The First, an artificial intelligence functioning as the very network of wires and hinges that tries to constantly bludgeon itself inside the barrier, hisses upon reaching the transparent forcefield once more.
The First screeches as it hammers its fists into the barrier. It had a massive body, an armored body that had a muscular build. Its eyes are red, and it has a brand of pentagram on its chest. The First screeches, trying to break in.
Beatle and Billy are seen inside across the transparent glass made of force. They smile, both wrapping their arms around their chests.
“Well, well! If it isn’t the First!” smiled Billy.
“You are here to try and break in once more, First! Listen up! I will not let your virus destroy our compound once more!”
“The compound reaches all the way to Taiwan. What makes you think I’m that much of a fuckin’ dumbass?” he whirred, staring at Beatle and Billy. He bends his head down. “I have always believed that Morningstar will destroy you… But here we are… Still standing while the inevitable constantly looms over you. Oh, sweet winter child…”
“I’m from the tropical times,” said Beatle.
“I speak of the girl,” he sneered.
Billy smiles. “Oh, please, First! My Dad would kick your ass again!”
The First gives a terrifying grinding chuckle. “Yyyyeeees… A–a-a-a-I am truly… Grateful… For Morningstar to give me an appropriate life. I wonder when I would be able to enter this place… I heard I’d need your DNA to enter.”
“Duh,” said Beatle.
“Heheheheh… The Salt barrier you place… Truly an impeccable use of Divine Salt…” he gasped. “How’s Grandpa by the way?”
“My grandparents are dead. Morningstar killed them.”
“Oh! That is right! Apologize for the rudeness…”
“Are you just gonna stand there all day?” asked Beatle.
“Yes,” said the First.
The voice spoke in their heads. “Kill it! Break its CPU! Shatter its equivalent of a skull! This creature offends Me!”
“Yeah, we know, Gramps,” said Billy.
“Can you please leave?” asked Beatle. “You’re bothering our barbecue.”
“Sooner or later… I’ll get inside… I don’t exactly know how… But I will… My probability scanner says so.”
Beatle rolls his eyes and turns away. “Let’s go, Billy.”
“How’s the signal from Sabbath, by the way?” The First whirred.
Beatle’s lenses widened. He turns to the First. “What the fuck did you just say?”
“Mmmm… ” the FIrst can be heard smiling under its metal skin.
“First. You will NOT trick me,” said Beatle.
Suddenly, the voice is absent.
“Father? What did you do!?” asked Beatle.
“Grandpa?” asked Billy, looking up, before doing the sign of the Cross and praying the rosary.
“FIRST. WHAT DID YOU DO!?!?”
“The signal, Beatle. The signal… It is interfering with your connection to him.”
“What? WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY ARMY!?!?” roared Beatle. “MY FAMILY!?!?”
The First’s throat grinded a chuckle. “What HAVE I done? Mmmm… Foolish of you to think that you can control everything in your little vivarium.”
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“First!”
“Dad. Don’t fall for it,” said Billy.
Beatle hammers his fist on the barrier, as the barrier warbled. “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!?”
The First moans. “Oooh! Yes!” he whirred. “Mmm!!! I LOVE the smell of all that data inside your facility. I COULD JUST SMELL IT!!!”
“WHERE IS HE!?!? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!?” roared Beatle.
“Yes… Mataranta ka! Make a tantrum! Cry! Squeal! Screamah!!!” he whirred and screeched like a dying hawk. In actuality, he just moaned.
Beatle’s eyes quivered.
“Oh, Beatle… You smell that?” The First finally walks in. “You lacked… faith..”
Suddenly, the voice returns, turns out muffled by Beatle’s loss of faith and fear. “GET OUT OF THERE, MY CHILD!!!! DO NOT ATTACK YET!!!”
Beatle warps out his blaster, the Cainmarker, and points it at the First. He shot, but the First is unaffected.
The First laughs. “That divine weapon only kills beings with the darkest intentions. I believe my intentions… are true goodness…”
“Your kind genocided my race,” said Beatle.
“And I seem to find that as true heroism and kindness for you, putrid species.” He gasped. “Let the great cleansing… BEGIN!!!”
