979, or Matthew as he now knew, rushed out the door and ran towards the hanger where his new mech was.

He didn't realize he was still naked, but nobody gave him a second look, as everyone was scrambling to their battle mechs.

Behind him, he turned and looked and saw a Ravager killing other numbers in the corridor.

"How did a Ravager enter here?" Matt cursed.

He activated his adrenaline and his body suddenly sped up, allowing him to run at impossible human speeds.

Although he had special abilities, he wasn't going to battle a Ravager barehanded and naked.

He arrived at the hanger and climbed into the mech.

It wasn't named yet, but he knew it was specially designed with him in mind.

He closed the cockpit and started it up.

The mech booted up and he controlled it to move towards the hanger door.

After he scoured the computer, he realized that Dekken, as the mechanical genius that created all the technology here, was very lax in security.

Knowing this, he used the password he used for everything and hacked into the base control system from his mech.

"And here we go" he said, pressing a button

The hanger door opened and he was shocked to see the destruction all around

The force field protecting the city completely collapsed and there were millions of Ravagers wreaking death and destruction everywhere.

He immediately shot out but was unable to close the hanger door in time as a few Ravagers managed to enter the base.

But when he looked around him, he saw the other hanger doors completely overrun by Ravagers, which explains how they entered in the first place. 

"Shit! We're overrun!" Matt said as he started opening fire. 

Dekken gave him a mech that could do it all. 

This mech was also a 8 meter tall hulk, but it had all the missiles and toughness of a combat type, it had extra booster jets to move at higher speeds and laser weapons like a speed type, and had the gauss cannon and force fields like the blast type. 

Matt's mech didn't go very far from the base at all as there were literally millions of Ravagers around him. 

There were mechs all around him, but many of them never stood a chance. 

He wondered where 950 was, but could not see her mech anywhere, let alone those of his other friends 970 and 985.

While fighting, he turned on his communications to see if he could coordinate with anyone. 

He suddenly heard a familiar scream and turned to see 832's mech self destruct not too far away. 

"No!" Matt said as his shields blocked the shockwave from 832's explosion. 

Matt's eyes dilated as he allowed his hormones run freely. 

His heart started racing as he could hear his blood pumping in his ears. 

His mech charged and started slaughtering Ravagers everywhere around him.

He became a weapon of incredible destruction as nothing within his firing range survived his barrage.

Minutes became hours, and hours turned to night. He completely lost track of time as he battled on.  

But no matter how hard he fought, the enemy was endless. 

Before long, all his weapons ran out of ammo and power, he started using them as blunt weapons. 

His battle axe and longsword had both worn out and broke by then. 

The battle mech was made of sterner stuff than his earlier Romulus 13, that no matter how hard the Ravagers tried to take out it's arms and legs, it remained in one piece. 

He bashed the monsters with his mech limbs, and while the mech arms and legs stayed intact, loosing only it's fingers that no longer needed to grip weapons, eventually the mech ran out of energy!

The mech suddenly lost power and stood still as the Ravagers smashed it to the ground. 

They continued to bash on the hard exterior of the mech as the floor collapsed below them, crashing into the base that was hidden below. 

By now, the base was in ruins, covered with blood and gore of the humans that were attacked by the Ravagers that broke inside. 

The Ravagers continued attacking the cockpit of Matt's mech, and eventually the glass cracked.

But it remained intact, protecting him inside. Eventually the Ravagers got bored and went on to search for other enemies. 

Matt waited for hours, looking through his cracked window to see if it was safe. 

He waited for 3 days, before finding that the coast was clear. 

Without power, the cockpit was sealed shut and he was unable to open it manually. 

He pushed with all his might, using his adrenal gland to produce adrenaline and other steroids to increase his strength  

The cockpit door barely budged with all his strength, but it was not opening. 

"Hup..." he pushed harder and started activating his pineal gland

*Boom* the door of the cockpit flew off into the far distance, causing a loud bang. 

Matt hid and looked around cautiously. 

With no Ravagers around, he climbed out of the cockpit and took cover in the nearby collapsed wall. 

The place was dark and silent, with not a single life around. 

He recognized where he was and started walking through the corridors that led deeper into the base. 

To his surprise, he started seeing familiar faces of people wondering around, looking lost. 

But he could swear they looked a bit... faded or something. 

"943?" he said, talking to a familiar face. 

But 943 ignored him and continued wondering around.

It was when 943 passed by, phasing through his hand that he realized that 943 was a ghost!

His pineal gland was still active! He forgot to deactivate it!

But instead of deactivating it, he left it on. 

Perhaps he could find out from any of the ghosts if anyone else was alive. 

He passed by the communications room and took s peek inside.

The whole room was destroyed and there were blood and gore everywhere.

To his surprise, the mangled remnants of the 2 bodies here had remnants of silver clothes on them.

They were the Watcher's bodies, and Dekken and Miranda's ghost suddenly rose from their mangled bodies

"979?" Miranda's ghost asked, looking at him.

"I prefer Matt" he replied

"Oh... you found out. How did you get out of the bonds?" she asked again

"I used my telekinetic abilities" he replied

"Oh! So stimulating the pineal gland works!" she said happily

"That is how I can see you" Matt replied

"What do you mean?" Miranda asked

"Never mind" Matt said. He wasn't sure that informing her that she was dead would let her leave peacefully or not. But that was no longer his concern.

