Unbridled Wrath

**Unbridled Wrath** explores more of the megacorporation's hybrid mecha, the APEX-363, a savage beast that craves nothing more but bloodshed through his hunger and great rage to fuel his conquest.

## History

### The Apex Predator

The ravenous, cruel APEX-363 becomes online to fulfil his new goal: hunt the G/NEX. He swiftly discovers that a couple warriors have infiltrated the megacorporation's heart: Brimstone, Freya. His appetite for killing resurfaced after an unbridled rage, breaking up several metal walls with his own hands and then ruthlessly murdering captives within, jail after prison, camp after camp. PROJECT containment units have despatched Stingers to cripple his body, which can only hold him for so long.

Reports confirm that he has killed over fifteen thousand innocent people, while simply roaming around Brimstone to look for way to kill and destroy anything in his path. Muldoon Lundgren later declared that APEX-363 is no longer their mecha and entrusts PROJECT ANNIHILATOR to destroy him in order to dismantle his parts someday. As one would expect, even RUBICORE had trouble facing the beast, as there are corpses of their soldiers lying all around the same place.

### SWIFT BLAST into the G/NEX

The electrifying SWIFT BLAST is currently doing her daily jargon of destroying all evil forces in her path, which normally consists of blasting droids and enemy soldiers, which proved detrimental when her stunts provoked a fearsome, giant hybrid beast behind her, forcing Zelina to scream and flee for her life as she tries to slow the bloodthirsty mecha, APEX-363. Since her attempts were futile, she bravely exploited the skyscrapers to her advantage and to collect her breath, stumbling onto HAYABUSA-096 and EION-013 in the same building by chance.

Danger awaits for them immediately, as APEX-363 soon bursts from the building, fighting the giant mecha mid-air with some effort. Upon reaching the ground, they are unable to react in time, the savage hybrid soon killed anything in his path.

### Halting the Beast

APEX-363 showcases his brutality by slaughtering anyone that becomes a bystander to their crossfire, easily piling up civilian casualties and collateral damage grew worse than expected. EION-013 then proceeds to blind him, whilst HAYABUSA-096 and SWIFT BLAST has diverted his attention by strategically attacking his weak points, but the electrifying defector attacks him in all directions instead. Their efforts were only marginally effective, to the point where the young defector risked it all to use her ability to release a surge of electricity, disabling the beast long enough.

Though that only fuelled his rage and proceeds to roar in anguish, with the roar being loud enough to deafen them for the time being. That is, until ASHE-159 saved them from certain death by shooting an arrow into the beast's exposed head, even if it does not take down the beast, it sends him retreating towards the shadows. The G/NEX warriors then retreated, but Ashe stayed behind to walk with the defector, intending to teach her the basics of Hand-to-hand combat.

## Aftermath

### PROJECT

For the first time, this horrible occurrence was unknown to the general public and had not disseminated around the country. This was due to Muldoon Lundgren's efforts to cover up the occurrence since he considered it was too terrible, and something like that might easily leave a nasty stain on their terrifying reputation as a worldwide ruler with an iron grip. The Command Line, on the other hand, is having difficulty removing the devastation left by APEX-363's insatiable rampage, to the point where RUBICORE has ended up shooting a few soldiers in the process. To make matters worse, the event has been discovered by COALESCENCE.

Clearly, they suffered a considerable amount of property and wealth in the incident.

### G/NEX

The repercussions of this incident had no positive or negative impact on the whole resistance movement, since they were partially blamed for civilian losses, but were subsequently hailed when they sent the hybrid beast into the shadows after a successful combat with him. ASHE-159 was visibly disturbed by the hybrid beast, having described it as one of the megacorporation's most horrific creations ever. Not to mention that it resulted in the addition of a new rebel to their ranks: Zelina, the SWIFT BLAST.

However, she remained to operate solo, under the guidance of Ashe.

### COALESCENCE

For COALESCENCE, it provided them a tactical advantage by amassing tons of intel in the entire incident occuring in Brimstone, Freya; Which was centred upon Sector 1 to 4, wherein the carnage took place that ravaged for a few days. This allowed them to completely learn all of PROJECT's current supreme Titan-class mecha designs, with the exception of PROJECT ANNIHILATOR.

## Cast

**Unbridled Wrath** only involves a few individuals, which are HAYABUSA-096, EION-013 and PROJECT SWIFT BLAST. The main adversary that drove the entire incident rolling was the *Apex Predator*, the Mecha 363. Uniquely, this does not feature more than a few characters as it dives deeper to the wrathful hybrid machine.

### Main Cast

* PROJECT SWIFT BLAST
* HAYABUSA-096
* EION-013
* APEX-363
* ASHE-159

## Trivia

### General

* Unbridled Wrath takes place a year before the incident of *Rampancy*, exploring the carnage of APEX-363 in a way that has not been seen before.
* The entire pool of reliable references sourced to create a full article of the incident was only revealed during 3026.
	+ This means it was only revealed in the new era, when the planet was full of life and the megacorporation's presence was exterminated for good.
* According to insiders, the G/NEX was not familiar about this operation despite the inclusion of SWIFT BLAST. HAYABUSA-096 also confirmed that they didn't want the free world to learn the true extent of the Apex Predator's carnage.