Chapter Three: Haven

When we arrived in Haven, Feron ordered me to stay in the Advanced Training Hall and wait for Feron to get Rhendon to the medic. I was walking down towards the Vials area when a Vanguard pointed a Leviathan blade to my chest. “Where do you think you’re going, gremlin?” He asked. “I’m not a gremlin! I am a Spiralarian just like everyone here!” I yelled back at him. “Did you ever look in the mirror? Look at those teeth, look at those claws, you must be a Gremlin!” The crowd murmured in agreement. I started to take a step back when everyone in the Training Hall pointed their weapons at me, when Feron Shouted, “Boy’s with me, everyone back off!” He led me down to a special room in the arcade where some other spiral knights, presumably high ranking knights, are sitting in a round table. Feron introduced me to all of them. They were Kozma, Brinks, Captain Ozlo, Bechamel, Wegner and members of the newly founded Alpha squad. They were all staring at me curiously, like I was a specimen instead of a Spiralarian or whatever I was. It was Feron that broke the silence, “Guys, this is the son of Astirable and To’potraite.” That drew some gasp from the members of the Spiral order. “So the answer to this question is this, Kill it!” “No!” I yelled. All the members of the Order turned to look at me. I didn’t mean to shout, I just wanted to say it. “Please don’t kill me……” I whimpered pathetically. Ozlo said, “well……. We will spare you, but in the meantime, do with Brandon, the Guardian of Alpha, to train. I’ll reserve an empty training hall for you.” With that, he turned and walked away. I followed Brandon through Haven, amazed by its size. At last, we made it to do the Training hall. Brandon briefed me on weapons and my loadouts. Brandon then drew his Leviathan blade and asked me, “Are you ready for a duel?” “No” I answered honestly. I then drew my own sword, a proto sword, to face him. “Erm….. Is this a little unfair?” I asked. “Why would it be unfair?” he asked back to me. “Well……… you’re using a 5* weapon from the Calibur line, while I’m using a Proto sword which is a 0* sword which has no alchemy line! “Fine, I’ll use my Proto sword too, fair?” “Fair….” I answered sulkily. What I was hoping for was I could get a hold on some of the stronger swords like Final Flourish or maybe a Winmillion. But what I got was a pro to use a sword as weak as mine. “Let’s do this thing!” And with that, Brandon charged at me. I barely had enough time to raise my sword to parry his lunge when he suddenly got out his Valiance and blasted me. I flew through the air and was knocked unconscious.
When I awoke, I was in a comfortable bed with a medic beside me. “Wha……?” I mumbled with my mouth full of food. “Good, you’re awake. Brandon knocked you out with his Valiance and left me with you.” Just then, Feron came in. I struggled to stand up and salute, but the action made me woozy and I slumped back down to my bed. “I heard Brandon gave you a hard time in the ATH.” “Is he like that all the time, he seemed like fighting a real monster out in the clockworks.” “He thought he really did…. That’s because a Gremlin killed his everyone he knew a while back, in the operation Crimson hammer. His father, mother, friends…. All killed.” “Oh.” What else can you say to a story like that? Feron continued, “Whenever he saw a Gremlin, he would go on a killing spree and no one could stop him. I’ll inform you of your new instructor tomorrow, for now, get some sleep, you’ll need it.”

