It's the year 2030 and young aspiring NEXT pilot Leo Calaway seeks to leave his own mark in the annals of history while treading a world locked in conflict with other Armored Core NEXTs and Titans.
The surface of the Earth is contaminated by Kojima...
The weekend has come on Monster Island and Leo waits for the next training session with one of the Guardian Monsters but notices they aren't showing up. This makes Leo wonder if some Titan is causing trouble somewhere in the world of such scale it required all four of the Guardian Monsters. Since none of his teachers are present, he can do training of his own.
Before he can do that, though, Blue Reaper's sensors detect someone approaching his location. Turning to that area, Leo watches a monster girl walk into view wearing some type of outfit that's reminiscent of female Gladiators, has pale skin, sports a muscular build, hooves for feet, long black hair, yellow eyes, bull ears and horns. Held in the creature's dominant hand is a heavy warhammer.
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Minotaur: "Ah, you're the human I've heard so much about. My name's Freya and I seek to challenge your grit. Think you can handle it?" She grips the hilt of her weapon in both hands.
She doesn't give him a chance to respond because the female Minotaur monster girl charges at him with her warhammer poised to strike. Blue Reaper ducks to evade a swing, the sheer force of it generating a powerful gust of wind that nearly rip trees from their roots on a nearby hillside. Freya doesn't let up, thrusting her weapon in an uppercut rocketing Blue Reaper onto its back. Walking over to her downed opponent she drives her warhammer down. Blue Reaper halts the weapon's advance with both of its hands. Ceasing the attack, Freya grabs the machine's head and starts slamming it against the hillside repeatedly with vicious aggression, cracks forming in the rock. The cockpit inside Blue Reaper shakes violently as Leo tries to counterattack. Blue Reaper thrusts its arms forward, grasping the Minotaur's arm to pry its hand off the head. The monster girl quickly changes tactics, grabbing one of Blue Reaper's legs and slams it back and forth numerous times before placing her warhammer in the sheath strapped to her waist and grabs the NEXT, dragging it along the sandy shore then tosses it into a nearby hillside, shattering the wall of rock on impact, burying the machine under rubble. Freya waits for her opponent to get up, a grenade shell emerges through the cloud of dust, and she swats it away with no effort. Blue Reaper bursts from the dust cloud, barreling towards her as Freya grins welcoming the challenge. She grabs hold of the charging robot and placing a hooved foot on the waist throwing Blue Reaper overhead using the momentum of the charge to send it flying. The NEXT straightens itself just as Freya comes charging at it with its horns lowered with the intention on skewing the core possibly targeting the Listang generator. Blue Reaper stands its ground waiting for the Minotaur to come at it. Its hands secure a grip on the monster girl's horns, firing up the main boosters to direct Freya to the same hillside she catapulted it into and throws her but it's not effective. Leo charges up the Sirius high-output laser cannon and fires enveloping Freya in a huge explosion. When the laser cannon stops firing the barrel smokes from the intense heat. The warhammer comes spinning out of the dust cloud like a boomer rang causing Blue Reaper to evade.
