The Heart Five

7: Seriously, What's wrong with these Ladies?

“Being abandoned by the Supreme Being of Essence who created you, who else would you worship? Then out of nowhere, he came to us. He came, the Supreme Being that we worship now. He’s given us new purpose as defects and new powers. What is his reason for saving us and reviving our Supremo? We look up above at the brightest star out there, the Essential Core. Defects, rejects, corrupted,” a greenish colored essence being teaching a class of eighteen year-old recruits, “those beings think they are pure! They never knew what it means to be the lesser gods. They never felt the need to survive. Even some of our fellow defects rebel against us, that we were wrong all along! We follow a Supreme Being other than our own creator, they say. I tell them back that he saved us and he took us in and converted us! He made us stronger and more powerful than ever! Soon, after waiting for so many years, as one of the remaining survivors of the old war and given a longer lifespan that exceeds our normal life cycle and following beside the great Supremo! We-”

The alarm system goes off

“Take these new recruits back to the headquarters and give them our weapons of death,” the grim look on his face while grinning suggests that he’s not afraid. “Those pure-minded bastards are not prepared, THEY ARE NOT PREPARED!”

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“What the hell?” Suxil (Justice) catches his boomerang and hides behind a rock. “I’ve never seen weapons and powers like those.”

“True,” Yxede (Leadership) goes over to Suxil’s side. He prepares to charge his trident for the next blast. “How are you holding up, Kevin?”

“Even with all of us having the Razelli’s (Luck) blessing, we are still losing soldiers.”

“Don’t die out there,” Yxede heads out and aims at a group of defects, “Vapor Blade!”

The massive explosion takes out a lot of the defects in their spot. Meanwhile, Gazbleir is escorted by Saxpir Razma, captain of the Blue Eden Squad and god of empathy.

“Have you seen this?” he picks a weapon from one of the dead defects and shows it to Gazbleir, “It looks like they’ve been doing something.”

“We’re struggling even with both of my powers, their sheer number is making it difficult for me to attack and evade at the same time,” The head captain holds his breath. “We take these weapons for study. I’ll head further into the battle.”

“I’ll go back and assist Ziplev (Hatred),” he salutes the head captain and takes off, “Don’t die, Gazbleir.”

“Right back at you,” Gazbleir summons his weapon, the Heart Five.

Zirack (Willpower) goes to his side as she hones her claw weapons, “Need help?”

“Captain Zirack,” Gazbleir nods at him. “I never expected you’d come here.

“I was thinking the same thing,” Semcaxa (Judgment), “but it looks like Capt. Zirack got to you first.”

“Even you Capt. Dezlar?” the head captain becomes empowered. “Looks like you are getting used to that flail. Don’t tell me…”

“Look at you ladies gathering here. Head Captain must be very lucky to have you women by his side,” Zenphea (Beauty) catches up to them.

“What brings you here, Beauty?” Semcaxa raises her eyebrows.

“I was just thinking of assisting the head captain,” she wipes the blood of from her ax. “I don’t his kids to lose their beloved father figure, you know?”

“GET DOWN-” A huge explosion causes the wall they were hiding to collapse. Gazbleir pushed them away from the explosion and landed on top of them. Accidentally, his face landed on a soft cushion naturally provided by Zirack, while his left and right arms also experienced the same cushion from both Zenphea and Semcaxa. “I’m fine ladies, I somehow landed on something soft,” he opens his eyes and instantly assumes a standing position totally red and about to overheat. He then extends his hand so that the three of them, also flushed, could grab his arm to get up.

“T-thank you,” Zirack struggles to look straight into his eyes. “Y-you saved us in the nick of time.”

Zenphea grabs her chest as she feels the fast pace beating of her heart.

“That was close,” Semcaxa contains her emotions as she notices an injury behind the head captain’s back, “You’re injured.”

“Save it for later,” he aims his gun, the Core Nine, at the enemy vehicle that caused the explosion, “Dark Frost!”

The tank immediately explodes while Gazbleir gives out a huge sigh of relief. Suddenly, more tanks appeared causing them to prepare for the worst. From behind them, with full amount of power leaking out through some kind of weapon from an ally blasts off obliterating the rest of the tanks and defects.

“Break Bomb,” Krozel (Jealousy) still full on power charges her grenade launcher. She was looking rather pissed off when she marches towards them, “It looks like you are also safe. Hello ladies and hello… Head Captain…”

“That was… uh rather… strong,” Gazbleir finds it difficult to speak. “But thanks I guess…”

“Yes of course,” keeping the same flat affect, yet bursting with an aura full of jealousy, she locks and loads her grenade launcher.

“I suggest we head deeper,” Semcaxa examines the tanks. “This is from out of this world…”

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Through their efforts, they are able to push their way through the heart of the enemy base. However, they are met by an unexpected turn of events.

