502/27/17
What do you think of my new story covers? Those are headshots of Kruse and Jaynix redrawn by me. One for Kruse centered stories, one for Jaynix and one for when they share the spotlight.
I wanted to get this whole little story out today since it's so small. No real need to space it out across the week, that's what Phantom is for.
Anyway, do you know of the Tyrant AU? In this AU your Cross does something or something happens to them that results in them being classified by BLADE as a Tyrant, thus missions are handed out to BLADEs to find and hunt them down. I've come up with some small characteristics and a little bit of backstory for Tyrant Jaynix. Might write a short story about it in the future who knows. BUT if you're interested I've also given her a theme, look up Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth Eater Theme. Is a good one.
That aside this is even more "What If" than the Elma chapter. Since canonically, Jaynix wasn't even there for the Lifehold Incident but what say we take a peek into this Alternate Universe and see what goes down?
Jaynix's Rage
Jaynix has known for a long time that she was unstable.
Her emotions could be thrown into disarray far too easily and her mental state…the less said of it the better.
Even so, she knew from day one that something was off about Lao.
She was military all her life, she'd been around brothers, sisters and the closest of comrades. She knew how tightly knit teams worked, how they acted.
Despite Elma's claims and the claims of several other Pathfinders, Lao did not strike her as a team player at all. People respected him for what he did in the past and for what he was on Earth…but on Mira? He was as standard a BLADE as they came.
The most remarkable thing about him was his shooting mastery, Master Sniper indeed. But beyond that? Eh.
Following the threat of a leak, a traitor and Elma's suspicions, it all finally came to a head in the Restricted Hangar, home to one of the most powerful Skells ever designed: The Prog Ares.
Lao stood atop of it with the drive containing the information on the Lifehold's location in his hands, mocking everyone for allowing him to take both with such little effort and exclaiming about how he intended to fix humanity's biggest mistake: surviving.
Doug pulled his gun on Lao but was told to back off, Lao had the drive. A stray bullet could cause them to lose everything they'd been working towards.
Jaynix had never experienced the mass of emotions within her at this very moment.
She couldn't even see the Prog Ares, instead all that was in her field of vision was Lao.
She was not going to let him leave this Hangar.
Drawing her gun she fired at his arm that was leaning on the Prog Ares, she could barely make out shock on the traitor's face.
She heard scatterings of people calling her name but ignored them as she blasted both of his kneecaps.
The man fell from the Prog Ares onto the floor.
His still functioning arm went for the weapon on his back, Jaynix shot at it as well.
Limbs disabled she bent down and searched his body.
With the drive in her hands, she smirked.
Standing she turned to the rest of the BLADEs in the Hangar.
She stared at them, all wearing different expressions of shock.
"…what?"
"Don't 'what' us missy! What the hell were you thinking?"
Jaynix looked at Vandham who was red in the face
"What if you damaged the Drive with your loose cannon approach!? What then?"
"What then? By the looks of it, you lot were going to let him escape and kill us all. I made sure that didn't happen!"
Vandham shook his head as Jaynix approached Elma, placing the drive in her hands.
"I know there are other people in this Hangar who would've done what I did but you were all held back by personal attachments. You still saw the best in him."
She turned to the body briefly, narrowing her eyes.
"I never did."
Vandham prepared to say something else only for Elma to hold one of her hands up.
"We have the drive. All that matters now is finding the Lifehold."
Vandham let out a heavy sigh.
"Fine. Follow me, let's hope that damn thing wasn't hit by any shrapnel."
Jaynix stood in place as Elma turned to her.
She held Elma's opinion of her above everyone else's. She could do with every single BLADE in NLA hating her, but not Elma.
The woman nodded to her, and there was a small glint in her eyes.
Gratitude.
Deep gratitude.
As if in doing this, Elma felt indebted to her.
Jaynix waved it off, no one owed her a thing.
"How could you do that so…effortlessly?"
Jaynix turned to Gwin "Hm?"
"I think he means, how could you shoot a fellow BLADE and not even seem bothered by it."
Jaynix's eyes moved to Irina, then to Doug who was standing behind them and finally Lin, who was silent and still.
"Simple. He wasn't a fellow BLADE."
Turning, she walked away.
"He was a traitor."
