Disclaimer: This is a fan-fic based on characters created by Yoshiki Takaya and contains violent situations with adult language.
Time War
Part Four
By: Brian O’Sullivan
E-Mail: lep@eircom.net
October 2010 - Present day
“What a difference a month makes,” thought Warrior Guyver and he battled a Powered Zerebubuse hyper Zoanoid. This was a huge alternative version of the Zerebubuse and had many anti Guyver weapons. He’d already discovered to his surprise that his high-frequency blades where easily blocked by the beasts shield spikes and could then counter with swords of his own. But the trick didn’t work for long as Warrior Guyver discovered his swords where of a higher quality and chopped off the right arm of the hyper-zoanoid through one of his swords. The Powered Zerebubuse tried then with his other arm to blast Warrior Guyver but he dodged the attacks got in close and then sliced his blaster arm off him. His blades adjusting to the hyper zoanoids shield he then proceeded to slice him in half killing the hyper zoanoid.
Warrior Guyver looked around him, Blue and Red armoured soldiers battled alongside regular army and tanks fighting a wave of zoanoids. Off in the distance a group of bio-blasters that would normally destroy tanks with ease where being cut down by a Warthog A-10 jet flying overhead in support of the freed US Army that had joined the ranks of ACTF. Warrior Guyvers head sensors twitched as he detected a group of air bound bat looking zoanoids chasing after the jet. His gravity controller active and moments later he was chasing after them. The high speed game of cat and mouse lasted only a few seconds as he chased them down and blasted them with carefully aimed head laser fire. The jet safe Warrior Guyver turned around leaving it fly off to its next target. Looking down at the battlefield that was a suburb of San Francisco he looked for the next pocket of large zoanoids and descended to battle them.
Hours later the battle was over, Chronos was defeated and the push into the West Cost was complete. Jason relaxed now in building that they had captured from Chronos. Their former HQ if he recalled correctly. All that mattered about the building was that the top office had a couch large enough for him to stretch out. It was almost like a bed, it was dark and he was tired so this place would do as good as any. Lying there he thought of what had happened the last month. The only areas of the USA now under Chronos control where the states around Texas and Arizona. They knew though Arizona would be the worse combat, possibly the largest underground base of Chronos was there. Agito a man he disliked told them one thing important about that State that the ACTF had only heard in rumour. It was the location of the largest Chronos base possibly on the Earth. Nuking it out of existence wasn’t a choice either inside the core of the huge base was a Fossil Relic.
General Carter decided then to focus his forces on capturing the major cities and towns in north central USA and then the West Cost in an effort to boost numbers before going after the two main remaining centres of Chronos power in the USA. That was a moth ago. A month of constant battle for Jason. At first he thought that his Unit had no limitations as no matter how hard he fought he never tired. After the first two days of solid battle he started to have mini blackouts in the battle field. Next thing he knew he was fully asleep his Unit in control thankfully knew the difference between a zoanoid and ACTF soldier. After that day plans where adjusted, while yes he was still a weapon of destruction he ignored commands completely when under control of the Unit and as the General described it “Could not be used in a tactical manner”. Jason listened in surprise as a solider told him once of what did when under control of the Unit, simply described as ruthless a non stopping killing machine. No hesitation, “death in carnet” was the term used but he understood why that was not ideal.
Though he was feeling sleepy this being the first time he had a chance to relax he could not get asleep. He had to relax. Jason thought back to when he got the Unit. After that Battle he sent the War Relic away to wherever the Creators thought was its home. A short time later he was back on the USS Enterprise. Sho the most powerful Guyver on earth could no longer stay with us. He had to go back to Japan. Jason understood why Sho and his friends where the entire resistance in Japan again Chronos. Agito on the other hand just didn’t seem right. Far too manipulating for what Jason liked. Both Guyvers where taken by ship to Japan from the battle group as it sailed home to Hawaii.
In the month since ACTF freed the East Coast states former government organisations where re-established. One of them, the first to start the fight against Chronos was the FBI had also being reformed along with the local police forces. ACTF viewed this a key challenge as without it chaos would rain on the streets with the power vacuum once Chronos had being driven out. For him this meant had to also resign from active FBI duty so he could concentrate on fighting Chronos. He was now a member of ACTF and to fulfil the promise of revenge he made to himself this seemed to be the best option. Anyway what would the FBI be doing with a Warrior Guyver? He would not be all too useful to them and he would be a lot better placed under permanent ACTF command. Sean was now reassigned protecting the East Coast region from Chronos counter attack. Overall things were going his way but he couldn’t help but feel something bad was about to happen as he drifted off to sleep.
