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Chapter 5 - Chapter 5: Striving To The END

Two Megadroids were seem fighting an alien in an unknown area where humans are no more. The droids are six feet taller than the aliens. They used their weapons like a sword which came out in one of the droids.

Surprisedly, the aliens which were two in numbers almost destroy one of the droids using their long claws to rip off the machine.

"Shit, My droid isn't responding" A girl said after seeing it shown in front of her screen, DROID NOT RESPONDING.

"Nadia, try connecting again" A boy said, his name is Miki.

Nadia tries what Miki said and something went wrong. She automatically lost connection with her droid.

"This is bad" Nadia said.

She didn't know what was happening when she saw the aliens destroying some part of the machine. Miki tries to save Nadia and he also lost connection to his droid.

"You got to be kidding me" Miki said as he was surprised.

The aliens finally destroyed his own droid and were about to kill Miki and Nadia.

They both pull their virtual reality wore on their face with fear and relief, and came out of a glass tube.

"Crap, We lost again" Miki said.

A man goes to meet them from his seated position. His name is Dr. James and he is a professor in charge of the STARs virtual reality training room.

"How was it?" Dr. James said.

"A waste of time. I wasn't prepared to take those freaks down and I lost connection" Nadia said as she was frustrated.

"Hmm. Is that so" Dr. James said.

"Yes it's so. You would have given me Asidrome" Nadia said.

"That one is hard to use. No students are allowed to operate that" Dr. James said with surprise.

"Why" She said.

"Because it's only for those who are competent and only for those who are ambidextrous" Commander Lance said as he was walking to meet her.

"So why I'm I in STARs?" She said

"To be a good solider. If you can fit to be, then you don't have anything to do with the Asidrome. Just fight in what you believe" Lance said

"I know it's the strongest droid, that's why I want to use it to protect my families" She said

"We all deserve that... to protect our families. That's why you are here. To learn something important" He said as he left.

"Well I guess that's the end of your training you two..." Dr. James said.

"No. I'm trying again!" Nadia said and Lance stops as he was surprise.

"What, Nadia you can't try again" Miki said.

"Alone. If you don't want to join me then" She said and went back to the tube. "Now doctor I'm ready" as she wears her VR.

Lance looks at her and didn't say anything as he left. The students were all gathered around looking at Nadia inside the tube and captain Michael came as he saw the students.

"Yo students. Are you guys having fun in STARs?" He said.

"Yes" as they all said it together.

"Sir, can you tell us what the Megadroids are. I didn't get a clear understanding what Commander Lance said" A boy said.

Michael thinks for a while and smiles as he snaps his fingers, "Well they are droids that assist you in fighting aliens. Your body can't be used as an armor so they are protected in you" He said.

"So captain, I heard that they are three unique kinds of the Megadroids" A girl said.

"Yes they are. Anyway may I show you guys" He said.

"Cool you are going to take us there?" A boy asked.

"Yeah why not" Michael said as he smiled.

He shows them the place where all the droids are kept. The place was a big room where all the droids were line up placed on the wall. Yuki was surprised and looks around. He saw the manufacturers and latest vehicles and bikes.

"Woah, look at all these vehicles" He thought.

"Our manufacturers make all kinds of lastest machines. But be careful, some are dangerous" Michael said and he continues, "If you want to know the three kinds of Megadroids, they are: Gizbot, Autonic and the Asidrome. Each of them display a special unique skills. The Gizbot is able to control every access of the internet, so she's an hacker. She is the smart one"

The students looked at him with surprise glancing at Michael while some were confused.

"Don't just only think about that she's also good at combats. Hehehe" He said waving his two hands. "Anyway, they are all intelligent but Gizbot does her own in an inimitable way. Like he is the only droid that knows how to make access with other droids, but that will be dangerous if he does that to the Megadroids. The reason is that scientists discovered that megadroids are the same and it doesn't work that way, only if they were different"

"Well that's ridiculous. Why is it like that?" A student said which it was a boy.

"I don't know. Now the next one is the Autonic. He's well good at combats. He got Speed, durability and agility. And he is the only droid that doesn't used a weapon but he blasts out from his two hands. Autonic quickness are high that's why he's agile... That's all I know about him and the last one, you already know the Asidrome. He has the intelligence of both the Gizbot and the Autonic" Michael said as students were shocked.

"No wonder he's the strongest" Yuki thought as he looked at the droid from head to toe. He thought of using it someday but he hasn't prepared anything yet so that he would be volunteer to use it.

Michael continued in what he was telling the students about the Megadroids, "...I don't know anything about this droid but the main reason why the commander wouldn't allow you guys to pilot it because it is hard to operate, no pilots have operated it. It malfunctions and manufacturers keep asking different questions on what they have analyze."

Yuki was surprised and looked at the droid and had a thought, "does that mean I won't be able to pilot it?"

