sorry for the long wait, lots things got in the way
Hopefully this longer chapter will make up for it. Also because I dont feel like I'm where I'm supposed to be yet
Enjoy
Bullhead (Winter Schnee POV)
"Listen up everyone we are to quickly dispatch the Nevermore and prevent them to join the cluster at Mountain Glenn" said Schnee as they slowly got closer to the flock of Nevermores.
As they continued to fly in closer she got a good look to see her small group of soldiers prepare there weapons and the small handful of Atlas robots who were ready on standby. The gates of the bullhead started to open slowly allowing much of the chilly wind into the cabin. Winter Schnee taking out her sword to prepare for the upcoming battle.
"On my mark, we all open fire." She said preparing a few glyphs to unleash upon the Nevermores.
"Hold Steady…. Aim …. Open Fire!"
The small recon team opened fire to the unsuspecting flock of Nevermores tearing through their body and wings. Two of them quickly went down before the flock immediately split up into two groups to evade fire. As the groups continued to fire at the flock on both sides they failed to notice the one who flew below the aircraft and barged into the bottom of the cabin throwing everyone off balance. These few seconds allowed the Nevermores to come in quickly from the sides to tackle the bullhead to the ground. The constant tackling made ship rock back and forth destabilizing the bullhead not allowing a single moment to allow the soldiers inside to make a counter attack. A Nevermore quickly got in close and dug its claws into the side of the bullhead and with its large beak started to peck at the robots trying to stabilize themselves to shoot. The Nevermore ripped through a robot with ease while trapping another in its beak and chucked it outside into the dawning sky. Schnee managed to pull herself together and used a glyph to maintain her balance in the bullhead. A light blue circle with detailed markings spread onto the floor below her and pointing her sword at the Nevermore a few more of them appeared behind her creating a wall of highly intricate markings that seemingly floated in the air. The Nevermore shriek into the aircraft before miniature ice white versions of itself flew in a constant stream towards the big black bird that irritated them.
The miniature ice Nevermores tackling into its body at an accelerated rate gave way into its flesh before the ice Nevermores start to pierce into its body to which the Nevermore shrieked in pain as it let its claws off the bullhead and fell from the sky into the rocky lands below. With this Nevermore gone the soldiers and robots regained their footing began a counter attack. Another Nevermore attempted to do the same before Schnee dashed to the other side of the bullhead and as the Nevermore landed Schnee unleashed a barrage of slashes onto the bird. Each strike carrying the strength of her family and the grace of her will. The Nevermore unable to react to her graceful movements before feeling its head slowly becoming heavier as it slided off of its body.
The recon team started to turn the tide around shooting at the flock that slowly started to lose its numbers before feeling another hit from below their feet losing their balance once more.
"If we keep getting hit like this, I don't think we will be able to hold on to this thing any longer!" shouted the pilot as he tried to move the bullhead into multiple directions to avoid another collision with a Nevermore.
Winter Schnee bit her lip before moving closer to the edge and popping out her sword to slice a Nevermore through its body as it quickly came from the side trying to make a good snack out of her. Glyphs formed under feet as she slowly made her way to walk to the bottom of the bullhead from the outside. Each step taken with extreme concentration, so she wouldn't fall to her doom. Once at the bottom of the bullhead she found her self face to face with a Nevermore that clawed a foothold into the aircraft. Her world now inverted was almost disorienting, but she wouldn't allow that to mess with her mission. She took up her usual combat stance, feet linearly aligned, arms placed in a 45-degree angle and her sword positioned in between her chest to protect both her torso and her head.
The Nevermore quickly took the first move tried to peck at the woman standing in front of it. Winter gracefully dodged to the sides almost as though she was in a dance before counter attacking with a slash to its skull-like head pushing the Nevermore back leaving a nice crack across the center of its head. The Nevermore spread out its wing almost mockingly showing its superiority. But Winter knew better as she took a few steps back as multiple sharp feathers shot out of its wings leaving her in the defensive. Winter frantically waving her sword around trying to dodge and block the rain of knives that flew to her. A few feather grazed her sides and legs but she felt almost nothing as her aura took most of the damage. The rain of feathers stopped and before Schnee to attack again, the Nevermore quickly made its way to her and delivered a sweeping attack its wing swiping her off her feet.
Schnee almost panicked she felt herself fall off the underside of the bullhead before quickly shoving her sword into the aircraft dangling defenseless against the Nevermore as it continued to walk over to her opening its beak to nab at her. Schnee quickly formed another glyph at the bottom of the Nevermores head and unleashed a few more miniature Nevermores. The Nevermore quickly tried to shield its self with its wings as Schnee swung upwards and placed to her feet back to the underside of the bullhead reinforcing her legs with her glyphs. Still shielding itself from Schnee's barrage of mini Nevermores, Schnee shot towards to the nevermore using another of the glyphs to greatly increase her speed and slashing through the Nevermore's wings. The Nevermore shrieked in pain and went to hit her again with its wings. Winter allowed herself to be dropped for a moment as its wings went right below her legs before she stabbed her sword through it. She quickly stuck her feet onto the Nevermore's wings and ran across them slicing across its wings till she reached the Nevermores body. The Nevermore screamed as it desperately tried to shake her off but to no avail as her glyphs pinned her down its her body. She made her way to the Nevermores head and struck down her sword. The blade striking through its head and out the other side. The Nevermore went silent and Schnee quickly made her back to underside of the bullhead as she walked back into the cabin as the Nevermore slowly went limp and dangled from the bottom of the bullhead before its claws gave out and fell. As Schnee got back into the cabin and surveyed her surroundings to realize that more Nevemores have appeared.
