Lyra: Still, it is quite far away even with the blimp...

Joss: I will take Bahamut and one can ride with me, the other can go with Bulwark.

Vita: I shall go with you as well.

Lyra: No, you can't.

Joss: It would be beneficial to us. It would help a lot.

Lyra: Hmmm...but will she make it in time?

Joss: Believe me, she will.

Lyra: Then, get ready.

(Bulwark places the little kitten in the bag and places him around his neck. He looks at Arya.)

Bulwark: You're riding with me or Bahamut? Imma have to carry you. No problem with me.

Arya: I will go with you.

Lyra: Leave the kitten here. I will take care of it.

(He whistles and from afar, a large roar was heard, after minutes, Bahamut came flying. He didn't look like a Rhanioid anymore. His scales were grey and his eyes red. All the hunters stepped back and raised their weapons.)

Joss: Don't worry, he will not harm any of you.

(They looked at the creature quizzical as Joss pets him in the head and obeyed every command. The team enters and gets ready for what could be a huge fight.)

(In midst of the rush, Beckett contacts Bulwark.)

Beckett: Ulwa...Bulwark, can you copy me?

(Bulwark just changing into Apollo mode)

Bulwark: I copy, what's up Kid?

Beckett: Thank Oamni! I thought you were a goner. I was about to send a new suit but then your vitals went off. What happened???

Bulwark: We.. I... Maybe some of Sygma's equipment jammed my signal. Everyone is safe thanks to your gear kid.

(He looks at everyone and knows that it won't be right to say the truth to him)

Bulwark: Now we're headed to another fight, so we're all getting ready. I hope that all the suit's intel that I'm sending you is helping. It's a very adaptive suit.

Beckett: Well...(he gets a little suspicious but let it go.)...Later you will tell me in detail. For now, I will send another upgrade to your suit from the data you kept sending me. It has plasma weapons now. Hope it works for you and keep sending me data. Beckett out.

(Communications ends. After mere seconds, his suit gets an upgrade.)

(Bulwark gets amazed and goes to the flight mode. No more wings, only neon blue thrusters on his back and legs. The pieces are magnetic-hydraulic that makes it seems that it's not attached to his suit.)

Bulwark: Wow this suit is .. Pretty cool. Surprises me every time.

(He turns on the HUD and now a wider view and much more detail readings.)

Bulwark: Hhmp.. I can go faster .. Fly faster.

(He looks at Arya and removes the helmet. He retracts into little pieces forming a new neck piece. He winks at her)

Bulwark: Ready to fly at new speeds?

(He takes off the kitten bag and gives it to Lyra, then extends his hand to Arya to grab it to let him know she's ready)

Arya: I am ready.

(Joss and Isabella got their things on the back of Bahamut. A Thunderwulf comes in but Vita calms it. She hoops on its back and begins advancing towards Ardmery. Joss and Isabella do the same in Bahamut's back. She grabs tight Joss to the point of almost a hug and the wyvern flaps his wings, taking them to the skies.)

Lyra: I hope it's not too late.

(Bulwark holds Arya in front of him in a hug. He transfers some armor pieces around her and creates a barrier. She feels sturdy and secured. He flies upward and then the pieces start releasing a wave that pushes her closer to him to reduce the chase of whiplash. They launch at 80mph and rising, reaching the speed of a jet. Bulwark connects his comms to Arya and Joss)

Bulwark: Hey kid, we'll let you guys know how things are at Ardmery before you arrive. I'll be there in an ETA of 7 minutes. If there is too many action, you guys set up a game plan while Arya and I try to calm the situation. Got it?

Joss: Well, that is if you manage to get first.

(He touches Bahamut's neck and the wyvern raises his speed to match Bulwark's velocity. On the ground, Vita alongside the Thunderwulf jump, evade and dashes out of any danger and cliffs. At a very long distance, fire could be seen.)

Bulwark: Alright big guy, everyone better hold on tight then.

(He smiles and the suit shifts a few pieces to make him more aerodynamic and another set of thrusters come out of his back and thrust up from Mach 1 to Mach 2. The waves increase for Arya so that she wouldn't feel the intense G force and pass out.)

(Joss stops at the scene. Isabella is horrified by such thing.)

Joss: We must advance quickly.

(Bahamut rushes and they finally reach the village. Everything is in flames. People running, children crying, corpses on every corner. A truly gore scene. Joss, alongside Isabella, landed abruptly near the gates of the city. He stands and looks as everyone pushes him. He saw his home burn. To his feet a dying man asking for water, just to pass away. Isabella begins to cry.)

