Earth: The Second

Storage of War Machine

No matter what he does, Adma seems like can not shake that giant’s hand. His face straight forward to that looming figure. A monster without face or expression, only two glowing dots that resemble eyes. Although he is inside a virtual world, Adma can feel all the pain, just like in the real life. 

“Is this… The end?” whispers Adma. He stops struggling, apparently started to give up. On the other hand, the monster started to raise its hand. It showed clear intention to slam Adma once again to the ground.

But suddenly, a voice coming from above, screaming his name.

“Admaaaaa!!! Help!!!!”

It was Rika’s voice. So loud that the giants can also hear her. Out of nowhere, the girl seems like falling from the sky. Her maid outfit is fluttering around her half-transparent body. Although previously she seems normal with floating around, the fact that now she is in the middle of falling paint her face with terrors. 

One more thing, her hands are grabbing something that is shaped like a sphere with a glowing rectangle all around it.

“Adma!” shouted another voice. This time is not from Rika, but instead, it’s Navigator’s voice that he knows very well. “He looked like in trouble!” said Navigator, noticed that Adma is now strangled in the hand of that giant. But there is no actual answer from Rika, instead, the girl is closing her eyes, and tears coming out like a stream.

“Miss Rika! Please open your eyes or we will fail to reach Adma!” shouted Navigator, she understands that Rika has some kind of height phobia that she hid for a long time.

“It will be ok! This is a fake world that is happening inside a machine, nothing in this world will hurt you outside! shouted Navigator.

Although tears and snots still rolling on her face, Rika looked at that sphere-shaped object in front of her. The object called itself Navigator, and apparently, it is also searching for Adma, for some reason.

“I… Will not get hurt here?” asked Rika, replying to Navigator’s statement.

“Yes! And if we want to get out of here, you will need Adma and I combined,” said Navigator again.

Rika finally opened her eyes wide, she braces herself and looked downward toward Adma’s battle with that giant. However, the situation is not good, Adma clearly losing, and he is on the verge of passing out.

“W-we have to help him, quickly!” shouted Rika. Instinctively, she straightens up her body, minimizing the air pressure as much as possible to increase speed toward that giant. 

“If we can hit that creature too, I would be able to create disturbance inside it and gives Adma a way to escape!” said Navigator.

“Hitting it? No way! We will be squashed like a bug!” replied Rika disagreeing.

“Rika, calm down! I promise that I will protect you!”

This is started to be too difficult for Rika. Entering the unknown realm, having experienced her body become like a ghost, and now, facing her phobia all over again. But she can’t back down now, not when her friend is in danger.

“Ok then… I will leave it to you,” said Rika. She controlled the direction of her falling toward that giant. Both of her arm that is stretched out is facing right to the giant. “There… We… Goooo!!!” shouted Rika, landing right into the giant’s face.

suddenly, the time feels like stopped all around them. Navigator’s sphere body is finally making an impact on the giant, and suddenly, a wave of data is resonating among them.

“Threat detected, progressing to disturb the data flow of the target,” said Navigator.

Suddenly, the entire giant’s body is vibrating. some kind of bright flashes appears, and disorienting its humanoid shapes. At the same time, it let out a hurtful shriek and losing its grip on Adma. The cyborg then falling to the floor, but he manages to keep his consciousness intact.

“Adma!” shouted Rika, she quickly pulls Navigator and floating to him.

“Adma! I found this… Sphere… It said that she can take us out of here.” said Rika.

“But apparently, right now we have a more urgent matter at hand,” said Navigator.

“Glad to see you, Navigator. Where have you been?” ask Adma. his entire clothes are messed up.

“Let’s save the talk for later alright? for now, I will modify your data, so you can make use of all of your weaponry, even in the virtual world,” said Navigator. in a matter of seconds, Adma’s body is letting out light, his clothes then changed from ordinary casual clothes to the battle leather armor that he used to wear.

“I can feel it, I can use my transformation ability again!” shouted Adma.

“GROAAAAA!”

Howling come from behind them, apparently, Navigator’s stall can only do so much. 

“Stand back! Let me handle this one first!” shouted Adma. He took a step forward, clenched his fist, and focused his power into both areas of his hand. After choosing the shape of weapon he wanted to make, Adma then unleashed it into both of his arms.

