A Type-M Conquering Machine had fallen out of the hull. Perhaps the airship was going to raid another homeland, and take it for themselves. The machine seemed to be dormant, luckily. Menae was the first to wake up. She tried to wake up Cadaveo, but it proved fruitless. He’d probably gotten a large concussion. Menae went on to wake up Noctus, Gatage, Tenea, Sane, and Cooro. All of them had injuries, be it shrapnel, a broken bone или two, so on and so forth. Tenemae, being the most fragile of the seven, he broken her rib cage along with her leg Кости in several places. The fractures weren’t anything too life threatening, and thus, they were healed, once Tenemae had agreed to stop screaming in pain so loudly.

There was then then a sound of a servo moving. One servo triggered the next, until an enormous heap of metal began to stand up on its two feet. Menae slapped the back of Tenemae’s head with a vector for being so loud she woke up a sleeping giant. Tenae growled at Menae for such a wordless accusation, since Menae сказал(-а) nothing.

The Type-M identified the six non-humans, and began preparations to initiate its attack. Seeing Cadaveo on the floor, the machine presumed Cadaveo was dead, and didn’t identify him as an immediate threat. The machine was unmanned, but was somewhat humanoid. It’s legs were shaped like that of a лиса, фокс with the knees on the back of its legs. One arm carried a large sword meant for cutting through anything that could be physically cut though, and the other held a Gatling Gun that fired oil-filled, explosive rounds, meant for spreading life killing fires. It’s Дизайн was midnight silver all over with crimson red on the shoulders, weapons, knees, feet, center of chest all along that area horizontally, and a crimson red spot where the head should have been. It gave off a roar meant to ward off the weak. None had left with the roar. Thus, the Type-M began its attack.

It charged at Noctus, and he quickly moved out of the way. The Type-M quickly turned around, and the barrels of its Gatling Gun began to spin. Gatage and the others didn’t know how to protect themselves from such kind of gun fire. Gatage told the others to go to the wreckage, and the Type-M followed. Rounds hit the metal scraps of the wreckage that was still melting due to the nuclear meltdown. This ship’s crash wreckage wouldn’t last forever; neither would the Militia.

“It’s no use trying to run away,” Gatage concluded, seeing how the огонь was spreading. Gatage coughed one, two, three, four times. “We’ll have to take it down one way или another. Otherwise, we’ll all die either way,” he explained.

“But then how do we destroy it?” Menae demanded.

“I’ve seen one of those things before,” Noctus said. “That’s the monster that killed everyone I knew!” he yelled.

Sanae’s eyes were in shock. When she saw the Type-M, all her memories were rushing back.Everything she had forgotten from falling down and receiving such a large concussion, forcing her to forget everything that happened before she Остаться в живых her memory in that instant had all come back. She remembered everything about Noctus, and what they had together. She also remembered the sacrifice she made for Noctus. And she also remembered-

The Type-M climbed over the irradiated scrap metal. It roared, making the Militia scramble for another form of cover. Sanae, however, was still in shock. Gatage tried to shoot at the damned thing, but it simply roared at Gatage, as if to tell him to get a life. When Tenemae tried to attack, she broke several Кости after coming in contact with the machine at her speeds. Sanae was still in shock, meaning no relief in sight for Tenemae. Menae couldn’t pierce it’s advanced armor. Every time she tried, her vectors would get shocked, and she’d have to pull back. Cooro managed a dent, but was quickly kicked away like a pest. Menae caught Cooro as he fell. The Type-M, however, was еще interested in the weakest for the easiest and quickest kill. Its scanners were focused on Sanae.

It creeped around Sanae so it faced her directly. Roaring in her face still didn’t revive her from her trance. She was still reliving all her Остаться в живых memories, and was unaware of the world around her. The Type-M pulled back its sword, and went to stab Sanae through the chest. Flesh was cut, and blood was instantly drawn. Sanae gasped, coming back into the real world. The blood was not hers.

“I knew why Ты reminded me so much of her,” Noctus chuckled, and then coughed several times, bring about blood from his internal bleeding. He tried to wear a smile, but his body was beginning to react to the lack of blood flowing through his body.

