Crusaders of Nadia: Tragic Beginnings

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Summary

The Prequel of The Grim Crusaders Project series. The story tells about the beginning of the war against the Dynastic Empire, a superpower country, and the Marikinian Republic, a third world country that lies within the Pacific Region. This war is known as The Red Dragon War, where the war occurred during the financial-automation crisis, known as The Great Recession Crisis. This story narrates about the life of James Enguia, a man who lives in a small town of Isagani, and the town's hated man, Tony Anderson, a foreign man who grew up through hatred. This is the story of the battles and challenges each of them face, a trial they face as the impending peril of The Red Dragon War approaches, where each of their fate lies ahead.

Status
Complete
Chapters
11
Rating
n/a
Age Rating
13+

Prologue

Behold, The Evil Brain!

On a starry night in the laboratory of the secret dungeon, called the Sodomic Tartarus, there was a man who was inventing something along with a few of his subordinates. The laboratory is smeared with the blood of men who volunteered with the anonymous project as test subjects, a foul smell fills the room, lights flickering as the work is still in progress. While the subordinates were doing their tasks, the man checked the progress through the mother computer in the control room. When he checked the progress, it indicates a good sign, signaling the device is ready for another test. “Gyehehehe! Looks like we are ready for another shot!” the man cackled sinisterly, he then headed down to the workshop. He calls one of his subordinates. “Doctor! How was the operating system going?” the subordinate asked. “It worked pretty well this time! I am able to navigate through the system efficiently! Shall we proceed with the test?” the man replied. The subordinate agreed and he she demanded two of their robot helpers to call the test subject to head to the testing room.

After a while, the test subject is now at the testing room with the two robots, waiting to try the latest prototype, while the man and his subordinates are behind the glass wall, watching the test subject. “Doctor, shall we commence the test?” one of the subordinates asked, ready to activate the device. The man nodded with a smile. “Yes…!” the man nodded. The subordinate then activated the device. However… The device malfunctioned. The man raised his eyebrow as he witnessed the device fail. “Ivy, report the issue!” the man demanded her. “There seems to be something blocking the hydraulics over there.” Ivy explained, she then pointed her finger onto one of the robots, the robot flinched as he saw her pointing at him. The man was annoyed by the robot, he sighs and slams the desk. “X69!? YOU ARE LEANING ONTO THE INJECTOR’S HYDRAULIC, ARE YOU!?” the man pouted in anger. “W-what…!? O-ohh… Y-you mean t-this?” X69 responded, he then moved away from the hydraulic. The device now functioned properly. “W-whoopsies! I d-did not know that w-was behind m-me.” X69 clumsily chuckled. The man gritted his teeth in annoyance.

“*sighs loudly* I swear that next year, I will change you two into regular home robots!” the man sighs. “W-what…!? N-no… I-I do not want to clean the s-smelly toilets filled with t-turd and scrub the e-entire dungeon!” X69 frowned. “OH YES I WILL, YOU RUSTY ASSED DEFECTIVE!” the man scowls. “N-no… P-please no… I-I do not want to u-unclog the disgusting sink a-and-” X69 frowns desperately. “S-Shut up…!” his robot companion shushed him. “B-but X66, I…” X69 frowned. “J-just shut the c-clank up…! I-I do not want the punishment to g-get worse…!” X66 scolded him, “I-I do not want you to turn m-me into a motherclanking d-drive-thru kiosk or a shady m-milk suckler…! The subordinates giggled at X66′s joke while the man groaned in annoyance. “These defects were terrible, but X69 is the worst one ever!” the man murmured. He then points his finger onto the two robots. “Alright then, enough of your annoying puns! Now get both of your rusty asses in here, right now!” the man demanded them. “Y-yes… sir…!” The two robots agreed nervously, they then left the room and headed to the control panel with everyone. The man then faces the test subject, who was confused by their argument. “Forgive us for our unnecessary quarrel, our dear volunteer! We shall continue our test to finish your time here!” the man politely apologises to the test subject. The test subject nodded with a smile. “Ivy… You know the drill!” the man told her. “Yes, Doctor!” Ivy nodded and reactivated the device, finally it worked.

The device then leaned onto the test subject’s head and showed a needle with a small nail-like device inside it. The needle injected the small device into the man’s skull, piercing its edge into the brain, just enough for the device to touch the squishy membrane. “Doctor! The device has been successfully installed through the test subject!” Ivy reported him. “Excellent! Now, let us begin with the test. Start with interacting with the monitors!” the man ordered her. Ivy nodded and she pressed a switch that popped out the monitors out of the floor. The test subject then looked at it and his thoughts controlled the monitors successfully. “Hmm… Looks like it worked well as before! Now, next is the ability test!” the man smirked. Ivy then activated the ability test, which was a few metal scrap, weapons, and a few hazards to test. Ivy activated the guns, upon seeing the guns charging up, the test subject quickly thought about a shield, he miraculously created a shield out of the metal scrap and his mind floats it in front of the guns, blocking every shot. Seeing the first attempt worked fine, she then activated the dummies armed with swords and bows, the test subject quickly thought about a flame thrower, which eventually floats the flame thrower, then the test subject commands it to burn down the dummies, the flame thrower burnt down the dummies just as he commands through his mind.

