Sacrifice

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Anastasia and Taliya walked into the room, walking forward only for the door to shut behind the group, to include Nao and Lynn.  Anastasia turned around to notice a little grin upon the woman's face before the door shut closed.  It was a trap.  "Yeah, it looks like it," she responded to Nao with him stating that they fell into a trap.  It was such an obvious trap, at that.  She turned her eyes down the narrow corridor and released the restraint upon the Fire Moth orbital weapon.  She narrowed her eyes as both she and Taliya got into a ready stance.  Anastasia and Taliya moved forward only for Lynn, Nao, Charlie, and Zlatan took off in the direction of the mechs, watching as they made quick work of the 5 droids.  This caused Anastasia and Taliya to belink in unison.  It almost wasn't fair seeing the absolute destruction coming from 2 A Rank mages and their companions.

Kenta and his sister remained behind Anastasia, the two staring on in complete awe.  "Holy crap!  That's the power of A Rank Mages?" Kenta's sister said causing Anastasia to nod her head with a smile.  "Yeah, that sure is.  But don't get cocky.  They always come in waves."  Ana explained before, as if on-queue, another wave of droids appeared in the corridor.  Ana cleared her throat and pointed towards the droids.  "Get ready."

Kenta cleared his throat, his hands firmly upon his blade, shaking violently out of fear.  "Don't worry, we're here to back you up," Anastasia said with a smile upon her face.  "You too, Yuka, you can do this!" she said with a comforting smile.

"How about you?" Yuka asked before Anastasia shook her head.  "I have a very limited time for my magic.  I'm saving my power for the monstrosity.  You will have Taliya and The Fire Moth by your side," she said as Taliya gave the two a wink and a thumbs up.  With that, the four (to include the Fire Moth) ran up to the five new droids that appeared behind Lynn and Nao.  

"Behind you!" Yuka shouted out, attracting the attention of the droids away from the Ice Mage that enveloped her enemies in a prison of ice, only to completely destroy them and the water mage dousing the robots in water with the gryphon electrocuting them.  

"Boost me!" Yuka shouted as Kenta smirked and sheathed his weapon.  He grabbed a hold of his sister's ankles and swung her like a club towards the group of robots.  With her heavy mace held out front, Yuka was flung into the group of droids, scattering them like bowling pins!  Kenta pumped his fist in victory before Ana shouted out.  "Don't celebrate yet, idiots!" before Kenta got his act together and pulled out his sword.  

As Kenta pulled out his sword, Taliya zipped passed him and grabbed Yuka by her foot and launched her towards another Droid.  Taliya's laugh could be heard resonating through the hallway before appearing in the middle of the droids.  She slapped her gauntlets together, creating a black hole to suck in all of the droids, once again, into a tight center.  

"Yuka!" Taliya said before releasing the black hole.  With a jump upwards, Yuka held her massive mace high above her only to come down crashing on the robots, splattering 2 of them into smithereens while scattering the other three.  The Fire Moth joined the fray, firing off beams of super heated plasma at one of the droids, effectively turning it's metallic armor into molten metal.  Taliya jumped over the Fire Moth and rammed her fist straight into one of the droid's throats, pulling out a series of wires from what would have been it's throat.  Kenta finished off the last remaining droid by decapitating it with his blade.  


After a brief moment of silence, Anastasia walked up to the group of would-be Rune Knights and nodded her head.  She reached out and grabbed the Fire Moth and held it like an American Football, tucked into her arm and the two would-bes sheathed their weapons.  Kenta pumped his fist with extreme excitement.  "Oh yeah!  We kicked some ass!" he said as Yuka and he jumped up and slapped hands in victory.  

"Geez, it feels like I was the only one that didn't contribute this time," Anastasia said as she looked at Nao and Lynn.  Her eyes focused on Lynn for a moment.  "Your ice magic's pretty scary.  I wouldn't want to get stuck in that," she said with a laugh.  "Good thing you're on our team."  Her eyes went back towards Nao and gave him a thumbs up.  "Kicked ass like usual, Nao.  Keep it up dude!" Ana said.  Unfortunately, with her current set-up, she's only effective if she is able to use her dragon set, but due to the power of the set, she only has a certain time-frame she is able to use it.  Besides, using it now wasn't worth her strength or magic power.

A voice could be heard over the intercom.  

--I didn't expect you two to get through this corridor.  Oh well, I guess if you want to finish your inspection, continue forward.  But then again, I won't let you all leave after what you're about to-- the woman said before being interrupted by a loud, ear-piercing roar.  

"What the hell was that!" Kenta said moments after flinching at the suddenness of the sound.  Yuka moved behind Kenta, holding his arm.  "I don't know, Kenta.  Maybe that's what we were looking for?" Kenta nodded his head and shrugged Yuka off of his arm and unsheathed his sword.  "This is what we came here for Yuka, get ready!" he said before heading forward headlong through the door at the end of the corridor.  Kenta approached the door and opened it only to stumble back upon seeing the monstrosity behind the door.  

"It's...  A Monster!" he said.  Before Kenta or Yuka had a chance to respond, the two that went forward ahead of the group got sucked up into the room; loud screams could be heard from the two of them.  

"Oh crap!" Anastasia said as she charged in through the door to find herself in a large, darkened hangar.  Within the hangar was a massive monstrosity.  This was the target they were looking for.  "Guys!" she shouted back into the corridor towards Lynn and Nao.  The pair of siblings could be seen, floating in the air in their own bubbles.  Ana looked between the two.  Which one should she save first?  What's going on?

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As soon as the bubble for Yuka was touched, the bubble holding Kenta started to rise up, causing Yuka to look on in horror.  She shouted out and screamed in horror before Ana held her back.  "Taliya!" Ana shouted as Taliya jumped up towards the bubble and attempted to ram her fist into the bubble only for it to bounce her right back, away from the bubble.  "No can do, Ana.  That thing is invulnerable." Taliya responded.  Worming her way from Ana's grip, Yuka ran up towards the bubble that where her brother was in.

"Don't worry, Yuka.  I'll be fine!" Kenta stated as he pressed his palms flat upon the bubble.  "Be strong, alright and~~" Kenta said before his entire bubble exploded from the inside, splattering the bubble into a giant red mess.  Knowing what this is, Yuka shrieked in horror before the bubble shrunk down and slowly moved towards the massive mech that sat in the hangar they were in before it's eyes lit up.  

"What the hell?" Anastasia asked out-loud as the mechanical nightmare let out a roar.  A massive amount of energy was released, destroying the restraints that the metal monstrosity was harnessed within.  Another loud roar caused the creature to stand up, blowing the top off of the hangar in a violent explosion.

