Quiet before the Storm

We've been spending time barricading the windows and stuff. (Except the front door because it opens outward.  .-. ) Getting our weapons ready and coming up with a strategy. Luckily we've got the advantage when it comes to firepower. And Kyra is able to increase our numbers. So its not the nameless I'm worried about.


Its the fact that we still don't know how to trap the Instant in that book. The Librarians and Martyrs have no clue either. We can't just force him to read it. He's inside the damn Unnamed Child.
We also need to stop him from entering the Catacombs. It's impossible to plan this properly, we'll just have to improvise.


Things never go right when I have to improvise.. Goddamn it.


As for Social interactions, they're not happening. Me, Kyra and Echo (and Shine) Stick to one corner. The Martyrs stick to their corner and the Librarian girls are acting like we're not even here.
I tried talking to the black girl (still don't know her name) but her boss keeps telling her to do stuff so she's always busy.
Kyra and Echo are as talkative as ever. So its just me, Shine and these books.


Honestly I just want this to be over with. Come on Instant, we're waiting.

The Martyrs

The Squad has arrived. There's only 4 of them.. I expected more. At least they've got enough firepower. Apparently the Other Squads are either busy or guarding other Libraries in case the Instant decides to switch locations. That's 9 people (two of which are just librarians) against a Fear possessing a Fear and an army of servants. Sounds like its gonna be a blast. ._.


Its like the Rake thing All over again. But without the Black dog and Newborn helping us.
How do I keep getting mixed up in these situations? I don't even.

One second...




Sorry about that. One of the Martyrs decided it would be a good Idea to hit on Kyra. She told him to fuck off. His Team mate told him to leave her alone because she's a nest. A dangerous one.
(It's true, look what she did to The instant's hide out a few days ago.)
So the guy gives up and moves over to Echo.

Martyr(jerk): "So sweet cheeks, why so lonely?"
She glared at him.
Martyr: "Not the talkative type huh? That's cool, I'll just do talking then. Did anyone ever tell you how smoking hot you are?"

Then the dumb shit touches her arm. Of course, Echo being Echo,  pushes the guy down and attacks him. Before she starts screeching the other Martyrs aim their guns at her. Me and Kyra respond by aiming our guns at them. My first Mexican standoff, how wonderful..

Martyr (2): "Whoa, people there's no need for this. We're all on the same side."
Martyr (jerk): "Tell that to her Theta."
Me: "Your buddy on the floor here started it. Echo has Choir Problems, she's not entirely stable, mentally I mean."
Martyr Theta:" Well neither is Nu over there."
Martyr Nu: "Hey! I'm not crazy."
Martyr Theta: "Lets all just put our weapons down and not kill each other. We're supposed to be guarding the Catacombs here. "
Me: " Agreed. Can't do that when we're dead."

So then everyone put their weapons down and we made sure to keep Echo away from that jerk ass. She's hiding in a corner right now.

As for who these guys are:

Martyr Nu: A jerk, seems to hit on every female he sees. Apparently the sharpshooter of the squad. Has a Creepy moustache.

Martyr Theta: Medic of the group and seemingly only normal guy on the squad.

Martyr Mu: Big bald guy. Heavy armor and Gun. Apparently doesn't ever say a word.

Martyr Epsilon: Female. Leader of the Squad. Short white hair. Seems to be 40-ish years old. Not sure. Has as much happiness inside of her as Kyra does, None. Apparently she didn't try calming down her squad because she hates outsiders. (Insiders too it seems.)

The Library

We arrived at the Library. It was more modern than I expected. I was expecting an old dusty and dark library with a creepy Librarian. Instead I got a Library that's likely younger than me and a cute Librarian girl. She was black (Can't say African American, because this ain't America. African European? African Belgian? I have no clue really.) and around my age. Her jet-black hair was braided into a pony tail-thingy.

Her: "Welcome, you must be the Cloudgirls.
Me: "Cloudgirls?"
Her: "We've seen your blog."
Me: "Ah.. Are we that recognizable?.."
Her: "Mostly her." She pointed at Echo.

Its true, Echo's weird hair color stands out anywhere. That's not a good thing..
It also could have been her constant panicked expression. Any little sound would be enough for her to panic. That's what the Choir does to people I guess. Luckily Shine makes me Immune for it.


Library girl: "Wait here, I'll go get my boss."
Me: "Okay."


