Aron the Aron
Lord Commissar Secretary of Floor Gang
START-UP PROCESS INITIATED
"I'll save you."
GENERATOR - ONLINE
CORE STABILIZER CALIBRATED
"I promise I will find you, no matter what; you hear me?"
FIRE CONTROL SYSTEM - ONLINE
HEAD STABILIZER CALIBRATED
"Even if it's the last thing I do..."
R ARM UNIT - WEAPON DETECTED - RIFLE
L ARM UNIT - WEAPON DETECTED - LASER BLADE
R BACK UNIT - WEAPON DETECTED - MISSILE SYSTEM
L BACK UNIT - WEAPON DETECTED - RADAR JAMMER
SHOULDER UNITS - NO WEAPON DETECTED
ARM STABILIZERS CALIBRATED
"Even if I have to give up everything, I'll bring you back."
LEG STABILIZERS CALIBRATED
MAIN BOOSTER - ONLINE
BACK BOOSTER - ONLINE
SIDE BOOSTER - ONLINE
OVER BOOSTER - ONLINE
"I swear I'll burn the world to ash if it means I can even hope to save you!"
ALL PART UNIT INTEGRITY CHECKS COMPLETE - NO DAMAGE DETECTED
"Wait for me!"
ARMORED CORE - DEPLOYED
"I'll save you."
GENERATOR - ONLINE
CORE STABILIZER CALIBRATED
"I promise I will find you, no matter what; you hear me?"
FIRE CONTROL SYSTEM - ONLINE
HEAD STABILIZER CALIBRATED
"Even if it's the last thing I do..."
R ARM UNIT - WEAPON DETECTED - RIFLE
L ARM UNIT - WEAPON DETECTED - LASER BLADE
R BACK UNIT - WEAPON DETECTED - MISSILE SYSTEM
L BACK UNIT - WEAPON DETECTED - RADAR JAMMER
SHOULDER UNITS - NO WEAPON DETECTED
ARM STABILIZERS CALIBRATED
"Even if I have to give up everything, I'll bring you back."
LEG STABILIZERS CALIBRATED
MAIN BOOSTER - ONLINE
BACK BOOSTER - ONLINE
SIDE BOOSTER - ONLINE
OVER BOOSTER - ONLINE
"I swear I'll burn the world to ash if it means I can even hope to save you!"
ALL PART UNIT INTEGRITY CHECKS COMPLETE - NO DAMAGE DETECTED
"Wait for me!"
ARMORED CORE - DEPLOYED
She never wanted to believe in failure.
It just wasn't something she had allowed herself to consider, even during the lowest moments of her life, when all hope seemed impossible to reach. She knew she had to keep moving towards her goal.
Everything else had been left behind the moment her life was ripped apart before her very eyes. The place she'd called home for as long as she could remember; the family that had cared for her, raised her as one of their own; the girl who'd loved her...
When weighed against what she needed to do, it was incomparable.
That very night, she took the first of many lives she would end. The first stain, the first fleck of red on hands that would run crimson. The long arduous process of leaving her humanity behind started then.
In her uncontrollable need to complete her task, she killed and killed and killed, over and over again. Corpses formed the path ahead of her as she waded knee deep through their blood and filth.
She committed herself to the unthinkable and the unforgivable, all for the sake of saving everything she held near and dear to her beating heart.
In a crowd of what felt like strangers in that moment, staring at a small flickering screen of a grainy video feed, the sense of failure drove it's cold blade through her chest.
As if in slow motion, the broken, mangled frame of her AC was thrown off the edge of the Ark by a lone NEXT.
In those few seconds, her old life ended... and XVI's life began.
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...
Four years later... (And now switching to your character!)
"Greetings LYNX; this is your mission."
- Eradicate the defensive units deployed in the Line Ark zone - 200,000c Reward -
"As you know, Line Ark is the main base of the anti-establishment forces that oppose the Cradles."
"We have tried to negotiate peacefully with these revolutionaries but they have refused our overtures and continue their violent attacks."
"This mission is a show of force to encourage the enemy to rejoin negotiations. We never like to resort to violence, but on this occasion, we have no choice."
"Line Ark's main weapon, Enoch, is currently operating in another area. We understand your trepidation in facing a high-ranking LYNX; it will not become a risk in this operation."
"Note that this mission is a test run of your capabilities. We trust that you will deliver a successful result."
- The League
The dull and cracked screen flickered and crackled as she turned the screen off for the day. The pay was extremely generous for it being her first mission as a registered LYNX, but when one was just starting out as a mercenary: one didn't question the generous payouts of their contracts.
This was the first mission of the game, a warm-up to let the player get used to how the game paced itself while they destroyed pitiful targets that couldn't handle the might of a NEXT...
Her NEXT... She considered herself extremely lucky that she had a NEXT to call her own. Just like the game, she could've sold herself out and picked one of the League's biggest corporations as a primary client, but that lure of freedom had been too great to pass up. Sure, she was stuck with a NEXT model whose parent company was six feet under, but it was still a steadfast and reliable build that she could get behind as long as she didn't screw up something awful...
The whole room rumbled as the Giga Base Arms Fort began to depart for its destination. Mercifully there had been a Global Armaments convoy planning to head in the same direction her first job was; getting her and her NEXT aboard for transport had barely brought up any trouble as she settled in for the two day journey towards Line Ark.
Welp, it was time to begin the game...
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