"Command prompt, bring around the mech!" I ordered.
"MECH_AUTOPILOT...ENABLED"
"Who are you talking to?" Brandon asked.
"I'll explain later," I replied.
The Chimera was making it's way to the theatre. With the aid of my cyborg legs, I leapt far and high into the air.
"Command prompt, enable particle lance," I ordered.
"PARTICLE_LANCE...ENABLED"
My arm changed form, taking on a shape similar to that of a sniper rifle. I took aim and fired a blue ray at the flying Chimera. The ray caused it's back to swell and swell until it exploded, at which it came falling to the ground. I landed on the ground safely, taking aim at the crater where it's body had fallen.
"Is it dead?" Brandon inquired while he panted tirelessly with his hands holding his knees for support.
From the dust, an arm violently extended out and pulled me in. The Chimera had already generated it's body, only this time it was much bigger. It hoisted me above it's body and slammed me to the ground whilst releasing me from his grasp.
"CHIMERA_VIRUS_REGULATOR... ENABLED"
My body began regenerating it's injuries as Brandon looked at me in shock.
"Command prompt, enable gatling gun," I ordered.
"AIR_GATLING_GUN...ENABLED"
My arm then switched from the lance to the gatling gun. The Chimera then began hovering as a spore came falling from it's wings. It flew toward to tackle me, I sidestepped out of the way evading the attack and fired a series of pressurized air bullets. The Chimera received lethal injuries, however this didn't faze it in anyway as it stretched out its arm pulling me down to the ground, with a heavy slam.
The Chimera stood above me as the spores fell on me. I couldn't move, this must've been the effect of the spore, paralysis.
"ACCESSING_EVOLUTIONARY_CODE_DRIVES"
The Chimera opened it's mouth to perhaps eat me, however it was blasted away by a stream of pressurized air. It was a gust that was four times stronger than the air current I could produce using the gatling gun, a gust that was produced by my mech. The Chimera however, was blasted into the theatre. My mech picked up Brandon, as well as, myself and dropped us into the cockpit.
"Brandon, pilot the mech," I ordered.
Brandon was in complete fear as he trembled in the driver's seat.
"I...I... I can't!" He choked out in a shrill voice.
"If you don't, then Aria, DeDe Monroe and all the people, will perish, because you were afraid to save their lives," I said coldly.
He swallowed loudly and then took the control with shaky arms.
"UNREGISTERED_USER...
NAME;:_BRANDON_OGAMI_LEE...
SYSTEM...ENABLED"
Overworld's voice was heard over the speakers. Brandon then revved up the engine and raced forward towards the theatre. He tried to turn into the entrance however the mech was moving to fast and he drove straight through the walls pass the lobby and into the indoor amphitheater. The mech went hurdling over the audience and crashed at the edge of the stage. Brandon was pretty shaken up, he reversed the mech slowly out of the crater it created.
"FIFTY-FIVE!" a blood curdling roar filled the theatre.
The Chimera had focused it's attention on DeDe Monroe, who stood center stage.
The mechs field of vision was pointed at DeDe.
"FACIAL_RECOGNITION... ACTIVATED
NAME;:_DEVINA_REBECCA_MELDERS...AGE_19...
STATUS;:_NON_THREAT" Overworld announced over the mech's speakers.
"What? DeDe Monroe is Devina!" Brandon shouted in disbelief.
Now that I think about it, DeDe does look like Devina.
"Well Devina is hot enough to be a celebrity or model or both," I said nonchalantly.
"What?!" Brandon shouted.
"How are you so calm?!"
"I'm a cyborg with amnesia, what were you expecting?" I asked.
He then turned at me with a panicked face and shouted,
"That's a Chimera, in first district!"
"Which is unusual, however there's a bright side," I said.
"Our classmate is a celebrity!" I cheered with a joyous smile whilst still being paralyzed.
The Chimera was now bigger in size, it flew quickly towards Devina. Brandon fired the particle lance without aiming. One of the four consecutive rays, nailed the Chimera's arm causing it to explode. The Chimera fell backwards as it began to regenerate.
"Nicely!" I commented.
"Th..th...thanks," he said shakily.
A mech bursted out of one of the nearby walls, it came directly to Devina. The mech was an upgraded version of the prototype that I had destroyed at the department. It had hadron cannons in the palm of both hands, it also had a chest cannon as well as rocket launchers on both shoulders.
To our amazement, Devina opened the hatch to the cockpit and jumped in.
"She's a pilot to?!" Brandon shouted
"That's third generation, could she have been the one who piloted the last one as well?" I inquired.
Her mech bolted foward at a high speed body slamming the Chimera, which sent it into the empty audience area. She then faced foward the palms of her mech which fired twin beams of hadron, completely eradicating the Chimera.
"Never call me fifty-five again," she said coldly off her mech's speakers.
She then used the jump boost of her mech to jump into the air, where she fired a volley of rockets targeted at us. Brandon was easily taken up in awe of Devina's prowess as a pilot. The paralysis had finally worn off and at this point I then took the controls. Her mech landed a good distance away from mines, my mechanic had sustained damaged from her hail storm of rockets. I then turned the gatling guns behind me and fired two air currents which gave me a tremendous boost causing me to collide with her mech, the current pushed us up the amphitheatre and outside.
Whilist being midair, I slammed her mech to the ground. Not much damage was dealt from impact due to her steadfast reaction on activating her jump boost to brace her fall.
She launched hadron bursts while we were still airborne, to this I enabled the flight attachment and easily dodged them. I then enabled the cloaking to make a surprise attack. Almost before I had cloaked she released a volley of seeker missiles which collided into us, this attack sent my mech flailing to the ground
"I'm not considered Avalon's best pilot for nothing!" She announced.
Soon enough Avalon forces came to the scene. I made a hasty escape by firing air currents to my mech's feet which blasted us into the air. I quickly enabled the flight attachment and fled with Avalon choppers behind me.
There was no way I could defeat Devina and her mech. I had no choice but to escape, even Brandon saw how out matched we were.
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System Overworld: The Analog Interface
Teen FictionIt's the year 2148, Keagan Price is converted into a cyborg with the very first A.S.I(Artificial Super Intelligence) called System Overworld. This system was used to save a third of the world's population from a virus called Chimera and was uploaded...