"Where is the time travel device?" he said

"It's in the morgue. We bring the bodies from the past and salvage the usable ones and dispose the rest there. Why do you ask? Do you want to be our assistant?" she asked  

"Yeah sure, why not?" he replied

"Then follow me" she said and hovered out of the room,

Matthew followed her ghost while looking around for traces of 950.

"Do you know 950?" he asked Miranda

"Sure. I did the research on every person we acquired" she answered

"So what's her story? Who is she? How did she die?" Matt asked

"Her name was Emily Downing. She was an upper class daughter of a count in England. But she was kidnapped for ransom and raped in captivity.

She was returned safely, but it was found that she had gotten several STDs and AIDS by the kidnappers. 

She couldn't tell her parents, nor the people she knew as it would bring shame to her uppity family. 

She went away and was never seen by her family again.

What she did was take a trip to Thailand, book a hotel room and overdosed on sleeping pills, killing herself in her sorrow.

It was easy removing the poison from the body, and a bit troublesome curing her STDs and HIV virus, but nowhere near as difficult as healing your body" she said

It was then that they passed by the dorms on the way to the morgue. 

He took a peek in and saw a Ravager still in there eating a victim.

There were multiple mutilated bodies everywhere and the dorm was wrecked.  

It looked like there was a battle that took place here as the humans tried to fight the Ravager. 

As he looked carefully, he realized that among the bodies was 950! 

Her lower body was already eaten, and only her head and parts of her upper chest remained. 

Something snapped inside Matt and he charged at the large monster, punching it with all his strength. 

As his body was pumped full of adrenaline and other steroids, he was much stronger than normal. 

But even then, the monster barely felt it and swiped one of it's claws at Matt. 

He felt several ribs crack as he went flying into the nearby wall. 

Matt grunted as he slowly got up, just as the monster pounced on him. 

It's mouth chomped down on him, but he managed to activate his pineal gland, and stopped it in mid bite. 

"Uuugh" Matt grunted as the Ravager's sharp teeth pierced his chest and stomach from the front, and parts of his back. 

He yelled fiercely as he expanded his telekinetic bubble, causing the monster's head to explode all around him. 

"I... did it" he gasped, seeing the headless Ravager in front of him, and it's exploded pieces of head all around. 

"Have you seen 979? I need to see him" he suddenly heard a voice. 

He looked around and 950's ghost was hovering over her dead body. 

He slowly got up and limped over to her ghost. Could he revive her with this futuristic technology?

Since he had learned much from Miranda's files, perhaps he could implant pituitary glands into her body like him too?

His hand touched 950's face, but he could not feel her. 

"Have you seen 979? I worry about him" she said to Matt, not recognizing him at all. 

Matt sighed. No, even if he revived her, what are they going to do in this ruined place? There was never going to be a happy ending here.

If he goes back in time, maybe he will rescue her. 

"Goodbye 95.. I mean Emily. I will see you again" Matt said sadly as he left the dorm. 

"Have you seen 979?...." he could hear her continuing to ask as he gritted his teeth in pain and left down the dorm room. 

His chest and back was bleeding and his ribs were cracked. So he immediately thought about healing, and hoped that was enough to start his body releasing healing hormones. 

He continued down the corridor, passing by several more rooms before finally entering the morgue

The ghosts of Miranda and Dekken were waiting for him there.

"Miranda told me you will assist us in retrieving bodies, yes?" Dekken's ghost said

"Yes. I will go" Matt said

"Then step into the machine" he said and activated the machine

Matt was surprised that the machine turned on. He assumed as ghosts they wouldn't be able to touch the buttons. 

But then again, ghosts could affect physical reality. Perhaps it has to do with telekinesis or something, since his pineal gland could see them and was connected to his telekinetic ability. 

Just then, another Ravager crawled down the corridor and looked into the room. 

Matt was alarmed as he stood in the machine

"Watcher Dekken! Hurry!" he yelled

"Why are you so impatient. It's time travel. It doesn't matter if you're early or late. You will get there in the right time" the ghost of Dekken said

It was as if both Miranda and Dekken could not see the Ravager approaching behind them. 

The monster didn't seem to see the ghosts of Miranda and Dekken and had eyes only for the still naked Matt. 

It pounced onto the machine with Matt in it, and Matt immediately blocked and repelled it with his telekinesis. 

The monster flew through Dekken, smashing the machine he was fiddling on, causing sparks to fly everywhere. 

The machine started beeping and flashing red lights around Matt but he was too busy with his eyes on the Ravager as it instantly got up and cautiously moved towards Matt again. 

Matt however, was not in great shape. His nose was bleeding and his head was pounding for using his telekinesis too many times in such a short period. His pineal gland was also activated the whole time and he had to brace himself from falling inside the machine. 

He looked up to see the machine Dekken was using was on fire, even though Dekken's ghost didn't seem to mind

The Ravager pounced on the machine again, slamming Matt into the back of the machine.

His arms and legs desperately pushed against the head of the monster, which was snapping it's jaws menacingly. 

"And here we go" Dekken said, finally activating the machine as the flames got higher and higher. 

There was a flash of light and suddenly the Ravager stopped moving.

The time travel machine activated, and Matt was gone, together with the head of the Ravager, leaving behind it's headless body.