Enraged, Yuka ran up towards the metal giant and started to wail at the creature with her massive mace.  Ana looked on towards the infuriated sister with a look of sadness in her eyes.  Ana turned her head towards Taliya before Taliya ran towards Yuka, knocked her out and returned her to the rest of the party.  As debris continued to fall, Anastasia put up a barrier for a brief moment, big enough to surround herself and her group.  It was at this time that the monstrous metal giant ignited it's engines and flew up into the sky, away from the lab.  

Anastasia watched on as the massive metal giant took off away from the lab, only for the group to be encountered by the woman that lead them into the room.  "You!" Anastasia shouted as she walked over to the woman and grabbed her by the collar and shook her around.  "You knew this was going to happen, didn't you?" Ana asked as the woman shook her head.  "No, I had no idea that it would do that.  It wasn't in the programming to do that," she answered back.  With a growl, Anastasia shoved the woman away.  

Pulling out her iLac, Anastasia dialed in a number and began to speak into it.  "Yeah, come and pick us up, George.  Yeah, that big giant monster, we need to fight that.  Alright.  Make it quick," she said as she hung up her iLac and turned to look towards Nao with a smile.  "Well, you did what you thought was right, Nao.  Don't let what happened bother you, bud," she said as the SS Myrmidon's jetwash started to cover the hangar, or what was left of it.  

A ladder was dropped down to the group from the ship.  OF course, Lynn was kind of doing her thing; great timing on her part.  Ana grabbed the rope ladder and started her way up to the ship.  "Let's go, Nao.  We have to chase after that bastard," she said as Taliya followed suit with Yuka in-tow.   

GUESS WHO'S BACK!?

Her attacks seemed to have gone through flawlessly, which brought a satisfied smile to her face. Lynn turned to see the others, who seemed oddly shocked, probably by the unnecessarily brutal display of her magic. While Ana admitted that her magic was quite scary, and that she didn't want to get stuck in that, to which Lynn replied with a nervous laugh. Nao took a bit longer to thread a sentence in reaction to her magic. Maybe she should have been softer? She didn't want her job partners to be scared of her. And she definitely did not want to scare the two kids, who seemed to be less shocked. In fact, they looked quite impressed. "Thanks," said Lynn who was at a loss for words with the various reactions she received, but it seemed their job didn't end there. It was only the beginning, as a voice echoed through the room, a female's voice that was very familiar to them. It was the lady who showed them around. She seemed to have underestimated their powers, as she stated so. Lynn was about to come up with a rude reply to her when she felt and heard the roar that punctuated her message. Now this was a shitty situation. They were down here in this shithole and Lynn couldn't call Zlatan because there wasn't a way she could think of to get him to where she was without putting him in danger. Who knows what might happen to him during his way here, right?

As she was thinking of this, everything happened so quickly as if she was going through a dreamy shift in time, and when she was brought back to reality, she was in a hangar with her partners . . . but the two younger ones were caught in a bubble each. 'What . . ?' she thought while looking from Nao to Ana to Taliya, all wearing a look of utter confusion each. Lynn herself was quite puzzled, given how she seemed to have just gone through an unreal push in time (clearly just her imagination). They were deciding who to save? Couldn't they just save both of them? That was when it registered in Lynn's brain, the mechanical monstrosity that stood behind the two bubbles looking like it could eat them all and still be hungry (although it was a machine). It wasn't Ana who made the decision of whom they should save, nor was it Lynn, but Nao who seemed to think that it was most plausible to save the girl, which Lynn thought was the right decision since she was the one closer to them than the monster, unless someone wanted to risk their life trying to save another. Taliya was able to reach Yuka and bring her out of the strange bubble while Lynn just stood frozen in panic. She didn't seem to think properly at all at this moment. As Kenta drifted closer to the beast, he already knew what he was going to face – death itself. He began to say things that would only make someone more sad than they already were. But before he could even finish his sentence, the bubble was colored red in an instant. Lynn just stared at it, being familiar with even more gory scenes. But what made her turn away was the thought that Yuka was going to have this mental scar for the rest of her life.

The death of her brother made her go unexpectedly berserk and do something stupid. Thankfully, Taliya was able to act quickly before the monster could eat her up as well. Nao seemed to be having a breakdown because he was the one who made the decision. "Nao, what you did was right. Don't feel bad because it's not your fault," Lynn said, her voice coming out a little stiff and awkward, but you could tell that from her facial expression she was in a state of trauma with how this job turned out to be one hell of a ride. She heard Ana contacting 'George' who was now supposed to come and pick them up. Lynn sent a telepathic message to Zlatan to follow whoever George is. Apparently the beastly machine wasn't programmed to do what it just did. "Well you're all going to jail for this. And I hope you rot while you're in there," she told the lady in a very threatening yet hushed tone before following the others.

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Nao felt just as bad as Anastasia did upon seeing the violent and gory death of Kenta.  Currently, on the ship, Yuka slept in Ana's quarters while she stood upon the bridge, looking out the window while pursuing the large metal monstrosity.  It wasn't that she couldn't take on this creature, herself, but she also had to consider the soul of the boy that might be inside of the metal behemoth.  Strangely, though, she didn't feel anything or see anything entering the body of the giant.  She could understand the plight of Nao's decision, having to choose one or the other.  The view outside of the ship is a monster stomping it's way through the town and into the middle of nowhere.  

Anastasia sucked air between her teeth and balled her hand into a fist.  "George, make sure Yuka remains asleep.  I don't need her going batshit crazy while we're fighting that thing," she said before Nao chimed in about using electricity.  Yes, that was a good idea.  Wait a second!  Anastasia just remembered a module installed within the ship.  The Tesla Arc.  

Ana patted Nao on the back and nodded her head.  "Good friggin idea!" she said before clearing her throat and spoke to the artificial intelligence within the ship.  "George, discharge and ground the Tesla Arc," she said before the artificial intelligence replied in agreement.  At this point, she could figure that Nao is probably confused at what Ana was thinking.  "I have a plan and it involves lightning.  I need a little bit.  Get a hold of Lynn and tell her to steer clear for a little bit. I need to make a modification real quick," she stated before running out of the bridge, towards the maintenance ladder and up above the surface.  It was here, she had to climb up a ladder up the float towards the "horn" of the ship.  

She climbed slowly, feeling the violent winds from flying towards the mechanical nightmare and cross-winds.  She gritted her teeth as she continued to climb this ladder, losing her grip a couple times only to catch herself.  After a short struggle, she moved her way into the "horn" of the ship and flipped on a light and began modifications.  

She flipped on an embedded microphone inside the "horn" to speak with Nao.  

