[Vermachtnis]

All stories told all must come together at some point or another. The universe is constantly expanding and sooner or later it will snap back to how it was in the beginning.

“Well that was stupid. Was that suppose to be foreshadowing or deep or something,” Ally said and crossed her arms.

“Don’t insult narrator,” Tyler sighed.

“Why? What’s he gonna do? Cut me off. I’d like to see him tr-“

Chapter 2
Prana Goes to the Hospital

“Hey brat, what the hell do you think you’re doing?” a course voice was yelling. Tyler woke up and rubbed his eyes and looked around. “Brat! I’m over here. Jeez you’re a dumb as you look,” the course voice was behind him. Tyler got up and turned around; expecting to see an ugly woman, but it was tall blonde woman in a lab coat. She had her hair up in a pony tail. He looked around and saw a bunch of computer chips and circuits lying around.

“I’m sorry; did I break your computer?” Tyler said looked down in embarrassment.

“She was much more than just some computer. She was a highly sophisticated automated humanoid android!” The scientist yelled and bent down behind a raised floor board and picked something up. “Look at her now!” She showed him a human head!

He screamed and tried to run for it. The scientist had him by the collar. “You are an idiot aren’t you? This isn’t a real head. It’s an, or well it was, an android’s head. Her name was Prana and when you crashed through the window you broke her. But, I guess I could view this as a blessing in disguise. If a simple collision with a hundred and sixty pound boy could cause this much damage, then she wasn’t ready for combat. I’m going to have to reinforce-“

“Hey! What was that crash a few minutes ago,” a tall guy came running through doors.

“It was this brat, Jordon! He came crashing through the window over there and broke Prana!” The scientist said and pointed to the broken window.

“This is a problem, Rachel. Over at NARF, they have already found a pilot for Eins Dues. We are left defenseless if they attack us now!” Jordon yelled at her! “What do we do!”

“Uhh…umm…” Rachel was obviously scared of him. “The…the brat, we send the brat to fight Eins Dues! I…I mean we only need to incapacitate NARF long enough for me to repair Prana, right?” Rachel said, praying to the Gods.

“That’ll do for now. What do we put the brat in?” Jordon said, eyeing Tyler.

“I suggest we put him in Uno EX. EX has that ‘special’ program installed incase something goes wrong,” Rachel said, putting an odd emphasis on the word special.

“Hehehe,” Jordon let out an evil cackle, “Always thinking for every out come! That’s what I love about you, Rachel! Now get him into the EX!”

At NARF; Ally, Saya, and Kari were riding down an elevator deep underground. “This is Dues Hanger. We house all our Dues Mechs here.” Kari was explaining to Ally. “We have top researchers working around the clock to come up with newer and better technology and weaponry for the Dues. You may be wondering why we are going through all of this, aren’t you Ally?” She wasn’t. Ally’s only concern was getting in one of the Dues and fighting. She was staring out the glass door, eyes wide with excitement!

“Miss Ally, I think you better pay attention to this next part,” Saya said tapping Ally on the shoulder.

“Huh?” Ally said and turned around.

“Hmph,” Kari sighed, “As you may or may not be aware, there is a building erected in the center of the city.”

“Yea, it a really huge skyscraper with two smaller towers on top of it. My dad works there,” Ally said in a smug tone.

“Very good, do you know the names of the two towers?” Kari said, trying not to talk down to the new employee. Ally shook her head no. “Well that’s okay, even some of the higher ups in the building don’t know the names of the towers. The north tower is called Shamshel and the south tower is called Beelze. They are housing some very important information there. We were hired by The Hub to protect the two towers,” Kari was explaining to Ally.

“Protect? Protect from who? My dad makes it seem like a normal business,” Ally asked.

“That is true, it’s a very normal business for the first thirty five floors. From floor thirty six and up is The Hub. They’ve become cautious ever since two employees split from there six months ago. They took very important data and formed their own group, ‘The Seraphim’ and The Hub hired us to find and neutralize The Seraphim. They are paying quite well and besides that, I’ve met up with the two people who split and we can not allow those two to have this kind of data!” Kari was getting angry. “We are here,” she said and Ally turned around. “There! That is Eins Dues and it is yours to pilot,” she said and pointed.

Following Kari’s point, Ally looked at her new mech. It was humanoid in appearance and was red. It has on what looked like shoulder pads and a war vest with a bottom peace handing out. Its legs looked like there were equipped with boots and they had a point at the top.

“Do you like it? I modeled the armor after what they were in middle ages. Its main weapon is spear, but it has a back up positron blaster built in it’s left hand. It drains a lot of energy so stick with Gungnir please,” Saya said.

“Gungnir?” Ally asked.

“Oh I’m sorry, I called the spear Gungnir after Odin’s legendary spear,” Saya said and bowed.

“Okay now, go up those steps and enter throw the back of the head,” Kari said and pointed to some stairs leading to the back of Eins.