A few minutes later she comes back with her boss. A woman somewhere in her thirties I think. Wearing a dark red trench coat, glasses and her blond hair with a normal ponytail.

Boss-lady-person: "Welcome to my Library, my name is Trish Deckers. The Archive appreciates your offer to help. Feel free to use our Library as a temporary hide out. Just be sure to put everything back where it belongs if you should use it.
Unfortunately we only have two beds here so.."
Me: "It's okay, we have Sleeping bags."
Trish: "Excellent. I'll let you settle in while we wait for the Martyr squad to arrive."
Me:" The soldier guys aren't here yet?"
Trish: "They should arrive any moment now."

(They still haven't arrived.)

We just now set up our things, grabbed a few weapons. Just in case the Instant attacks earlier. Luckily there aren't too many Places around here with access to the Catacombs or we'd have no Idea where The Instant will attack. But for now its peaceful, so I might go read a book while we wait for the Martyr squad.

Moving

I contacted the Archive. Apparently they already knew. (Nine chances out of ten its because they keep track of my blog.) They did accept my offer to help defend the Catacombs though. So me, Kyra and Echo And me! .. And Shine, are moving to a nearby entrance to the catacombs. A group of archivists will be waiting for us there apparently.

I can feel the tension in the air. That or its just my nerves or Shine shenanigans.

Nu! D:

I know, I know, twas a joke.
Grabbing the last supplies and then we head out. Hopefully the Archive knows a way to trap the Instant in that Book. Otherwise we'll just have to gamble and improvise. Not really the best strategy to stop the end of the world but I don't have anything better at this point.
So.. Wish us luck. We'll need every bit of it.

Contacting the Archive

I had no idea how to contact these guys. And when I don't know something, I ask EAT. I went back to one of her hideouts and went up to the sleeping camper.


Me: EAT, I need information.
Camper:...
Me: Hello EAT are you there?
Camper:...
Me: WOOHOO EAT ARE YOU THERE?! HELLOOO
Camper:...
Me:Goddamn it, EAT wake the fuck up I need to contact the Archive. Its urgent!
Camper:.. Alicia, I told you last time. I'm otherwise occupied.
Me: I know but this is urgent. I need to contact the archive. The Instant is going after the Blind man. I need their help, now.
Camper: .. I see..


The camper then gave me the contact info of a nearby Archive base. And then it just went back to its sleep. Seriously what could be more important than saving her own ass. Ugh Fears.

Hey we're not all that bad.

You're the exception Shine. You know aside from the boob thing.

^.^

Unless you did something more to my body that I should be aware of? You didn't right?

Umm..

Goddamnit Shine!

I'm sorry D:

What did you do? -_-

Well, you remember how hard a time you were having back when you felt guilty for killing proxies?

Yes?..

I thought I could help by slightly adjusting your brain. To help you not feel so guilty. Because it might cause you to hesitate and get killed by a proxy. And it was making you sad too.

.... wait.. so to make me feel better and to help me with my worries about possibly becoming a psycho.. You turned me into one?! WHAT THE FUCK SHINE.

Not really, just because you don't feel sad for killing people doesn't make you a psycho. o.o

It kinda does actually.. Goddamn it Shine.

I'm sorry. D: I was trying to help. D:

You really don't understand human boundaries do you? Sigh.

... I also fixed your eyes. Your glasses kept falling off so..

... Well that explains a lot..

Sorry. :c

Goddamn it Shine, I can't even stay mad at you. ..Wait did you do that too?

No I swear! D: Just the killing thing, the boobs and the eyes. Nothing more. I'm Sorry v.v

Sigh.. I think I need to go shoot something.

The Instant's notebook

So I went through the Instant's notebook. His plans are worse than we expected. I was thinking he'd start terrorizing human towns. Or that he wanted to compete with the other Fears.
But no, all he wants is power. He wants all of it. Right now he's absorbing as much of the Unnamed Child's power as possible. Once he's satisfied he'll move on to the next target, the Blind man.

He first went after the Unnamed Child. I thought it was because she was a weak Fear. I was wrong, he's smarter than that. He's absorbing her power, as in he's absorbing the ability to make people loyal to him. Even if he jumps now he'll still have her abilities.
The Blind man is next for one reason: Information. If The Instant gets all that knowledge, just think what he could do..

