Armored Core 6 Ibis Novels & Stories

I led Sabrina toward where I’d parked my car. Then I heard them. Engines. Multiple vehicles, approaching fast. “Get down!” I shouted, grabbing Sabrina and pulling her behind a concrete barrier. Cars poured into the compound, at least a dozen of them, surrounding the area. Headlights blazed, blinding everyone. The party-goers scattered, running for cover. Guards emerged from the vehicles, heavily armed, forming a perimeter. Then she stepped out of the lead car. Isabella. She wore tactical gear, and in her hands, she carried a rocket launcher. She raised it to her shoulder, aiming at the main residential building where families were sheltering.

My earpiece crackled to life. "Agent 64, can you hear me?" "Yes, sir," I replied, keeping my voice low. "I am in the ducts." "Good. I am patching Cyber in now." A soft beep signaled the handoff. “Nora, you are in the east duct,” Cyber's voice said, calm and precise. “The vault room is in the center of the building. Go straight, take the right fork, then continue ahead.” I followed his directions, inching forward on hands and knees. The heat was unbearable, the stale air thick with dust.

Dora watched as the smaller ship landed in the docking area. Four men got out in completely black armoured gear with as many weapons as would fit on a body. They confidently strode up to the door. Dora gave an update. “Four men, full battle armour, completely black with lots of weapons” “What is your business on Planet S610,” Dora asked One of the men with a confident smile took a step closer, he opened his mouth then the smile faded as Dora’s gift started to pull words he didn’t intend to use towards his mouth.

Blurry feeds flickered to life. And there they were. Cerberus. Six men. Armed. No visible insignias. Black gear. No faces. The front line of the war had arrived. “Fallback,” Cassian barked. “Everyone underground. Now.” Anais didn’t argue. She ran to Maris’s room. Julien cursed, unplugged the feed station, and grabbed the hard drives. “Why don’t we ever get visitors who bring snacks?” he muttered as he stuffed gear into his pack.

"Seriously." "We were lucky." "I almost considered following them." Murmurs spread through the group as everyone silently thanked their good fortune. The encounter had completely erased any lingering thoughts about leaving Ivy's protection. Soon afterward, Darren resumed driving while the survivors continued following behind. Meanwhile... Inside the armored vehicle, Ivy leaned back against her seat and closed her eyes briefly. Extract all the monster cores in the bag into the system, she thought inwardly. DING! {Congratulations, Host. All monster cores obtained have been successfully extracted into the system.}

"The planet's OS is written in a language of Primal Harmonics! Only a synchronized Triad can 'Speak' to it!" The Feral Six gathered at the "Ignition Well," but this time, they didn't jump. They Plugged In. They weren't just a hockey pack anymore. They were the Command Crew of a World. "The game just got a lot bigger," Elara said, her eyes turning into glowing violet nebulae. "Jax, Cole—clear the atmosphere! Kael, prep the Core-Burners! Zane, hold the world together!" "And you?" Kael asked, his hands erupting in violet flames.

The ground I fought a corporate war to reclaim. And I own it with exactly two dollars and forty-seven cents in my pocket. The cold is heavy, a wet blanket of salt and ice that cuts through my jacket and burns in my lungs. Behind me, the Aegis team is already swarming the pier, unloading the modular units. I hear the grind of steel on steel as server housings and construction materials are wrestled onto the island. Gabriel appears beside me. He’s standing too close, his body blocking the wind. "Isla. We need to talk."

The Security Fleet instantly tried to recalibrate, their obsidian surfaces shifting to track the incoming biological anomalies. "Calculating intercept vectors. Error. Trajectory illogical. Error." A massive Archon—the bipedal mech form of the Lycan lieutenant—crashed directly into the surface of a fighter-sized cube. The geometric ship tried to execute a localized formatting wave to delete him, but the Archon's sovereign-blessed armor completely ignored the code.

A sound that made the brass gears chatter and the mahogany groan. "That's not a gunship," Leo said, his face turning a ghostly white. "That's an Orbital Kinetic Strike. The Iron Mind has given up on the recovery. It’s decided to delete the mountain." Julian looked at the lead drum containing his mother’s soul, then at the heavy titanium doors. The "Mechanical Bastion" was strong, but no gear could survive a rod from god. "We have to move the sequence," Julian said, his voice a low growl of defiance. "Harris, where is the deepest part of this hole?"