Impending Threat

**Impending Threat** tackles Eion and Adler's rivalry as they intend to settle things, once and for all. It takes place shortly after the events of *Anti-Corporations*.

## History

### Prelude

Eion Brightblast has decided to put an end to their rivalry once and for all. ADLEHR insists on bringing no one, not wanting anyone to interfere with their fight, declaring it "between us, all personel." Eion later abandoned the NEW/G headquarters in favour of travelling the entire planet to meet the reaper, regardless of the circumstances. The answer, however, is painfully clear: he is somewhere in Heliga, Eion's home country.

Eion takes a while to find a map, and utilise it to deduce ADLEHR's possible locations. However, he hallucinates as the reaper entraps him to his lantern, now stuck into the Void. ADLEHR is nowhere to be found, and challenges Eion to a series of mind games. Without hesitation, he accepts the challenges in order to exit the void.

### Mind Games

For the first game, Eion faces a series of mirrors. Then ADLEHR declares that if he shoots the right target, he progresses and if he doesn't, he loses a limb. To make it worse, the reaper employs the illusion of adding Laura. Eion succeeds after nearly shooting the wrong glass, which reveals that shooting the wrong one unleashes a powerful soul to kill him, whilst when he succeeded, the area becomes clear.

In the second game, he faces "clones" of himself, which he is forced to fight him through Hand-to-hand combat after succeeding from the first. He managed to win after exploiting his mind games, using his guns to blast an object that prevents him from moving around the place freely. In the last and third game, snakes surround his position and souls are surrounding him, which ADLEHR declares that the only way to survive, is to use his mind, and save his "wife".

Though he was fooled by the appearance of OLIVEIRI-709 at first, Eion composes himself and shoots the fake wife, which was formed through souls, and he uses his speed to escape. ADLEHR tries to stop him, but he throws a few TIME WINDER grenades and in return, destroys the challenge and forces him back to the Physical World. The third mind game was extremely excruciating. He has to face a series of combat situations, which were designed to test his sanity. He had enough of it and proceeds to survive through luck, and he was then faced by a series of parkour scenarios, which he ultimately succeeds to prevent falling from his death.

He falls down and is now in Froak, without any signs of ADLEHR. However, he comes across a deep colosseum, where he knew ADLEHR was waiting for him.

### Fight!

Eion Brightblast now encounters ADLEHR. The reaper praises his ability to survive his series of mind games, which the latter only implies that he wanted him to die, once and for all. However, the reaper decides to make things far more personal by reminding his past life, being a PROJECT soldier, his wife whom was a bounty hunter that became good, and the suffering that he has caused throughout their lives. Eion is unamused but shows visible anger to his words, claiming that he knows nothing but to kill and take souls for a living. Without warning, ADLEHR lunges at him and throws his scythe, but misses, and throws multiple ETERNITY PRISON as he intends to prevent him from escaping.

ADLEHR declares that this fight will be his last, and will not be able to live a longer in the new era. It was a DEATH SENTENCE, and he was hooked, then the reaper kicks him. He survives the impact by using a holographic shield to protect himself from death. He then circles around and shoots him repeatedly, all while causing minimal effect to him, which the latter only laughs in sheer annoyance. Eion then resorts to shooting **LEGION's LIGHT**  numerous times before he stops, as the reaper drops a lantern.

### The Aftermath

ADLEHR then traps him with the lantern, which Eion holds onto as he is dragged to be sucked inside the lantern. With no other option but to grab onto something, he decides to shoot him in the face with a **STELLARIS BLAZE**, blinding him long enough for him to miss his scythe, impaling him and throwing him to the lantern. Seeing an opportunity, he leaps on top of ADLEHR and aggressively shoots him through **HEROIC CULLING**, leaving a trail of plasma in the reaper's face. The reaper then blindly throws him to the ground in an attempt to kill his adversary.

However, by the time he regained his vision, ADLEHR declares that it will be his death sentence, as he decides to bring souls with him, only for Eion to shoot him in the feet and kicks him with enough force, that sends him to the void. Now seeing that the reaper is gone forever, and their rivalry has been concluded, Eion later leaves the snowy arena, only to be attacked by Rodion.

## Cast

* **Eion Brightblast**: Eion (real name unknown; this is his most popular first name) is a gunslinger who is a member of the Wardens of Light and falls in love with Laura. However, she was temporarily killed and then reborn, both of whom despised the reaper. They eventually subdued and "killed" him, and both of them became cybernetic warriors in a far, more futuristic era.

* **ADLEHR**: The Nextech enhanced Reaper whom serves as the mortal enemy of Eion himself, dating way back more than a hundred years ago, or possibly more than an entire millennia. Formerly part of the Four Soultakers of God, Adler went rogue and opposed god, he suffered from banishment by the other three, forcing him to become independent and start his path of revenge, crossing with the *Wardens of Light* irrevocably, where he meets his rival and his wife.

## Trivia

### General

* This only featured two characters: Eion Brightblast and ADLEHR.
* The fight takes place in Froak, the mysterious cold region of Heliga, not known to any recorded history, and is inhabited by Yetis.
* Fiona Vance was unaware of their duel, to the point of being dumbfounded by his disappearance.
* MERCS confirmed their duel after it was over. Surprisingly, the NEW/G did not consider it as a major threat.
* ADLEHR has tortured Eion through every possible way of mind games, before having an actual fight.
* Frozia was reported to be scouting the entire fight.

### Developmental Notes

* This chapter was simplified as the original was way too complex.