"How long till we get to Mountain Glenn!?" shouted Schnee still looking at the new army of Nevermores that surrounded them.
"We will get there in a few minutes!" exclaimed the pilot as he tried to his best to maneuver the bullhead around the Nevermores.
"We aren't equipped to handle this many! We are going to need reinforcements!" exclaimed Schnee as tried going through all the strategies possible to help her team get to Mountian Glenn with the least casualties possible.
And almost as she said that she heard explosions coming from behind them. She quickly looked out to see four more ships of Atlas robots equipped with a mixture of explosive weapons and heavy machine guns firing at the flock of Nevermores.
Thank you General she thought.
"Ok, everyone reinforcements have arrived which means we are to go all out on these beasts!" She exclaimed to her fellow soldiers as they reloaded their weapons. Their faces quickly lit up with glee and proceeded to continue the fight.
Before long the flock of Nevermores became noting but a handful of creatures and scattered. What had remained were four dented and partially damaged aircrafts as they came into view of Mountain Glenn.
"Mountain Glenn up ahead" said the pilot almost happy to see something other than Nevermores.
Winter Schnee was exhausted and she could feel her aura getting depleted. The bullheads started to descend and as they did Schnee started to hear a different kind of noise. Faint pops could be heard as well as the sounds of what could have been falling marbles. As they got closer and closer to Mountain Glenn the sounds become much more clearer as Winter's eyes widened to hear the sounds of explosions, gunshots and broken concrete.
She walked towards to the cockpit and looked out the front window to see Mountain Glenn illuminating in multiple colored lights and piles of dust rising from between the buildings that seemingly disappeared one by one.
Mountain Glenn
The bullheads landed to the closest possible safe zone and Schnee and the rest of her team including her reinforcements quickly made their way to the streets of Mountain Glenn where the noise of battle grew louder. They came across the main street before seeing a Goliath in the distance charge through a building leaving a large gap in the center. Winter Schnee wasn't sure but she could swear that there was a silhouette of someone being slammed through the building by the Goliath. Shortly after she saw the same Goliath almost being thrown into the building behind it leaving a dust cloud behind it accompanied by flashes of blue light in the distance.
That's when it hit her. She quickly looked around her surroundings, her jaw dropping at what she saw. Its almost baffling to that didn't see it until now. All around her team lied streets filled with the carcasses of Grimm, all sorts of Grimm. She looked toward the street where she came from and saw piles of Grimm carcasses that seemed to be in uncountable quantities. Something wasn't right and whatever it may be she hoped that the Goliath was just having a tantrum.
"Check the Grimm spike status, Michael." She said.
Michael, one of the soldiers accompanying Schnee took out his data pad.
"Ms. Schnee … the spike is gone… only a handful remain"
Schnee gulped down her saliva.
"Everyone maintain defensive position" she "calmly" said to her team.
She couldn't be calm in this situation. If her suspicions were right than she clearly saw a Goliath being thrown across the street. A few more gun shots were heard and a explosion that seemed to come from the street ahead of them.
"EVERYONE COVER YOURSELVES" Schnee shouted as a tall building in street ahead started to collapse on itself. A large dust cloud came bursting from the collapsed building blinding them for a moment while at the same time multiple cries of Grimm were heard and silenced.
Schnee coughed and tried to clear her eyes of dust when she saw a large silhouette coming from the dust cloud.
"EVERYONE TAKE AIM!" she exclaimed to her team.
The silhouette got closer and closer getting more define by the second. Schnee pointed her sword forward and as she did her hand started to shake. Chills went down her spine. She looked at her team for a moment and could see that she wasn't the only one. Cold filled the air and their breathing grew heavy as sweat appeared on their foreheads. The cloud of dust started to settle and revealed a tall bulky person clad in dented heavy green armor. Behind him stood nothing but rubble and open flames. Two red dots emanated from his helmet, with such intensity it was unsettling.
Winter Schnee couldn't tell anything about this person. She wanted to tell her team to open fire but she couldn't. She was frozen. Words wouldn't come out of her mouth.
The armored person continued to walk as though his foot steps had purpose. In his hands was an old shotgun to which was quickly changed to a chainsaw. He turned it on. The noise of it was loud and it was screeching as if it was hungry. A few feet from him a Nevermore that was barely alive, limping. Without effort the armored person dug it deep into the Nevermore and continued to move forward casually slicing it open allowing everyone to hear its final screams of agony.
