[Original/Outdated]Honkai Impact: A Merc's Involvement

Chapter 36: The Bigger Picture

As terrible as the scenery around him looked, Alex knew he could waste no time in trying to fully take it in.

'Focus Alex. Gotta find one of the St. Freya girls and help them out. Or in Fu Hua's case, punch her right in the face.' Thought Alex.

Alex immediately transmuted his sword and dashed ahead, trying to join the battlefield as quick as possible while also looking out for anyone familiar.

On his way, he had come across numerous hoards of Honkai Beasts just scouring the area.

As quickly as Alex had gained their attention, he also had immediately slained them as quickly as be mowed through multiple monsters.

With whatever has happened so far, especially with the massive inferno burning off in the distance, Alex knew he could afford zero time to waste.

As he kept running through the base taking down many monsters, Alex began to tire a bit, wondering how long it'd take until he found somebody.

That was until he looked off to his side and found a familiar.

'Bingo. Target located.' Thought Alex as he immediately dashed towards their direction.

[Meanwhile]

With all that was happening right now, hell with was what happening to her at this very moment was NOT what Fu Hua had expected.

After she had successfully taken out and brought both Kiana and Alex to Schicksal HQ, Otto had informed the girl to stand by and wait until he gave out any orders.

Once the forcefiield protecting the base was broken, followed by the Far East Branch invading, Otto had issued the orders to engage in combat.

Fu Hua had immediately and began taking down any Far East Valkyries as well as Anti-Entropy mechs as AE had offered to assist Theresa on this mission.

Eventually, Fu Hua had ran into Rita and the two teamed up to take down any more invaders and mechs.

The two had encountered Himeko working alongside one of AE's top scientists, Nikola Tesla.

The duo made quick work of Tesla and took down Himeko.

Rita had attempted to behead Himeko right then and there, but Fu Hua immediately shot that down and instead locked up both Himeko and Tesla in cells.

After that encounter, the duo took a break from the action.

That was until the massive explosion that had occurred earlier immediately sprang Fu Hua back into action with Rita following suit.

The two ran back into the battlefield  and after taking down a group of Honkai Beasts at a entry port, Rita had radioed to the Overseer.

What had occurred in that conversation caught Fu Hua by surprise, as instead of Durandal engaging the Herrscher like she had expected, she was instead heading to their location while Theresa was engaging the Herrscher.

This immediately got Fu Hua into a panic which only grew more when the conversation had abruptly ended due to the communications system shutting down.

Then, after Fu Hua had told Rita to fix the systems, contact Durandal to bring together the Valkyries and that she'd delay the Herrscher, the maid declined Fu Hua's request.

Rita immediately explained that Otto never ordered them to attack the Herrscher, and that even with multiple trump cards up his sleeve, the Overseer still had everything going according to his plan.