He might be smart but he's not really original. His goal is simply to hunt down all the fears one by one. (This is why he needs the Archive. They probably have enough info to track all of them.) Possessing and draining them of their power. Which would be a good thing. No more Fears, yay. Unfortunately the Instant won't stop there. No, once he's done with the Fears he plans to take the next step. He's going to absorb the Universe. THE WHOLE GODDAMN UNIVERSE... Just fuck.

And after that, the Multiverse. :c

We need to stop him now. Before its too late. But how? Goddamn it I can't do this. Why can't the Fears do something useful for once and save their own asses. (And ours as collateral helpfulness. Whatever the fuck that means.)
I need help damn it.

Ask the Archive.

What?

They're next right? I'm sure they won't want to just lay down without a fight and serve an omnicidal shard.

True. Thanks Shine. Dunno where I'd be without you right now.

Probably dead. ^.^

Hahaha, Shuddup.

You'd also still have an A-cup probably.

What?

You were thinking about how your breasts were so small, you wanted them to be bigger. You were sad at the time so .. I made them grow a bit.

You what?..

I helped you. ^^

... You're not supposed to

Why are you getting angry. O.o

BECAUSE YOU DID THINGS TO MY BREASTS WITHOUT ASKING ME!

But you wanted them to grow, so..

At the time yes, but I could have changed my mind. You don't do that kind of stuff without people's permission. For fucks sake.

Did you?

Did I what?

Change your mind? I could shrink them back again.

... THAT'S NOT THE POINT. You don't do stuff like that to people without asking. I mean what the hell were you thinking.

I wanted to help. :c

I know but I just.. feel violated.

I'm sorry. :(

.. It's okay, I know you were only trying to help. And I did want bigger breasts. I just thought they had a rapid growth spurt. You can stop growing them now though.

Okay. ^.^



Well now I forgot what I was talking about.
Oh right, the Archive. I need to contact them.. somehow. 

Operation ICS: Final step

Step 4: Diversion

Fifty Nameless and going. The Instant is building an army. We needed to find out for what.
In part 2 of this "Operation" we found out they had few to no guns. So to give us a small advantage, I gave some of my guns to Kyra and Echo. (Also gave them some tips on how to use them, not sure if Echo knew what I was talking about but oh well.)
EAT gave me a bunch of them so yeah.

At 2:15 PM the three of us attacked the warehouse. Well actually there were more of us.
Three girls (us), 10 raptors, A flock of convocation birds and a few pterosaur thingies.
Their only advantage was numbers, not anymore.

We just straight up charged at the warehouse. The raptors and birds in front, me and echo in the middle and Kyra behind us while she recovered from her wounds. A few of the Nameless charged at us but were taken care of by the raptors. The birds dived into the building chasing some of the Nameless out of the building. There pterosaurs waited to attack them.

The looks on their faces were priceless. :D

Indeed.
Once a few of the Nameless managed to break through the raptors, it was Echo's turn. Me and Kyra backed up and covered her from a safe distance, safe for our ears specifically..
She screamed and all the Nameless hit the floor. No they didn't start dancing. They fell on their faces.
Was funny to watch. Me and Kyra shot the ones trying to get up. After that we just left.



Wait what?! You left? What the hell was the point of this?! <- most people's reaction right now.

The point was that we simply don't know a way to get the Instant into this book. So why would we even attack him when we don't know how to win?
We don't, this attack was never meant to target him. Some of you might have already figured it out before this post. It was a Diversion. (Like the title of this part says. o:)

Explaining the plan:

Part one: Getting to know the target. Also making them nervous or at least a bit more tense.

Part two: Pretend to attack, watch the confusion and find out what weapons they have.
Two b: Shatter the windows for easy access by birds later.

Part three:  Actually this part was just for the lulz. Wish I had a camera because damn that was awesome.

Part Four: Create a diversion. While the Nameless are busy fighting us three and the convocation Shine, who had possessed a non-convocation bird a bit earlier, flew in through the shattered windows. From there she possessed a random Nameless and looked around the building for clues. She found a file, possessed the dead bird again and flew back to our hide out with a document.

Actually its just a notepad with the Instant's plans in it. But yes, Mission success. We also got rid of 18 nameless. So yay. <x3

P.S. I'll look through the notebook first before posting about its contents. I've only skipped through it a bit.