Let's Play Iji: professor

professor_prof

Let's Play Iji

Jun 14, 2011 17:42

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Sector 9: Zeal

Second Part

I've got a whole lotta turrets to deal with between here and the entrance.

So far so good, but those two doors up ahead can't be hacked! Hmm...

The casualty reports were pouring in rapidly - until they silenced. The connections with every single base around the colony have been lost. All officials and leaders have been assassinated. Since we didn't have the time to expand before the Komato arrived, it was all over pretty quickly.
In this little shelter, we may have gathered the last few Tasen alive... perhaps the last few Tasen in the universe. This is no time to panic, so we've kept calm. Our only hope is that they somehow decide against Alpha Striking us... in other words, we're all dead.

So far, we've defended our little base pretty well, considering that we're only ten people in here. It's been too quiet lately, though - the Komato assault teams have retreated, and not a sound has been heard for a while.
They're either getting ready to send a massive attack force in, or they've succeeded in destroying the planetary shield generators and are preparing the Alpha Strike. That little Soldier we brought keeps talking about her girlfriend and the "Human anomaly", too... speaking of which, we never found out if the Anomaly was on our side or not. With Krotera killed and the Komato alerted, I'd say NO.

Now, let's go get that ammo bonanza!

...?!

Well.

It looks like the Tasen just became extinct.

Most doors within this base have been upgraded to bulkhead class. They're impossible to bypass, and only open manually from the inside. We're stocked up pretty well on supplies and weaponry, so we're prepared for anything short of an Alpha Strike.
Actually, it sounds like another Komato assault team is coming, time to ready the MPFB. Hehe. I never get tired of blasting Koma

Dear logbook, maybe I could sort out my feelings if I wrote them down...
When we found out that we were the last surviving colony, and landed here on Origine, I was forced to join the army together with my girlfriend. I was separated from her during the squad setup, and she ended up under Elite Krotera's command, stationed to defend the lift to Krotera's room in what the humans called Sector 3. She used to joke about how she was alone, surrounded by weapons and ammunition, but with no Komato to shoot at.
My hope never wavered when we lost contact... but now the battle report's in... and she was KILLED BY THE HUMAN ANOMALY! I'm sorry, I really don't know what to type... I don't know what to feel anymore... I even heard that the human was the only who brought the Komato here...
The adults say we're gonna die now, but I feel safe here with you...

IJI
No, this is... I think I've been reading this girl's diaries.

IJI
Why now? They're the ones I killed without caring who they were...
I'm the one who brought the Komato here... to kill people like her.

IJI
NO! No, it's not my fault! It's the Komato's fault! It's ALL their fault!

IJI
...
*sigh*

IJI
I have to find the General - but first, I'm gonna find whoever did this. I may be a hypocrite, but somewhere there's got to be a line!

IJI
Don't worry, kid. I don't think any of you can forgive me, but if I take your Nanofield, I'll always carry a part of you with me... and I'll keep you warm. That's all I can do.

Okay.

Time to get some payback.

IJI
Hhh!

???
Heh. Looks like someone can't take a hint. I suppose you didn't notice the piles of dead Tasen I like to generate. You're heading in the direction of General Tor, am I right? You hope to assassinate him, is that it?

IJI
N-No, not at all! I just wanted to talk!

???
HAHAHAHA! That was a good one, human! Just wanted to TALK!

IJI
No, really! I have to convince the General to spare this planet! You'd never Alpha Strike us, anyway!

???
Hah... I know how it feels, though it was long ago. I see no reason to let you live your hopeless, tortured future, now that we have the chance to destroy the Tasen once and for all. I've been waiting for this moment ever since my own home planet was Alpha Struck by their dirty battlecruisers - at full force - while I was still there.

IJI
What? That's not possible!

IOSA
You sure are slow. I am Annihilator Iosa - "Invincible" is not a simple nickname.

IJI
But then you know what it's like! You know what it's like for everyone you know to be destroyed, for no reason - but you don't seem to care! You just want your revenge on the Tasen, for, for a war THE KOMATO STARTED!

IOSA
My, you're judgmental. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you the one who called for our help to destroy the Tasen?

IJI
But, we thought they were - we didn't know they were on the run from YOU!

IOSA
Huh. We're all fighting for our own survival, so don't pretend you don't value the Tasen lower than your own race, too. I suppose the reports of YOU murdering people left and right is what puts the weight in your words?

IJI
Th, that's NOT TRUE! They, they came here and ruined our world - YOU've come here to DESTROY it - and -

IOSA
Does it really matter to you, little human? I haven't forgotten what global genocide feels like. Your race is in the Komato's debt for shortening its suffering - do you think I can give you back your planet? Do you think I can give you back the uncountable lives the Tasen destroyed?

IJI
...

IOSA
I've been through this before. Just like the Tasen before you. Just a speck on the galaxy map. When you're gone, who do you think will even care? You oppose the Komato, and you die.

IJI
SHUT UP! So you think you can wipe mankind out because there won't be anyone left to miss us when we're all dead! You, you don't respect our lives any more that the Tasen you slaughter for no reason at all! You've just... thrown away your morals so you won't feel bad about it! I, I can't say I'm any better myself, but at least I'm fighting to save people's lives!

IOSA
Well, well, you sure have guts, human - I may just think that you're FORGETTING WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO! Oh, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt - perhaps you're not aware of the fact that I am totally indestructible, while you are nothing a worthless flesh and bone?!
I have better things to do than stand here and listen to you TRASH-TALKING THE MOST POWERFUL KOMATO IN THE UNIVERSE!