As soon as Ally stepped on the first step a loud buzzing noise went off and everything became red tinted. “Yo! This is Kenneth. It looks like our buddies over at the Seraph are making the first move. They say you learn best from experience! So have the new chick conduct her training in a real battle!” Kenneth’s voice echoed over the hanger from an intercom.

“B-but, she’s not ready!” Saya said in protest.

“He can’t hear you or else I’d be chewing him out about this. However, you know Proto is in no working condition and he is right, people do learn best from experience. Ally! Hey Ally where did you go!?” Kari said looking around and not seeing her anywhere.

“I’m in the Eins and ready to go!” Ally’s voice came from Eins Dues.

“Well I’ll be, she figured out to open the hatch and work the intercom on her own,” Kari and shook her head in amazement.

“Umm, Miss Kari, Eins Dues has the latest sync equipment. A baby could do all that stuff,” Saya said looking at the ground.

“Oh, well it is still impressive,” Kari said embarrassed.

“Hey, it keeps asking me if I want to register. I keep telling it later and comes straight back and asks again,” Ally said over the intercom.

“Don’t worry about that. We’ll register to you later. Right now we are going to put it in Anon Mode. That should open more than the intercom and hatch for you,” Saya said and ran over to a nearby terminal and started putting in commands. “Okay let’s see, yea. Okay it’s in Anon Mode!” Saya said and the stairs and all the bindings holding Eins in place moved out of the way. “Okay! Now try taking a step forward! Umm, Miss Kari you might want to move.”

“Right,” Kari said and walked over to the terminal with Saya. Eins took a clumsy step forward.

“Okay! Try and take another!” Saya yelled to Ally. Eins took another step forward and another, each getting less and less clumsy. “Good, good. You’re getting the hand of walking, now grab the Gungnir!” Eins reached out and took the Gungnir from its holding place. “Okay! We are opening the hanger doors! Hurry up and defend NARF!”

“You betcha!” Ally’s voice came from Eins. At the far end of the hanger two large doors opened. Eins took off running towards the exit.

“Think she’ll be okay?” Kenneth’s voice came from behind Saya and Kari.

“Yea, I believe she’ll be fine. We have…” Kari trailed off and turned around and saw her older brother grinning behind her. Saya jumped from the surprise. “When did you get down here?” Kari yelled at her older brother.

“Just a while ago, I stopped to get donuts!” Kenneth said and held out an empty box. “The elevator ride was too long and ate them.”

“I’m serious. I want your ceiling painted by tonight,” Kari said and turned back around.

Eins just made it past the hanger doors. At the other end of the street was a big bulky blue giant robot with a red letter X on it’s chest.

“That’s the Seraph’s mech. How boring a design,” Saya sighed. “And it’s so clichéd too.”

“Hey is that where the Seraph is located? Just at the other end of the street? Man I guess that saying it’s better to hide in plain sight must be true. Unless we use heat goggles, but then they could always just catch everything on fire. Then everything would be on fire and we wouldn’t need the heat goggles. Hmm…” Kenneth was rambling on.

“Shut up,” Kari said in a stoic voice.

“Hey, it looks like Ally knows the pilot of the other mech!” Saya said pointing at the monitor.

“Hero! What are you doing with the bad guys?” Ally yelled at Tyler.

“The bad guys? I don’t know what’s going on? I was kidnapped when you kicked me into that building. And stop calling me Hero!” Tyler yelled back at Ally.

Back at the Seraph observatory Jordon and Rachel were watching the argument from high above. “So it was the new pilot who caused this and it appears that they know each other. Let’s activate the special program now,” Rachel said to Jordon.

“Heh, of course, let us use it now. It will like killing two annoying birds with one large self destructing rock,” Jordon said. Rachel walked over to the terminal and input the command for remote control access.

“Vocal command enter: grab onto the Eins and initiate Self-destruct,” Rachel said in a demanding voice.

“Confirmation request: once self-destruct is active it cannot be turned off,” a computer voice said back.

“Confirmation: activate self-destruct after Eins is secure,” Rachel said in the same demanding voice.

Down in the NARF Hanger, “There’s a remote access from the Seraph’s building! Kari, look at these reading!” Saya yelled to Kari pointing at the monitor.

“What, they plan on self-destructing and taking Eins with it?” Kari said in shock.

“Eject Ally now,” Kenneth is a strong voice.

“But, Kenneth—“ Kari started.

“I said to eject her now!” Kenneth yelled. “And try to hack into the Seraph’s machine!”

“Yes sir, but the self destruct can not be deactivated,” Saya said and turned back to the terminal and started typing in commands, “Okay! Ally has ejected. Beginning to hack into the Seraph’s machine!”

“Brother what are going to due by hacking into their machine?” Kari asked.

“I’m going to save the pilot.” Kenneth said.

“Okay! I’ve hacked in through the remote signal! What now, sir?” Saya asked.

“What? Look at that? It’s already grabbed onto Eins!” one of the mechanics from the hanger yelled.

“Let’s pray this works,” Kenneth said and put in his own commands to EX.

“Look its self-destructing!” Another mechanic yelled.

TO BE CONTINUED…