DEATH CORE [REBOOTED]

"Are you sure? Once we start, there's no turning back to your old self..."

"They will peel you apart and put you back anew."

["Just fix what you already broke"]

"Begin the rebuild process."

hooks, machine claws, blades, and wires hold her against the table, injecting and drawing the rottenness out of her from her bones and flesh. surgery blades cutting her flesh to take out the hidden bones that come out from her back, fixing her shattered bone, before reconfiguring it into super metal alloy.

slowly and painfully, keeping her alive while taking her flesh and replacing it with the best mechanical arm. "Install the Mark-100 spike leg for her. The one with plasma blades." Voices from operators echo through her dull ears.

"Get the new gen power generator...." 

"We need more D-blood..."

"Jesus, begins heart fusing, target AS V4."

[loading....]

The beeping sounds of the life-supporting machine indicate she is still alive. Clare sat next to Kiries, where she was lying on a clean water booth filled to her neck

"Uggghh...." Kiries lift her head, water dripping down from her hair.

"Kiries! you awake. How do you feel?"

"Nothing..." She looks at her new arm, "So I got remade. Time to get him back right?"

"Not really, you still need rest, the operation just finished a few hours ago, you need more rest."

"... Good idea... I feel more tired... and..."

"Emotional?" V stepped into the room. "Heyo."

"V..." Kiries looks at her. "You need something?"

"Nothing, just checking on you two."

Clares gets up, "I'm pretty sure they also worked with your brain."

"Bet they did..."

"Well, I can't do anything much besides watching. and maybe helping from afar using this hacking device."

V sat down, crossing her legs. "Tomorrow is the day we will be deployed. For the past many hours, activities on Earth have rampaged, billions of cores and survivors eradicated. The big guys, whom we call Titans, are spread around Earth, seemingly trying to create a portal to travel to another planet, which the energy signal detected was Eather-227. The second planet that is similar to Earth."

"That's a problem. Well, any plan?"

"Since you just got upgraded, the new units will open a way through the firestorm first, we will shoot you into fighting off the first titan, the remainder of the battleship will try to hold back the other two titans."

"What about James..?"

"Jarion? he seems to have disappeared; we can't see him on the solar map."

"That's what they call him now?"

"They... remember? She possessed him."

"Yeah... we had to get him back and kill that b##ch"

"Don't worry, we've got your back."

"Even if you guys failed, at least we put on a hell of a fight against those demons," Clare said.

V and Kiries chuckled. "That's positive even for a girl like you, Clare."

"What can I say, I'm unstable."

After a while, Kiries can easily walk by herself. She looks outside, watching the blue planet now turned dark with crack marks glowing hellish energy, clouds with red striking the ground, spikes and towers growing, breaking the ozone layer.

[Enhanced vision]

[Multiple undetected enemies]

[playing "I can't stop": ---------- 0:02/3:54]

The star sparkles inside her very eyes. A dark liquid dripped out, representing her tears.

Clare is in the workshop, electronics, she tore into parts, reading how to work with computer parts. "Hm, let's see if this works." She switched on her tablet after installing a few parts inside the workshop. The screen is still the same static, she sighs, taking out the parts she put together. "C'mon, James, at least give me a signal." She slapped the tablet, it opened the compartment next to the screen, a small red button which she pressed in, the tablet materialized, transforming into a pistol with a futuristic design.

"Sweet, this thing helped me a lot."

The Ships docked at the nearest space station, and refueled on supplies and troops. Clare and Kiries are in their room, resting, but not sleeping, Kiries. She stared at the ceiling, and in her eyes, she watched a movie she made inside her head. Looking at Clare, who is sleeping. "How come you turn off his killer programs so easily..."

8:45 AM, V went outside the battleship, her backpack fired four hooks into the ship armor and secured herself still. "I'm in position, you all ready?"

"Got it, we're ready to catch you after u open the way for the girl."

"Good"

The orbital cannon loaded with the live shell contained Kiries inside. listening to the communication, looking at the pod screen.

["Begins the countdown for air support to deploy. V, you can begin"]

"Aight, commander." She aimed the cannon aimed the same direction. She loaded in the bullet, ready to pierce the sky. Her arms and body lit up with powerful blue light, clicked, the bullet shook the ship, the gun instantly shattered, followed by the shot, the orbital cannon fired. Sending Kiries away.

The dropship caught V. She hopped in and grabbed an assault rifle. Following Kiries. The bullet hits the toxic cloud, vaporizing it to clear a hole for the shell to fly through. Kirie's crash landed on an infected, its body splattered all over the place. She punched through the pod, tore and got out.

Looking up at the sky, watching V and her new squad land.

["Clear the area for them Kiries."] Clare said.

