Ranger24: Starting to close off one piece of the story another begins. Enjoy.


Chapter 6: Kanton's tale.

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The Ark, Kanton, ??

Kanton leaned back in the chair. The Anti Snydicate was an ass but he wasn't cruel. Anti Sny was still silently sitting there taking in Kanton's account of the first bloody years of Shade's slaughters. Of Drakes brutal death at Shade's hands in such a way that even Kratos would get green around the gills. Then the while Kanton trained to get payback on Shade the darkside ravaged the outer worlds and the lured the authors into a terrible ambush. Only a hand full had come out of that mess alive or at least without missing a limb.

The former lacky of both Drake and Shade looked up from his thoughts. He waved his hands.

"Alright Uchiha, tell me what happened to myself and my dark Spartans." He said apparently bracing himself for the worst. Kanton shook his head,

"It wasn't good. Shade found the ark and wasn't to pleased about the management. He launched a full ground campaign only to have his troops meet month after month of biochemical weapons attacks, sniper fire, ambushes, land mines, and several angry tourists. Still he began to push towards the arks core and then apperantly you're future self barracaided the entrance to the arks core and made a last stand before self destructing the Ark. Shade lost forty-five ships in the explosion." Kanton said only halting once to take a breath. Anti TSS was silent as death staring at Kanton. He shook himself out of his thoughts.

"Okay now tell me how you got here."

"Umm… you're darkspartans ambushed me and dragged me here?" Kanton said with a frown.

The anti Snydicate face palmed.

"No I meant how you got to this time period!" He shouted.

"Oh," Kanton said realization dawning on him. "It was a year after earth had fallen to Shade's force. We recevived intelligence that Shade was building some sort of super weapon over Twilight town…"

Shade war, Rebel battlestar Pheonix, Pilot's briefing room, day 1824

"It was nearly the one year anniversary of the start of the war. And the squadron I was leading was hungery for payback." Kanton narrated.

Kanton, Chiyo, Nigel, and several other pilots around their ages were seated at small tables as The Shadow Syndicate preformed a briefing.

"I was leading one of the best squadrons in our fleet. Many of the pilots I was flying with had lost family to Shade's forces, and all of them had more than twenty kills under their belts."

A young man who looked like Zuko without a scar sat next to Kanton.

"Ensign Roku, the last member of the fire nation royal family, twenty nine confirmed kills." Kanton continued.

"Okay seriously just skip ahead to the battle." The Anti Syndicate said annoyed.

"Fine," Kanton muttered. The scene switched to dozens of UWDF ships attack a massive fleet of Shade's vessels which were guarding some giant ring thing.

"We feared he'd built his own Halo ring out of the rubble of the Ark. Only thing was it was much smaller. We had to destroy it." Kanton continued.

The ring is revlealed to be just large enough to fit a pelican dropship, snuggly. Kanton and his group flew through the chaos of maruader's and began straffing the ring with gun fire.

"We were close to destroying it… but the I found out mere seconds before hand that it wasn't a halo…"

Kanton's warhawk flew towards the ring as it began to spark with fire. Suddenly a burst of slipspace energy appeared inside the ring and Kanton was pulled into it.

"It was a god damned time machine." Kanton finished.

Reach, Kobol city, 2202 hours day 1

DM was about to fall asleep waiting for Ranger in the hotel lobby. Rain lashed at the windows, TSS and Belinda sat by the fire not speaking. TSS glanced at the large grand father clock in the corner.

"Maybe he'll be out late?" The vampire suggested.

At that moment the door was thrust open, and a muddy, rain drenched, and shivering Ranger stepped inside. He quickly threw his cloak onto the hat rack, then shook his head clean of water droplets, before flooping in an arm chair, and tossing the strange blue spear he carried into a corner.

He gave a gumbling sigh beforeglancing at the others in the room.

"I hate rain." He muttered. Then he glanced at Belinda.

"Who the hell is she?" Ranger said as though he couldn't care less. She stood up iin her chair.

"Belinda R…" She started but ranger cut her off. "Yeah that's nice DM we have a problem."

DM frowned and walked over to him.

"What is it?" The author Digimon asked. Ranger rummaged in a bag and tossed the knife onto a coffee table then he yanked out his sword which to everyone in the rooms surprise was broken up to the hilt. DM picked up the knife and recognized the crow symbol.

"Shade." Ranger said simply.


Ranger24: Very short chapter but I wanted to see Warlord Xana's story continue. Next time I explain the whole damn story. Read and review.