บท 689: Self-Pity
Afton throws himself behind cover while patting out his currently ON FIRE shirt. It was hard enough dealing with one of those damn things, but a hundred at once? Who set the difficulty to impossible!?
The concrete wall he was hiding behind shudders, forcing him to move as lasers disintegrate the material. He leaps into the air and kicks off of the wall to intercept an aircraft bombarding his location, launching a hard kick at it in an attempt to destroy it...
Unfortunately, his leg collides with the ship's shield, knocking it away like a football and sending it careening down the street. It bounces between buildings and eventually comes to a halt nearby... But almost immediately begins flying again, his kick and its subsequent crash landing having done no meaningful damage.
Gritting his teeth, Afton continues to try and break their shields unarmed, but obviously fails every time. Even with weapons made from his plant arm, he simply didn't have enough energy to break the shields, despite his almost godlike stats.
His attempts become more and more creative, even one time trying to destroy an aircraft with his saliva... Yeah, hocking a loogie at it didn't do much, aside from infuriating the strange creature piloting it.
Eventually, he just decides to fight fire with fire, shooting his plant arm out and using it to grab ahold of one of the aircraft, tightly entangling it and beginning to swing it around like a massive glowing flail.
Another aircraft comes by while shooting lasers, but Afton easily avoids it before counter-attacking with his new weapon.
The alien spacecraft bleeds a turquoise stream behind it as it swings through the air, the alien inside gives a shocked scream and tries to cover itself with its arms as its ship collides with another.
*CRAAACKOOWW!!!*
The ships collide and their shields almost seem to implode on one another, utterly crushing both aircraft as a large explosion consumes them. Afton pulls back his root arm with a snap, now grinning at this effective method at dealing with the enemy's shields.
Afton begins using this method to destroy the ships, but after twenty or so are destroyed, the aliens learn their lesson and keep a good distance from him while continuing to try and hit him with their lasers.
Again, Afton takes cover behind a destroyed alien ship, the lasers seemingly unable to harm the weird metal that composes it. He calms his breaths as he takes a short break, glancing to the side at the corpse of an alien who was still holding some sort of device in its hand... It was cut in half and wearing a heavy spacesuit, so Afton wasn't able to see what its body actually looked like, only able to see its bulbous, green, fanged face through its visor.
As for the device itself? It almost reminded him of a holodevice, used to store information like any typical smartphone... Unable to endure his curiosity, he takes it pressing the large button that presumably turns it on.
It activates, but Afton is shocked to find some sort of file on... Him?... His face was prominently displayed on it, and had many paragraphs of alien language below it, though, he obviously could not read it...
He frowns, but an idea pops into his head about how to solve this... He accesses his status and presses his points, causing time to pause as he's greeted with the familiar screen.
He ignores the [Skills] and [Mutations] tabs for now, pressing [Perks] instead and searching for any language abilities.
He's quickly greeted by a few pages of each and every language, French, German, Mandarin, Japanese... Afton ignores them and continues searching for a Perk that'd enable him to understand the alien language.
Unfortunately, Afton didn't know the name of the alien language, meaning he couldn't select it out of the random, weird sounding perks from the list... What is Sjhemnina and Ukkjuupanip anyway!?
This, forces him to look at the last perk that could help... [Complete Language Aquisition].
[Complete Language Aquisition] : Enables user to speak every language in existence after hearing or seeing them at least once. This includes reading, writing, speaking, and other facets that may be vital to understanding said language.
Sounds good right? Well, that's until you look at the price tag... 20 Points.
Twenty, fucking, points. Just so he could read this god damned holodevice. Afton sighs, thinking it over and eventually buying it. It might be useful in negotiating with other Alien races that may be out there, he'd hate to have a full-scale war every time he encountered another race.
Afton doesn't feel like he needs anything else from the system yet, so having a stockpile of 10 points to spend might save his ass later on... Time resumes and he feels an influx of information crawl inside his brain like billions of chittering ants as he looks at the holodevice.
A small trickle of blood flows from his nose as his eyes glaze over, his brain working overtime to comprehend this language in good time.
Thankfully, due to his massive intelligence and many perks aiding it, he's able to understand the rather peculiar language with which the aliens speak... Looking down at the holodevice, his eyes widen as he reads it, cold sweat dripping down his back.
He'd only read a few sentences, and he felt like his world was imploding... "Target's growth is abnormal and not slowing. Recommendation; Annihilation before target becomes a threat.
Extermination method; Target appears to be susceptible to diseases, parasites, and viruses. Tailored Genocide Virus recommended."
...
"Did... Did they attack the planet, just for me?" he mutters to himself, becoming increasingly distraught at the implications. This basically meant that he was far more responsible for the death of Josie and everyone else than he'd originally thought... It wasn't just his orbital strikes that he was responsible for, but indirectly the virus the aliens had sent as well...
He forces back a shuddering breath, almost choking on his emotions... Fortunately, he wasn't able to wallow in self-pity for long. The Alien aircraft had come back around for another bombardment, with Afton clear in their sights... He crushes the Holodevice with a fierce growl and begins trying to destroy the flying saucers again, rage apparent on his face.