"I forgot this ship had a module called 'The Tesla Arc' on-board used as a means of defense using electricity to create an electromagnetic field that-" she said as she continued on with more jargon that seemed uninteresting.  "The short version is, I can route the electricity to shoot back towards the mecha.  All I need, however, is a storm.  Some lightning would be nice," she said before clearing her throat and finished her modification with an "AHA!  AND DONE!" the sound of the microphone muted before Anastasia worked her way down the ladder, which was actually a lot more tricky than going up the ladder.  Didn't help that the ladder was at a painful angle instead of straight up and down.

After a few moments, a hatch opened with Anastasia quickly returning to the ship.  She returned to the bridge with her hair all messed up, looking like she went through an air-tunnel.  Her hair being permanently stuck that way.

"All we need now is a storm.  With a quick 'ZAP' we could probably paralyze that monster."

AM I DOING THIS RIGHT?

As they traveled through the air, Lynn could see that the monster had been released into the city, and was now beginning to wreak havoc. The sight made her cringe a little. It was impossible for them to stop it while it was in the building. They would have all been exploded into bloody messes if they tried, just like poor little Kenta. But now that they knew who their enemy was, it was time for them to take action. Lynn flew on Zlatan’s back alongside the ship known as George, or at least that’s what she thought. She didn’t know that it was actually the name of the artificial intelligence that steered the ship itself - which had a different name. With her dragon slayer senses, Lynn listened to the conversation that went on aboard George, while Ana tried to cook up ideas and Nao seemed to be slowly getting over the death of Kenta. Lynn, to be frank, didn’t mind it much. She considered it nothing more than a casualty in this difficult mission. But for the poor girl Yuka, it was much more than that. She had lost a family member, who knows, maybe her last one. They never talked about their parents anyway. They were probably orphans. Lynn then decided to think of something else more cheerful. They were going to get rewards for finishing this job! Yes, that was definitely a cheerful thought. Zlatan huffed as he flew at a slow pace to match the speed of the ship that was everyone else was aboard.

A while later, Anastasia exclaimed something, something about an arc? The only kind of arc that Lynn knew was the curved shape. Is that what she was talking about? And what was Tesla? Some kind of spider? Zlatan seemed to have no clue what it meant either, so she just shrugged and kept listening to what Ana said. She began to explain what it was all about, to which Lynn reacted by saying, “Ohhhh, that could actually work.” She was actually thinking out loud. She could create lightning using her magic, not a full on storm, but just lightning. BUT, if she combined her powers with Nao’s, then maybe they might be able to cook up a real storm! Just when she was thinking of this, Nao called out for her and then told her that he needed to borrow her ice powers for this. “I’m listening!” she shouted back so that he would hear over all the noise that the mechanical monster was making in the background. Zlatan moved a little closer to the ship so she could hear better and do everything according to plan. All she had to do was blow cold air in the same area where Nao was blowing his own hot air. “Got it!” she replied, and began to create cold air to mix with the hot air. She wasn’t sure this would work because she had never tried it before, but she really hoped it did. She didn’t exactly know what she was doing though.

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Nao, too, concocted a plan to kick up a storm so the Tesla Ark had more than enough energy to fill it's capacitors.  Anastasia ran a hand through her hair only to recoil upon feeling just how disheveled and messed up it is.  However, Nao's suggestion to go check up on the girl was correct.  "Taliya, keep an eye on that monster," Anastasia commanded the creature. "Aye aye!" Taliya said as she returned to the background.  Turning on her heels, she walked out of the bridge and down the familiar corridor where all of the rooms were.  She stopped right before her own room, where Yuka resided.

"Don't hate Nao for choosing you over Kenta.  He did what he thought was right by protecting you," she said to Yuka from behind the locked door.  It was an evolutionary advantage to protect the woman, as they were the bearers of chldren, after all.  A man cannot hold a child so a male's instinct to protect the ones that could bear children just came naturally.  

"I don't hate him," Yuka responded back from behind the door.  She was sitting upon Anastasia's bed with her knees curled up to her chest and her face buried between her knees.  Her eyes were swollen from the excessive crying she was doing and her face stained with streaks of dried tears coming from her eyes.  Yuka peaked over her knees and the look of anger and rage was still clearly evident upon her face, as if she was going to do something foolish in the future.  She heard all of Anastasia's plans, allowing her to get a 'heads-up' on how to destroy the metallic behemoth.    

"You're right, Anastasia.  Nao did the right thing," Yuka said with a big toothy grin.  However, this gesture went unnoticed due to a door blocking the two.

"We're going to get revenge for Kenta.  You stay in here while we take this thing down, alright?" Ana asked only to be given silence as a reply.  Anastasia simply said "Sorry," before walking to the cargo hold.  She was enveloped in a white light as her massive Dragon Armor appeared with her Dragon Fangs already equipped on the massive suit.  Now she waits.  

Anastasia pushed a button on her console that connected her directly into the bridge.  "Taliya, Nao and Lynn are trying to whip up a storm.  Take manual control of the ship and approach the target.  We need to get within range.  A bolt of lightning will strike the ship and it will be up to you to discharge the Tesla Ark," Anastasia said.

Upon the bridge, Taliya heard Anastasia's command and nodded before approaching the helm and assumes full control of the ship's movements.  However, upon the order of activating the Tesla Ark, Taliya's face contorted in confusion.  "How do I activate the Tesla what?" Taliya asked.

"The Tesla Ark. It's a module that Ashe installed.  It was originally meant to be a defense mechanism, but I made a few adjustments.  We're basically going to be throwing a LOT of lightning at that robot," Anastasia explained.  Taliya's eyes lit up and she shouted over the microphone.  

"What do I press!" she said, causing Anastasia to flinch a bit from the loud noise in the cockpit.  Her face twisted a bit from the volume.  "Just tell George to activate it when you are given the command," Ana stated.  

"Alright!  Time to blow some shit up!" Taliya remarked.  "I'll be waiting for the command!"

Anastasia sat back in the cockpit of her mech and just waited.  She turned off the microphone to talk to Taliya and took a sigh outward.  "Now, to wait for the storm to hit," she said.

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Rain began to pummel the SS Myrmidon and all of Motor City, causing a wave of cold water to rain down upon the terrified inhabitants and the metal monstrosity that terrorized the city.  A bolt of lightning struck the ship, slowly charging the capacitor within the Tesla Ark.  Another bolt struck the ship.  The ship continued to circle around the slow-moving mech as it marched through the city.  Another flash of lightning struck the ship before a loud crack of thunder.