It was already evening and Yuki was seem sitting outside watching the sun as it goes down. Hilda saw him and went to met him.

"Staying outside doing nothing, is this how a soldier will be if he's left behind" She said as she hold her waist.

"What should I be doing?" Yuki asked to her.

"Damn! Aren't you a solider, the first step a soldier must do is to train himself and stop acting like a rookie. Prepare yourself with a gun, a rifle, a high-class AK-47..." she said.

"You are not commandant Haig and that is not what I want to train myself for" he said as he interrupted what Hilda was saying.

"Huh" as she was surprised he said that, "And what is that?" She added.

"I want to pilot the Megadroids, that's all" he said it with courage as his thumb pointed to his chest believing it will come to past.

"I believe Yuki is your name, there's no way a rookie will operate that high-class droid, only high-level soldier. Remember what Captain Michael said about the Asidrome. Megadroids are powerful droids created by the Humanoid Developers (HD) in collaboration with the governments to improve the advancement of soldiers to the nations" She said.

"So? And by the way I thought you mentioned soldier and now why are mentioning rookie?" He asked.

"They are beyond that and they are off-limits. Years back after the aliens intrude on earth, the STARs engaged a battle using their droids. Twelve of rookies perished and no one suffered" She said.

"I read that in a documentary book about their first mission" He said as his right hand was touching his chin.

"Then why aren't you making up your mind?. You know commander wants the protection for us" She said.

"There why are we in STARs. They abducts us to fight! To fight for the people we love! To protect our families and to save humanity! Wouldn't you be glad to see the world coming to an end? Don't you get it we are all striving to see this end" He said as he got up from his sitting position.

"You don't know anything about war, don't you?" She questioned him with a serious look.

"Um...well...not that I know it...but..." He stammered.

"Well you just reminded me about this fundamental statement: It is your right to fight and to fight your right, that is war" she said.

"Who made that statement?" Yuki said as he was surprised. He made a strange look on his face as he has heard that familiar.

"So you don't know Ronald Elroy, the former general of STARs. You must have read his documentary in a book or something?" She said.

"Oh yeah I think I do" he said as he quickly snapped his fingers. "Two days ago, I read his ambitious nature towards the STARs as a man who had honor and excellent spirit" he added.

"You do know him?" She said.

"Anything wrong not knowing someone" he said in a confusing look.

"No but Former General Ronald Elroy is..." She said

Meanwhile at Michael's office, he pours a bottle of wine into the two wine glasses while Lance who was inside reads a document file as he was seated on a chair.

"About a minutes ago before you came in, I got a call from the general of PDS" Michael walks towards him and dropped the wine glass on the table close to him.

"General Nishikawa Hunt" Lance said in a low tone.

"There was an incident at Third junction in Kojo that happened two months ago. The aliens infiltrated in one of the companies there. According to eye witness, they surreptitiously gain access on the second floor killing twenty victims. Some think they must be highly intelligent when they are just extraterrestrials" Michael explained.

"You haven't tell the chief?" Lance asked to be sure.

"No but I'll make my report to him later. But first, can we have a toast" He said while raising up his wine glass to him.

"Sure" Lance said as he does the same.

The two soldiers cheer while drinking. Lance first finished his own same to Michael who looked at the document file that was upon the table.

"You have been holding that file since you came in to my office. Is there anything inside?" Michael asked.

"It's about some past soldiers who risked their lives saving the nation, and we have seen men like Alan Masaaki." Lance replied

"Son of the STARs former forensic scientist, Kozuchi Masaaki." Michael said.

"And brother to Yuki" Lance replied.

"Yuki?" Michael asked trying to question who the boy is and suddenly, he remembered as he scratches his head, "you mean the yellow hair boy. Hm I really remember him by the way."

"Through out the history of the STARs, we have witnessed only two death of high rank soldiers, Captain Alan Masaaki and Gen..." Lance said as he paused with shock and flips through the document. Michael was surprised and asked what was the matter but Lance didn't answered him back, so he found what he was looking for. "General Ronald Elroy, the first general of the STARs...you got to be joking, he only has a daughter."

"The general didn't share his marital status to anyone. I wonder what's there to hide from" Michael sighed.

"His wife died of a strange illness. There hasn't given the source nor how it happened to be" Lance said while he close the book. "And we didn't know we abduct a general's daughter. What will be his reaction if he was alive?" He said as he chuckled.

"Commander, she's now a STARs member. I know he wouldn't care if she interfere." Michael said as he got up. "Lance, we got work to do, checking some readings if those aliens will show up again" He added.

"You are right. I wonder what's their next plan. I will leave you to do the job." Lance said as he was about to leave the office.

"And what will you be doing?" Michael asked.

"I'll like to asked some words to the chief and tell him your update about the incident" He said while he left as he shut the door.