“CHAINSAW!” he shouted. Adma’s entire body then letting out spark and electricity. Both of his arms are deformed, and reappear again, as machines with sharp teeth, and buzzing sound.

Just like what he wanted, Adma’s hands are now electric chainsaws, that are ready to tear down his opponent bit by bit. The giant, finally recover from the disturbance, is letting out an angry roar, he used his many arms to destroy Adma who is still standing on the floor.

But the giant’s soft tissue proved no match from Adma’s meat cutter machine. Adma barely using much effort to dodge, cut off his fingers, and then dodging again.

“If you are too big to be beaten from a single cut, I will destroy you with many of the small cuts!” shouted Adma. He throws himself to that giant, spinning his body, and let that creature shriek every time some part of his body is cut off.

But the creature won’t give up so soon, it still has many hands to taking care of Adma. With a growl, palms of hands are flying. This time they tried to grab him like before, but that is such a huge mistake.

Adma’s chainsaw, in turn, never stopped even a bit. So every time the giant tries to grab him with his hand, Adma just needs to lower or increase his hand to inflict damage.

“So much from an AI-made monster,” mock Adma. He then proceeds to run all the way up. Adma is looking for the right spot, that is even with the giant’s head. After finding the spot he looking for, Adma jumped to the wall. He musters all of his strength to the half bottom of his body and preparing to launch off.

“With this, you will be finished!” shouted Adma.

He flies like a bullet that has been shot out of his chamber. Adma’s hand on the other hand is stretched out, showing the dangerous teeth that come from those chainsaws.

Adma also spins his body when he appears close enough to his target. ripping out the giant’s face, and even cut them out of its head.

The giant then fell to the ground motionless. It’s not trying to catch Adma anymore, not with his head had already fallen to the ground.

“He… He won… Adma!” Rika is shouting as she runs to Adma who lay down on the ground.

The man seems out of breath, something that she has never seen before. 

“I’m sorry, let me rest for a little bit,” he said.

The Navigator who has been with Rika, floating to Adma. “Apparently the giant really cause you trouble?” asked Navigator.

“Of course! I can feel it with my whole body, my breath run out, and I thought that I would die! “ said Adma. He recalls Navigator’s words that fighting in the virtual space is different than fighting in the real world.

“That because in the deep-dive mode, you would regain all of your senses, Adma,” explain Navigator.

“But I still don’t understand, why can’t I use my weapon at first?” Adma changed his position to sitting.

“Apparently, when we proceed to deep-diving, we trigger some kind of traps that split us up,” said Navigator. “I just wandering around the servers where accidentally I met Rika.”

Behind Navigator, Rika is still starring at them cluelessly.

“That’s right! Where did Rika come from?” asked Adma suddenly. He noticed that his companion would not be able to come to the Virtual Space, except…

“We’re really got played around aren’t we?” mutter Adma, letting out a sigh.

***

“Congratulation for clearing master’s challenge.” a voice suddenly appeared in the middle of the lobby. Adma and Rika noticed that the giant corpse has been disappeared without a trace. Instead, there is someone standing there, the assistant-AI who wears a dark cloak and bright red eyes that are hidden inside his hoodie.

“My name is Keeper, we have met before, Mr. Adma,” said him politely.

“Cut the crap, I know you consider that I’m an enemy cyborg last time we met. What do you want?” replied Adma coldly, he has got enough rest, and his anger has built enough to punch somebody in the face.

“I’m merely here to bring you to the Master, just like what he promised,” said Keeper, the AI.

Adma turned his head to Rika beside him. His eyes are serious as if asking for her preparation.

Rika gets what Adma looked at. She answers it with a confident nod.

“Alright, take us,” said Adma.

Keeper floating high, and suddenly the environment around Adma and RIka is changing. They are not in the lobby anymore, instead, Adma and Rika appeared in some places that looked futuristic. Rika has never seen this type of place before, but in contrast to her, Adma knew this kind of place very well.

A clean flat wall and floor, with bright lights that are able to illuminate the whole area. Also, the place is so huge, you would be able to store an airplane inside. 

Adma noticed that this is some kind of storage, typical of the one that the military used to store their vehicle, weapons, and many more.

Except, at one side of this place, they see the figures that they knew very well.

Turns out, Hepaetus, Gon, and Razazel are also trapped in here.