The crack of thunder stirred awake the young girl sleeping in Anastasia's room.  She turned her head to survey her surroundings, wiping off the dampness upon her cheeks.  Her eyes were swollen from the crying earlier; bloodshot from the untimely sleep and the bawling of her eyes.  She had recently lost her brother to the Titan Corporation.  There wasn't a single shred of sadness within her, only anger and the desire to take on vengeance.  Pulling herself out of the bed, she looked to the nightstand where her weapon rested.  Grabbing a hold of the weapon, she exited the room.

"Holy shit, Anastasia!" Taliya said as she eyeballed the charge bar for the Tesla Ark.  "Holy crap!  Holy crap!  We're almost there!" Taliya said over the intercomm system as another strike of lightning hit the ship.  Every strike of lightning caused the hairs on the back of Taliya's neck to stand on-end.  

"Just wait for it, Taliya!  When it's full, take it in and open the cargo door.  I'm going to go in for the kill," Anastasia said.  This plan, thanks to Nao and Lynn, might work!  Perhaps electricuting this son of a bitch may be the way to defeating it.  Another strike of lightning struck the ship before the control console lit up for Taliya.  "We're ready to rock!" Taliya said on the global microphone, an intercomm system that is localized just for the entire ship; a form of public service address system that was made specifically for the ship - a design she wants to implement into the guild's ship one-day.  

"Good!  Move us in!" Ana stated.

"Aye aye!" Taliya responded as she spoke to George, ordering him to move the ship in towards the metal monster.  A series of bleeps and bloops could be heard from the ship as it started to move forward towards the mecha.  The cargo door opened up for Anastasia as she ran her Dragon Armor out of the ship and ignited it's engines, allowing the mecha to fly.  

The mecha she is to fight against was MUCH bigger in size when compared to Anastasia's, causing her to fly towards the metal giant.  As Anastasia and the Myrmidon made their move towards the Project Genocide, it's behavioral patterns began to change.  Instead of being passive and marching, it had stopped and removed a scythe from it's back and started to cleave at the ground.  The screams of the people within the city could be heard over Anastasia's heads up display, causing her to shudder and bite her lip in anger.  

"What the hell is that, Ana?  It changed it's pattern!  I won't be able to get in range if it has that massive scythe!  I need you to--" Taliya stated as Anastasia responded.

"I know, I know, shut up!  I'll distract it and try to turn it's back.  Get in close enough to," Anastasia said as she bolted off into the direction of the large mech.  The sound of crackling could be heard; an indirect effect of the Tesla Ark was that it hampered communication as it held a charge.  The only thing allowing them to communicate was the proximity to the ship.

 
Anastasia zoomed foward towards the massive mecha, wielding the massive scythe.  A quickly swing of it's scythe in Anastasia's directly forced her to avoid the attack by making a quick movement upward.  The quick movement was made to avoid the horizontal, predictable slash of the mech.  As quickly as the first slash was made, it doubled back, swinging in a higher arch, forcing Anastasia to drop down this time.  

Clearing her throat, she manipulated the hand-holds on her armor and extended both arms of the Dragon Fang weapon out towards the massive mecha, with both heads landing home on the body of the mecha.  However, as the fangs of the weapon were sent out, she was quite vulnerable.  Instead of letting the fangs reel in towards her, she moved in towards her Dragon Fangs.  While the Dragon Fangs were still in close proximity to the mech, she opened both of the Dragon Fangs and released extremely hot plasma onto the mech.  Without realizing what was happening, she saw a massive hand come towards her, swatting her and her mech down towards the ground.  

The damage was extremely jarring, causing Anastasia and her mech to start tumbling.  The tumbling caused disorientation with Anastasia, making it difficult to tell the difference between up and down during the tumble.  "C'mon!  Recover!" she said before the armor found it's proper bearings and uprighted itself.  As the suit uprighted itself, the fangs reeled in only to look up to see another hand slowly coming down towards her.  Anastasia quickly avoided the hand by jetting to the side, only for the shaft of the scythe to smack her mech, causing her to tumble once again mid-air.  This time, however, Anastasia quickly recovered and flew back inside, getting out of range of the scythe's blade.  

"Get a hold of yourself, Anastasia!  You're being thrown around like a ragdoll!" Taliya said in a broken manner over the radio.  Anastasia grit her teeth and responded, with her communication being broken up as well, "Shut up!  This thing isn't easy!" Anastasia responded as another bolt of lightning struck the Myrmidon.  She sucked air in between her teeth.  She has to do something before the Tesla Ark gets over-charged, which can be EXTREMELY bad for the ship.  

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 Project Genocide releases the scythe, causing it to vanish into thin air.  In it's right hand, a blade is summoned.  An alert sounded in Anastasia's heads-up-display to warn her of the new weapon in the mech's hand.  Anastasia attempted to send out one of the dragon fangs to the hand of the weapon in order to disarm it, however, the speed of the mech had increased immensely, causing it to be aware of Anastasia's attack towards the weapon.  The blade is instantly returned towards Anastasia, bouncing off a barrier that she made.  The barrier instantly shattered from the extremely powerful weapon only for a follow-up attack to tear a massive gash into her armor's chest area, exposing the cockpit.  The massive gash destroyed all of Anastasia's heads up displays, now forcing Ana to rely on purely visual method of tracking and viewing.  Her side and rear view screens are, however, in tact.  

"Crap!  Not good!" she said as she flew backwards, backing off of the mech.  

"Stop screwing around Anastasia and turn that asshole around!" Taliya came in through the back-up communication device in her ear.  That last gash also destroyed the main communication console that she had to the ship.  "Shut up!  Shut up!  Geez!" Anastasia shouted out in annoyance as she flew towards the giant mech only to appear to vanish from sight.  However, the vanishing act was simply extremely quick movement to the massive robot's side.  This attracted the mech to quickly turn to the side.  

"That's it!  Keep going!" Taliya shouted before Anastasia cleared her throat and went to enter the "Trans-Am" system only to see the main console being gone.  "Shit!" Anastasia shouted out.  An alarm came from her left side-camera as the blade of the mecha came swinging down towards Anastasia, being blocked by yet another barrier before shattering again.  Yet another follow-up attack was made.  Anastasia reacted once more only to have the leg of her mech severed off from barely avoiding the attack.  The severed limb flew away towards the Myrmidon, exploding near it.  

