Deep beneath the ruins of Shibuya lay Area X, ZECT's central fortress.
Shrill alarms rang out everywhere, and blood-red warning lights flashed madly through the dim corridors.
"Why?! Why have the Worms suddenly come out in full force!!!"
In the central control room on the lowest level, Negishi, leader of the Natives, wore a completely twisted expression on his usually sanctimonious, kindly old face.
He trembled all over as he watched the screen, where an army of thousands upon thousands of Worms poured into the base like a dense green tide.
"It's because of that unknown gravitational field that erupted in Shibuya earlier!"
Beside him, Mishima Masato, covered in blood, gritted his teeth and stared fixedly at the radar.
"That power shattered the magnetic field concealing our Underground Base! The Worm leaders caught our scent! They've come to wipe us out, root and branch!"
"Damn it! If we can't hold them off, then everyone can die together!!!"
Negishi plunged into utter despair and madness, lunging for the red lever on the central console.
"Force the pulse broadcast to activate immediately! Assimilate every human in Tokyo into a Native! Use the humans as meat shields against those Worms!!!"
Bang!
Just as Negishi's hand was about to touch the lever, a muffled gunshot rang out!
A bullet pierced Negishi's arm, splattering green blood.
"Who?!"
At the control room doorway stood Superintendent General Kagami Riku, wearing a black suit stained with gunpowder smoke and holding a service pistol that was still smoking.
A Worm's claws had torn open his abdomen, and blood had stained his white shirt red, but he still stood resolutely before the console like an unshakable iron tower.
"Kagami Riku... you lowly human, you dare betray me?!" Negishi clutched his arm, his face savage.
"Humanity will never become a shield