The Goldscrap War

The Goldscrap War is an action movie, and the first entry in The Silanex Saga chronologically, making it a prequel to Kicking Dust. It largely focuses on a Flydevin war between Termidas Town and the Belecpitons, with the former being lead by the Gilded Flydevin, Halcyate Morluda, in order to take the hideout and technological resources of the later camp, led by Xorra Atomure. The main character of the story is Fractus Zhantom, one of Termidas's strongest warriors.
==Transcript==
===Act 1===
In a relatively spacious stone room are targets, weights and sandbags. The room appears to contain a lot of dust, and some spots, oddly, appear to be covered in ice shards, some of which are beginning to melt - evidently, it is some sort of training room.
A training dummy is suddenly sent crashing into a wall. A lilac-haired woman in armor then walks to the dummy, dragging behind a large club made out of stone.
As the lady sets the training dummy up straight, a short, thin man with greyish-cyan hair in white armor comments on her feat.
Diamond: T-that was a nice swing, Frac.
Fractus: Heh. You know I could do much better than that, Diam.
Diamond: Of course. B-but, you know, I think lady Halcyate would rather not have us destroy this room.
Fractus: Fair!
Light blue winds then converge near Diamond’s hand as a chakram made out of ice forms between his fingers. He proceeds to throw it towards the farthest target. Moving and spinning at impressive speeds, it hits the target dead-on.
Fractus: Nice launch.
Fractus begins to stretch.
Fractus: You think we’re ready for the battle?
Diamond: Indeed. L-let us go.
Fractus tosses her rock club away - earning a chuckle from Diamond - as the two head out of the training room, and into a set of halls, putting on helmets and meeting other armored people along the way.
They eventually reach a large room filled with other warriors, forming rows, each row seemingly wearing a different type of armor - Fractus and Diamond entering their respective row.
Soon after, another woman, with blue hair resembling a hammer, arrives behind Fractus, looking like she came in a hurry and still putting on pieces of her armor.
Fractus looks behind herself.
Fractus: Late today, Teliru?
Teliru: Pretty much, yeah.
Fractus: Better hope Halcyate didn’t see you.
Teliru: Mhm.
Teliru eyes a man with a blue beard in another row, who wears grey lightweight clothing, including what seems to be a rain hat.
Various of the warriors discuss miscellaneous subjects as more of them enter the room. Eventually, however, a woman with purple clothing and golden armor, including a crown, steps to the front of the room. The warriors quickly stops speaking as she clears her throat.
Halcyate: Greetings, flydevin warriors of Termidas! Today, we go to battle against the wretched Belecpitons, as you have all surely been training for. They shall not hold the secrets of their advanced technology anymore!
The soldiers cheer in anticipation of the battle.
Halcyate: Thus, I, your gilded monarch, ask all of you to go out and get in formation effective immediately. They should be coming within the next hour or so… assuming they stick to their words. The Belecpitons are hard to trust, which is one more reason for us battling them!
Fractus smirks as she and the other warriors head out of the room, and into a city with buildings made of beige stone as they head outside, into a desert. They get in a formation, with more armored warriors at the front, and less armored warriors and medics in the back.
Soon, in the distance, another army comes. While on one hand there are significantly fewer people in this army, said warriors are replaced by what seems to be a variety of robotic troops, and the few soldiers that are present wear mechanical armor, contrasting with the more medieval armor worn by the Termidas warriors.
Teliru: As always, they are too cowardly to come out themselves…
Fractus: Get ready.
Fractus forms her large rock club using rock winds, while Diamond forms chakrams between his fingers. Teliru creates a large rock hammer.
At the back of the mechanical army, meanwhile, is a bald man wearing lightning-themed clothing and a large two-forked electric spear. He wears a visor, and he has a glowing yellow eye visible behind said visor.
Zeronax: You Termidasians are not gonna enjoy this… perhaps we wouldn’t be here if y’all chilled a tad more. Right, Law?
He looks to the side, facing a blue-robed woman wearing a scrap metal chestplate and helmet. She has no legs, and instead seems to merely hover above the ground. One could easily mistake her for a robot.
Law: Indeed, Zeronax. Focus on the mission at hand.
Zeronax: You’re supposed to prove my point, but fine. Having some order is needed, anyways. And thus, let us, in the name of Xorra, uh…
He scratches his head, trying to think of what to say.
Zeronax: VIBE CHECK THEM!
Law sighs and shakes her head, as the Belecpiton army and the Termidas army charge at each other, a horn being heard from the Termidas side. The warriors, being Flydevins, for the most part begin flying at each other, although anti-air missiles are being shot towards the Termidas side, some of which are flying up.
Diamond, however, proceeds to throw his chakrams towards them, causing most of them to detonate before they can hit. Fractus, meanwhile, dodges another before charging towards a large aircraft. It points a cannon towards her, but before it can shoot, Fractus has already swung her club at it with such intensity a shockwave is produced, a large portion of the aircraft being destroyed by the hit. With another swing, she launches the remains of the aircraft towards an anti-air tank on the ground level, damaging it as well.
Fractus then uses her winds to crash down towards the ground like a meteor, holding her club downwards. This allows her to destroy another anti-air missile, joining more Termidas warriors doing so, which are fighting off the various Belecpiton robots - forming a storm of many elements. Fire projectiles, ice projectiles, rock projectiles, lightning projectiles and even some water projectiles are being fired from all directions, along with, obviously, wind attacks such as tornadoes.
