Phantasy Star Online X

Chapter 3

Mission 6
Gran Squall

“See. I have the knack.” Bernie said as the broken door slid open.
Ash was just glad to finally be moving forward again. Bernie had started following him earlier in the forest, giving little reason other than they were working on the same mission. the other hunters in the forest seemed less than enthusiastic about even talking about the mission, never mind teaming up. But bernie was strong and got ash past that malfunctioning door, so he shouldn’t be too suspicious.
Togeather they proceeded through the first forest area and into the second. The second area was tougher, but ash had gotten quite a bit stronger since his first time here. ash didn’t have any trouble at all fighting even hildebears, but bernie was something else. his flame visit shot bursts of flame which incinerated the enemies on contact.
“Looks like there’s a whole mess of ‘em up ahead” Bernie said as they approached the teleporter that would take them to the pioneer 1 front door. “I’m glad I teamed up with you.” he said as he walked into the teleporter.
Ash followed him and as soon as they materialized they found themselves surrounded. bernie started roasting boomas as ash slashed away at the monests.
They smoked the foes and ran to the next room.
Ash could see the girl they were supposed to find on a ledge on the other side of the room. Ash dashed forward towards her and heard a loud crash behind him. he spun around and saw a hildebear had blocked off his escape. Ash heard another crash and turned to see another hildebear had lept between him and the girl. Ash was in trouble and bernie was nowhere to be seen. Had bernie gotten scared? No. bernie was stron enough to kill both monsters with little effort. And what had that remark about teaming up been about? Bernie didn’t need any help.
Ash lept towards the monster near the girl and hit it with a leaping slash. as his feet hit the ground he unloaded a combo of three heavy slashes. The monster fell and died. As he turned to face the other beast he saw its flest melt away under the heat of bernie’s weapon.
Ash breathed a sigh of relief. for a moment he had doubted bernie’s intentions.
They walked over to the girl and Bernie explained the situation. The gran squall had been a secret military craft and the survivor would have to be debriefed by the military. Bernie assured Ash he could go and claim his reward from the guild without the girl in tow.
Ash opened a telepipe and warped back to Pioneer 2. Walking back to the guild things about the mission didn’t seem to add up. If the military craft had been secret why had Bernie revealed it? He could be arrested for that. And why was bernie so eager to team up when he didn’t need to? Why had he told ash to collect the reward? if bernie was working for the penny-pinching military he should’ve called the guild and canceled the mission to avoid paying Ash.
Ash entered the guild lobby and saw the piece that compeated the puzzle. A wanted poster for a serial killer who kept his victims for days before killing them.
That was it. Ash dashed back to the telepipe. Bernie had played ash. He had teamed up with him so that ash would go and report that the girl had been found while bernie made off with her. the guild would stop looking and rumers that she was in military custody would circulate. Nobody would notice she was missing.
Ash poped back into the forest and saw a man standing naked over the girl.
“Bernie!!” Ash yelled and the villian spun around to face him.
“Who the hell are you?” the man yelled yelled.
It wasn't Bernie. It was a man Ash had never seen before. Ash saw bernie lying face down on the ground a few feet away from the girl. Was this guy was the real culprit?
They both glanced down at Berni's Flame Visit gun on the ground. They both dove for it but ash was faster. he grabbed it and held the barrel to the man’s face.
“Ha ha ha!” the guy laughed at Ash.
“Shut up, scum bag” Ash yelled back.
“You don’t have enough accuracy to even fire that thing” he grinned.
He was right. Ash pulled the trigger and the gun refused to fire. Ash jumped back away from him and threw the gun off the ledge.
“Idiot. You can’t kill me I’m much too strong” he laughed again.
Ash pulled out his beam saber and smiled. “yes, in a straight fight I could barely scratch someone strong enough to beat Bernie.” Ash held his weapon out pointed at bernie. “but you’ve got no armor.”
He realized Ash was right. Even a weak slash right now could cut him in half.

A few days later another news story about Ash appeared on the net. The story detailed his capture of the infamous 'Black Kiss' one of the underground crime organization 'Dark Hearts'. The highlight of the story was the footage of Ash walking into the hunter’s guild with an unconcous girl over his shoulder and his saber to the back of a naked man, with Bernie limping beside him.
In the interview he left out his suspicions about Bernie, who was an under-cover investigator. Turns out he had a tip about Black Kiss coming to that spot. Bernie used his intel on the criminal to decrypt the lock Black Rose put on the door in forest 1. Bernie hadn't expected to reach the girl first, and thought that when he sent Ash back to Pioneer 2 he could wait and ambush Black Kiss. His plan worked right up until Bernie got his ass kicked.