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บท 690: Prototype Fight
Elsewhere :
Rose's eyelids flutter as she slowly awakens, the soft mattress bringing a small smile to her tired face, but the cold, almost sterile air making her pull her covers over her head.
She lies there for a couple seconds, but immediately sits upright as recent events settle in her mind. "M-Mamma!" she exclaims as her eyes shoot open, the girl becoming surprised at the strange place she'd found herself in...
*Flashback*
The last thing she remembered was some sort of green smoke falling from the sky... Her mother dropping to the floor moments after for no reason whatsoever... She remembered the first aid things she'd been taught by Auntie Usanagi, but quickly became distraught when she didn't feel any pulse from her mother.
She started performing CPR, doing so for a couple minutes, but achieving anything at all. "Mama! Please wake up! Mama!" she begs, clutching Josie's slowly cooling body.
From the thick green fog covering them a large shadow appears, kneeling down next to her as it coughs and wretches from the fog. "Child! It's me, Marcus!... We need to leave! Look!" he exclaims, pointing in the distance, where large blue lasers could vaguely be seen from the fog.
But Rose refused to leave Josie, forcing Marcus to pick up the child and start running down the road in an attempt to avoid what was coming.
Rose reacts instinctively, entangling Marcus in roots stifling his movement greatly... He's actually forced to knock the little girl unconscious so he could save them both... Indeed, he could feel the static on his skin, feel the attack that was about to be unleashed.
In response to being knocked out, Rose's hair shoots out roots with envelope Marcus, quickly tightening after and forming a sort of pseudo armour around him. He ignores the peculiar sensation and continues running however, just as a humungous explosion occurs behind him.
*Flashback end*
Rose begins tearing up, the realisation that her mother was dead finally hitting her. She sits in the peculiar room and silently sobs to herself, unable to sees the walls becoming transparent and revealing Mr House, Tamia, Ulysses, and many other people watching her with concern.
"Rosie." Tamia says through the intercom, causing the girl to still and rigidly turn around.
"*Sniff-Sniff*, A-auntie?"
Tamia nods and gives a small smile, "Yes, I'm here Rosie."
"Auntie!" she repeats, running to the window where Tamia was standing, but quickly becoming confused at the divide separating them.
"That's for your safety as well as ours, Rosie... That green smoke? It contained a deadly virus that kills almost everyone instantly. You are resistant to it, but the rest of us aren't... You can't come out of that room until we deem it safe." she explains, attempting to comfort the young girl.
Rose sniffs to herself, an inch away from breaking down again, but forces herself to stay strong... For now. "W-where is daddy?"
House interrupts at this moment, his robot body stepping forwards as a screen lowers nearby, "He brought you in, but needed to leave in order to fight the people who attacked us. We can see how he's doing, but, it might not be pretty... Are you sure you want to see this?"
Rose nods, determination scrunching up her face. "I want to!"
The other people present also turn towards the monitor as it flickers to life, displaying one of the many cameras that were keeping an eye on the city above. There, they see Afton swinging an alien spacecraft at another with one of his mutated arms, the attack utterly annihilating both flying saucers which smashed into one another.
Ooo's from the crowd can be heard, most having never witnessed Afton fighting... Indeed, most of Afton's close friends had never seen him fight like this before. He was usually more tame, and due to his massively increased stats, most assumed that he'd been holding back ever since they met him.
After all, even Psykers would struggle to pull off the feats he was casually displaying now... Throwing vehicles, punching flying saucers apart, leaping from the walls of buildings like a human-sized rubber ball.
They could see he was having some difficulties though, not daring to directly block a laser the aliens sent at him. Judging by the fact they disintegrated anything that got hit, it was probably for the best anyway.
This only made everyone more anxious for his safety though, not knowing if he'd dodge the next attack, or even be able to withstand a stray shot he might not see coming.
Soon enough, the Aliens learn their collective lesson and stay far, far away from Afton while shooting him.
House hums to himself with consternation, "Hmm, seems like I will have to intervene... As much as I hate having to show him this." he mutters, wirelessly accessing the city's systems.
Elsewhere :
Afton growls as the aircraft continue to fly out of his reach. He gives up all defence and makes a reckless leap into the sky for one of the closer ones, but doesn't manage to reach them. In response, the flying saucers blast him with many lasers, most of which he dodges, but...
*POW!*
*HIIK!*
He shields himself with a root shield, but is knocked clear across the city from the sheer force of the impact. His root shield almost entirely vaporizing and releasing a steam explosion as a result.
It's lucky he doesn't take any fall damage, otherwise he'd have been bruised all over, bouncing off of the rooftops and eventually tumbling into an alleyway.
He tears off the remnants of the root shield connected to his arm, "HOT!" he exclaims while tossing away the scorched material.
"Afton!"
Afton jumps at hearing his name, almost turning around and shredding the suddenly appearing terminal that'd popped out of the wall. "House?" he asks after spotting the man's face on the screen.
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