Bulwark: Alright let go. We're looking for Moderno troops and Sygma, right?

(He places a piece of armor on the girls so that he can see them through objects, and it generates a shield.)

Bulwark: Joss, do you need one or is your AI active?

Joss: I think I can manage.

(Isabella begins to help people and directs them to the harbor. Joss goes to S workshop and sees that the house collapsed already. He goes to his house and see one creature that was burning the interiors.)

Joss: Son of a bitch! I need to pay rent for this house! He takes out his sword and shield and bashes against the creature, but it does nothing. The creature aims at Joss' head with both hands and slams them. Joss evades with a roll to his right and with quickness, he stabs the head. The creature emits bizarre noises then shuts down.)

Joss: Lacie, can you track where Sygma or anyone is?

Lacie: One moment.

(Metallic tentacles come from Joss' body and they inject on the creature's head. Soon, Joss saw pictures of different images, but he comes back fast to reality. From the creature's body, a hologram comes. 2 persons appear in front of him.)

?#1: Testing testing...

?#2: 1 2 3...Can you copy?

?#1: You Moron! Is can you hear me!!

Joss: I don't have time for this shit!

(Bulwark flies to his house, once there it is completely destroyed. Residue off of the metal tells of a tesla beam.)

Bulwark: Seems like they figured I was here. Nice try.

(He opens his x-ray and sees several people under rubble and trapped in their houses by the fire. He goes on to save them)

Bulwark: Copy to Arya and Joss, I got 10 people over here on the south end of Ardmery. They are going to need medical assistance.

(He begins to transport the survivors)

?#1: Silence!

(Joss startled.)

?#1: I am Epsilon.

?#2: And I am Zeta!

Epsilon: We are studying under Master Sygma to create the strongest suit. It is a shame that one of the dragons, the last, were hidden in this part of the island.

Joss (mind): I knew it...

Zeta: We will burn everything to the ground to find it.

Joss: What makes you think we had already found it and took it away?

(Epsilon grins.)

Epailon: Because we are "hunting it" right now.

Joss: No. FUCK!

Epsilon: HAHAHAHAHA!

Zeta: But since you made it, let us reward you with a riddle, although, I think you people wouldn't be able to answer it.

"The quest is given; we must walk afar. To find it, we must carve a path. You can find me here waiting for you, with this monstrosity, even your blood will turn blue."

Joss: W...what...

Epsilon: Bye bye!

(The communication was interrupted.)

Joss: We must rush to the Dragon. We cannot let them kill it...

(He receives the message from Bulwark.)

Joss: Better leave them at the entrance to the village. The townspeople will take care of them. They are gathered in the----

(His eyes widened.)

Joss: I got it!

(On the other hand, Isabella and Arya are destroying the same creatures that Joss encountered. They are slow, but with heavy armor. After some moment, there is silence.)

Isabella: I don't like this...

(From the houses, screeches of metal can be herd. A strange robot-dog appears before them. Its tails swing from side to side. It opens its mouth, teeth sharp as sword and deep, a gun. The girls take some steps back, but they noticed that more of them were around.)

Arya: Where is Jaeger and Bulwark?

Isabella: Very fucking far. We will need to manage.

Arya: Like we always do.

(Both grinned and ready their Greatsword and Bow.)

(After some time of Bulwark moving the survivors. He takes to the sky and begins to scan the place. On his HUD he sees a huge wave of enemies approaching the area of everyone. He sees the girls handling themselves and Joss far away.)

Bulwark: Alright... Time to clean up

(Bulwark changes his armor to the Dragon slayer, two more arms come out and the armor thickens. He heats up his armor and the floating armor pieces begin to vibrate. He divebombs to a center mass of the horde of enemy dogs and once he lands a huge explosion of heated radiation burns the rest of the house to ash and cracking the ground and exploding several dogs around the crash site.)

Bulwark: Let's play mutts

(Bulwark makes to hands turn into plasma cannons and the other two into plasma blades and begins cleaning up the southeast side of Ardmery.)

Joss: Guys, group up! I know where they are!

(From behind Arya and Isabella, Vita comes diving with the Thunderwulf, creating a field of electricity.)

Vita: Go, I can handle the area. This bad boy and I are tough enough.

(Joss smiles as Vita begins to dismount the beast. She unsheathes her sword and begins to charge electricity from the monster, then unleashes its current on the foes. They begin to run.)

Arya: Where are we going?

Joss: The Hall...

