CALAMITY : Legends Of The Chosen

"Some blueprints are written in code.

Others are earned in blood."

Scene 1 — Preparation for the Journey

The Missing Blueprint

Karl paced slowly across the lab floor, eyes scanning the ceiling as he spoke — voice lower now.

Karl:

"I said earlier I couldn't unlock my full form."

"Wasn't the tech's fault. It was mine."

Shojiro frowned.

Shojiro:

"How so?"

Karl turned to face him.

Karl:

"I lost the original blueprint core — the AI-infused schematics for my mech's full transformation protocols.

It was stored in a secondary neural shard... locked in my old lab. Back in Japan."

Shojiro raised an eyebrow.

Shojiro:

"Then let's go get it."

Karl shook his head, exhaling sharply.

Karl:

"Can't. Not yet."

"The lab's a warzone now. Some apex demon moved in. Something bigger than a Berserker."

"It's not just strong — it's smart. Took the building apart, reforged it into a hive-fortress."

Shojiro:

> "So a boss-level mutation."

Karl:

"Worse.

The locals called it a Dreadhowl Juggernaut."

The name hung heavy in the air.

Karl:

"It's massive. Fast. And armored like a tank made of nightmares.

I tried scanning the area a few months ago.

Couldn't get within five miles."

Shojiro smirked.

Shojiro:

"So… if we want your car form back…"

Karl (grinning):

"We're gonna have to break into Hell's garage".Shojiro strapped on worn-out gloves while Karl checked his shoulder-mounted weapon systems.

The desert wind howled outside the bunker. The sky flickered with ash-red lightning.

Karl (smirking):

"You sure you're not gonna slow me down, protein bar?"

Shojiro:

"Try not to cry when I end up saving your metal ass."

They fist-bumped once.

The door opened.

And the wasteland welcomed them with a roar.

Scene 2 — Road of Carnage

The ruins of Neo-Kyoto stretched like a graveyard of civilization.

Abandoned overpasses.

Crumbling monorails.

And demons dozens of them blocking every path.

Razorwings swooped down from broken skyscrapers

Abysshowlers emerged from storm drains

Skulldrakes burning beasts that moved like wolves on fire charged in packs

But Karl and Shojiro fought like war-forged titans.

Shojiro crushed demons with bare fists, slamming them into cratered roads.

Karl's shoulder cannons rained down nanite shrapnel each shot exploding midair in blue flame.

Side by side, they became a moving front of destruction.

Nothing could stop them.

The ruined outskirts of Kyoto were nothing but a graveyard of rusted metal and broken architecture. Karl Mitsubishi stepped through the collapsed barricade of his former laboratory, his nanite systems scanning the twisted steel and scattered debris that once housed his life's work. Shojiro followed, his towering frame still steaming from the prior skirmishes.

"Looks like your old place got a demon makeover," Shojiro muttered, wiping a trickle of blood from his cheek.

Karl didn't answer. He was staring at a crushed console—one that used to hold the blueprint for his nanite prototype: the Chariot Frame.

Then the sky split.

A low, metallic roar echoed from above, followed by a thunderous quake as a massive shadow blotted out the sunlight. From the smoke and clouds, it fell—

A demon unlike anything they had faced.

Its name would never be known. Only its classification: Dreadhaul Juggernaut.

It landed like a meteor, its two-ton foot crashing into the courtyard with seismic force. The impact sent a wave of destruction across the broken foundation. Karl's HUD blinked red as alarms blared. Shojiro's instincts screamed.

He didn't hesitate.

"Move!" Shojiro roared and shoved Karl aside.

The Juggernaut's massive foot came crashing down—right on top of Shojiro.

The world stood still.

Then, impossibly…

The demon's leg shifted.

From beneath the crush, a guttural scream erupted—raw, primal, defiant.

Shojiro's arms exploded outward, veins bulging, muscle fibers writhing like living cords. With an animalistic cry, he lifted the Juggernaut's foot off the ground.

The demon snarled, losing balance. Karl, eyes wide, instantly reconfigured his arms into dual nanite cannons. "Engaging suppressive fire!"

He launched twin barrages into the Juggernaut's side. Nanite plasma exploded on impact, sizzling against its armored hide, but doing little more than irritate the beast.

Shojiro grunted. "It's too thick…!"

Karl responded by whipping out thin nanite wires from his shoulder ports, embedding them into the ground and anchoring the demon's limbs.

The Juggernaut tried to move—but found itself bound by Karl's trap.

"Now, Shojiro!"

Shojiro planted both legs, his feet shattering concrete, and lunged with a haymaker straight into the demon's jaw.

Crack!

The monster reeled back, a chunk of jawbone flying free.

But it wasn't enough. The demon roared and slammed its fist down, striking Shojiro's ribs. The impact sent Shojiro flying through a half-collapsed pillar.

Internal damage detected.

Shojiro coughed blood, ribs shattered. But already

Yggdrasil's regenerative pulse flared.

His bones knitted, his lungs repaired. He stood again.

"Still standing… bastard."

Karl wasn't spared either. The Juggernaut stomped down, tearing through his nanite lines, and swung its tail like a wrecking ball. Karl's torso took the hit—his exoskeleton caved inward, nanites spraying like shrapnel.

"Structural breach! Systems at 48%!"

He collapsed behind a broken console, rerouting his core energy to reinforce his limbs. His thoughts raced.

I can't lose this fight—not before I reclaim the blueprint… Not again.

The Juggernaut surged forward—but Shojiro intercepted it. He jumped onto its back, hammering its skull again and again.

"Fall! FALL, DAMN YOU!"

He clenched both fists and brought them down in an overhead slam.

Boom!

Cracks formed along the demon's crown.

It threw Shojiro off, but he landed on his feet.

Shojiro grinned, lips split and bloodied. "I'm not done."

Then… he roared.

The demon charged.

Karl, now recovered, dashed to the side and unleashed shockwave nanite pulses, which caused the Juggernaut's movements to falter just long enough.

Shojiro sprinted, dodging a sweeping claw, and slammed into the demon's gut, lifting it off its feet. It fell hard, cratering the courtyard.

"Now!" Karl shouted.

Karl deployed micro drones, each one exploding in precise blasts across the beast's arms and knees. It flailed, weakened.

Shojiro climbed atop the demon's chest.

He looked down at the snarling, massive face of the Juggernaut—its eyes like burning coal, still refusing to die.

And something inside Shojiro snapped.

"YOU TOOK MY FATHER."

His fists rained down.

Slam. Slam. Slam.

"YOU TOOK MY LIFE!"

Bones shattered beneath his punches.

"YOU TOOK MY BODY, MY PEACE—EVERYTHING!"

Each blow deformed the demon's skull further.

"SO I'M TAKING IT ALL BACK!"

Blood sprayed. Teeth snapped.

And still he punched.

Even as Yggdrasil barely kept his bones from turning to dust from the force he put into his arms, he kept going.

The ground rumbled. The Juggernaut convulsed.

Then it stopped moving.

Just a mangled pool of meat and ichor beneath Shojiro's knees.

Karl slowly walked forward, armor cracked, wires trailing. "...You good?"

Shojiro, panting, looked at his broken knuckles. "...Yeah."

The demon's body shimmered. Vythra surged into Shojiro's chest.

Muscle Reconfiguration Acquired.

Shojiro winced, holding his side as a new organ pulsed beneath his skin a brute-core, modified from the Juggernaut's physiology. He felt the ability… but couldn't yet control it.

Behind them, the inner chamber of the lab opened, revealing a holographic display.

Karl stepped forward, eyes wide.

"The blueprints…"

They had won.

But not without scars.