – Prometheus crashes in San Salvador, meeting Alan at the football stadium. The two talk and Prometheus realizes that Alan's heart doesn't beat. Prometheus says they want to give "life" to the machines and offers to take Alan to space, but he refuses and Prometheus returns to their trip around the world in search of parts.

7645 – Months later, Alan arrives in Guatemala, at Puerto San José, but makes little progress on his journey. A modified ship controlled by Prometheus appears, offering to take him to Alaska, in exchange, he keeps Prometheus company. The two talk one last time.

7645 – Prometheus starts their launch into space, giving "life" to the machines on the way, disappearing into space with a last goodbye. Alan arrives in Alaska, where he finds machines acting like humans and is fined 100,000,000,000 Gs for docking in a prohibited area. He has not paid the fine until today.

11732 – Alan, in the rank of General, leads the recuperation of Germany, from the capital, Berlin, with several operations occurring simultaneously. The rational machines move to a safe location, artworks are transported to the vaults of the Organization for the Management and Recovery of Human Heritage, and the aggressive machines are eliminated.

11732 – A new wave of androids are taken to Germany, leaving directly from the factories and reaching Berlin, Alan greets the recruits, one of them called Anemone.

11945 – Alan starts his broadcasts and the events of the present occur.

END OF CHAPTER