Watching the device working properly made the man excited, he then asked Ivy to let him control the rest. Ivy nodded in agreement and moved aside, the man then sat down and cracked his knuckles. “Ohohoho! This is getting exciting!” the man giggled, he quickly activated an unknown button, making the test subject twitch, gritting his teeth as he experienced seizures with the device does an unknown function. “Woahhh! This is it! It is finally getting better!” the man cheered. The test subject screamed in agony as the device tried to manipulate his thoughts until… he bowed his head, after a few moments, he looked up, his eyes lost its iris and pupils. The man was happy when he saw the test subject unconsciously stand still. “D-Doctor? W-what was going on? This is another failure, is it?” Ivy frowned. The man then grabbed a remote and looked at Ivy. “Let us find out then!” the man smirked as he pressed a switch, the test subject suddenly woke up, his eyes now glowing red. “Oooh! That was a great intro, mind if you start doing it, Doctor?” Ivy suggested. The man then began to control the test subject, the test subject then freely moved around, his memory still known, but he no longer has a free will to think with freedom, only to be forced to hail his manipulator with the invisible strings in his body and mind.

The man was surprised by the effects, he was satisfied by the results. “Woohoo! Finally, it worked just as I intended it to be! Now, for the final test…” The man cheered. “What will the final test be then, Doctor?” Ivy asked curiously. “Well, simple! What if that man disobeys our rules?” The man answered, he slammed the red button in excitement. Suddenly, the test subject collapsed and screamed in excruciating pain as the device gave him a critical migraine. After a few moments, the test subject then twitches and gag for one more time, then he suddenly loses consciousness. Ivy was surprised by the scene while the man burst into laughter as he cheered in a wicked way. “I-is he dead, Doctor?” Ivy asked him. “Gyahaha- W-wait a minute… I forgot…” the man suddenly stopped cheering when he realised something, he then looked closely at the collapsed test subject. “Ivy, can you try checking him with the claw if he is dead?” the man ordered her. Ivy nodded and operated the robotic claw, she slightly pushed the test subject, checking if he was dead. The test subject unconsciously rolled away, life was lost in his eyes. “He is confirmed dead, Doctor! Looks like the prototype has passed the test!” Ivy told him. “Gyaha! Finally! The prototype has been completed!” the man cheered, “Ivy, you shall lead the mass production of these chips, make sure it has different functions as you produce them!”

“Yes Doctor, but where are you going anyway? Do you have any matters to attend to?” Ivy asked. The man looked at her and smiled. “I will just go out and do another part of the master plan!” the man replied. “W-what master plan are you p-planning to do, sir?” X69 asked curiously. The man sighs in annoyance and approaches the clumsy robot, he then patted his metal head. “Master plan? Let me tell you then…” the man smiled, but he suddenly went mad and grasped X69’s head, throwing him into the lost and found box. “IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, DUMBASS!!” the man yelled at him as he threw him. “M-mmmph…! M-mmmmph!!” X69 mumbled as his head got stuck in the box, X66 facepalmed in annoyance. “Q-quit pretending mumbling a-around like that…! Y-you do not have a m-mouth, b-buckethead…!” X66 pouted. “B-but I am stuck! I-I can not get my head off!” X69 replied. “*robotic sighs* T-that really f-fits you…” X66 sighs. “D-does this look like a-a great hat for m-me?” X69 asked amazingly. “N-no… T-that fits with yourself, y-you lost your brain and f-found it in the box…!” X66 punned. “H-hmph…! V-Very funny…” X69 pouted. Hearing their dumb conversation made the man sighed. “Alright, I will look forward to the production, Ivy!” the man told her. “Sure then, Doctor!” Ivy replied. The man then left the testing room, heading towards his office.

While he was climbing his way on the stairs, he giggled sinisterly. “Gyehehehe… Finally… The major part of the plan has been completed… Now… All I have to do is to get the government’s attention…” The man talked to himself as he entered his office. “I will convince them by using a part of my plan as bait…” the man continued as he looked at the huge blueprint of a tower-like space station on his bulletin board. “Then I shall cause a war against each nation as a distraction… Then once complete… I will build an empire on their ruins, then I, Dr. Ferox Lucifer, will take over the entire world and enslave every human being on every single plot of land!” Ferox said, bursting out into laughter in the middle of the night. “Nyohohohoho… GYAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!”