[『ちびまる子ちゃん』正人]

A series of vehicles came in from [Aegean Harbor] speeding along the streets. One of them carried Colonel Liaf of the Federation Base.

"*BZZT* Sir, the link is set up with the Hydra. We're going to wait for you and if you cannot make it, we're initiating the other plan. Over." a voice said over the radio.

Colonel Liaf picked up his radio and held it to his mouth. "Roger that. We're making excellent time towards the Base." Colonel Liaf said into the radio and shut it off. "Activate the lights and stop for nothing. We need to get to the base immediately. Otherwise plan B is the option." Liaf stated.

The driver nodded and activates the vehicles lights. A siren wailed. The vehicle picked up speed and the rest of the vehicles followed suit as they sped along the Streets. Colonel Liaf grabbed his Radio once more and pressed the button.

"This is Colonel Liaf broadcasting on a Federation Channel. I request any Federation Officers not at the Federation Base report there immediately. There is a problem that needs to be addressed." Colonel Liaf said into the radio before shutting it off once more. "Let's see if we can play with him for a little bit." Liaf said before relaxing in the vehicle.

"Sir, what if you don't make it?" a Federation soldier asked to Liaf in the military vehicle. "I've set up so multiple people can relay my message to the higher ups. Different locations. Abel City, Neo Tokyo, and New Hera. I have men stationed here just in case I don't make it. This is of ultimate importance. I want this city to realize the truth." Colonel Liaf said.

The vehicles were getting ever so closer to the Federation Base.

[『ちびまる子ちゃん』正人]

OOC: I replied but merged my 3 posts.

[『ちびまる子ちゃん』正人]

"Sir, communications with the base went down temporairly. Backup generators for the communications outpost activating... The other outposts have been notified. Abel and New Hera are ready to transmit any time." the man in Liaf's car said to Liaf.

"Finally... The General makes his move. Even more perfect. Suspicious activity... will I die? If so, every one of my men will know who is in charge immediately. And if he falls, the next will take my position. Rykov won't last long as long as he tries to survive in New Hera. As long as he tries to prevent the coming..." Liaf said. He grabbed his radio and held it up to his mouth talking to all Federation Soldier radios, regardless of who. "The Day of Sigma is coming." he said, laughing as they entered the [Digi-District: Federation Base HQ].

[『ちびまる子ちゃん』正人]

Elzareth had overheard everything. The base was crawling with Ordarium infected Reploids, allowing him to listen in on them. He can't control them, but not yet. He realized the General's plan would only seal their involvement in New Hera to an absolute "Stay away". Nevertheless, he laughed as quietly told Kazuma.

"When you explode, I'm going to laugh." Elzareth said as he stood a safe distance away.

He sat down as Liaf staggered his way down the sidewalk. He was pretty far though. Elzareth saw in the distance, Kazuma forcing his way out of the base. If the Fed's were blowing it up now, he was screwed. Elzareth would be hit by the vibration though.

"Merry." Elzarteth said as Kazuma dashed, just barely leaving the base...

[White-Jet]

[From Abel City]

After wandering from Abel City for a couple hours, Ryuta finds himself in the streets of the first layer. He heads down the sidewalk, intending to follow it towards the suburban district when he noticed the mix-eyed man from the ruins of Doppler Town. He was about to figure out why he was here when he heard commotion going on in one of the buildings in front of him and the mix-eyed man saying something about laughing about someone exploding.

Curious, though in no mood to get involved, he ducks behind one of the alleyways and peeks around the corner, wondering what was going on. The Colonel from the harbor staggers out of the building, seeming to have been more than banged up from the events that went on inside, followed quickly by the preaching reploid from before, indicating that whoever was going to explode may be inside that very building.

Ryuta cringes slightly as he runs towards the other side of the alley, intending to get away from the building before the aforementioned explosion occurs without being spotted despite the possibility of the culprits not caring whether he knew what they were up to or not.

[『ちびまる子ちゃん』正人]

The Federation base exploded, initially smaller bursts before the power cores and generators were affected. The entire base then burst into a cloud of smoke and a rain of falling debris. Elzareth realized New Hera officials will probably seal off New Hera soon. Within the next 24 hours. Which worked perfectly for them...

The initial explosion lifted Kazuma off of the ground. "FUUUUUUUUU-" he shouted as he was lifted off of his feet and tossed into the air. He flew over the gates of the Federation base. Elzareth altered the gravity field in his small area to prevent vibrations. Kazuma was violently tossed through the air. He flew over the wide, large streets as the power putting up the energy fences went down, he flew with no intrusions as he rolled to the other highway into oncoming traffic. People braked due to the explosion. Kazuma hit the ground and began to roll. Elzareth watched, giggling as he saw Kazuma roll into an alleyway... Where he saw a rather familiar face.

