User blog:Seieireppa/God Eater:Universitas, chapter 16: Departure

At last, the time had come. Everything Idenn and Blake had struggled through would soon come to an end. With the aid of Sakaki’s reinforcements—which currently consisted of Nanako Kawashima and Baluar—Idenn, Ken, and Blake, along with Soma Schicksal and Kota Fujiki, would step out the door of Fenrir’s Far East Branch and board a VTOL plane to Liverpool, England, where they would meet up with their next reinforcements.

“Is everyone ready?” Soma called out. The seven God Eaters assembled here in the entranceway had finished suiting up and were preparing to leave through the front gate.

Idenn stepped forward. “I’m ready,” she exclaimed. “And everyone… thank you. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you for agreeing to help me out and save my future.”

Ken slapped Idenn on the back jovially. “There’s really no need to be so formal, Idenn,” he replied. “We’re all in this together, you know?”

Idenn nodded, a smile on her face as she faced the gate.

“In that case, if everyone’s prepared…” Soma began. “Idenn, would you like to do the honors?”

“Of course,” came Idenn’s reply. “Everyone… let’s mosey!”

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It had been five hours since they left the Far East Branch. The plane they were currently in was a VTOL craft, capable of vertical landings at a moment’s notice due to its rotating jets in the wings. It was Fenrir’s state of the art transport vehicle, and one of a fleet of seven. Now, this craft was taking the seven God Eaters to Liverpool, and towards the future…

“So,” Kota began, munching on a stick of beef jerky, “what’s the plan, exactly?”

Soma pulled out a tablet and flicked through a few menus. “We’re heading to the Liverpool Branch, where we’ll arrive in around a day. Once there, we’ll meet up with three new God Eaters who will be accompanying us from there on out. Baluar, one of them should be very familiar to you.”

Bal blinked, before a look of realization came over him. “You mean Nia? Sis is there? How’d she get there so fast? She was with me when Nanako and I were heading to the Far East Branch yesterday!”

“We had her flown there in a supersonic jet last night,” came Soma’s response. “We needed her to help our other two God Eaters get a few things set up in advance of our arrival.”

“Makes sense,” spoke Idenn. “I really have to hand it to Sakaki for getting this all set up at such short notice… we’ll need all the help we can get, after all.”

“At any rate,” came the voice of Blake, approaching from the rear of the plane, “there’s someone I know in Liverpool… or rather, knew, but he should still be alive. He’ll be a valuable asset if he’s still—”

Blake’s sentence was interrupted by a loud crash that echoed throughout the plane and caused a massive tremor. Something had slammed into the side of the craft… and that could only mean—

“An Aragami,” spoke Idenn. “The mastermind must have sent one after us.”

Soma rose to his feet without hesitation. “In that case, we must not waste time. Kota, get to the guns and blast that thing off of—

“Wait… where’s Ken?”

Idenn looked around… and saw the rear door of the plane in the process of closing.

“He left the plane!” she shouted. He must have gone outside to fight whatever’s attacking us!”

“Shit!” exclaimed Soma. “Somebody get out there and get him back in here!”

Meanwhile, on the wing of the plane…

Ken faced down his foe, a Sariel colored bright green and emitting a similarly-colored mist.

“A Boundary Sariel, huh?” Ken mused, drawing his God Arc.  “It’s been a while since I’ve shown what I can do… let’s go, you monster!”

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