Alarms started to ring out and the fire suppression system started to kick in to the mech, dousing out the fires created from the severed leg of the mech.  An idea came to Anastasia's mind as she remembered something.  She completely forgot to come into battle with the Fire Moth.  With a quick whistle, the Fire Moth appeared directly by Anastasia's side for a moment before flying off to attack the Mech wielding the sword.  Ana shot inward to strike at the mech and the Fire Moth flew in from behind to begin a two-pronged assault.  The Fire Moth changed position to urge the mecha to turn it's back to the ship.  This, however, worked in Anastasia's favor as the mech swung it's weapon towards the Fire Moth, turning it's body to where the majority of the mech's back is exposed.  In the process, however, the Fire Moth took a massive hit, causing a big explosion.  

"Now, Taliya!"  Anastasia shouted out as Taliya nodded from within the Myrmidon.  "Aye, Captain!" she said before pulling the trigger on the Tesla Ark.  Anastasia looked towards the Myrmidon to see Kenta's younger sister standing on top of the Tesla Ark.  "What the hell is she doing awake?" Anastasia asked.  

A monitor turned on in front of Taliya to see Yuka standing on the Tesla Ark just before firing.  

"Abort firing! Abort firing!" Anastasia shouted out.  Taliya tried to pull back the firing of the Tesla Ark.  "Shit!  It's not working!"  She shouted as she tried to abort the firing of the weapon.  Rigging a defensive weapon to be used offensively had it's drawbacks.

Standing upon the Tesla Ark's "Horn", Yuka cleared her throat and grabbed her mace firmly in both hands.  "So, this is the monster that killed you, brother?  This thing took your soul and used it as fuel to power itself?  Using you as a battery?  Don't worry brother, I will set you free," Yuka stated as another bolt of lightning struck the horn of the Tesla Ark.  

The sound of chopping air could be heard over Yuka as a spotlight shined down upon her.  A news crew could be seen hanging out of the chopper, reporting a story.

"BREAKING NEWS!  Coming to you from Motor City!  A massive robot attack has taken place here in Motor City!  An estimated 400 people have already died during the robot's rampage!" the reporter said over the radio, being sent to thousands of homes in Motor City and throughout all of Fiore.  The reporter said to another person in the helicopter.  "Get over here and get footage of this!" the female reporter said as the cameraman fired up his camera, placing it upon the massive mecha and turning the camera on.  

"That's the large mecha terrorizing Motor City.  If you are currently in Motor City right now, stay in your homes.  If you have a basement, it is recommended that you stay in your basement!  Do not come out for any reason!  There's another mech fighting against the massive mech.  This was the same mech that had saved the capital on two different occurences!  It seems the hero mech has made a return," the reporter said before signalling to move the camera back to Yuka.

"What's this!  There's a girl standing on top of an airship, looking over the massive mech.  What is she---" the reporter said before the camera exploded, causing shards to fly out from the piece of equipment.  This caused massive burns upon the camera man's face and frightened the reporter.  

"We lost our video feed, but we can still report this over the radio!  There seems to be a strange humming sound coming from the ship that that girl was standing on!  What's going on!?" the reporter asked.  

The Myrmidon's Tesla Ark continued to hum for a moment, only for the humming to come to a stop.  As the Myrmidon drew closer to Project Genocide, a large bolt of lightning from the horn of the Tesla Ark shot out towards the mech.  The light was blinding.  As the bolt shot out from the horn of the Myrmidon, Yuka jumped towards Project Genocide, moved the head of her mace into the bolt of lightning and struck just moments after the bolt of lightning struck the massive mech.  The mace caused a loud 'bwong' noise as it struck the mech.  

The bolt of electricity stunned Project Genocide.  Having seen Yuka begin to fall, Anastasia flared up her engines and started to fly towards her.  Yuka, on the other hand, struck at the massive giant once more, causing yet another massive 'bwong' sound to resonate from the mech.  Once she got out of range of the mech, she simply looked up at the mech and smiled.  


"I did it, brother Kenta!  I did my part!  Now, let's leave it up to these mages to make a difference, okay!" she said before closing her eyes, allowing herself to fall.  The sound of thunder caused Yuka to open her eyes only to see a figure draped in red heading towards her.  Her eyes opened in awe as she reached out towards this red angel.  "Brother~" Yuka said before she fainted.  

Anastasia flew over towards Yuka, the armor deciding to active Trans-Am by itself, accelerating the armor's movements and strength, leaving behind a bright red particle behind it.  Catching Yuka in her mecha's hands, she closed the hands to basically imprison her within the mech's hands.  

"Holy crap!  That girl that you all saw standing on top of the ship jumped off of the ship and used the power of thunder to strike at the massive enemy mecha!  It was unbelievable, folks!  The pure power and determination to destroy that monstrosity!  She was saved by what appeared to be a red-winged angel; the smaller mecha that was attacking the bigger mecha.  After rescuing the girl, the smaller mecha has returned to fighting the larger mecha!  We aren't going to a commercial break folks, not until this has been resolved so stay tuned!" the reporter said.

Anastasia turned her mech to look up towards the helicopter.  "Hey, get out of the way.  That thing has powerful weapons!" Anastasia said to the reporter's helicopter only to see them not move.  Sucking air in through her teeth, Anastasia opened up the cockpit of her mecha and opened it's hand.  She moved out of the cockpit to grab Yuka and bring her inside.  Afterward, she closed what's left of the hatch and looked towards the downed robot.  

"Nao!  Lynn!  It's not destroyed!  We have to keep hitting it!  Taliya, prepare for another charge!" Anastasia said before communications came in.  "Holy crap!  Discharging the Tesla Ark knocked down communication.  But sure, I'll begin--" Taliya said before a massive BOOM could be heard.  The horn of the Tesla Ark exploded, knocking the ship off course.  

"No can do, Cap'n!  The Horn's busted" Taliya stated.  "Shit!  Well, bring Nao over here!  I need back-up!"

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Nao had summoned a bottle of water from his hand and threw it towards Ana.  Anastasia maneuvered her mech to where she could just open what's left of the hatch and catch it while in the hatch.  Closing what's remaining of the door, Anastasia noticed Nao start to attack the large vessel.  Clearing her throat, she placed the bottle out of harm's way.  It was her suit that was taking damage, not her physical body. But holding onto it just in case isn't a problem.  Better safe than never.  Ana turned her head to look towards Yuka, who had fallen unconscious before catching her; the site of the red particles must have been too much for her.  

Parts of her suit started to twitch.  Red alerts began to ring loudly in the cockpit, surprised that Yuka could sleep through all of this.  Sucking air between her teeth, she saw the damage of her mech starting to rack up with red-spots throughout most of her mech and black spots on parts of the mech that were destroyed.  A quick swipe was made towards Nao as he was sent forward.  With a single snap of her fingers, a bright white light surrounded Nao, covering him in a fabulous pink armor known simply as "Pixie Armor".  While it would look funny being on Nao, at the very least, he would look fabulous while flying around freely.  

