The Last Survivor

Mission-7 Battle Hardened

You jump across a gap between buildings and run through the streets avoiding as much curses as possible. Then you find a berserker flag and climb the tower to it. After reaching the top you see Seamus sitting by a campfire and a small safe zone. "halò ùr" Seamus said. Then your AI says "that means hello newbie". Then Seamus continues with "I hear that you're going to the Berserkers so you can learn how to fight,". "Ummmmmmm yeah what's that got to do with you being at the meet up place?" You ask. Seamus lets out a chuckle and says "I'm going to be teaching you now come on we have to go" "where are we going?" You ask. "You'll find out" he responds.

You and Seamus run and jump from building to building until he stops and drags you to a wall. He peaks out and says "that is a bandit camp, there seems to be three opponents. Your first assignment is to take em out and secure the camp as a safe zone. If you end up having trouble I'll step in, got it". You nod your head in response and jump off your story of the building and grapple a sky bridge and kick a bandit in the head knocking him into a post for a small make shift shack that is partially built. You then let go of the grapple hook and pull out your machete and deflect a bandits throwing knife using QAAS and charge at them not realizing that the last bandit was waiting to knock you into the railing of the roof causing your back to pop. You fail to recover in time and he hits you with another blow into your gut causing you to fold. Seamus then jumps down and crunches the skull of a bandit and decapitates the other. Seamus then zip ties the bandit you knocked into the shack post and then he checks on you. "Eh, you'll be fine," he says as he pulls you up. You take a few minutes and then collapse to the ground and black out.

"Why didn't you call me for the newbie mission you know how badly injured they get on their first mission," someone says. "I thought since they could handle a dozer that they could handle some bandits," another says. Then someone enters the room and says "both of you enough! We will handle this another day but for now we have a newbie to take care of!" You hear the door close and try to open your eyes. You are blinded by bright lights and what seems to be a hospital room. You see Hera sitting on a stool. She notices you getting and runs over to check your vitals. "Good nothing seems wrong, but you still have to take things slow," she said "come on we need to get you to the altar". "What do you mean?" You ask "what altar?" She grabs your hand and drags you out of the room and to a flight of stairs. She opens the door to the roof and you realize you at the top of the hospital on the hills out side of town. You look at the city seeing it covered in plant life. "Hey come one you can enjoy the scenery later," Hera says. "What's with the rush?" You ask. "It's almost noon if we miss the ritual you won't be able to speak with your possessing spirit," she said in haste. She takes you up to a temple where other children of the sun are waiting. She makes you sit on your knees facing a man in a red sun mask with sunbeams attached. "Ok now close your eyes and focus on the curse," Hera instructed. You nod and close your eyes.

The man starts chanting "Posłuchaj nas, o Boże słońca, bo mamy tu dziecko, które czeka, aż obdarzysz jego ducha i ujawni jego wielki los i przeznaczenie na świecie" "Hear us oh sun god for we have a child here waiting for you to bestow his spirit and reveal his great fate and destiny in the world" translated AI. You start feeling a sensation as if you are falling. You open your eyes to see an abyss around you. You walk around aimlessly. "Who is there?" Said a deep raspy voice. You turn around and see nothing. "Hmmm... let's meet at your home," the voice said as the world changed around you and turned into the lab that you were kept in for the cure. You walked around more and saw kids being experimented on in cruel ways. You tried stopping the scientist but you can't touch anything there. Then you see Dr. Henderson run in and start yelling saying "what are you doing this is not ethical. Our job is to find a cure not abuse children!" He ordered the guards to take them away. Dr. Henderson ran to the kids and took him out of the machine and gave them to the guards. "Keep them safe. I don't want another thing like this to happen again got it?" Dr. Henderson demanded. The guards nodded and left. You walk towards Dr. Henderson and see a shadowy figure standing at the corner dressed in a black cloak. "Hello y/n," the figure said in the same voice you heard earlier "I am your spirit, I go by many names The king of nightmares, Cuco, or most commonly the boogie man," he walked over towards you towering over you by a huge margin. "Let's make a deal I can possess you from time to time so I can feed off of people's fear, or you can take my weakened power and continue to struggle," you reach for the hand but see that he has a wicked smile on his face. You pull you hand back and say "no," "what?" He said his smile turning to a frown "no, NO!, I was so close, I won't let you shackle me," he lunged forward towards you but he was bound to the floor by chains he screamed and tried to break the restraints.