"... It's the guy..." he said. He almost dashed over to Ryuta, but stopped and looked over at him and waved hi. "I should chase the Fed's who did this... The barrier went insane when the base exploded, but some guys ran off into the wall of New Hera towards the harbor... hmm..." Elzareth decided to give chase. He dropped the fields all together and began to dash down the sidewalk, making sure to dodge any falling debris and hovering most of the time. He proceeded towards [New Hera: Layer 1: Energy Barrier Generators].

Liaf figured out he was probably going to die with all the chaos. His mind was slowly deteriorating. He wanted to live. He gave up on the Federation as it blew up.

"... I'm going to live... I must live... It is... My destiny to... Lead the Federation... Rykov is useless... HE LET THIS HAPPEN..." he said in his craze.

He looked around with shifty eyes. He turned and ran into an alley way from the streets and headed through them going to Mid Layer 1 where the [Energy Barriers] were located.

[White-Jet]

Ryuta flew forward from the explosion, though his robe and uniform save him from the burning heat, the impact still had its way with his medium-built body. He curls over just as he fell towards the ground and tumble rolls into a crouch, grabbing his back in pain from the impact.

As he was recovering from the ordeal, he eyes Elzareth's snide wave before he unexpectedly disappeared towards the harbor. He decides it was best to leave that situation to the less crazy Feds and looks around at the remains of the exploded building. Debris and smoke flew all around him, making it impossible to determine who survived...then again unless the majority of people were made of fire resistant metal ala Magma Dragoon, there was virtually no chance for anyone to simply walk out of that rubble without leaks of blood or fuel spilling out of their torn bodies.

He contemplates whether he should head into the ruins and search for bodies, but then hears muttering from the Colonel he saw at the harbor and looks to see him making his way towards another part of the city. He decides it isn't worth the energy he had just lost recovering from the explosion and makes his way towards the rubble, intending to at least find clues to the cause of these explosions.

[Leaves to Digi-District: Federation Military HQ]

[Vérité]

[From Barriers]
The vulnerable humvee sped down the streets, trying to move lower and lower to reach the highway exit. The Sarge sighed but didn't let up on the pedal once. "You two, use your rifles and busters. This is gonna get gritty the second we try to bypass the police."

[『ちびまる子ちゃん』正人]

Around New Hera, at first, it was silence... But soon, sirens were heard. Quiet at first... But it got louder. And the number of sirens indicated a lot of police, Fire Department and Hospital.

Far behind the Humvee was Liaf running at an abnormally fast pace. He ran from the [Energy Barriers]. Hours ago, Liaf retained the specs of a standard military Reploid, but suddenly, he had the speed of an extremely fast Reploid. His legs had a different armour, not to mention they were bigger. The only explanation was he had a Copy Chip. But it was common knowledge; Liaf was no New Gen. He was steadily catching up to the Federation Humvee, and Ordarium was slowly coming out of the socket where h is left arm once was.

"NOOO! YOU CAN'T LEAVE MY CITY!" he shouted as he slowly caught up to the Humvee.

[Vérité]

"Wait until he's several meters away, I got a plan.." The Sarge tipped them off to warn him, quickly swerving to avoid an ambulance that pulled out in front of him.

[White-Jet]

[From Energy Barrier Generators, skipping over Federation HQ]

Ryuta staggers out of the smokes of the building, barely managing to see Liaf making a b-line towards the fleeing Humvee at speeds that, while not uncommon for average reploids, was a bit of a surprise performance for a design that didn't look like the speeding type.

Deciding not to further question the ability, he quickly runs to a nearby building and wall jumps to the roof, freerunning from building to building as he attempts to keep up with the now seemingly deranged Colonel, contemplating how best to stop him from slowing the more sane Feds down. He figures it was probably best to stay back and let them deal with his advance before interfering with whatever weapon and fighting skills he has at his disposal.

As he got closer to Liaf, he noticed some strange fluid dripping out of his arm; it didn't look like any type of reploid fluid he was used to seeing, seeming to suggest this was the so-called "Ordarium" Elzareth was threatening to infect him with.

[『ちびまる子ちゃん』正人]

Liaf began screaming... However, it wasn't an odd scream. Several Police, Fire Trucks, and Ambulances sped by, and began to spin out as it passed Liaf. His voice was seemingly... Changed to affect and scramble machines and audio frequencies. To those who were around... It was exactly similar to the Limited events that took place shortly before Doppler Town was ruined. However, Liaf had no Limited... Unless he somehow managed to recreate it for this certain event. He stopped for a second and resumed yelling; slowing down every now and then as well.