After it took a swipe at Nao, all the damage that Anastasia and the Fire Moth was able to perform on it was for naught as it began to heal it's wounds and put up a barrier around it.  Clearing her throat, Ana shouted.  "Why!  You're already hard enough to fight and you have regeneration!  Fuck!" she shouted out in frustration before grabbing a firm hold of her armor's sticks and propelled herself towards the massive armor.  This suit was much larger than Ana's mech, which was actually a pretty good sized mech to begin with; however, to fight against a skyscraper sized mech was something she had never done before.  Normally, the mechs she encounters are about the same size as hers; roughly 15 meters tall.  However, a monster like this isn't something her mech is capable of handling.  

"I heard you needed a hole made?" Taliya said as she stood at the front of the Myrmidon.  Her hair getting patted down by the rain.  "Drop the rain and I'll make a hole for you, Nao-nao!" Taliya said as she raised her hand up into the air, as if to grab the sun.  Being a creature of the sun, she thrives off of it's power and having cloud-cover isn't something something that helps her cause.  Taliya raised both hands into the air, raised her head to feel the rain upon her face.  It was, as if, she was praising the sun.  

Anastasia looked towards Taliya for a moment before looking towards Nao.  A grin came across Anastasia's lips as she knew exactly what Taliya wanted to do.  Nodding her head, she cleared her throat and propelled her suit forward and slammed the Dragon Fangs into the heart of the mech, causing the Dragon Fangs to soften up the armor, denting it to give Taliya a bit of a head-start in crushing the armor.  After a couple of strikes, the mech swung it's blade towards Anastasia, causing her to block it with a barrier, only for the blade to bounce off of the barrier and causing it to shatter.  The mech then swung again only for Anastasia to turn her body towards the attack and sent out a projected barrier, shattering it and protecting herself from damage.

As her back was turned, a firm punch was delivered to the back of Ana's mech, causing her already alarming red-alerts to go off. The armor was nearly at it's limit.  Sucking air in between her teeth, Anastasia turned back towards the mech only to see the agile blade coming back towards her.  Having only a little bit of time to react, Anastasia tried to move out of the way only for the blade to catch her mech and the hips and cleave clean through the armor, liberating the lower-half of the mech from the main core.  

The alarms rang extremely loud within the cockpit and the words "Imminent Destruction" was stated everywhere on all of the screens.  The legs of the mech flew in the opposite direction, exploding moments later.  Anastasia cleared her throat and rummaged through the damaged cockpit and grabbed a hold of Yuka before what remained of the suit crashed into the ground.

Yuka's Flashback wrote:"Big brother, Kenta~~" a young Yuka shouted out as Kenta walked with his back turned to Yuka.  Yuka was following Kenta along a river.  The duo were very young, about 8 years old.  Kenta turned to look towards Yuka with a big smile on his face.  "It feels good getting out of the house, doesn't it, Yuka?" Kenta said with a big nod.  With a stop, the young Kenta walked up to Yuka as she followed and gave her a big hug.

Confused at what was going on, Yuka returned the hug.  "I love you, big brother~" Yuka said lovingly to her brother.  Kenta nodded his head.  "I love you too, Yuka.  And I'll always be here to protect my little sister," Kenta said.  

"I won't let any more bad people get a hold of you," Kenta said as he released Yuka from his grip.  "That means you and I need to get stronger!  So that won't ever happen again, alright?  And when we get stronger, you and I will bring justice to big bad people like that!" Kenta said in excitement as he pumped his fist.  

"Yeah, we'll get strong and become heroes so there won't be any more people crying~" Yuka responded only for Kenta to hug her once more.  "I'll be sure to protect you, Yuka."  Kenta said.  "And I'll protect you too, big brother~"

Yuka stirred awake in the rubble of the crashed mech only to see Anastasia bleeding profusely from her scalp and a bleeding wound coming from underneath her.  Out of a panic, Yuka turned Anastasia over to see a hole in her back where a 3 inch rod impaled her into her rib cage.  Covering her mouth, Yuka looked around and yelled for help.  After a moment of yelling, she noticed the giant monster, the Genocide Project, still standing.  

"You!  You did this!  You've taken my brother and you took this woman trying to save me!" she said before reaching for her mace, which sat conveniently next to Nao's water-bottle that was handed to Anastasia.  If only Yuka knew what the bottle was for, she would have done something; however, Yuka instantly assumed Anastasia for dead.  Grabbing her mace, she crawled out of the rubble and ran towards the Project Genesis with anger fueling her thoughts of vengeance.  

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Anastasia remained unconscious as Nao began his surgical work to remove the rod.  Pain was evident on Anastasia's face as her eyes expressed the pain, even though her conscious mind wasn't awakened.  The searing hot water dripped into the wound after the rod was ruptured by Nao's water magic.  The searing water cauterized Anastasia's wound before she was force-fed the water that she had saved from Nao earlier.  The water found it's way into her gut, feeling healing run through her body.  Even after drinking the water, she remained unconscious; the only thing the water did was remove the danger of her death.  

Being thrown into a faux version of her armor, she laid in the mech that Nao had recreated.  Her heartbeat because audible to herself before tremendous pain racked her body, causing her to awaken with a loud scream.  In a cold sweat, Anastasia looked around to notice the mech she was in was in pristine condition.  "What happened?" she said looking around the cockpit; it being good as new once again.  The cameras in the cockpit worked properly, showing the monstrous mech laying flat on it's back with Yuka striking at the mech mercilessly, trying to pierce it's armor.  The weather had cleared up, showing nothing but the bright sun.  

Reaching for the controls of the mech, Anastasia felt an intense pain in her back, crying out in pain from it.  "What the hell?" she asked to herself before she began to flip on the switches to power up the new mech that was given to her.  She looked around to notice the bottle of water she had saved having gone somewhere.  It finally occurred to her that she was alone in the cockpit.  "Yuka!" she said as she finished her pre-flight arrangements and powered up the suit.  

Yuka continued to pound away at the mech only for a massive hand to swat Yuka off of it before getting jolted by a powerful attack from a ball of fire.  Taliya continued to press herself against the mech, allowing the fire of the sun to burn into the mech's body to weaken it's armor.  "Ana!  The Key!" Taliya said before, she too, was swatted off of the mech.  The mech began to stand up before it clicked in her head what Taliya meant by 'the key'.  The Invincible Key was a gift given to her by her father as a means of protection.  Rummaging through the tattered clothing, she pulled out a single key with a fist as it's emblem.  Raising the key in the air, a bald man appeared, picking his nose.  



