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Part III:
Burning Ashes
Log Recovered...
Acessing Data Log KZ990.09K
"Burning Ashes"
Location
Kaision
Area
Sector 8.
3 lightyears out of Zebes.
Time in Planet
8 Days.6 Hours 22.Minutes Since Transfer To Forsilias
Sectors
Marchiria-Finished
Kartieria-Finished
Forsilas
Ship
K.340AF Standard GFMS Skimmer-Near Destroyed
Crew
Mark Mooring
Jack Spade -Separated - Critical Condition
Samus Aran
Alex Askura-Deceased
Alucard Relmose-Missing
Starting Log 3:3
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I knew, out of all of this, I would never make it out. Alex is gone, Alucard is proabably dead, and everyone was split up again. There's no sign of Mark. In the middle of a planet, our ship was nearly destroyed. To top it all off, while I was waking up, a rude awaking turned on in my visor.
"This is the Galactic Federation Military Control Systems. You were not expected to live, as we quickly disposed of Alex and Mark. You shall soon be captured and put to death. Goodbye."
My heart skipped another beat. Put to death by what?! I opened my visor and stared out. A swirling lava core, the melting fire pulsing into the cavern as usual. There rested, feet from me, Samus's helmet. I felt myself going dizzy, but came to my senses quickly. I had to find out where everything was. I got up by balancing against the wall and stumbled around the cavern. My heart was system repairing at an extremely rapid rate. I walked through caverns and chambers with the lava pulsating around me. I soon was able to run, walk faster and leap. I was at full health. As I walked into a giant cavern, a massive monster skeleton adorned it. I stared at it, as it hung from the ceiling by green vines.
"I must be near Karteria." I said aloud.
heard a voice from behind the lava wall separating the other side of the cavern.
Whos there?! Is that Jack Spade?!" I looked at the lava wall.
I Am!" I shouted back.
Its him! Get your guns ready!"
I turned and ran back down the cavern. I did not turn and look back at The Military Control Units, bolting through the cavern. I could hear the air split by my ears. My heart was shaking in fear as I rushed. I slid to a halt when two silver plated soldiers stopped me. They raised their guns and shot at me. I lept over them, turned toward them and shot them both with a mixture of Ice and Power. I fled downwards running into a figure. I opened my eyes and saw it was Mark.
"Mark! They're hunting us!"
hen I remembered the message. 'You were not expected to live, as we quickly disposed of Alex and Mark'. I stared at him for a moment. He snickered a bit.
Heart systems back up!!"
He flew back as I lowered my smoking gun again. I stood up, raised my foot over his chest, and looked him in the eye.
"Yea. I guess it is."
When I slammed my foot down, I felt it hit the ground under him puncturing the armor . I pulled it out and looked at him. There was no blood. Gears and wires started shooting out sparks. I stepped over him and walked away. I walked for ages, slowly letting down my guard from the Federation until I turned to the door to Karteria. A bullet hit the door and punctured it. I spun around and looked at two soldiers in my armor staring at me.
"Surrender or die!" They spit out hastily.
Through the puncture in the door, two shots of electric proportions came roaring out, bursting a large sized hole through the two. Their blood splattered against the wall, a sword punctured the door, and cut a hole through it.
"Alucard!" Was all that I could say.
The brown earth was terribly windy.
"Whats going on!?"
He looked at me through the visor.
"Samus planted a bomb in Forsilias! Its just now erupted and is shaking this planet down!"
I remembered back to when we were on the Galactic Federation Military Station.
"Samus, I need to speak to you."
I looked up, along with Samus at Mark.
He led her into his office, where she returned moments later with a metal boxed package. She didn't speak a word as she passed through the room. I got up and went into Mark's office.
"What was that?!" I asked him, as he closed a hologram of the Military Commander.
"Nothing of immense importants, got get ready, were going to leave soon."
He turned his chair away from me. I shrugged and walked off. I returned to my room, and started putting on my armor, as I noticed Samus walk by.
"Whats in the box?" I asked her.
"Nothing of extreme importants." She replied, same as Mark's.
I shut my door and continued to work. I shook my head, returning to the task ahead.
"A bomb was in that box and nobody told me?!"
"Come on! We've got to go!" Alucard shouted at me.
We started running through the crippling earth caverns. Passing through the twists and turns, we hastily made our way past the near core of this planet. Reaching the edge where you can see everything from atop there, where we originally got split up. It was a large ledge and looked like we could climb it. There were violent earthquakes along with the constant melting of rocks through lava spurring out. The climb wasn't easy. We constantly fell down into the earth below that was slowly sinking, steepining the hill. We rushed up it using a brute force and hanging on using all spiked objects around. We finally climbed up the ledge we originally fell off of using Alucards sword to hang-on. We reached the top, and opened the door to Marchiria. Blasting and swirling winds added to the earth shaking power. Standing infront of us was about 13 Military Control System Operating Soldiers.
"Halt or be shot!" One yelled to us.
We dropped to our knees as I thought of a way to get out of here. I looked behind us as the quakes and pulses raged. My eyes widened, I saw the whole core of the earth cave in taking everything with it. I remembered the landing. We placed an emergency total destruction device to scan the cavern and blow up if the right words are said.
"Activate Shoulder Drone 624311.K!" I shouted out into the cavern.
The whole cavern lit up with a scanning red flash. A bomb raged and nearly took out the whole cavern. Every one of the Military Units exploded or died after falling. We got back up, and rushed past them, not waiting to be crushed from the multiple cave-ins. Reaching the light outside I took a breath of fresh air as I ran. I knew every solider was dead, but as I was running the Orange Military Gunship swerved into the night sky. I leapt onto our gunship and the remaining members, Alucard and I sped off, shining into the night.
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Aftermath
Current Time
3 Years 9 Days 6 Months after implosion of Kaision.
There I sat, waiting and staring out into space. Samus Aran, the legend bounty hunter was all over the news. I knocked the radio off the table as I sat in my office. The new Military Control Systems Unit Officer, a natural survivor and high class bounty hunter, and yet I felt off. Alucard went his separate way, and was murdered. Samus forgot about me because when I got into contact with her she didn't recognize me and left me. I leaned against the chair and sighed. Nothing would ever be the same as it was back then. I looked at my office door until someone came in with a long, brown package.
"This is for you." The person laid it down and left.
I opened it with a sluggish feel. When I glanced at it, my heart skipped a beat. It was Alucard's sword. Mark's, Alex's Samus's, Alucard's and my name were hand engraved to it. I hung it over my door and stared at it for a while. I felt as though everyone left me, but my heart didn't leave them. I picked up a note inside the corner of the box and unfolded it.
"Jack. This is Alucard. I may be dead at this time, as you read this. I want you to have this for our team to live on forever. Mark isn't dead. But he's nowhere to be found. Kaision must have exploded, and he wnt on a chunk of it or something.
Check it out."
-Alucard.
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