“Despite our efforts to actually try and kill you, essential beings, we’ve only killed your squad members… our own kind.”

“You are an essence being,” Saxpir comes through the door with the other essential beings, “and yet you don’t look so good.”

“Ah I see why we failed. All twenty-five essential beings are here. We are sorry for wiping out the essence beings with you, our own kind. It doesn’t matter though,” the mysterious being turns around and points them to the screen. “By the way, have you met our new boss? He is so eager to help us take you down. Although, you are not our priority yet, we still have problems with our own kind here those who rebel against us and wanted to go back to that bright thing in the sky above us.”

“He talks too much,” Capt. Ziplev Laxio (Hatred) of the Blue-violet Dodo Squad, prepares to toss his dagger to the mysterious looking beast of an essence being. “Can I kill him, head captain?”

“Not until he finishes what he’s spouting,” Gazbleir raises his arm to signal him to stay put.

“I never expected that to come out from your mouth especially when you are an essential being.”

“Defects fighting with defects, I’m intrigued head captain.” Capt. Phoz Vax (Despair) of the Yellow-orange Jojo Squad exclaims, “Tell me more about this despair-inducing situation you have amongst yourselves.”

“Control yourself, Phoz.” Capt. Quaza Ronxay (Knowledge) of the Bronze Wallow Squad steps in to listen. “There are things that I want to know here, and you are keeping us from knowing it.”

“I’ve said something too much already,” the mysterious being laughs at them. “Look at all of you gathered here in one spot~ Lord Voix be praised.”

All of a sudden, a clicking sound is heard that prompts Capt. Robax Zensi (Counsel) of the Zanza Squad to instantly manifest his Force Field to block the incoming explosion that extends throughout the area. Everything has been wiped out erasing even some of the squads’ soldiers.

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There’s still ringing in my ears but I heard that awfully familiar name from that mysterious essence being. “Robax, BART! Are you alright?!”

“I’m… fine… just… want to rest, head captain…”

“s**t, they all passed out,” I tried to stand up but the ringing in my ears caused me to stumble back down. “Thanks to Bart’s shield, we were all protected…”

I noticed something from the thick smoke outside the Force Field moving away from us. I can only make it as someone regenerating his arms and head… but it was too blurry for me to see. But then, it spoke.

“Ah I have to admit, you are a tough one to break.” The mysterious being speaks in a monstrous tone, like it was gargling or something, but audible at least. “As you can see now that this smoke has cleared, I’m no longer an essence being… or better yet… a mere mortal. You see I am now like you gods… an immortal. Unlike that rebirth system you have… as long as I have flesh lying around elsewhere, I can regenerate back to life~”

“Undead,” I uttered while trying to get back up. “So he’s taken advantage of our current situation, “This is definitely the one of the works of that Supreme Being. I can smell the horrible stench of death from you already.”

“I’m tempted to kill you guys already but my power hasn’t reached its potential yet,” he touches that Force Field, while his hands begin to turn into dust. “I can’t even touch this, let alone destroy it… and those tasty women… oh how I wish you were mortals as well I want to taste those flesh underneath their dress. Oh-oh-oh, there now, don’t point that thing on me… that gun doesn’t even belong to you.”

Suddenly, voices and whistles from afar are heard, alerting the undead to turn around.

“Where are you going?”

“Leaving, of course.” The undead gives off a hysterical laughter, “Lord Voix saw a good smile on your faces. He will definitely-definitely find a way to destroy that star of yours~ sterile f***s!”

As soon as he’s gone, I clenched my fists. Lord Voix, Supreme Being of Death, is here. Why is he here? Is this something about what Lord Xpir was telling us when we were still children?

Rule #1: Supreme Beings cannot bring harm to their fellow Supreme Beings.

Rule#2: Supreme Beings can never harm their creations. If they do so, they will suffer a severe injury that would heal very slowly.

Rule#3: Supreme Beings can influence and bring harm to the creations of their fellow Supreme Beings. Bringing harm however, is a form of declaration.

Rule#4: The creations of Supreme Beings can harm their creator and other Supreme Beings, IF… they are able to do so…

Rule#5: If a Supreme Being is incapacitated by another Supreme Being’s creation, the winning Supreme Being can do whatever he wants to the losing Supreme Being’s creations.

I have my theories as to why he’s doing it, but I have to confer it first with Lord Xpir… Of course, aside from what he said, the last one got to me. We can’t bear children, real children because it’s how Lord Xpir created us. When I spoke with father last night, he said he was going to think about it. My body, even if I can feel my flesh, it is incomplete. I’m just… no… we are mannequins.

“Essential beings,” a defect approaches us, “We were once defects and we are humbled by your presence,” rather than hatred and disgust, they bowed down to us. “We, the rejects, ask you for forgiveness. Forgive also our ancestors, for they didn’t know what they were doing!”

“What the hell is this, what the hell happening?”

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