AN Welp, if you can't already tell, this story has more detailed sex scenes then the last one. Yeah, oh well, fuck it right?
Chapter 6 - Hostile Takeover
- Caeres Ocean -
- Nightfall -
Warsaw stood at the bow of a steam-powered transport craft with his two Archangels across the calm dark waters with the moon's glow overhead, the soft wind and the gentle rolling of the waves making the only sounds they heard. Resting on the water out on front of them was a large black mass reminiscent of a ship, its metal hull shimmering from the light being reflected up at it by the water. It was a large warship bristling with guns, and as it sat there docile on the water smoke was billowing out from the four smokestacks it had, and there were men walking along its deck to perform their duties.
Warsaw's boat was raised up via a series of cranes and he stepped out onto the deck, being saluted by the crewmen who were there to receive him. He swiftly departed with his two Archangels to the bridge of the large warship where he knew his other colleagues would be waiting for him to set their plan in motion. After making his way up through the superstructure he arrived at the spacious bridge to the salutes of the ship captain and all of the others that worked inside of the bridge.
"Captain, any news from the Holy Empress?" asked Warsaw as he strode up to the captain.
"Yes, Supreme Vizier. She said that we may begin the attack whenever you see fit."
"Very well. Respond back "We will initiate the attack at dawn" and send it immediately." said Warsaw as he stared out at the landmass several miles away from them, the place where he had just come from.
The captain nodded and one look at a nearby crewman told him to start transmitting the message via morse code, the various clicks from the transmitter device filling the bridge up for a minute. When he was done Warsaw crossed his arms and looked out at the sea to his left and right, counting the five other ships assembled alongside the dreadnaught he was on and nodding his head once to the captain.
An order went to all five for the ships to begin moving toward the coast, and behind them came seven more, and behind those ten more. Each ship carried five hundred troops and other equipment, and in total the fleet assembled alongside Warsaw's Dreadnaught, dubbed "The Invisible Hand", numbered at one thousand ships even. Over two hundred and fifty thousand Judeccan soldiers would be landing on the beach of the New Kingdom before them, with those whom he had met with at the Imperial Capital none the wiser.
"Even though the New Kingdom has a massive advantage in men...my army possesses the technological advantage as well as the element of surprise." thought Warsaw as he watched his massive fleet of ships trudge forward through the water.
He sensed a couple of familiar presences and turned around to face the door as it opened, a lanky man dressed in the most extravagant of military uniforms walking in with five other figures draped in heavy cloaks with large hoods, their faces hidden underneath them. The man's head was covered entirely with a white mask that possessed a mischievous smile that stretched upward from just above the jaw to the top of his cheeks and two crescent moon-shaped eyeholes that provided him vision.
"Are we ready yet? I'm getting impatient with all of this waiting." said the masked man in a hoarse raspy voice, Warsaw narrowing his eyes at him and growling.
"The landings have just begun, now quiet your tongue Gaster, lest I remove it for you."
The man named Gaster held up both his hands in a defensive manner and snickered, a single green and white eye appearing in his mask's left eye socket when some light from the bulbs inside the bridge entered it.
"Calm down there beastie, we're all friends here." he said, Warsaw glaring at him for a few moments before he turned back around to continue watching the landings.
"Get ready to move Gaster, we'll be attacking the capital at dawn. Now get out of my sight." he snarled.
Gaster bowed low to the ground and snickered again before he turned around and left the bridge with his five cloaked entourages, allowing Warsaw to let out a sigh and formulate his battle plans in his head before the actual battle would begin. He had brought a squad of Archangels with him as well, to act as on-field commanders for the rest of his army thanks to their training, and with their strength it bolstered them even more.
The weapon he had heard of, the Shikoutazer, was also gone so there was no worry about facing it, which left only one problem left. The Empire's Teigu users and where they were located.
"The information Doroline's Inquisitors were able to gather is that there's a large majority of Teigu stored in an underground vault in the capital, and that there are some fairly capable users within the regular army. The ones I'm more worried about are those of the organization of Night Raid…" he thought, his analytical mind going into overdrive for a few moments. "Forget it, I'll worry about that problem when it makes itself known personally. My power is unrivaled...nothing but victory awaits me."
- Imperial Capital -
- Dawn -
"Why are we here again Wave?"