The Type-M released Noctus by throwing his to the side. It drew back it sword once more. Sanae tried to rush to Noctus, but the Type-M was too quick for her. Likewise, Cooro was too quick for either, punching the blunt side of the sword, knocking it away from Sanae, taking her out of harm’s way.

“Go, help him out,” Cooro advised with grunts. He was quickly slapped away by the Type-M with the Gatling Gun arm. It aimed it’s Gatling Gun at Sanae. Menae interfered, putting up her vectors as shields. Every time she blocked a shot, he mind was stabbed with pain.

“Noctus, why’d you-“ Sane tried to say.

“I’m just returning an old favor,” he coughed.

Sanae had tears welling up in her eyes, but she knew now wasn’t the time for such things. She got to work on fixing Noctus’ large wound. That’s when the screaming began…

“We’ll have to but the two love-birds time. Sanae’s important to us, and God knows what she’ll be like if he died,” Cooro advised, trying to divert the Type-M’s огонь by being an annoyance.

“Doesn’t… anyone care that I’m in pain?” Tenemae yelled out, but then realized the Gatage had not ever moved away from Tenemae throughout the fight. Could she be making a misconception for herself?

“I’d never let a teammate die alone,” Gatage told Tenemae, and his Оружие clicked. The bolts stayed pulled back. Gatage searched himself, and was fruitless. He had run out of weaponry, including his incendiary rounds. What could he do now to assist his team? Comfort Tenemae? What progress what that make? “So this is what it feels like to be useless…”

“At least we’re on the same page,” Tenemae argued. Gatage looked at Tenemae and laughed at her cynical joke. He then turned to overlook the battle, and hope everything turned out okay…

“I hope you’re finish soon,” Menae сказал(-а) sloppily. “Mind hurt, can’t seeing things…”

“That should be enough,” Sane сказал(-а) to herself.

Noctus winced as he got up, and limped quickly to the irradiated wreckage as Sanae followed. Because Sanae had left, the Type-M chased after the two.

“Gotcha,” Cooro сказал(-а) to Menae as she fell over with relief. Menae had fallen unconscious due to all the mental pain.

The трава was mostly on fire, making large areas of longs, licking flames. The Type-M was unaffected by the flames as it simply walked through them. It was face to face with Sanae once more. It saw Cadaveo, Tenemae, and Menae as all eliminated Militians. All that were left, in the Type-M’s eyes, were Sanae, Cooro, Noctus, and Gatage. Gatage was the least of its worries, and Cooro was just a nuisance. Noctus seemed special, having survived one of its stab wounds, but Sanae still remained as the easiest target.

Sane, in turn, was fed up with all the fighting and all the violence the Malaumtis has caused. She seeked largely to end it all. It was her time to Показать the Type-M Conquering Machine how “weak” Sanae really was…

She raised a hand into the air, and closed her fist. With disappointment, anger, and sorrow in her heart, she brought down her arm aimed at the Type-M.

Nothing happened. She knew what would become of it. “Take cover behind the wreckage,” she advised. I don’t know how much it’ll help, but trust me, it will somehow. Tell the others.”

Noctus obeyed, and went to the other members telling them to also take cover behind the slowly disappearing remnants of the womb of the Type-M. It was still large enough to shield all of them, even the unconscious and Tenemae were safe, once they were dragged into position.

Sanae flicked her finger at the floor, and the floor gave a small shiver. She flicked at it again, and the shiver was a little stronger. She flicked at it once more, and the floor was suddenly еще dynamic than the hearts of everyone in the area. The Type-M was knocked of its legs, but Sanae stood still as though nothing had been happening. Sane lifted an arm, and a pillar of earth smashed the underside of the Type-M’s jaw as it roared in synthetic anger. A flaming ball of stone had appeared in the sky. Due to perspective, the ball was small. She summoned another pillar of earth that knocked the Type-M over by striking the bending points of its knees. After that, she summoned еще pillars to pin down the Type-M. It didn’t even have the Космос to open its damaged jaw to roar at Sanae. The ball of stone had grown a thousand fold in size, and was now followed by two other like-sized balls.