Chapter Five: Preparation
Back in Haven, I have just walked out of the Elevator when a shape crashed into me, knocking my helmet askew. I reached for my Ascended Calibur when the shape beat me to it. It took my sword and pointed it at me and said, “Gremlins are not allowed in Haven, so leave or die!” Suddenly, a familiar voice said, “It’s okay, Yttriu, he’s one of us.” The one named Yttriu glowered at me until I was out of her sight. “So, another Spiral Knights that hates Gremlins?” “Got that right, Defender.” “Wait….. Defender?” “Yeah, you’re a Defender or even a Defender Elite, Judging by your gear.” “But…….. In my screen it says I’m just a freakin’ Recruit!” “Well…. Here’s your promotion, Topo” “Topo?” “Well, that’s your nickname for now; I have just decided that Topoyozada is too long for me to say.” “Oh” Oh well….. But at least I got promoted to Defender Elite! As I arrived at the Town Square, I saw knights making barricades hurriedly, Snipers getting into rooftops of houses, Guardians hiding in Alleys to ambush anyone that might cross them. “Feron, why is the Town square like this?” I asked. Feron looked me in the eye and said seriously, “We are preparing for war, since the Gremlin army has made a treaty with the other monsters and started to attack the Rescue camp and the Training Camp, We have no doubt that their next target is Haven itself. We have the Strangers giving out free weapons, although they don’t like giving things out for free.” “Okie…” I started answering, when I saw a technician struggling to fix a broken energy turret. I rushed there and pushed the Technician away and made some modifications of my own. After 5 minutes of work, the Energy turret looked as good as new, with some modifications I made myself. That includes Missiles, Extra energy blasters, Energy shields when under fire and a self-destruct sensor to detect when the gremlins are close. If so, it would explode! “Good as new! With some mods I made myself!” I declared. Feron was looking at me with interest and asked me, “How did you know all this, Topo?” I faltered. I didn’t even know how I knew all this geeky stuff. When I look at it, its looks like Almirian to me. “I dunno, sir.” “Must be your gremlin genes” Feron remarked, and walked away. I was about to follow him when the technician grabbed me and asked me, “Can you help with the other Turrets? It would be SO awesome if you could arm those Turrets over there, and maybe…. Just maybe, Haven would live!” I decided for a second, and decided to help the technician. “Feron! I’m going to help this technician upgrade the other turrets!” I yelled at the departing Feron. “Alright!” He yelled back. I ran to the other turrets and helped the other technicians out by fixing and upgrading their turrets. When I was about to leave, a Technician grabbed my arm and said, “What’s your name?” “My name is Topoyozada.” I replied then I walked away.

Chapter Seven: the Clockworks
Back in the Arcade, Medics were everywhere, trying to heal numerous of wounded Knights. I heard a voice say, “That’s some nasty scratches you got there.” I turn around and see Yttriu, the knight that body slammed me to the wall in the Arcade. I could still see the dent there. “Huh?” I reply. Then I look down at my body. Dozens of scratches is shown on my armour. Pulsar and Catalyzer blast have torn through my armour and I have some nasty burns on my bare chest. Besides that, there’s a gigantic wound on my chest that is bleeding a lot of blood. “Oh god…..” I haven’t finished my sentence yet when I fainted. When I came to, I was riding an elevator down to depth 29with Yttriu, Feron and another knight. Yttriu was the first one to find me awake. “Oh good, he’s alive” Yttriu remarked. “What? How long was I out? I asked, quite woozy from seeing all that blood. Did I mention I was afraid of blood, yes I am. “3 days, 18 hours and 4 minutes.” Feron reported. Wow, I was out that long? Then I remembered something. “Where’s Quicksilver?” “Who?” asked the Knight sitting in the corner? “My pet Vog Cub, she’s called Quicksilver, did anyone see her?” “Well…. Good thing I brought her with you, she was whimpering when I took you to an elevator and none of the other parties would take her so I kept her.” Thank goodness, I thought they killed her. The elevator came to a stop at Depth 29. We all piled out when a wave of nausea came over me and my knees buckled and I fell facedown to the dirt. Yttriu gathered me in her arms and made camp. She then set me on one of the sleeping bags and then we all waited for Dawn to come. When dawn came, we all walked…. Well, I was half-dragged by Yttriu and Feron and quarter pushed by Quicksilver and quarter walked. When we came to a scenario room, they set my down. I saw their faces where full of sweat so I said, “Guys, just leave me, I’m a burden to you all, just set me down here with Quicksilver. One day, if I’m not dead, you’ll come to find me.” “No way, dude, no one leaves a knight behind, and then he started dragging me towards the next arena. In the arena, I slept while Rocket Puppies’ rockets flew over me and into my friends. I woke up to see the monsters staring at me. I said, “Don’t hurt my friends...” weakly and they took a step away from my companions. “Why are they listening to my orders?” I asked my friends. Feron was the one with the answer, “you’re a gremlin, that’s why! They take orders from gremlins!” oh….that is pretty awesome. “Sit!’ and all the monsters sat, except for the jellies, they squatted or something. I had some fun with them when Ssth’s voice, that’s the name of the Knight, shouted, “dude, and just call them to bring us to the Elevator!” Oh yeah, why didn’t I think of that before? I ordered them to bring my friends and I to the elevator and there, Feron received a message, saying, “ALL KNIGTHS RETURN TO HAVEN IMMEDAILTY! THE BATTLE IS OVER; WE HAVE SURRENDERED TO THE GREMLINS! ALL KNIGHTS RETURN TO THE SURFACE IMMEDAILTY! Message over…” We looked at each other. Our expressions read ‘wha? Spiral Knights surrendering?’ We decided not to go back to Haven and make our own rebellion. We pressed the elevator button ‘DOWN’ and down we descended, into the core itself.