Two Weeks later – Washington DC
It was now well after dark a long black car drove through the rain on its way to the Washington DC Headquarters of the Anti-Chronos Task Force, what used to be formally known as the Pentagon. Inside sat alone passenger, Jason the Warrior Guyver, brooding on the past and of things yet to come. It had been a long two weeks for Jason since helping ACTF forces capture San Francisco. Chronos had been pressing their attack on Oregon and Idaho and had made their bid to take over the entire West Coast. Jason had been sent there to assist the remaining U.S. forces in those areas. So for the past two weeks it has been just one battle after another. ACTF and he had no choice but to at times let his Unit take over. Chronos did not take the fall of the States of the USA easy at all.
During these battles he had noticed strange things about his Guyver unit. No matter how intense the battle, or how much he exerted, he never seemed to get tired and always felt in top form. Though puzzling when compared to the other known Guyver units, he found it to be a most useful trait, allowing him to fight for hours without stopping. Another thing he noticed was he never got hungry with the armour on and this was something that he found strangest of all that no matter how long it had been since he had last had a meal that he had no need for food. Another interesting new power of his Guyver unit was that in addition to his armour ability to adapt itself to new threats and his armours natural protective body energy shield was that he could call the protective bio-boost blast field that all Guyvers produce upon activation of armour as a shield anytime he needed it to boost his defences. This proved to be a great tool when fighting the occasional group of Hyper-Zoanoids and their more advance weaponry.
But two things worried Jason now that he actually had time to think. The first was the one new power that really spooked Jason was that he could now hear the thoughts of anyone around him, including Zoanoids, but Jason ignored this thinking it must be his imagination. This gave Jason much to think about but the one power his Guyver did not have and what he most wanted now was that it was no cure for lack of sleep. The second thing that worried Jason was not about himself but Chronos. Sho had fought Zoalords before and Sean too. They both described them as the top of the Chronos food chain a terrifying creature of destruction. Battles with them were close and dangerous. But where were they to stop him? What was Chronos up too? This was something he could not answer and soon his tiredness caught up with him and he was back asleep.
After another hour of driving, the car pulled up besides the DC Headquarters. This building at one stage happened to be the main processing centre for Chronos in DC. Its car park was huge and around it was over one hundred Red and Blue type armoured marines for protection. The car pulled up to a checkpoint and a marine looked in the driver’s window to see Jason asleep in the back. Without saying a word the marine then signalled to let the car through. Entering the perimeter of the base, the driver drove for over two minutes to a designated parking spot and awoke his sleeping passenger. Jason groaned and got out of the car. Remembering what he was here for he then made his way to General Carter’s office.
Jason had being in contact with the General a lot over the last month and a half. Video conferencing meant that no matter where he was pretty much each and every few hours he’d be looking at a screen seeing the General. While he was on the front line General Carter handled the “awkward stuff” as Jason put it. Basically he handled the military planning and also managed the rebuilding of the Democracy of the USA. It was too early yet but the first sign of civilian government was beginning to show and potential candidates where debating on TV why they where the best to lead. Most though where happy that the Army had fought back finally against Chronos and most debates were about doing things properly in a war footing where the United States itself was the battle ground. In short most people knew ACTF would be effectively running the country for the next few months while the Country got itself on its feet and decided what the new USA would be like. As of yet there was still no President of the USA, General Carter was the highest ranking military official not turned into a zoanoid and still active in the military. Though he often said he looked forward to the day he could take orders until then he had to do what was best for the country not for him.
Jason was getting close to his office. He stopped thinking of the past month and a half and focused on last night. The General said he’d something important to talk with him about that he could not over the conferencing system. Jason knew that system was the most encrypted system on Earth. So whatever it was that he needed to speak with him about it was important. Jason forever focused always thought of one thing, this would give him revenge. Revenge on Chronos for what they did to him! For what they did to his family and his wife! While most would tire from constant war Jason hoped someday to finally meet those responsible for X-Day and the day they all died!