The bald-headed man looked up at the Mecha with a blank face and turned to look towards Anastasia and pointed at it, mainly to it's chest piece that was burning red.  "Yeah!  Please attack that!" Ana shouted out before the bald, disinterested man sighed and disappeared for a brief moment only to appear just in front of the massive Mech and deliver a single punch to the robot.  This caused the super-heated spot on the mech to shatter with a massive exit wound from behind, completely destroying the entire back part of the mech's armor.  

The yellow-clad baldy landed on his feet and yawned before vanishing into thin-air.  Anastasia had blood run out of her mouth as she nodded to the yellow-clad baldy for his work.  "There's your hole, Nao!  Go for it!" she shouted out before Anastasia took a deep breath and shouted something at Nao, "Mul Qah Diiv!" she said as the shout enveloped Nao, powering him up.  His heartbeat started to race and he could feel adrenaline pumping through his veins at an almost unhealthy rate.  With that Dragon Howl activated on Nao, Ana falls to a knee in the mech as she began to fall in and out of consciousness.  Taliya and Yuka, too, were unconscious from being swatted away.  The only person left that could fight was Nao.  It's up to him to completely defeat this monstrous creature and bring an end to this nightmare.  

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Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.
- Adeline Yen Mah

Fading in and out of consciousness allowed Anastasia to see glimpses of Nao putting a number into the goliath of a monster.  He tore into the electronics and caused complete havoc on the electronic components within the creature.  Things started to fade in and out of black (not in that manner) as Anastasia came in and out of consciousness.  Anastasia completely lost consciousness upon seeing Project Genesis finally kick the bucket.  

The sound of chopping could be heard in the skies above the unconscious heroes.  A woman could be seen hanging out of the helicopter and speaking into a microphone.  A new camera was brought to the scene to capture the death of Project Genesis.  The cameraman recorded video of the downed giant and the downed mecha.  The reporters panned around to find the girl that was standing upon the horn of the now damaged SS Myrmidon.  The camera panned over to the downed replica of the Dragon Armor, then to Taliya, then to the downed pilot of the Pixie Armor, then back to the Project Genesis.  

"Where the hell is that little girl from earlier?  The one with the big mace," the reporter said, forgetting they were still live on-air.  The cameraman didn't respond.  The reporter paused for a moment before going off on a speech to the camera as the cameraman recorded the wreckage.

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The sound of dull thunks could be heard as a person walked through the front of the Titan Corporation's main entrance.  A massive hole was smashed into the steel curtain blocking off entrance to and from the main entrance.  A trail of blood is seen going through the main entrance of the facility and down a hallway.  Heavy breathing could be heard with heavy footfalls as the same route was taken from the crew earlier.  Dead bodies were left in the person's wake as they found themselves in the hangar.

The woman that escorted the group could be found, sitting in the middle of the hangar with a look of defeat in her eyes.  Her glasses were cracked and her hair was disheveled.  A little, uncomfortable laugh came from the woman as she noticed Yuka approaching her, with her mace covered in gore and blood.  The blood from the mace dripped down to the ground just in front of the woman.  

"So, you're finally here to kill me for what I've done, huh?" the woman said as she stood up, readjusting her skirt and glasses.  "I cannot blame you, little girl, for wanting to seek vengeance upon me and Titan Corporation for what happened to your brother.  We had designed Project Genesis to use a human soul to house a creature of massive power; the power to slay gods and demons alike.  A way to put the non-magic users on level footing with the oppressive magic users," she said as she turned her face skyward to feel the sun upon her face.  The morning sun felt good, causing  a small smile to form.  

"It was nothing personal, I assure you.  But before you kill me, I would like to show you something," the woman said as she pulled an object out of her skirt and clicked a button.  Alarms rang throughout the hangar to display yet another Project Genesis robot.  "If you wish to exact your revenge on me, feed my soul to that thing.  That way, the helpless has a beacon of hope against you magic users.  For too long have you magic users destroyed our homes and killed our children.  Playing their antics off as funny or quirky for the massive amount of devastation done to our people.  At least with this," she said as she pointed to a mech labeled Project Genesis:  Test Type mk.2 written on it.  

She turned her eyes back to Yuka, whose face was covered in blood.  A ravenous and primordial look upon her face.  Her eyes tracking every move made by the older woman that worked for Titan Corporation.  "If you wish to see me die, then feed my soul to the Mark 2," she said as she closed her eyes and spread her arms out, welcoming her death.

"No.  I will not give you that satisfaction," Yuka said as the woman opened her eyes in shock.  Yuka grabbed the woman by her hair, kicked her in her stomach to cause her to double over and began to drag her out of the hangar, running her through the dirt and blood that covered the floor.  The woman kicked and screamed in horror as she was dragged out of the hangar before a couple of quick thuds could be heard, along with the sound of cracking bones and sick squishing noises.  

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The sound of the helicopters vanished over top of the wreckage of Project Genesis and the downed heroes.  Standing in front of the downed mecha was Yuka.  Yuka placed a hand upon the mecha and started to speak to it.  "Brother, I have avenged your death.  The people who had done this to you are no longer here.  I know that would cause you pain if you were still alive, but I feel it had to be done," she said as she looked towards Nao, Taliya, and Anastasia who were still out for the count for the moment.  

"Don't worry, brother, I don't blame these people.  They thought they were doing the right thing.  They also tried to save you as well, so they tried their best to keep us both alive.  It was destiny that screwed us over," she said as tears began to well up in her eyes.  Her voice began to quake as she spoke.  She dropped her mace and fell to her knees before letting out a loud cry.  "Brother!  I'm sorry!  I wasn't strong enough to protect you!" Yuka shouted out.

Her screams were enough to bring Anastasia and Taliya back from their state of unconsciousness.  Taliya stood sat up and Anastasia opened up the cockpit of the Dragon Armor and rolled out of it, letting the mecha vanish into pure white light.  Both of their eyes trained onto Yuka as she started to cry in mournful sorrow and regret.  Standing up to her feet, Taliya attempted to go over to Yuka to comfort her only to be stopped by Anastasia shaking her head.  This stopped Taliya's advance, realizing that all Yuka needed now was time to mourn.  

A cleaning crew began to roll up and start the process of dismantling the Project Genesis.  The voice of the mayor could be heard over the radio for those listening in at home.  


The voice of the mayor said as his voice trailed off into nothingness.  

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The Next Day...
Anastasia was dressed in a black dress with a veil over her face to cover up the injuries she incurred from the battle yesterday.  For the first time, Taliya, too, had worn some actual clothing; wearing a black dress with a black veil over her tail.  The funeral services was to commence and the person who actually lost someone wasn't here.  Anastasia looked around to try to find Yuka, but to no avail.  

