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Chapter Four: Another Astral Being. Simulation?
Aureus POV:
With the Deus having circled the Academy, Aureus was left in charge of rounding up the Astral creatures to go to WAR against the poor little place.
Astral Probes and Sightseers rose from the Meteor, taking to the skies.
Aries, many of them, jumped out from within, and began jumping around uncontrollably.
Next were... holy NOXUS there were a lot of Astral Slimes jumping up.
Wait...
No.
The Aureus had thought it had left that damn thing behind on Terramity, (Calamia?) but it seemed even its greatest efforts were in vain.
Its own background music, "Interstellar Stomper", having returned to it after the Pest of the Cosmos had left and taken his own music with it-
Yes, there it was.
That disgusting music.
A creature with a different coloration from all the rest.
A titanic blob of slime.
Astrageldon Slime has awoken!
Infected just like the rest of them, but hated by the Aureus mainly because of how it was the one that had gotten it Infected in the first place.
That damn pinkish and purplish rocky slime...
The two titanic Astral beings had a major rivalry that only Deus could break up.
Though it would not admit it, the slime was actually better than the machine in a few ways.
For example...
It possessed the Devourer's Inferno, in combination with the Astral Infection.
It was waaaaaaaaaaay faster than Aureus.
It was bigger, had more health, and somehow due to slime physics was actually muuuuuuuch more durable than it.
The only real downside?
It had no mind.
"WrONg!"
Oh no, it did, but it didn't use it that often.
"JusT BecaUSe I spEAk LiKE tHiS dOesn'T MEan I'M nOT sMarT."
"Slime. You have a task to carry out."
It was listening, though. It knew the Aureus was ultimately more strategic and better suited for support.
"You must -"
And thus they laid out their plan, which was pretty simple aside from how they had to spare a few of the 'lesser' people.
I wonder how Osoro is doing?
Osoro POV:
She was still looking for that damn emotionless girl. Great.
As she pushed a green-haired annoying girl out of her way, she felt a dangerous presence watching her.
What, Raibrau again? Or was it one of those damn Council girls? Or that Budo boy that always seemed to be near Ayano? That'd be good.
Of course, Domtrovives says no. They say that none of the former were there.
Instead...
What was that thing there?
Whatever it was wasn't the thing that probably caused her hearing loss in her left ear. That was Midori.
"Oh my gosh is that a Small Sightseer!?!"
Regardless of what the hell it was it was a floating thing that kind of resembled that giant machin-
Waaaait a minute, how had she forgotten about that thing so easily?
The goddamn gobsmacked green gamer girl gushing gorily gibs next to her wasn't helping at all:
"Calamity is real!"
...
...
It seemed like 6 weeks (almost) had passed by the time that Osoro got her head wrapped around what had just happened:
The gamer girl, Midori, had said that something called 'Calamity' was 'real'. Whatever this 'Calamity' was, it was definitely a video game of some sort, and one that had enemies similar to what she had seen earlier on in the day, that Giant Enemy Spider with the Purple Haze in the air, all the little things crawling out from around it, and now this 'Small Sightseer' of which the name was stuck in her head.
Well. If this thing was from a video game, given what Midori is like it'd be a fighting game of kinds.
And thus followed that this thing was a little enemy that she had to destroy. But carefully, as it might be infected with that Purple stuff. No, scratch that, it definitely was.
Was it really as simple as swinging her bat at it and hoping it was destroyed? Well, it beat trying (and likely failing) to break it with her bare hands, and possibly get infected.
"Everyone get back.". A simple command, one which had an immediate effect, with all those present getting out of the way of her and the thing that was just floating there.
Scanning. Tch.
Not quick enough, though. She grabbed the bat and with both hands, brought its destruction right down onto it, shattering it on the floor.
To her surprise, only a tiny amount of purple emerged from the inside, but then again it was quite a thin thing.
Having made sure it couldn't hurt her or the rest of the people here, she walked away, heading towards the entrance to the Academy. Her Delinquents would be waiting there.
Ayano wasn't the real threat to her and her Taro-Senpai. The real threat was this alien thing, and all of its spawn.