Ash was walking Susan, the girl he had saved, home from the hospital a few days later.
“Thank you for everything.” She said, blushing and looking down as they rode the eleveator in her apartment building.
“It was nothing.” Ash scratched the back of his head nervously. “Anyone would have done the same thing.”
“But if it were not for you I would be dead now.” She said, still blushing and looking away.
Ash didn’t say anything. he wasn’t one for boasting and he couldn’t say that what he did wasn’t great. He had captured a murderer who had evaded the police and the hunters for three years.
The elevator came to a stop and the doors slid open. They stepped off and walked slowly down the hall.
They were at least a hundred feet from the elevator before ash asked “how old are you?”
“well...” she said, nervously “I am H-18”
H-years are linked to human development, in order to give a relative age to newmans who age at a random rate, either slower or faster than humans. A H-20 human would be 20 years old but a H-20 newman could be 5 years old or 40 years old. These numbers are mostly used in dating.
Ash could tell she wasn't H-18 by looking at her. She was only about 4' 6'' which is short even for newmans, who usually get to 5' 4'' to 5' 6'' by the time they get to year 5. Of course Ash wasn't going to argue with her about her age so he said nothing.
“Yeah” Susan said with a sigh “well, here is my door”
“Who do you live with?” Ash asked as Susan ran a key card through the lock.
“Nobody, actually.” she said as the door slid open.
This was unusual. Most newmans were raised by couples who couldn’t have childen, which was a very common situation on Pioneer 2. Photon weapons seem to have a sterilizing effect on their male wielders. Though most see it as a good side effect, with the death of the last STD carrying individual 40 years ago any male hunter could have as much sex as he wants without consequence.
The lights inside Susan’s apartment automatically flickered on. It was a one room apartment not unlike his own. Kitchenette on the left, closet on the right, bed against the far wall and a door to a bath room in the middle of the right wall.
Ash looked at Susan and saw her desire for him in her eyes.
“Well then, maybe I should take a look around to make sure it’s safe.” Ash said with a sly smile.
Susan’s face lit up. “Yes! that would be great!”
They walked inside and the door slid closed behind them. They were out of sight of the security cameras which kept track of everyone who entered or exited any room.
"I want..." Susan blushed at even thinking about what she was about to ask Ash. She felt like he was the only person in the world she could trust with this task.
Susan took off her purple hat and placed it on the counter. She took a deep breath and turned around to face Ash. “I want my first time to be with you” she blurted out while trying to avoid the stare of ash’s blue eyes.
Ash put his hands on her waist and pulled her close to him. He kissed her soft lips as his hands slowly rubbed her back. She was a little surprized and almost jumped back, but as she felt his gentle touch she relaxed in his arms.
Ash pulled the detached sleeves of her purple outfit off and she opened her mouth and let ash slide his tounge into her. He carressed her tounge with his as she unzipped the front of her shirt. Ash ran his fingers through her hair as she pulled her arms from the shirt and it fell to the floor, revealing a light blue cotton bra.
Susan quickly moved her hands down to her shorts. She undid a clasp and her skirt fell away. Susan slowly unzipped her shorts all the way down to between her legs. The shorts slid down around her ankles. Her light blue cotton panties were allready wet.
Ash picked her up and cradled her in his arms as he walked over to her bed. He gently laid her down. Ash stood with his back turned and began to undress. As ash pulled his armor off Susan kicked her shoes off and threw her shorts onto the floor. Ash stripped to his boxers. Susan watched with rapped attention as he slipped his boxers onto the floor.
He turned around and Susan’s breath was taken away by the sight of ash’s long dick. It lay flacid at the center of his hairless crotch, at least seven and a half inches long.
Ash straddled Susan and leaned forward and kissed her lips. She felt his warm dick laying on her stomach. Ash undid the clasp on the fron of her bra and slid it off, revealing her young, perky breasts. he carressed her tits, feeling her soft pale skin in his hands. He leaned down and licked her firm pink right nipple. He began to suck on her breast. he braced himself with his right hand on the bed. He slid his left hand into her panties and felt her warm, wet vagina. He pushed his index finger into her and stroked her clitoris. Susan felt her body tingle with plesure. Ash kept sucking her firm tit and playing with her nipple with his tounge. He slid his middle finger into her vagina. Susan felt her vagina throbbing and she moaned as she orgasmed. Her pussy flowed with her juice and contracted around ash’s fingers.
Ash pulled away from her tit and his hand from her panties. he got on his knees and slowly slid her wet panties down from her waist, around her knees, around her ankles and finally onto the floor.
Susan lay there motionless as ash pushed his erect penis into her. she moaned as he slid all seven inches into her and moaned again as she felt his warm organ leave her. he slid back into her tight virgin pussy and she clenched her fists around the sheets, trying to hold on to something. Ash pulled all the way out of her. she moaned again as she felt him run the length of his dick against her clitoris as he left.
he pushed into her again. she arched her back and orgasmed again. her tight vagaina pulsed around his dick. he tried to hold back his orgasm, to prolong the pleasure. Her vagina pulsed again and he barely held it togeather. He pulled out of her and quickly pushed back into her. she moaned again and he shot his load into her. he pulled his dick out of her and shot another load of cum. it landed on the lips of her vagina. he pushed into her again and felt his warm cum as he squeezed his head past her lips. he slid into her again and shot another load into her. she pulsed around him again and he came again. her pussy was filled with cum and it flowed from her. he pulled out of her again. his dick was covered in cum and it dripped onto the sheet.
he pushed into her and she moaned as she had another orgasm. he started to fuck her quickly, thrusting and withdrawing as fast as he could. she let out a short moan each time he came into her. as he fucked her she felt her body adapt to the rythem. her pussy loosened as he came into her, and tightened as he left. ash felt like she was fucking him back. She had a third orgasm, and her vagina exploded with fluid. His erection finnaly gave out and began to droop as he pulled out of her. she breathed deeply as her orgasm ended, and Ash rolled onto his back beside her on the bed.

After taking a shower Ash left her apartment smiling. He promised to call her the next day. He would call his 'girlfriend.' A girlfriend. Finnally. Not a skizophrenic nurse or a horny cosplayer, a malfunctioning mag or slutty reporter. A real-life girlfriend.

The next day Ash awoke to the news that Susan had been in her apartment when it exploded at 453 internet time, and had died instantly. It was reported that Dark Hearts was behind the attack.
Ash wept.

Over the next few hours the police interrogated Ash, but he didn't know anything. The only things he knew were two facts. Dark Hearts would try to kill him. Ash would try to kill them.

End of Chapter 3