Colossus By Design: Entry 0116 - The Implications

[January 29, 2146]
[South American Wasteland, former South American continent]

[Warmonger units Freedom of Justice and Serizawa's Light are now both stationed at the site]
[Small research site has been set up to investigate possible material worth of the current landscape]


(Satoshi Yamane): So.... you encountered these two P.E.M.F.s here?


[Serizawa's Light points to the two P.E.M.F. bodies previously killed by Freedom of Justice a few days before]


(Thomas Scott): I did.

(Satoshi Yamane): And they employed actual combat strategy beyond merely charging or evading attacks?

(Thomas Scott): Yep. I only saw the one at first, that 'Primibian' that engulfed the initial team. We were about to charge at each other when a Hellhound burst out from behind me, latching onto my back and pulling on my head.

(Satoshi Yamane): This maneuver caught you off guard, correct?


[Freedom of Justice nods]


(Thomas Scott): I wasn't ready for that. That move distracted me, made me an open target for the big brute, and he rammed into me at full speed. Nearly overwhelmed me, had I not used all of my strength to hold them both back and separate them from each other.

(Satoshi Yamane): Very intriguing.......


[Serizawa's Light walks over to the two P.E.M.F. bodies and examines them]


(Satoshi Yamane): Are you aware of what this implies?

(Thomas Scott): Yep..... we have a new control-type on our hands.


[Dig teams have found something]
[All other workers rush to the site to see what the excavation has unearthed]
[Serizawa's Light and Freedom of Justice, noticing the commotion, walk over to the excavation site]
[Everyone, including the Warmongers, are speechless at what they find]
[At the dig site's center, a collapse in the ground reveals a hidden cavern]
[Veins of glowing blue energy litter the cavern, along with several dozen glowing blue and green sacs with dark moving shapes within]

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[Calgary, Canadian origin continent]

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Life in Calgary goes on as usual on the Canadian continent. However, not all is as it seems.

Sewer workers are currently down beneath the ground, having been called upon after receiving calls of a mysterious back-up of the main water pipes.


(Martino Guerrero): Hey, Frank, do you have any idea what that call was about?

(Frank East): No idea, Marty. The pencil pushers don't really know what's causing the main water lines top back up.

(Dean Manning): Don't we have drones for these or something?

(Frank East): Shut up, Dean. There's a reason that robots and shit, leftovers, and more shit don't mix together.


The group of sewage workers continues moving through the tunnels; they now approach the main chamber.


(Frank East): Alright, we SHOULD be seeing the back-up right about--


The sewage workers stop as they enter the main chamber. The head worker drops his radio into the filth as he looks at not a backed-up water main, but instead the entire chamber ripped through, with an enormous hole leading up to the surface.

Back topside, the entire city is thrown into panic as civilians run away and several loud and menacing roars echo through the buildings. Through the perspective of one woman's holographic recorder, brief glimpses of Hand-Walker P.E.M.F. variants emerging from several large holes in the ground can be seen.

Military forces mobilize, trying to divert the attention of the monsters away from the fleeing civilian populace. One of the soldiers rushes past the woman recording all of the events and shouts at her, likely trying to order her to run away as well, but his words become jumbled in the sea of panic. However, both her, the soldier, and several other civilians stop dead in their tracks as a new P.E.M.F. steps into view from behind a building, looking directly at the people surrounding the woman recording and the soldier.

It makes a sort of pointing gesture with its oddly human-like hands, its red eyes glowing as it does this. Suddenly, the Hand-Walkers that were previously causing mayhem in other parts of the city come running directly for the group, causing them all to run away in panic, including the woman recording the whole event.

She looks back one last time, but the only thing in view is a Hand-Walker hovering overhead, mouth open and coming straight for the woman, the soldier, and everyone else around them.