Laser dots appeared on her body. She found out there are over 10 infected in this area. They fired military-grade weapons. Bullets burning with red flame ricocheted as soon as they got close to Kiries. Without saying a word, she dived in and punched through one of them, her fist ripped through its body, she grabbed its head and pulled it in half. Her left arm materialized into a micro-rocket pod, shooting out from her sleeve. The tiny missiles blew up a group of them, and their head turned into vapor.

She levitated the rest of them into the air, Absolute solver icon locked them in place. She crushed them like crushing an egg inside her palm.

"All clear."

The carrier landed, V, and here the new squad dropped down on the dried ground.

"We're going to move around this area. Observers spotted strange signals across the world, which they probably the power source to open the portals. We're going to shut them down while you kill the Titans."

"Don't interfere, you all might turn into puddings."

"We know. Go get them, Kid shows them Humanity can't easily be conquered."

V and the five armored soldiers spread out, flashed out of sight.

["Don't worry, Kiries, I'm with you"]

"Watch my back, Clare." She hopped toward the sky, scanning the area, from afar, the first titan locked on her sight, her legs standing on the air,

["Okay, you wanna shoot them first?"]

"Mhm, gimme a weapon name"

["Okay, here, try Shredder autocannon"]

"Right..." [constructing...] a battleship-sized Auton cannon formed from collected materials, assembled into a massive barrel next to her. "This big?"

["Well, this was used to terminate big and many armor targets. I'm sure you'll figure it out."]

[Loading] "Yeah, the more painful, the better." Kiries punched the weapon. The cannon fired the loaded shell, loaded in another, the round, combined with the air resistance, created wind blades around the shell, cutting anything it passed. It pierced through the titan's body, pulling a chunk of its flesh right through the other side. Kirie materialized the cannon into A giant spear and kicked it straight in. She flew in with the spear. The titan watched it, Kiries rushing in, running on the spear, before jumping right on its face. gripping her fist and knocking the whole titan down with a single jet punch.

The big monster fell down, kiries dived straight down, aiming at its heart. Just when her leg blades reached near the titan, A sonic scream blasted her, causing her trajectory to go off course.

["Oh! Kiries, they are all here, all three titans."]

"I'm starting to get sick of these teleportation b##ches" [Combat gauntlets equipped]

She punched her knuckles together, "Come on!" She flew out of the crater, dashed, and struck the on-guard titan with a straight punch. Jzon pushed her back using its gravitation control, and Xeon hooked her body with its glowing, burning wires from its palm. Isan is charging up, black hole from its mouth condensing to fire at Kiries.

"Oh no you don't!" She fired her own Laser, her eyes and mouth lit up with a red blood color. The beam caused the Black Hole in Isan's mouth to explode, deleting its head completely. She cut off the wires hooked into her flesh, grabbed onto it, and swung Xeon at Jzon. 

[Orbital strike locked] Kiries snapped her finger, a giant shell from the orbit where a gunship satellite fired down, hitting two of the Titans.

Isan rose up, and it grabbed her. Its hands melted instantly as Kiries heated up her Core. Her chest cover opened to Fry the titan, who tried to backstab her. The reactor beam continued to rise its temperature, burning the air around her.

Her body temperature hit critical, Kiries struck down with a shockwave punch, splattering the titan's body. She turns to the other two titans, seeing them about to teleport away. "Oh no you don't." Chain hooks fired from her arm, piercing through their hard flesh like butter. She pulled them, interrupting the sequence.

["Hey Kiries, V here, just you wanna know a lot of hostiles coming, we tried to hold them back as long as possible, but they overwhelmed us a lot. We gotta move to a different location, good luck btw"]

"Ugh, I gotta kill these two dumb things fast.." Electric currents travel down the chains, frying the remaining titans from within. "split..." The chains shredded all of them by retracting back to her sleeves, Kiries winding up an EMP blast, putting tons of power in her core. 

As the enemies approached, she let out a burning scream, blasting shock waves, frying every converted near her, and disabling those afar.

"Hey, make it rain around me."

["on it"]. V called in a cluster strike, and the destroyer spaceship sent down high explosive bombs, striking the ground. Once it blows up, 10 more cluster bombs fly out from the flame, continuing to explode for about 20 seconds with flames and shrapnel

"Aight thanks..." Kiries flies away from the destruction, her systems scanning for James's signal, "Where are you..."

["Hey Kiries"]

"Clare?"

["So I just wanna tell you this, I talked with Carl, one of the researchers, he said my tablet might still have a connection with him, we just need something that has origin from that angel and a strong enough power source."]

"Does the soul count as her creation?"

["I guess so. I will connect this tablet to your body, and then u get one of those infected"]

"Not hurt to try." She flew to the ground, taking a converted soldier like picking up a toy. She ripped his head off along with its spines. The body burned into dust and she used AS to capture the damned soul. "Alright, I got it."

["Good, give me a sec."]

[Connecting to CLR-3 user device]

"CLR3? Really?"

["Funny huh?"]