“Those balls-! They’ll kill her if she doesn’t-“ cried out Noctus.

“She knows what she’s doing,” Gatage clarified, interrupting Noctus.

“But she’ll die, and I can’t-“

“Cooro, please, could you?” Gatage asked, annoyed.

Cooro nodded, and held Noctus down. Gatage took his нож so he had nothing to attack with. “There’s nothing we can do to stop her now. We just have to let it be.”

Noctus realized the truth in his words. Regardless, Noctus wanted it to be wrong, that he could do something and that no one would have to do what Sanae was doing now.

Far off, in a very distant galaxy, a black hole was nearing the end of its life, being filled almost complete with everything it has consumed, and was ready to release its energy as gamma radiation through its poles.

The Type-M, after so much time struggling, had finally broken free from the grasp of the pillars that held it down. Sanae knew what had to become of this crucial moment. Thus, she aimed her arm at the Type-M. The black hole in another galaxy fired all it’s matter as gamma radiation towards the land where Sanae stood. The beam of light came from right behind her, and came in such a potent amount that although only a small fraction seeped through the atmosphere of the planet, the whole area was flashed with its light. This radiation caused the meteors that were falling to explode; all three of the meteors exploded. This caused the incineration of the wreckage and mild burns on all of the Militia. At the site of impact, there was a cylindrically spherical crater. It looked as though an excavator’s claw had dug up all the earth that used to once be there.

Noctus Поиск desperately for any form of remnant of her. Cooro, being the good friend he was, tried to look as well. Gatage coughed a couple еще times as he helped Поиск as well. Tenemae was still a broken heap of broken bones. She winced in pain, but since she’s already broken every single bone in her body at least once, she was used to it by now. It didn’t mean she couldn’t feel the pain, though.

The searching was fruitless and in vain. Just as there was nothing remaining of the Type-M, there was nothing remaining of Sanae. That was that, and Noctus had a painful time accepting what Sanae had done. What if she was simply launched into the sky или had survived in some other way like in the massacre? She must’ve survived, right? She had to! How could she have left Noctus alone in this world? How? Why? Noctus broke down into tears. Cooro tried his best to comfort him, but just like with the massacre, he needed time to recover from such another loss. Thirteen, and already he finally was the hundredth member of his once great family, and last in line to get killed.

He was alone, and that was all there was to it. Sanae’s death had дана Noctus life, and that was what pained Noctus the most. Two times now, Sanae had risked her life to save Noctus’: once on the island, and now… here… Noctus just wanted the murder and war to stop and for Sanae to be alive and well. However the Malumtis’ ambition for power had caused everything Noctus had ever had to live through, and he hated every bit of them for it.

"For now, our priority is to find help for Tenemae," spoke Gatage. "She's in bad shape, and without Sanae to heal her, we'll need some other kind of way to heal her. Luckily, I know of a place I came across in my travels. I think it was a large academy of some sort," he сказал(-а) to the others, providing for a new goal so that the others wouldn't be Остаться в живых in Sanae's death. They had progress to make. Gatage was empathetic, allowing time for the mourning, but he would try to arrange a symbolic funeral when they reached their destination. He didn't know much of the place, he knew where it was... generally speaking...

“Well well, it would seem that your mind is broken. Allow me to fill in the cracks for you,” whispered a small voice in the back of Menae’s mind.

“N-no…” Menae сказал(-а) weakly… “Don’t… Cooro… help…”

However, Cooro was also mourning Sanae’s death. Menaehad been placed down by Cooro so he could go console Noctus. Menae was helpless with her shattered mind.

“Hmm,” the voice сказал(-а) satisfied, growing stronger. “You seem to be a powerful one. I’ll have fun with you. Ты and I are one, Ты know. Just let me do my job, and Ты don’t have to worry about a single thing. Let me remove your fears… let me free Ты from the chains that pest Gatage has placed on Ты by giving Ты the strength Ты need…” it continued to whisper, and Menae was beginning to be consumed by darkness. “I am the Mentaphage, and I feel that Ты and I will get to know each other very well…” it giggled as Menae was completely consumed by the darkness…