(Bulwark charges a punch and slams the ground creating an EMP. Then he goes into flight mode and launches to the team)

Bulwark: On my way.

(They finally arrived at the Hall. Everyone stares at the building in flames. The memories they shared were crumbling away like the building. Joss steps inside and at the center, there was a secret passage.)

Joss: I knew it.

(The inner parts of the Hall began to burn.)

Joss: Guys! Come. I have found an entrance!

(Arya and Isabella stepped in. Joss lifted a heavy door, leaving a visible opening.)

(Bulwark closes the entrance as everyone leads the way)

Bulwark: So, any ideas to as where it leads?

Joss: Don't know. Guess we need to be cautious. They begin to descend. As they do, they saw paintings. They depict the creation of the island, the 4 dragons who watched over it, how all monsters were created by such creatures. How they blessed the first humans and the creatures and protected them, how they took their rest, and everything began to decay. They isolated themselves but their power still overflowed throughout the entire island. Above the other 3, a white dragon stood at the pinnacle. Joss stares at the image of such Dragon. He was interrupted by a roar of what seems to be pain. A hole with an entrance comes to view. A mechanical dragon crashes with the White Vildrays and bites its neck. The ancient creature screams in pain as his counterpart delivers a powerful breath attack that renders him vulnerable.)

Joss: No!!!!

(He jumps into action but to his feet, several gunshots appeared.)

Epsilon: Ah Ah Aaahhh. Don't move an inch if you value your life.

(Isabella shoots an arrow from the cave but he evades with grace. She steps out of the cave. The Vildrays shots red thunderbolts but the beast evades.)

Isabella: What the fuck is that?!

Zeta: That, is a masterpiece created using the base of all monsters. We call it, Rayley.

(Bulwark hears the commotion from within the cave. He doesn't get into view of anyone that is out there. He turns on his x-ray and spots everyone and the metallic figure that is Rayley)

Bulwark mind: They haven't seen me yet, don't know if they have x-ray so time to go light. Let's see what you can do t25.

T25: Cloak ... Activated... Systematic Jammer.... Activated.... Light weight alloy, excess armor moved into weapon slot.... Activated... Stealth mode...Activated.)

Bulwark mind: Beckett, you're a bloody genius. Now... Activate sitrep for traps.

(He communicates on comms but a different voice)

Bulwark: It's me Bulwark, guys. I'm going in, keep them distracted.

(As he moves up his steps are absolutely silent, his suit creates no thermal, no sound, no color flare and no skeletal recognition. He can only use the armor-plated daggers; any other weapon is excessive energy and will shut down stealth mode. He's careful of the few traps that were detected and makes way behind them to gather intel before striking)

Bulwarks mind: Now let's see what info we can get.

(Rayley slams Vildrays to the ground. Arya is still in the cave. She prepares to strike when Zeta throws a very small knife at her feet.)

Zeta: I can detect any kind of metal, heat or sound. I love all minerals and memorized them.

Epsilon: Rock freak...

Zeta: And you, weapon lover! And hey, I can sense you, cloaked guy! I may not see you, but I can feel youuuuuu.

Epsilon: There is another one?!

Zeta: Yesssss but he is not a problem for me. You should be careful thou.

Epsilon: This will end soon. Rayley is almost finished.

(Epsilon flicks his finger and 100 hybrids came with 10 creatures from Joss' house and a new additive.)

Epsilon: Say hello Hugger.

(The creature comes slowly and let out a horrendous screech.)

Joss: Guys, we must save the Dragon!

Arya: I will try and take out the hybrids.

Isabella: The new creature is too powerful. I don't think I can handle it. Can you, Bulwark?

(In that time, the hybrids began to attack. Arya and Isabella begin clearing the wave. In the main time, Joss tried to get closer to the White Vildrays but was attacked by it.)

White Vildrays: Begone human! I offered you my blessings, my land and this is how your race pay us back?!

Joss: No! We aren't the bad guys!

(Joss tells a brief summary of past events while fending off the different attacks of hybrids and Rayley. The Vildrays helps and listens with disbelief.)

Vildrays: If what you say is true, then my brothers and sisters are already in the afterlife. And soon, I shall accompany them.

Joss: But why? We can escape and take you to a refugee.

Vildrays: No, little one.

(He shows his chest who was pierced by a strong claw attack.)

Vildrays: They used a strange mechanism that penetrated my hide. My time...is near.

(The attacks increased.)

Arya: They are too much!

(With a swing of her massive sword, she takes 3 down. Isabella keeps shooting.)

