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- "You're not aware yet of what they have planned, do you?"
- "No matter..... It'll all be clear soon."
- "But in my haste to see the situation taking place on my shell, I've completely missed what was going on on the old life-bearing world."
- "What became of Him and the semi-mechanical one with large aspirations? Perhaps I should rewind and rewatch the events there."
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- [July 17, 2166]
- [Director's Section - Hayden Station]
- [U.A.C. Extended Colonization Facility Beta]
- [Viking 1, Mars]
- [Open Territory - U.A.C.]
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- In the esteemed halls of Hayden Station that resides on Mars, the C.D.F. Marine known by the false name of "John Kane" runs through, blasting apart Demons with his assortment of military-grade weaponry; they seem to be teleporting in from their home dimension with greater frequency and variety in the Director's Section than in any other part of the Mars complex.
- After clearing out the local infestation in the hallway and covering the floors and walls with a large amount of blood and viscera, he slows up his pace as he walks towards the lobby desk for this section the U.A.C. facility.
- The Marine tries to activate the terminals on the desk, but they don't seem to have any power flowing to them. All of a sudden, some boxes near the entrance he came from tumble down from where they were stacked up; this prompts him to quickly job towards the boxes and shoulder his heavy assault rifle. He gives a quick kick to some of the storage containers to sort through them, but there doesn't appear to be anything out of the ordinary beyond some spilled liquids and miscellaneous office equipment.
- All of a sudden, the Marine is knocked down to the ground from behind; he quickly rolls over onto his back and aims his rifle, but nothing shows itself. As he gets back up, something rushes past his side, knocking him a bit off-balance and leaving some small scratches on his armour. Once again, he wildly spins around trying to find a target and finds nothing.
- Something else rushes from the shadows; the Marine is ready for it this time, however. He quickly turns around and throws out his left hand, managing to grab onto something; in his grasp is the squirming figure of a Loyalist Mimetic Drone. The Marine throws the Drone to the ground and attempts to stomp on it with his boot, but it quickly deconstructs itself and flies around. It quickly recombines outside of its quarry's field of view and attempts perform a swipe. Unfortunately, it couldn't predict the Marine suddenly pulling his double-barreled shotgun out of apparent thin air in his left hand and blasting it to pieces.
- After the mechanical being's destruction, more Loyalist Mimetics of the different types known start crawling out of the woodwork, quite literally in the case of some of the Drones.
- The Mimetics revealing themselves is followed by one of the massive Kree warships that participated in the initial invasion of Earth becoming visible through the ceiling window; a speaker sounds off soon after more warships appear in the lower atmosphere of the planet.
- (Director Samuel Hayden): [SPEAKERS] You've made it this far into the facility. There's no need for more bloodshed. I'll gladly let you through to see just why this has all happened. Go on, then. The door's open.
- After Director Hayden's message on the speakers cuts out, some doors to the right of the lobby desk open up; the Mimetics also stand down to allow the Marine to walk on through.
- The Marine walks through the doors and down a dark hallway; there's a spotlight at the end that illuminates the mechanical body of Director Hayden. The Marine starts gaining speed, eventually going into a full-on sprint; he's firing his plasma rifle the whole time he's running. However, the bolts of energy harmlessly dissipate against a personal hard-light barrier that activates before any harm can come to him. Despite this, the Marine keeps firing as he sprints.
- All of a sudden, as he steps onto a circular platform in the middle of the hallway, he becomes suspended in some kind of field that holds him up and constrains him with arcs of blue energy, like chains of lightning; the hallway lights up immediately soon after.
- Instead of a hallway, though, it's actually a large room filled with experimental equipment. At the centre of it is the device that's keeping the Marine constrained; the top of the device looks strikingly similar to the Mana Derivation Complex that was used to revive and empower Gamera over 15 years ago on Jiran Island.
- With the Marine suspended, Director Samuel Hayden walks up to him; the Marine's suspension in mid-air puts him at eye level with the 12-foot tall mechanoid.
- (Director Hayden): Apologies for the constraints, but I couldn't have you moving freely and able to rip me apart before I got the chance to test this out. Monologues may be a bit cliche, but you'll wanna hear this. For years, I worked for the G.U.D.'s R&D department, building up my credentials in extended colonization whilst secretly learning all I could about Bio-Metaphysics. I had a feeling that there was more out there in the universe than its emptiness was letting on, and the discoveries in the past few months on this planet confirmed it. I'm gonna awaken the Great Beast of Earth so that we may learn from it, before our home planet reaches its end. You, my friend from some previous cycle of evolution before our own world's, will be my guinea pig to test just that.
- Despite the constraint fields holding him, the Marine struggles more and more. Eventually, he manages to free up one of his arms. Before he can free himself fully, however, invisible energy ripples around him in a fashion not unlike the Transference Space jumps performed by Keizers like Gamera or Irys. This energy builds up around the Marine in a spherical shape, becoming larger and larger until it almost completely envelops the whole device.
- (Director Hayden): It was interesting to learn more about the kind of man you are, "John Kane", but your time in this realm is up. Time for you to go back to their world.
- The energy bubble suddenly implodes on itself, resulting a brief flash of light that forces the U.A.C. director to shield his visual sensors with his left hand.
- The device is now empty, with no sign of the Marine in sight.
- (Director Hayden): It worked! Now that I know I can replicate the process artificially, it's time to synchronize with the Earth.
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