Unexpected Encounter with Unknown Enemies

[kill_all_vagans]

[1]

They returned so soon.  We still had like... six and a half years before the UE would show up again!  What made them change their strategies?

And... Master Albert!  He lived in that city!  He helped bring people in, helped guide and protect them!  And then he just let a bunch of Mavericks attack so some... some "cipher" could be released?!?  How can you offer such generosity to people and then snatch it away?

[2]

[Much later on, Flit's trying to check around the emergency shelters people at Legion HQ went to in the midst of all the fighting.]

-Yes, we do have a record of a "Yurin L'Ciel" checking in here just after the first Maverick machines showed up.



Then she should still be here, right?

Well yes.  She didn't check out, but... I've checked with the volunteers here and nobody's been able to find her.  I'm terribly sorry for this but surely she's still okay.  The shelter sustained no damage during the battle and maybe she just slipped out when nobody was looking.  Now if you'll excuse me...

[All the reassuring in the world wouldn't have been able to keep Flit's heart from sinking, and the man's lack of even that just made Flit worry even more.]

Comments

[kill_all_vagans]

But we're keeping up with them... at least on the small-scale. The AGE Builder was ready for them, and the Titus parts were more than a match for the new ones we fought.

And if they come up with even newer and stronger machines, I'll be sure that the AGE System will know what to do to stop them, from all the experience it gathers from our other fights.

[star_of_sad]

I don't want to sound ingrateful, but it'd be good if we didn't need the AGE System in the first place.

[kill_all_vagans]

I know what you mean...

There's so many threats to everyone on Earth... groups that just want violence for violence's sake.

[star_of_sad]

Could there really be people or... well, things, that want death and destruction just for its own sake?

There must be another reason. A cruel and selfish one, but there must be a reason better than just "because it's evil".

[kill_all_vagans]

The people we've had to fight so far...

[He thinks back to those terrorists in South America, who kept fighting even when the Noise were rampaging.]

It feels like, they've lost all sense of value for the world. And since it means something to the people they hate, they'll try to destroy it.

[star_of_sad]

There's more to that. There must be.

But it doesn't excuse what they're doing either way.