Every 5 minutes? i read them all and posted them all with a one hour spacing!

so i already wrote one of my friends name on there, so i need to give my prize to yttriu and feron?

thats good, i used my friends name without asking.... HEHEHEHEHE

Chapter Nine: The last stand of the Core
Another Acheron sunk into a Darkfang Gremlin Thacker, another one dead. Hundreds of bodies lay on the floor. I wince as I sunk another Acheron into another Darkfang and ducked as a Pulsar blast went over my head. The blast had just gone past me when another squad of Tenderfoots threw their axes in synchronization. My shield blocked the axes while my shadow driver took down another dozen of Tenderfoots. “Retreat!” Moltif shouted as he used his Gran Faust to cover us with the power of Curse. I nodded and threw down a portable shield generator, one of my inventions, and watched as the blue wall of energy blocked the Gremlins from advancing towards our base camp. “Damn…….” I turned over to where Amdrew, another knight from my rebellion, pointed at. “No!” I shouted at went the shield generator. I threw down my portable shield too early, my pet Vog Cub was too slow and was halfway in the shield when it turned on. Now, it’s dead body is between the shield and our “base”. I put down stabbed my sword right in front of his body in show of respect then returned to my quarters. As I sat down on my bed, I saw a note on my bed. It said, “Come here, son. I await you.” I looked at the note for a second, and then I ran out of my quarters screaming my head off. When I finally calmed down, I decided to take his offer. I took out my Mighty Defender and looked at it. Then I got out a Recon shield, a Guardian shield and a Striker shield. I then took out the mechanisms that let the shields have their capabilities. I then started wielding together into my Defender. At last I got my shield out but it kinda looked like a defender which has the crap beaten out of it. But it’ll do. A glance outside to see if anyone was there, then I turned on the Recon cloaking device. I sneaked out of the base, turning off the shield for just a second then continue forward towards the Gremlin camp. I turned and entered Gremlin territory. I turned at the next corner and saw my father and a few gremlin generals talking in Gremlin language. As I never learned Gremlins’ native language, I don’t know what they were saying. I settled down to eavesdrop when suddenly I was held by something in midair. I turn to see a Trojan holding me. Right at that moment, my recon device broke down and I was left uncloaked. All the generals turn to face me and got out their weapons, Axes, flamethrowers, wands, Healing sticks. I sag as if I was surrendering. I then took out my sword, pressed a button and let it drop. I immedeailty turn on the guardian shielding device and hoped for the best. My sword transformed to a version of the dark reprisal bomb but it goes with a BOOM and shadow figures come out and hopefully defend me. I closed my eyes. Next thing I knew was that the Trojan holding me shattered and all the Gremlin generals was on the floor. I pick myself up weakly and turn to face the shadow figures. I then limped to the core, back to base camp. The next thing I knew before reaching the camp was my face hurtling to the ground, my back of the head pierced by an axe.
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Epilogue: Funeral

When I awoke, I turn to see a wall of dirt facing me. I turn again and see a skeleton right next to me. I looked at its armour and saw it was with a Spiral HQ badge. I look at my armour and see that badge too. I realized that this was a tomb and I wasn’t going anywhere, so I settled down, found a nice place to sleep, and closed my eyes forever.