"Kinda. 5 minutes loading. Might flying around a bit"

Kiries blasted from one continent to another in under a minute, landed, and started murdering the converted, using her best-armed weapon arsenal. She repeated the process from here to there, clearing countries and islands. "Australia cleared, but they might come back in energy forms.

["K, I connected successfully. now just need to scan the whole earth to find our man back"]

"Hey, you do what you have to, I gotta finish a job first."

["Sounds like a boss battle. Okay then, I'll call you back when it's done."]

Kiries let out a sigh, then broke an infected's head in half. She threw away the body and stepped forward, facing the three titan now in their original bodies.

"It's the boy's girl...."

"Take her down..."

"Bring what is worth to them..."

Kiries equipped her combat mask, and she lowered her body to fighting position. "If he can kill you three, then get ready to die twice."

They spread their Claws, charging at her. Kiries stomped the ground, kicked the debris at those, but they had no effect. Kiries quickly blasted the front area with her arm cannon, billions of pellets shredded those bodies, then the pellets shot out hundreds of spikes that pinned them in their spot.

"Got you now." She materialized a nuke and simply threw it at them, detonating it.

["Kiries, what was that noise?"]

"Relax, V... I'm cleaning some trash." Xeon emerged from the dust, slicing her it its blades, cutting the distance between them. Kiries quickly grabbed its arm blade, but it went through her cyborg hand, leaving no damage. Xeon slashed her belly, Kiries detached her torso and bottom part. She slashed it with the leg blades, then blasted it with an arm shotgun.

Isan appeared from behind, trying to pierce her body. Kiries reattached her body, backflip on its back, and grabbed Isan's mouth. The blast shattered her arm and her head.

Jzon burst down from the air, incinerating the battlefield with burning red flame. The absolute solver quickly regenerated her arms. Kiries fired micro missiles at him, then her arm opened for the heated blade to extend out. She struck in, slashing the three. They dodged and engaged in close combat. But can't seem to overwhelm her raging blades.

V, from afar, spotted them. She raised her rifle to the battlefield. She fired at the dark figure made from soul energy. 

With V's support, Kiries quickly slashed their head off, withdrew her leg, and with three strikes, their hearts impaled them on her leg blade.

"Thanks"

["With pleasure"]

kiries kicked the stone hearts into the sky, and V shot them into dust. 

["Kiries! Got some news for ya, I detected his signal, but it's right at your location."]

"What?!"

["I don't know, the reading said it at where you were standing'']

V and her team landed at Kirie's position. "What is Clare saying?"

"Shh"

["Keep staying there, I'm trying to catch up with his new reading."]

"Cmon cmon cmon cmon...."

["I think-"] [connection lost]

Kiries face froze, "Hey... Clare?!"

"Heads up, we've got more hostiles incoming."

"Not now."

robotic army controlled by the damned souls marched from all directions, heavy soldiers with weaponry fired at them.

The team opens fire side to side, covering each other's backs. V and Kiries are the main firepower, equipped with heavy power-enhanced weapons. V splits an infected bot in half alongside Kiries, who is unleashing the Absolute power at full potential.

When those converted get closer, they send in orbital strikes, calling in mechs and supplies. "They are hard to kill when revived, don't you think?"

"Just shoot."

"Incoming!"

A missile passed through them, hitting the armored suit. "Ahh!"

"V kill that dreadnought!"

Her gun transformed into a bolt rifle, she cock the hammer, the bullet inside the barrel spun with electric current speed up the RMP. V hit the trigger, an explosion mixed with a railway barrel led the high velocity armor piercing to fly through the flesh robot, mini-explosions happened inside as the bullet went straight through.

The dreadnought splattered into a puddle of black blood and metal. "That was easy."

Kiries threw the mines around the squad, detonating shooting spikes that go into the enemies' spines, and decaying them into powder, Brutal and effective.

["Kiries, His signal might be from a pocket dimension. The director saw this situation before; you've got to find a way to open a portal or something."]

"Thanks..." Kiries, kicked with he blade on her heel, the Absolute solver icon appeared on the trail where I cut an infected in half. A rift has been opened.

"Everyone! In now!"

V and her team followed Kiries, and they jumped through the portal right after soldiers threw grenades at the converted machines.

["Guys! w-"] [Signal lost]

"Great, this place is dark as heck..."

"Night vision doesn't work..."

"Why do I feel something just passed my body..."

"Anyone got light?"

"Kiries created a super flashlight, shining in the pitch-dark place."

"Right, now we gotta find that White hair."

They are lurking around the area for a few seconds, just to stumble upon them. From the dark, Zerion appeared from behind. Blasted them back to the normal world.

"Well, you all sure are interrupting my business..." their back hands clapped in mockery. "I actually impressed on you, but it seems I need to stop being merciful." Their hands formed Brighting Spear: "Let's see if you could save them all." A grin of a devil, Zerion turned to the sky, aiming at the Space fleets. The Calamity Icon appeared under their feet. Energy of a demon chanted for this strike.