Teliru then performs a frontflip to dodge a missile before delivering a hammer swing to another anti-air tank that produces a shockwave - albeit not as impressive as the one Fractus did earlier, but still powerful enough to dispatch of the tank - before using the momentum and some winds to propel herself into the air and deliver another hammer swing to the underside of an airship, destroying its cannon doing so. She is then launched back to the ground, forming a cloud of dust.
However, Teliru soon notices that several Belecpiton soldiers are pointing electric guns at her, which are charging at a rapid rate. Before they can fire, however, icicles rain down onto the guns from above, precisely piercing all but one of them. Diamond is indeed flying above - but he is soon targeted by the gun he missed, failing to dodge in time and getting struck.
The blast was fortunately far from fatal, and he proceeds to fly down, creating a chakram and using his winds to make it spin so fast upon being launched at the remaining gun, it just slices right through it. The Belecpiton gun-wielder steps back in fear, but Diamond then flies down and proceeds to jump before kicking them in the head, knocking them out. Teliru, meanwhile, has dispatched of the other now-defenseless soldiers with swings of her hammer.
Above, the battle still looks like a storm of elements, although the aircrafts are currently hitting many Termidas flydevins with explosive blasts. On the ground level, however, is Fractus, who closes her hand. A short while later, stone meteors drop onto the aircrafts, heavily damaging many of them. Fractus then flies up, and begins spinning around with her club outstretched faster and faster, the club’s size growing even larger as she finishes off the aircrafts she hit with her meteors. She finishes her combo by hurling the enlarged club towards a stray Belecpiton airship, impaling it and causing it to crash down onto the ground.
This move seems to have helped the Termidas army significantly, and they are beginning to push back the Belecpiton army. The bearded man Teliru was looking at earlier is tending to some injured Flydevins, which seem to include Diamond.
Diamond: T-thank you, Coarbel.
Coarbel: No problem. It’s my job to heal.
Law is floating by, healing some Belecpiton soldiers on her side. She and Coarbel lock eyes.
Coarbel: War is destructive, isn’t it?
Law: You can’t trust anyone in a war.
Coarbel: Wha-
She swipes her hand, throwing a very sharp wave of pressurized water towards Coarbel’s eye before he can react.
Coarbel: GAH! … AAAAAAAAAARGH!
He steps back, placing a hand on his blinded eye, as he forms a rock wall to protect himself and other nearby Flydevins. Law charges up another swipe, but is quickly alerted to something coming from the side. She narrowly dodges what turns out to be Teliru’s hammer thrown at an incredibly fast speed, which ends up shattering a large rock formation instead.
Teliru: STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY HUSBAND!
She charges towards Law with the help of her winds, a shockwave forming behind her due to her sheer speed. Law rapidly flies upwards, before creating a large water sphere which she shoots at Teliru, who simply smashes it. To her surprise, however, the bubble explodes into smaller spheres, which she smacks away with repeated hammer swings. This, however, was a distraction that allowed Law to go into hiding.
Teliru: Come out, you coward!
She searches for Law, flying around and occasionally knocking machines out of her path. Meanwhile, Fractus creates a dark mist from her hand which surrounds her, soon cloaking her position. Then, from this cloud, multiple large rocks are thrown at rapid speeds towards Belecpiton machines, some even piercing smaller machines and hitting others. The cloud then dissipates, revealing Fractus has recreated a rock club, which she uses to impale a large anti-air tank from above.
Zeronax, who was looking on from a distance, looks horrified.
Zeronax: Shit! Retreat, everyone!
The remaining machines begin to retreat back. However, the Termidas army still bombards them with projectiles in order to destroy as many of their machines as they can, so as to make it harder for them to come back.
Zeronax: What?! Even after we’re retreating, they’re still attacking us!
Law flies by Zeronax’s side.
Law: You can’t trust anyone in a war.
Zeronax: Right. Hold me in place...
Zeronax smirks. Law then creates winds around Zeronax as his spear begins surging with a seemingly very high amount of electricity, before he releases a powerful beam of electricity which he waves towards the Termidas army, dealing heavy damage, particularly to Flydevins in the air. Eventually, the beam fizzles out, and Zeronax holds his head up in pride, confident that the message has been made. And indeed, the Termidas army soon begins retreating as well, thus ending the battle.
Fractus then checks up on Diamond, whose wounds have been treated.
Fractus: Hmpf. It was going well, until that last beam.
Diamond: Y-y-yeah.
Teliru flies back, landing near Coarbel.
Teliru: No idea where that son of a bitch went.
She looks at Coarbel’s eye.
Teliru: Your eye…
Coarbel: Dead.
Teliru: Those Belecpitons will pay.
She twirls her hammer around.
Diamond: F-for now, we head home, however.
Teliru: I sure hope I get payback soon, though…
Fractus: I’m sure we will, one day.
Teliru: Hopefully.
The four then fly back to Termidas along with the rest of the Termidas army.
==Cast==
Listed by order of appearance.
FractusGW.png|Fractus Zhantom
DiamondGW.png|Diamond Hallion
TeliruGW.png|Teliru Tei
CoarbelGW.png|Coarbel Lignate
HalcyateGW.png|Halcyate Morluda
ZeronaxGW.png|Zeronax Cleavecut
LawGW.png|Law Laterfall
==Trivia==
*The Goldscrap War's working name in development was "Belecpiton Battle", in reference to the story's focus on the Belecpitons. The name was changed because it felt too silly for the story's themes and general tone.
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