A Cyborg wakes up from a pod, seeing everything around him ruined.
- Cyborg: "How did I ended up here? Who am i?"
He tries to look around but he could only find a crowbar.
- Cyborg: Hmm. This will help me force the door open.
He forces the door open and sees a Legionary standing still.
- Cyborg: Hey you! You have...
The Legionary turns back and lunges towards him with his eyes glowing red.
The Cyborg tries to stop him using the crowbar but it doesn't feel pain, keep trying to attack him.
- Cyborg: Hrragh!
The Cyborg bashes the Legionary's head aside and pierces its neck with the crowbar, disabling it.
- Cyborg: Phew. What do we have here? This pulse rifle will come in handy.
The Cyborg moves to the next room and sees a giant bot. As soon as it senses his presence, it quickly stand up and comes to him.
- Cyborg: Eat this!
Cyborg tries to spray with the rifle, and right when it runs out, the Giant collapses, revealing a ladder which leads upwards.
- Cyborg: "Wish I can find someone up there..."
He climbs up the ladder and sees himself in a lobby, which is overrun by those glowing-eyed things.
- Cyborg: Great. Now I have to sneak through those things.
He tries to sneak through them to the entrance, but the door makes sound by opening, turning the things aggressive. Cyborg tries to run out but they keep chasing him.
- ???: Get on!
Some Legionaries on a Jeep stop by and shoots the things, while the one in a green jacket helps Cyborg get on.
- Jack: My name's Jack. What's yours?
- Cyborg: I don't remember...
- Jack: We will deal with that later. Now let's get out of here.
Through the streets of those things and collapsed buildings, Cyborg wonders what have turned the Mechanical Legion into this.
At the base, Cyborg takes a rest with Jack at a survivor camp. Jack examines Cyborg's back for info.
- Jack: Ok. "Harold Harrington M1". Guess this is your first cyborg body, right?
- Harold: Yes.
- Jack: I got what happened. All these things happened not too long ago. This might have affected your transport process. Don't worry, you will remember them soon.
- Harold: So Harold... it's my name?
- Jack: Usually, Cyborg Legionaries's name and model is written on a part on their back to identify. Now you will have to register to our camp. Then I will tell you more about what happened.
Harold walks to the registration desk and sees the receptionist in a white and yellow office suit.
- Jack: I will wait at the guest room.
- Rebecca: Hello. Name's Rebecca. I saw Jack bringing you here. Would you like to be a part of us?
- Harold: Yes.
- Rebecca: You have to deposit your weapons first before you can get further into the camp.
Jack puts his rifle with its 2 batteries and the crowbar.
- Rebecca: Wait, the ERK-20 is produced exclusively by the Order Of The Shadow Rose! How did you get it?
- Harold: I just looted it from a Legionary that soon attack me.
- Rebecca: They are called Reanimateds. As soon as one dies, they turns into a Reanimated. They will keep attacking until either their heart of brain is disabled.
- Harold: Do I have to do anything else?
- Rebecca: No, for now. You can get in now. Here's your member card. You can talk to Jack to know what happened around here.
Harold comes into the guest room to meet Jack.
- Harold: What happened with the Legion?
- Jack: Things just happened all of a sudden. There's a creature, which is described as Destroyer Beast, appeared and wherever it goes, that place is overrun with Mutants. If you don't know, Mutants are living creatures but turned by the Destroyer Beast to destroy even more! And the first Reanimateds appeared.
- Harold: So it happened Realmwide or only the Legion?
- Jack: Realmwide.
- Harold: So where's the Order? They are supposed to deal with realmwide issues like this?
- Jack: No idea. But people say that they are the first to fall. Now only survivor communities. No governments.
- Harold: So we have to survive.
- Jack: Yes. I'm trying to run this camp, and we are low on medical supplies. To a newborn like you, it's like repair tools and part replacements. You'd better rest before going, or you may be overheated.
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Critical Realm: Apocalypse
HorrorIn a collapsed world where the dead haunts the living, every government has fallen. Only survivors struggle to survive without any hope of rebuilding their civilization. How long will they survive?