Isabella: There is no end to this nightmare!!! And their armor...Fuck! I need more power!

(Her eyes turn red and with a single shot, she kills a hybrid.)

Isabella: Wha...what?!

(She takes several shots and kills them with one hit. Arya looks at her in confusion.)

Isabella: I will not dwell too much into this. Let's go!!!

(Joss tries to fend off the attacks of the hybrids and Rayley but it is too much for him. Rayley takes his claws out and with a swift attack, takes Joss in the air. The mechanical beast opens its maw, ready to blast off its breath when the ceiling, a crack begins to form and breaks with electricity. Bahamut appears, ravenous and with a strong bite to the neck, saves Joss in time. He let out a ferocious roar.)

Joss: Thanks boy...

Epsilon: That is not fair!!

(The mad student jumps to Rayley's back.)

Epsilon: Let us see which one of us can control its beast better!

Bulwark on comms: I got it, just be careful guys.

(He gets out of cloak and switches to the Dragon slayer. He quickly flies towards the Hugger and goes with only 60% of strength, he lands the punch at the beast. There is a silence. The hugger didn't even flinch, it turns its head slightly and it gives out a huge roar. When Bulwark goes to strike again, the hugger swifts downward and tail whips Bulwark so hard he breaks through the cave ceiling. Bulwark pops out of the ground of the surface and lands on his back.)

Bulwark: ...... That... Fucking HURT!! GODDAMN IT!!

(He gets up slowly)

Hugger AI: Chase the enemy, my baby.

(The Hugger roars.)

Bulwark: Damn no I have to go back down th...

(The entire ground breaks open with the ginormous mech rising out of it. It lands in front of the hole and roars.)

Bulwark: ... I guess I'm your target now.

Hugger AI: Ion Cannon

(The beast chest opens up releasing a bright light source from it, after three seconds of a humming sound Bulwark reacts and dashes out of the way and at that moment a giant beam erases an entire line of ground straight ahead of it.)

T25: I do not suggest getting hit by that sir, it's an ..

Bulwark: ION cannon, No shit Sherlock.

T25: Who is Sherlock, I'm T25.

Bulwark: NEVERMIND!!

(Bulwark fires a couple of shots and it does nothing)

T25: Krom made the armor, sir.

Bulwark: Bastard.

T25: Plasma will not do enough damage before you run out of charge.

Bulwark: So, I got to hit it hard... -er.

(The beast leaps towards him and does two slashes and Bulwark dodges, he tries to cut it with the plasma blade and it just slides off of the armor. The Hugger then goes for a tail whip and Bulwark flies up. At that moment the hugger kept its momentum and back hands Bulwark across the terrain. He crashes into the ground making a crater.)

Bulwark: HOW IS IT SO QUICK!!?

T25: Gyroscop..

Bulwark: RHETORICAL!!

(The beast prepares again for the cannon shot and once again a miss, drilling clean through the mountain that was behind Bulwark.)

Hugger AI: Predator mode

(The Hugger goes into a pounce stance and he it shakes a bit and the spikes on its back start sparking electricity between them and then it goes invisible.)

Bulwark: FOR FUCK SAKES, Cloaking.

T25: Motion detected nearby

(The air in the area go shifted to another direction, Bulwark flies up and then gets pulled down by the grip of the Hugger. It slams him into the ground and then punches him into it. When it goes for another strike, it is blocked by Bulwark's shield. He changes into stealth mode and disappeared. The Hugger gets out of cloak and that when Bulwark comes into view while he is a few feet from it in the air and had changed forms; he went with full 100% on strength and lands the punch on the creatures jaw. A huge shockwave could be felt and with a loud thud sound. The Hugger actually gets tossed to the ground and Bulwark lands.)

Bulwark: Aagh .... Shit ... Shit... Healing procedure.. Now

(His shoulder had gotten dislocated from the impact. The suit starts adjusting the armor pieces around the shoulder joint, removing some armor from his torso.)

T25: Fixing shoulder joint in 3 seconds... 1

(It pops his shoulder in early)

Bulwark: Aaagh.. Ok.... Ok... Well at least I know that I can hurt it.. Just have to be careful.

(The Hugger stands up like a vicious animal and screeches.)

Hugger AI: Listen to me... LISTEN TO ME!!

(The Hugger stops and focuses on Bulwark)

Bulwark: What now big guy?

