Heaven Piercer: Still Kind Of Dead

Heaven's Falling Down

Heaven's falling down!
My world is breaking down!

It's all in my blood until the end of time!
Destiny is mine, I won't surrender!

As long as I survive; The power's within me!
Shoot a thread of light!

"System, how long until we reach the target destination?"

"This is the fifth time you've asked. Might I add, all within an hour."

"Come on, you don't have anything better to do."

There was a long silence as you waited for a response that never came.

"Alright then, fine, this will be the last time I ask. When I'm on the planet, we'll probably never talk again and you can go back to playing solitaire for the rest of your miserable life."

"10 minutes to Copper-9."

You sat down and surveyed the outside using the three screens mounted on the wall. On each screen was a different camera feed, along with information about the pod you'd never understand. You recalled faint memories about one of your trainings saying something like "You can save yourself from a butchered landing" by paying attention during their lessons, but when did that ever matter?

Put in a pod and sent away, you couldn't remember what happened before all of this. It was very hazy; and even the most important memories were incredibly hard to recall. What you could remember is your training. While you did  sleep through 70% of it, some of it was interesting enough to stay awake. 

The "suit" you were wearing right now was essentially just a skinned disassembly drone. It can form almost any weaponry or object you wanted, using this liquid... Metal... Stuff. 

 The helmet on the other side of the room eerily stared at you with blank eyes. It was basically just the head of a disassembly drone which you could put on your own.

 It had it's own eyes that would follow your own movements. Once you put that helmet on, there would be no way to tell you apart, other than what colour you bleed. You could form swords and other things, but one thing you'd yet to try was a gun. Doing it now and firing a hole into the pod currently hurtling through space didn't seem like such a bright idea, however.

 From what little you gathered from your scattered interstices of consciousness, these drones were trying to kill these other drones, but they were taking too long. Which of course is why they sent you.  Right, so what were their names again?

...

V, J, andddd.... N. Yeah, that's it. They all had singular letters for names; although name maybe wasn't the right term. It was their "Serial Designation", much like how yours is X.  Well, maybe that's also not quite right. You're not a drone at all. You touched your nose with your hand clad in metal. It did feel quite weird when your touch was cold. 

You got up and put on the helmet. All was dark for around 5 seconds, before it lit up with a bright light. You tried to cover your eyes with your hands, but you couldn't stick your hands into it .It died down, and when you opened your eyes, you could actually see again.

JC Jenson had given you the job of "Engineer". And as such, you'd need to go "fix the problem" yourself. Something about "Rogue A.I".  Quite a shady bunch, really. 

"Engineer, 2 minutes to landfall." The pod A.I notified you.

Oh, yeah. That. Still wonder why they bothered spending money on a sentient A.I instead of the standard one. You tucked a survival kit into the slit between your helmet and suit. Surely it wouldn't go anywhere, right?

The monitors showed the city you'd be descending into. Decrepit buildings were collapsed, complete with cars and... A tower of drone corpses... Guess your future co-workers were a slight bit eccentric.

You had to use the cameras early and zoom in; since if you tried to look at them when you were burning up, you wouldn't be able to see shit.

The pod started to rumble softly. Flames overtook the camera lenses, blinding you. It eventually burnt out the camera lenses, letting you see once more.

When the rumbling progressively got louder, you knew something was up. The pod was accelerating rapidly.

Red alarms started to go off while sirens blared in your ears. You tried to lay down, but when you knelt, you started floating. You flailed aimlessly, desperately trying to swim in the air towards the controls. But to no avail.

The deafening roar reached its crescendo, and you even touched the roof. But you knew what came next.
You opened your mouth to scream, but by the time you tried, everything went black.

A/N

Hello! This is an introductory chapter, and basically just exposition. All future chapters will be around the 3000-4500 word range. Please do note, that this will not be updated until Displacement is finished, and is a taste of what Heaven Piercer would be like if it was remade. Thanks for letting me borrow your eyeballs, have a good day.

P/S
Hello. This is the author from the future, I've come to say that this story will be postponed until I finished a new story about Azur Lane (I'm still debating if I should write it or not) instead of Displacement. I've written alot of Murder Drones, so I'm gonna write something new. It won't come out yet, only when the current Displacement is done.

Perhaps I'll change my mind later on, but as it stands that'll be it.

Cheers.