Jason arrived at the door of General Carters room, it was open but he stopped in front of it. “Come in,” said General Carter seeing him arrive. Two marines that where in the room then closed the door as Jason walked in. Sean wasn’t here yet, but another man sat on chair beside the Generals desk. There were two free chairs on the other side of the desk. The unknown man stood up and turned towards Jason. “Hello Jason, this is Edger Walsh have a seat,” said General Carter pointing in the direction of the seat opposite the unknown man dressed in a suit not different to that of Jason’s. Jason walked towards the man and shook his hand and then went to his seat and sat down. As he sat down and focused on the face of the man he couldn’t help but feel he recognised him from somewhere. He was most likely from the Bureau but he couldn’t place where he’d seen him before.
“I know I’ve said this already over that video chat but now that I have you in person I have to say well done on the West Coast missions and in Utah and Ohio. Without Sean and you we would not be enjoying any freedom from those Chronos bastards!” said General Carter reaching over to shake Jason’s hand. He duly obliged and shook the general’s hand.
“Thank you once again sir it’s great to able to put the hurt on Chronos.”
“Indeed it is, we’ve waited too long for this. Sean should be here any moment. Once he’s here Edger will tell you why I summoned you both here,” said General Carter. Jason just simply nodded. He wondered what could be so important to pull both of the US based Guyvers from the front line. A second or so later a marine opened the door and Sean entered the room. The General introduced him to Edger and he sat down beside Jason.
“Ok let’s get started gentlemen, you are probably both wondering why this couldn’t be said over video conferencing and why I’ve taken you both off the front lines?” asked General Carter. Both Sean and Jason simply nodded they hadn’t an idea why but knew it was important. “Mr Walsh can you please give them the background to why we’ve summoned them both here?”
“Gentlemen I am the former Chief Archivist of the FBI now working for ACTF, back before X-Day the General made sure what we knew didn’t fall into Chronos hands. Now that we pushing Chronos back it’s time we acted in insuring our States assets do not fall into Alien hands,” said Edger. Jason knew exactly where he’d seen the man before. He’d only heard of him mostly in rumour and seen him maybe once in his whole time at the Bureau when working on the Sadah file. The guy had being part of the FBI since the Hoover days.
“August 4, 1958, just hours after completing "Operation Sunshine", the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear powered submarine, had made history as the first vessel to reach the geographic North Pole 90 degrees North. When the sonar officer informed the Commanding officer of a strange echo from a nearby ice deposit that had recently cracked open. Unable to determine its source, Commander William R. Anderson ordered a team of divers to investigate. What they had discovered was the body of an alien buried in the ice. Word of the discovery was kept secret as the body was kept frozen and brought back to America. This is the first event of importance,” said Edgar.
“How does this relate to us?” asked Sean.
“Let him continue son,” said the General.
“July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 successfully lands on the moon and Neil Armstrong takes the first historic steps on the moon when two unidentifiable radar blips show up on the Orbiters sensors. No one notices as the UFO’s danced around the moon with one vanishing as it was seemingly destroyed and the other lost as it crashes into the surface of the moon. The event took all of ten seconds but was recorded by the Orbiters computer. November 19, 1969, Apollo 12 successfully lands on the moon and discovers a crashed alien ship. Word of the discovery was kept secret as the remains of its former pilot were brought back to Earth. April 13, 1970, Apollo 13 lands on the moon and recovers the wreckage of the crashed alien spacecraft. A cover story was released showing that Apollo 13 had never landed on the moon and that the crew had nearly died from a major malfunction. The wreckage was released into Earth orbit and recovered by a secret early prototype of the space shuttle as the crew of Apollo 13 made a successful re-entry and splash down on Earth. The remaining four Apollo moon mission showed no other signs of alien presence on the moon,” finished Edger.
“How are both of these events linked with us?” asked Jason.
“In the cases of both of these events both of the Aliens contained what we now know to be the Control Medal in their armoured heads,” said Edger. Both Jason and Sean sat there quietly in shock at once they heard. The USA had encountered Guyver like beings before they were active?
“But Sean was the first active Guyver?” asked Jason.
“No he is not and in the case of the first being carbon dating the ice around his body has shown him to be over ten thousand years old,” said Edger calmly like as if he was talking of an everyday occurrence.