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Nao approached Anastasia and Taliya with a little smile coming across their faces.  The smile slowly melted away to witness Nao's current state to a frown.  Seeing him in this state was heartbreaking; but the silver-lining to all of this was that Nao was still alive.  Turning her eyes back to the funeral, Anastasia heard Nao's words and nodded.  "Neither have we.  We were looking around to see if we would find her somewhere.  Her brother will be given his memorial soon.  You'd figure that Yuka would be here soon," Anastasia said.  The strange feeling that she got, a tingling in her body, wasn't felt with Nao around any more.  Her ability to sense dragon slayers wasn't present; this didn't even register with her at a time like this.

"They have no choice but to feel united with one another.  A tragedy that we caused and couldn't prevent is the reason they are all here," Anastasia said as a little grimace came across her face.  The thought of not being able to protect these people and the fact that their decision to rescue Yuka before Kenta was the reason all of this happened.  It struck her with grief that she felt partially responsible for the calamity that fell upon Motor City.  

"News reports said that someone returned to Titan Heavy Corporation and slaughtered everyone inside.  You don't think that Yuka was responsible for it, do you?" Anastasia asked before quickly shaking her head.  "Doesn't matter, anyway.  They were the ones that created Project Genesis.  It was all their fault," she said quietly as to not interrupt the funeral procession.  She cleared her throat, lamenting their actions.  

"Do you think what we did was right, Nao?  Do you think us taking this job did more harm than good?  I'm so full of questions right now that," Anastasia stated as the mechanized pallbearers carried Kenta's casket into the procession with his weapon emblazoned with the Rune Knight emblem.  "I think out of all of the jobs we've done, this was the only one we've done where I have regrets on my actions.  If only we hadn't been there, more people would still be alive."

"It doesn't matter, Anastasia," Taliya stated.  "If it wasn't Kenta, it would have been someone else and that monster would have killed so many more people."  Anastasia had her doubts on that actually occurring and feels pain from having attended this job.  Both set of eyes turned to look towards Nao with his exclamation of pain.  

Nao then spoke of the Rune Knight's service and Ana bit her tongue.  She withheld her opinions on the Rune Knights for this one time; the time wasn't right to bash on the Rune Knights at a funeral dedicated to a Rune Knight initiate.  Anastasia turned her head back towards the funeral and nodded her head.  "Yes, it would be a shame."

The funeral continued with the robotic priest saying his piece.  After the funeral was over, Anastasia pulled off the black veil from her face and left it on the ground.  "Yuka didn't show up.  You would figure that she would show up," Anastasia said in disappointment, sucking air between her teeth.  The wake began for the funeral and Anastasia turned her back on the funeral wake.  "I've grown tired of this, Nao.  I'm leaving.  I can't take any more of this," she stated before she began to walk away from the funeral and towards the docks where the SS Myrmidon resided.  Anastasia didn't realize Yuka had sneaked into the funeral just before the end, to pay respects to Kenta.

"Anastasia, wait," Taliya said as Ana stopped in her tracks to see Yuka step out and walk towards Kenta's coffin and speak to it during the wake.  Anastasia was puzzled at what she was seeing, but a big smile came across her face; even a few tears streamed down her cheeks.  "Oh, there she is," Anastasia said as she wiped her tears with her sleeve.

Yuka placed her hand upon Kenta's coffin with a smile.  Her eyes shifted from his picture back to his sword, now decorated in the colors and emblem of the Rune Knights.  "You did it, big brother," Yuka said with a big smile over her face and tears streaming down her eyes.  "I miss you so much already.  There were so many things I wanted to talk to you about and there were so many things that we still had to do.  Do you remember that time when we were kids and we went to that really scary abandoned house?" Yuka said as she wiped her tears away with the shoulder of her black clothing, smudging her make-up and leaving some of it behind on her dress.  

Anastasia walked up to Yuka and handed her a handkerchief.  Yes, even Anastasia had a handkerchief.  Thankfully, this one was clean.  Yuka turned to look up towards Anastasia and saw Taliya and Nao with them and she simply gave them a smile.  "I want to thank you all.  I'm sure that if Kenta had to choose between saving me or himself, he would definitely save me as well.  I hated you all so much and blamed you all for his death, but that's not something Kenta would have wanted."  Yuka said with a little nod after she was done talking before looking back towards the coffin covered with the sword.

Yuka moved her fingers towards the sword and ran her fingers down the edge of the blade.  The edge of the blade was dulled to match that of a decorative blade.  Nothing about the weapon was deadly any more.  A smile came across Yuka's face when she realized this.  "The dulling of one's blade as they pass on symbolizes peace; hoping that the one that had the weapon knows it in the great beyond.  Their fight is over, so having a sharp weapon isn't necessary any more."

Her hand moved from the dulled edge of the blade to the wood of the casket before emotion started to well up within Yuka, causing her to fall upon the casket, hugging it as tears burst from her eyes and emotions flared.  "I miss you, big brother!" she said as she bawled her eyes out, attracting the attention of everyone in attendance.  Her explosive emotions caused people to grow sympathetic to her plight and some even bursting into tears.  The ones that held their feelings back; trying to appear strong.

Another tear streamed down Anastasia's face as she wiped it away with her finger.  She sniffled a bit before placing a hand upon Yuka's shoulder.  Without saying anything, her hand slipped off of Yuka and Anastasia turned her back to her and stepped forward towards Nao and Taliya.  A nod was given to the two of them; a stark contrast from earlier where she felt anger and resentment for her own actions.  She felt at-ease for seeing Yuka come to terms with the death of her brother.  Now was just the time to mourn.  

"We should go.  She needs time alone with her brother," Ana said before she started to walk away from the funeral.  Taliya decided to stay with Nao to assist his walking.  His pride may stop Taliya from carrying him, so she would stay behind to pick him up if he fell.  "I got your back, Nao," Taliya said with a smile upon her face.  Her eyes got a bit moist from seeing Yuka wish her brother a safe journey.

In the wreckage of Titan Heavy Corporation...
An old man stood in the hangar and clicked a button on a remote control to see the floor open up and something rise from the ground.  The mecha with the name "Project Genesis Mk.2" appeared before him.  A laugh came from the man before pulling out a knife.  

"Project Genesis!  I, hereby, bequeath my soul to you!  Awaken, sleeping beast and do what you were designed to do!" the man said before digging the blade into his wrist and pulling the blade upwards, letting his blood drain out of his body.  The blood was pulled directly into the mecha along with the man's soul.  Upon consuming the entirety of the man's blood supply and his soul, the mecha's eyes lit up red before returning to the depths.