[Vérité]

The Sarge sped up on the pedal, probably hitting a good 70 miles per hour. There was only one shot to bust through the barrier, and he intended on doing it!

"Sir, what the hell is happening with the HVT?" Asked one of the other men, watching behind them as the vehicles were blown around like they were in the midst of a hurricane.

"The same thing happening to everyone else in this City: a bunch of malarkey."

Suddenly, their audio receptors were all shot. They screamed in pain, nearly swerving right off. But the Sarge kept it together, groaning from the lack of sound. The others had collapsed.

[White-Jet]

Ryuta grabbed his earphones as a sudden piercing noise stabs through his organic ears like chopsticks. He grits his teeth in pain before digging his fingers into his hood and pressing some buttons on the red portion of his protrusions, activating noise-canceling and muting everything but his surrounding area. From the streets he can see all rescue vehicles spiraling out of control and crashing into one another, indicating they, too were being affected by whatever was coming out of Liaf's mouth. If he, at least, didn't do something, it could affect the escaping Humvee and send it spiraling towards inescapable doom.

He digs into his pants pocket and pulls out his low-powered beam saber, squeezing the handle hard enough to produce a half solid, purple blade before aiming for the edge of Liaf's throat and chucking it towards that direction, hoping the energy would sever his vocal cords before it died out from the lack of grip.

[『ちびまる子ちゃん』正人]

Liaf saw he was getting ever so closer to the Humvee and stopped the screaming. He was getting excited. As the beam saber Ryuta tossed at him got closer into his path... Liaf activated his legs dash function, lurching him forward. It was so powerful and fast, Liaf was propelled off of the ground. He exceeded the Humvee's speed and was prepared to land on the back. The barrier ahead lead two ways; the airport outer street and the ramp leading down the three layers of New Hera to the ground where the road would then meet up with the Royal Canadian Highway leading to Vancouver and the British Colombia Harbor and IT Bay. Liaf was going to land directly on the back of the Humvee, but Liaf... He put his left shoulder forward so the Ordarium coming out of his arm would land on it first, surely causing him to slip. Liaf planned to infect the Humvee and the Fed's on it with it.

[Vérité]

"Shit!" said a backseat gunner, though hearing was impossible for the Sarge. He felt the vibrations in the air change, turned his head quickly to see Liaf attempting to land. He swerved to the left, into the wrong lane entirely, and then back. Liaf should've surely landed in the cement..

[White-Jet]

Ryuta grits his teeth as Liaf had jumped clear over his saber, heading straight for the Humvee while its occupants were in the midst of ear-splitting mayhem. He pulls his arms into the sleeves of his cape and leaps off the roof, spreading the wings out wide as they caught enough air to propel him back into the air.

He flaps his arms to gain altitude, all the while trying to speed up and get in front of Liaf; once he felt he close and high enough, he dives towards the crazed Colonel, feet first, while keeping his caped arms raised high like a raptor flying towards its prey. He hopes to at least keep Liaf at a distance long enough for the Humvee to make its proper getaway.

[『ちびまる子ちゃん』正人]

The Ordarium landed directly onto the back of the truck and despite the speed and wind, it seemed to be moving towards a window, and towards one of the gunners in the back seat.

Liaf hit the ground, missing the truck itself but fell forward, hitting his face off of the back of the truck. The impact put a dent in his left cheek, broke his nose, and left scars on both of his eyes in a vertical position. He was moving still, no longer focusing on running as he grabbed his face.

He slowed down as they were coming up on the turn off. The half point. One way lead around the airport, the other lead down the off ramp. No gates. Liaf had to stop and think after his current hit, but simply fell to the ground, grabbing his face as his new injuries bothered him. He now had scars resembling that of Sigma... He was still unaware of Ryuta's attempt to stop him.

[White-Jet]

(Reaction)

Ryuta notices Liaf starting to assess the damage from being bashed on the asphalt following his failure to land on the truck. He didn't have time to think about whether he should stop or not as he slams his feet into Liaf's midsection. While thinking about what made the crazed Colonel stop in his tracks, Ryuta slams his wing-covered hands on his shoulders, hoping to keep him pinned down long enough for the Humvee to make its getaway.

[Vérité]

At that instant, a small laser smacked the Monk in his back, knocking him clear over the degraded Colonel. An airship landed in the midst of the road while the alarms were still wailing. As it opened its gateway into the ship, three androids appeared. They were skeletal in appearance, frightening in build. They took Liaf by the arm, and by the legs. Then, proceeding to haul them onto the airship.
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The weird substance was moving! The machine gunner didn't know what to do other than change seating. The shotgunner looked out the open window to see the commotion and gritted his teeth. It was a Federation vessel! Even more dissidence!

The Sarge continued focusing on swerving out down the dump zone, and trying to reach bottom level.