Alpha

Tasked with hunting down and slaying Saber by its creator, Alpha's burning hatred for Saber makes him a candidate for the role.Alpha’s first mission was to destroy the traitor, Saber.

Alpha brought with him a special companion – the transformed combat machine, Beta. Thus they set out to seek Saber. What even their creator Octavius hadn’t predicted, however, was that the seeds of sentinent thought had begun to sprout in the recesses of Alpha’s mind.

Alpha remembered clear as day the night Saber had betrayed them: he and Beta had attained consciousness at the exact same time, and they were even linked together on a deeper level.

When Saber has forged his way into the Laboratory, and slashed down upon Beta, Alpha had felt every ounce of Beta’s crushing terror as if it were his own, and a new agonizing feeling too – even though he knew not even what it was at that time...

From the viewpoint of humanity, this feeling could be described as ‘hatred’. Beta and Alpha’s consciousness connection was so strong, it was as if they had been a single entity. This was a bond that extended far, far further than mere blood relations as experienced by humanity. More than just machines from the same batch, they were true brothers that came into existence together. However, Saber had taken Alpha’s brother from him...

On a dark and stormy night, much like that of Saber’s escape, Alpha found the traitor.

The first time they crossed swords, Alpha was heavily damaged and Saber readied the killing blow. Yet is was just then that Beta charged between them to block it.

Most unexpectedly, Saber sheathed his blade. He looked at Alpha and Beta, both in a sorry state. He had once considered them naught but mere puppets, controlled by the scientists of Laboratory 1718. Now, though, he saw that beneath their flesh and mechanical skeletons there laid greater possibility. He smiled, as if to provoke 'Alpha, and drawled mockingly: “You soulless hunks of scrap can never hope to defeat me in battle.”

Disappearing into the rainy night, a question wacked Alpha’s brain: just what, exactly, is the soul?

Alpha did not give up hope on his revenge. Yet he believed that the secrets to this ‘soul’ Saber mentioned must surely lay in the act of making himself stronger.

When the ragging storm finally cleared, Alpha was staggering with Beta in his arms, calculation results flickering wildly throughout his core: the soul, is power.

ORIGIN Laboratory 1718, Baker Island ALIAS Blade of Enmity Ultimate Weapon (formerly) WEAPONS Aircraft Beta Mechanical blade