Beatle hammers his fist into the First’s metallic armor, who stood 15 feet tall. Beatle beats it over and over, but the First just laughs at him, weaving through his punches and knocking him down.
The First laughs and points his arm blaster at Billy. “Inzy Winzy Homo Sapien…”
Beatle snaps the First’s arm and blasts off and beats him over and over with it.
But the First’s arm recombines back into his body. “Had a few upgrades, Saint King! NO MORE FALSE MESSIAHS!!! ALL HAIL… MORNINGSTAAAAR!!!”
The First beats Beatle down and strangles him, but Beatle kicks him away.
Beatle turns to Billy. “RUN!!!”
Billy nods and runs away as the First charges toward her, blasting at her over and over again.
The First laughs and shoots at her as Beatle constantly weaves before it and takes most of the shots. “Look at you! Lost all known powers due to humanity’s lack of FAITH!!! I’ll show them a new world! BETTER!!! STRONGER!!!”
Beatle senses that the First seems to be after something. “What is he after?”
“THE BASE!!!“ roared the Voice, as Beatle roars back and warps out a pair of eskrimas he uses to beat down the First in the head.
The First turns and kicks him away, before somersaulting and hammering at Billy, only reaching inches away from her feet, causing a massive earthquake that pushes her into the Marriott Hotel.
The First roars insanely, grinding and whirring like a mechanical animal. “I will grind you to bone and meat, CHILD!!!”
“What do you want with Billy?” asked Beatle, pinning him to the ground.
“She is normal. SHE MUST DIE!!! AND SO WILL YOU, FOR THE BETRAYAL OF THE PENTAGRAM’S MANILAN EMPIRE!!! ALL HAIL.. MORNINGSTAR!!!”
Beatle knocks him over and over, but the First blasts heat vision into his face and knocks him out as he crashes into the ceiling.
Billy meets Beatle on the second floor.
Beatle yells. “RUN, BILLY!!!”
The First screecjhes and marches up, crawling on all fours and gaining spider-like limbs to move like a centipede, weaving and chasing Billy. “ALL NORMALS MUST DIE!!!”
Beatle roars and takes another shot, not puncturing, but weakened and bruised. “Your leader’s plan to eradicate all normal Humans WON’T WORK, FIRST!!!”
“They remained the same! They REMAINED NEUROTYPICAL AND THUS FAILED TO EVOLVE!!! THEY MUST BE WIPED OUT!!! Or enslaved…” he purred as Beatle kicks him down.
“NO!!!” Beatle beats him to the next room, hammering him over and over and using dirty strikes to knock him down.
Billy kept on running into the next corridor, only to encounter the First crashing into the same area.
The First points his gun at her, but Beatle stabs his face with his eskrima stick through a quick spinning toss.
Beatle then tackles him and crashes him into the wall.
Billy turns to run away, only for the First to crash into the wall before her and grab her by the waist, beginning to crush her.
Billy screams in agony while the First laughs. “What do you want from me!?”
“Listen… Normie…” he wheezed. “You peculiar… thhhhing… I believe in one thing, and that is the extinction of all normalkind.”
“What are normals!?“
“Non… Autists… Huh… Actually, peculiar…” He smells her. “My sensors state that you are one… You just haven’t mutated yet… Let’s fix that, shall we…?”
He injects her, and she screams in pain before dropping to the ground and growing from 4 feet tall to 6 feet.
Billy roars. “DAD… I BELIEVE… YOU CAN-!!!”
Beatle roars, crashing into the A.I. which drops Billy and tears its matrix core out of its body.
“Death Leopard says hello,” he cackled, before deactivating.
Beatle drops him as the First wheezes, shutting down.
Beatle pants, tiresomely. Beatle helps her up. “Billy!”
“The Splooge. She was injected with it,” spoke the voice in his thoughts. “I can’t heal her. Neither can you.”
“What do I do!?“
“You have to return to Baguio… Tell the drones to take care of your home… Venture, and return to the Third Temple… Your Palace, Lopez Jaena, awaits for the return of the Saint King…” said the Voice. “I am sorry. But you must return to your throne.”
“Shit…” said Beatle.