Hugger AI: Shred

(The Hugger begins shooting out a valley of metallic blades at him from his arms and back. Thrusting its arm to shoot them and then grabbing them off his back to throw. Bulwark boost his agility and reflex mod and heads towards the Hugger. He bounces and runs on top of the huge blades. Leaping on to a few and dodging others, he grabs one and tosses it to another blade and gets it out of his way. Once a few feet close he grabs blade and kicks another one into the creature's leg and the one he is holder he slashes a huge cut on the beast's chest. He lands on the one that is stuck on the Huggers knee and rips it out but gets smacked in the air by the huge claw of the hugger. He spins in the arm and lands in a cool way on the ground staring at the beast cry and screech in pain.)

Bulwark: So, you are your own weakness.

Hugger AI: Repair sequence active

(Bulwark flies in front of it and then cloaks. The creature went for a chomp. After a few seconds Bulwark appears from above flying downward with great speed and lands a super strong punch on top of the head of the hugger.)

Bulwark: Found your Module!!

(The hit created another shockwave. Then Bulwark goes underneath the chin and gives it an uppercut sending it onto its back.)

Bulwark: .... Damn... My shoulder again...

T25: Healing...

(The Hugger moves very animalistic while on the ground, it rolls over and goes back into a pounce formation and looks at Bulwark, it roars, and it retracts more spikes)

Bulwark: What now?

Hugger AI: Li.... Lis... To .... M.. Me... Hug...hu..

(The Hugger roars and then it curls up like a ball and at the same time it starts spinning like a giant saw blade. It begins shredding and crushing everything in its path towards Bulwark, he Dogdes, and the creature uncurls to turn and grips the ground, creating deep cuts into the ground. Then immediately curls up again, Bulwark Dogdes. It roars this time and tries for a third time.)

Bulwark: Fucking.... STOP!!

(At that moment dashes towards him while he rolls at him and he times his roll to point where his head is in front and he punches the creature out of the roll. The force he put into that punch incorporated for most of his armor to be surrounding his shoulder and protecting all of his joints in his arm. The creature passes over Bulwark as it uncurls from the hit and lands on the other side tail first and just ragdolls onto the ground like a dead lizard. Bulwark takes a few breaths until he hears the mech moving behind him)

Bulwark: You got to be fucking kidding me... How strong are you damn it?!!

(The Hugger staggers and struggles to stand. The lights in its eyes start to flicker. He stands on all four and roars at Bulwark. Bulwark does an x-ray on the team below and remembers that they need to protect the Vildarys.)

Bulwark: I got it.... I just hope it doesn't get in the way... It's worth a shot!!

(He runs towards the hugger and it leaps backwards. Bulwark scans the measurements of the angle of the mech and the Vildarys.)

Bulwark: Seems pretty good here.

(The Hugger stands on two and its chest opens up as if it was going to shoot the Ion cannon, while Bulwark just stands there waiting. Then, it teleports and reappears with a tail whip sending Bulwark flying into a distant mountain. While Bulwark is flying through the air he says " YOU ... MUTHAFUCKEEER!!" He crashes into the mountain. The beast teleports to him again, it claws at him out of the mountain and tosses him into the air but back at the village. Once Bulwark is over the village, it teleports above him and does a tail whip, sending him straight into the ground. Bulwark's torso armor is shredded and compromised, he's bleeding but the suit is stabilizing the blood loss and placing a strange liquid to substitute the blood.)

Bulwark: I.... Hate.... You

(While the Hugger is still in the air, it charges the Ion cannon. Bulwark thinks fast measures to see if it would hit Rayley. He rolls to the left so that the shot could be aligned and then flies against the ground just when the Hugger releases the blast. The Ion beam cuts right through the ground and straight into the cave towards Rayley. Back on the surface, Bulwark flies straight up to the Hugger and since its chest is compromised by the cut of its own spikes, he flies into its chest.)

Bulwark: Now try my beam.

(Bulwark charges 90% of his energy and fires a point-blank shot of a plasma cannon shot that begins to melt any metal in comes into contact with. As he did that the Hugger claws its chest open, not paying attention and rips Bulwark out of itself. He grabs strongly to him and holds him in his hand directly in front of its chest and it charges the Ion cannon.)

Hugger AI: A...aa....abort.... Pr...pro.... Abo....

Bulwark: .... Fuck You!

(As soon that it fires the Ion, the plasma acid caused a short circuit and the Ion cannon explodes from with the Hugger causing a huge explosion. Bulwark falls out flying and crashes into the ground. The suit had gone into emergency defense mode and Bulwark is unconscious. The Hugger's pieces fall all over the ground and some blood could be seen in the mix of everything. The mech was a cyborg with a few living organs in the shell.)