Winter Schnee and her team stood dumbfounded when he slowly reached for the head of beowolf and effortlessly ripped it off. Its flesh easily getting stretched apart. Everyone still kept their weapons trained on him, but it was futile. They knew fear but this…this was not fear… it's something much worse.
The armored person winded his arms back for a while, head still in hand. The person threw it. Winter saw how the head flew over them, unknown to them the Nevermore that was swooping in for a sneak attack. The beewolf's head collided with the Nevermores head with such intensity it came crashing down a few feet in front of them. Unconscious. The person went up to it. Placed his foot on its head and almost as though he was stepping on an egg the Nevermores head cracked open and his foot went in emanating a few cracking sounds. The red dots on the persons helmet soon dissipated leaving nothing but a dark visor.
Slayers POV
It felt as though it was ages since the Slayer last used berserk and with the amount of the black beasts, she was fighting made it worth the while. It was like an addicting drug, it caused her a huge feeling of relief having ripped through these black beasts or demons alike. While finding the red sphere is rare, its only found in Hell or in places where they have an immense influence. However, she was able to create a fake version of it by overloading the argent energy through certain areas of her body. But it came with consequence of extreme fatigue and exhaustion which the Slayer learned to ignore. The Slayer looked ahead of her to see a group of what seemed to a sort of military personnel.
"6 signatures detected" said VEGA
The Slayer examined the small army that assembled before him and noticed how similar the armor and clothing on people standing was akin to that of the UAC however more monochromatic. Her eyes focusing on the small handful of people standing at the front clearly showing superiority. Specifically, the one holding a very thin sword. The Slayer noticed her shaking hand and her heavy breaths as she looked at Slayer in a defensive stance. The Slayer glanced over and began walking closer to them and noticed the woman at the front taking a small step back. The Slayer grinned and walked through them brushing her shoulder against the woman who appeared to be paralyzed at her presence with the rest of the group as they did nothing to stop her from walking through.
As she continued to walk her eyes darted to the right and noticed a white silhouette run past her and before once again stood the woman with sword this time in a much more aggressive stance.
"On behalf of the Atlas Military we must request that you come with us immediately and should you resist we will be forced to apprehend you in any means that we see fit" she said quickly to partially hide the fear that was building up with in her.
The Slayer walked past her ignoring her request.
"Refusal to comply would be deemed resisting arrest and force will be taken…"
The Slayer kept walking
"You leave me no choice"
Suddenly she felt a presence quickly come from behind and as her eyes darted to side, she saw a thin blade make its way to her helmet.
Schnee's eyes widened to see her blade make a cut into the persons visor. Leaving her sword partially stuck in the armored persons helmet.
Huh?! She thought.
A murderous aura swept across Schnee's body as the Slayers turned her head slowly in her direction so she could see the cut of her sword in all its glory. She quickly took the sword out but as she did, she witnessed the cut of the persons helmet slowly mend itself back together as though she had never laid a finger on the person. She started to panic as an all too well experience came that she hoped she would never have to experience again crawled back
DEATH
She was too late to move out of the way as she saw a fist coming from right under her torso, and she knew it would probably spell the end of her as she closed of her eyes and tried to brace for impact. However, after a moment she opened her eyes to see the fist stop right before it made contact with her stomach.
The Slayer watched as the woman who attacked her fall to her knees breathing heavily. If it wasn't for VEGA, she would have no problem going through her uppercut, probably pulling back a little to render her unconscious. Maybe to remind herself of the little humanity she still had. That was the only mercy she was getting from the Slayer.
As the woman stood up and regained her posture the Slayers speakers turned on.
"Greetings I am VEGA, a sentient Artificial Intelligence system created by Dr. Samuel Hayden of the Union Aerospace Corporation assigned to run the Mars facility. I currently assist the Slayer after she saved my data on a chip which is currently installed in her suit"
The woman looked surprised to hear something come of the armored individual. She coughed a little and looked at the Slayer cautiously.
"Her?!" she said surprised.
"After we've taken off the suit, we discovered the being embodying the praetor suit was female." Responded Vega.
Schnee took a good look at the girl in the bulkiest green armor she's ever seen. dubbed the Slayer and noticed a similar red mark etched on the persons helmet alarming her.
"Back to what I was saying, its highly important you come immediately with us, we have reason to believe that you have become a hazard to the cities of Remnant and judging from the mark on your helmet it just proves our suspicions. You must be apprehended at once."
Land of Darkness (Salem's Stronghold)
Salem could no longer contain this new feeling. Who ever this person was she could feel his presence as though it was right next to her. Such malice and ferocity, that she would do anything to get her hands on and corrupt it, bend it to her will. Hopefully her scout team would be able to pick up on its signal soon.
Suddenly the floor around her trembled, bits and pieces of concrete fell from the already ruined place she called a castle and a new presence now echoed in the distance. Salem smiled, for she felt a similar feeling to that of the other entity but different … tamed. Stomps echoed from the other side of the door in her throne room growing louder until they stopped right in front of the door.
The doors bursting open to reveal a tremendous red being with big horns on either side of its head. Its arm replaced by cybernetics.
"It seems you've met with a terrible fate haven't you" it said.
