Morning 2.6: CH 5 THE COLD FEAR OF ALPHA

📖 MORNING 2.6: CHAPTER 5 THE COLD FEAR OF ALPHA The heavy armored transport truck came to a complete hydraulic halt inside the subterranean hangar vaults bordering the newly formed rift lines. The loading ramp hissed open, and the five-member strike force stepped out past the glowing violet protective perimeter barriers, plunging straight into the dense, suffocating fog grids of Sultana Hollow. But as they navigated the distorted city grid toward the old castle sectors, the expected swarms of Ethereal monsters were completely missing. Instead, the area was completely desolate. Stepping inside a ruined Section 6 defense outpost building, the squad completely froze in absolute shock. The concrete walls were torn apart by colossally deep, jagged claw marks, fully engulfed in a strange, unyielding wall of crackling, radioactive purple flames that aggressively melted the steel support beams down to the floorboards! Soukaku: "Waaaaah!! Look at this outpost! The whole structure is being eaten alive by purple fire! I’ve never seen devastation of this magnitude before in my entire life!" Harumasa: "She's right... this is absolute madness! Whatever burned these walls must possess a terrifying amount of raw elemental torque! My tracking indicators are completely glitching out!" Yanagi: "This doesn't align with standard Ethereal parameters. I’ve never scanned a threat level capable of melting heavy reinforced blast panels using purple flame code like paper. Factions, keep your weapons fully synchronized!" In the confusion of the structural shock, the thick purple mist violently glitched their radar coordinates, blanketing the rooms in a white haze. Separated from the pack during the fog tracking, Sheree suddenly found herself walking completely on her own, her combat boots clicking against the quiet pavement stones until she stepped onto a massive, cracked open battlefield plaza. THUMP... THUMP... Suddenly, the sub-zero atmosphere turned completely dense. Out from the swirling fog, a deep, raspy, and terrifyingly familiar voice echoed across the stones, instantly trimming her spine with an absolute, frozen nightmare fear she hadn't felt in eight long years. She had heard this monster voice long ago when she was just a child. Alpha: "It would be a long time ago, eight years ago... it was your pathetic father and that cursed Void Hunter code who almost destroyed my entire castle layout in Sultana Hollow. They almost destroyed me completely. But then, I witnessed the Master Creator, Reaper 800, use his almighty form to strike down Drago! Right before Drago turned to dust, I did the unthinkable... I aggressively ate Drago's remaining ash code to steal his legacy! Now, I am fifty times stronger in my base form, and this glorious new purple flame power is what completely reduced your outpost buildings to absolute scrap! I do this all in the name of the one I faithfully worship—The Creator!" BOOM!!! With an earth-shattering shockwave that shattered the surrounding stone tiles, a massive, 10-foot-tall nightmare entity jumped out of nowhere, landing dead center on the battlefield pavement! It was the supreme General, Alpha, the legendary Triple S-Rank Enchainer anomaly! His jagged obsidian armor plates gleamed with a cold dark energy, the mini-black hole in his chest swirled with purple gravity lines, and his demonic white skull head roared as brilliant neon-blue spiritual flames violently blasted straight out of his eyes and jaw layout! Sheree hit an immediate, hyper-exaggerated One Piece style white-eyed shock face profile, her body trembling violently as her childhood fear from eight years ago completely overloaded her processing core. Her lips parted as she screamed out his terrifying name to the sky! Sheree: "ALPHA!!! Impossible... you can't be here! My dad destroyed your castle parameters, and the high-tier Void Hunter perished to wipe you out of the database ledger!!" General Alpha let out a terrifying, mechanical clacking laugh, his giant obsidian claws flexing through the wind trails as his newly acquired 50x power baseline radiated outward. Alpha: "Well, they never beat me! They never truly killed me! I simply survived! Those arrogant fools forgot to remove the radioactive Void Hunter weapon left wedged deep inside my chest armor framework! It kept my trackers online... and since I saw my sweet Lord Drago fall, there are no more armies, princess. It's only you and me!" The terrifying declaration echoed across the battlefield plaza. Looking at the giant demonic skull and the roaring blue fire, the memory of the 10-year-old girl locked in the Hollow flashed in Sheree's mind. She violently bit her lip, her sapphire eyes snapping open with an absolute, blazing shonen-style determination as she gripped her Photonic Katana hilt with two hands, her brave tomboy brawler smirk violently cracking back online past her fear! Sheree: "Listen to my voice parameters, you obsidian freak! That day is dead! I am absolutely not a scary little girl anymore, do you hear me, ALPHA!!!" Alpha: "Yes... oh, yes! I have been waiting eight long years to completely kill you and finish your royal lineage once and for all, fellow dear Princess Sheree!!!" ROOOOOOOOAR!!!!! General Alpha threw his head back, unleashing an ultra-high-decibel, apocalyptic Anomaly Class roar that generated a massive kinetic shockwave, shattering every single skyscraper glass panel across the entire plaza block! Miles away through the dense purple fog, the rest of the Section 6 strike force—Miyabi, Liang Huàn, Yanagi, Harumasa, Soukaku, and a wide-eyed Pom-Pom—instantly heard the deafening monster noise vibrating against their audio sensors, their tracking metrics hitting an immediate red alert countdown status as the digital chronograph screen in the corner of the canvas steadily clicked upward, reading exactly 11:58 AM as the entire morning quadrant ledger locks its final gears!