Kurome looked up at Wave as he walked them through the almost vacant streets of the Imperial Capital, the pair only meeting a few policemen patrolling the streets every now and then. In the two years that had passed since they made themselves scarce, Wave had grown older and wizened up after being away from the city and living with Kurome near medicated hot springs that would heal her. He still looked the same as he had two years ago, and he still carried Grand Chariot with him at all times in order to protect Kurome, however he seldom used it since he was living with damaged internal organs as a result of dual wielding Teigu.
Kurome on the other hand had changed drastically from her former self two years prior. As a result of soaking in the medicated springs her sister had talked about, she had recovered greatly from the damages caused to her body by her extensive drug use in the Group of Terror. Her appearance had also matured as well, only serving to increase her likeness to her older sister, in that her hair, which she maintained in the twin tail style, reached down to just beneath her shoulders and she had matured from her child-like body type from two years prior. She kept the same sailor uniform as well, albeit larger to accommodate the growth spurt she had.
"We're here to see Najenda and talk about the two of us possibly being pardoned for anything we might be accused of being, like us being Jaegers. It couldn't hurt, right?" he replied with as grin, Kurome smiling at him.
"Yeah...and thanks Wave."
"For what?"
"For being with me these past two years...since the Empire fell. They've been the happiest years I've ever had the joy of living." she said with a small smile as she held Wave's hand a little tighter, the former Navy man chuckling.
He brought her closer to him after putting an arm around her shoulders and chuckled one final time before he looked down at her. "Of course. I'd do anything for you Kurome, even take on a whole army."
They continued walking for another few feet before Wave stopped her and held a finger up to his lips, wanting her to be quiet as he listening for the faint noise he had heard. It was a whistle, and it was growing louder and louder by the second before he looked up and had maybe a few seconds to react when a massive artillery shell came screaming down toward him and Kurome. The street and the surrounding buildings were consumed in fire when the high explosive shell exploded, taking out everything within a thirty foot radius and leaving a crater just as big that was thirty feet deep. As the smoke cleared, the dust settled, and sirens began to wail all throughout the Imperial Capital, Wave grunted as he shifted his legs a little to get rid of some stiffness.
He had activated Grand Chariot and darted away from the impact zone of the shell with Kurome wrapped in his arms, the pair getting covering in rubble from a nearby building that had been blown apart by the explosion. He pushed back against a heavy stone slab covering them and grunted until he finally held it up with his back and pushed it over, the slab crashing down onto the ground and casting dust into the air.
"Kurome, are you okay?" he asked with a glance at Kurome, the former assassin coughing and nodding.
"Just some scratches, nothing else. What about you?"
Wave helped her up out of the rubble and chuckled from within Grand Chariot, the armor only having some black marks from the ash and dust that had consumed them upon the shell's explosion.
"I'm fine, Grand Chariot can easily survive something like-"
He was cut off when another resounding boom echoed out from another part of the city, and once he carried Kurome with him up to a nearby tall building they were shocked to see that another artillery shell had fallen onto the city, followed by several other smaller explosions they assumed were from smaller guns.
"We need to get to Najenda, fast!"
Meanwhile heading toward the front gate was the over one hundred thousand man strong army from Judecca that Warsaw himself was leading personally, the man Gaster following behind with his five cloaked entourages. They advanced under the cover of their artillery and the Invisible Hand's bombardment, Warsaw looking up at the massive wall coming up down the path and chuckling somewhat when he saw towering smoke clouds beginning to emerge from the city. There were sirens going on inside and the soldiers within were doubt scrambling to figure out what happened and who was attacking them, which would allow his army to take control of the situation right when the last shell came down.
A loud whistling came from above and the final shell from the Invisible Hand struck the gated part of the wall and blew it to smithereens, sending huge stone fragments and inner structure spraying out in all directions.
"All units charge! Archangels, to me!" shouted Warsaw as he drew a longsword from a scabbard hanging from around his waist and held a hand out, an Archangel handing him a steam rifle that he slung over his shoulder and walked forward while the rest of his arm streamed around him and into the city.
Gaster decided to mop up anyone on top the wall, so he held up a unique violin and scaled the wall with his five cloaked followers and disappeared from sight. Warsaw paid no attention to and continued to move forward, several clicks and hisses coming from the joints in his arm when they split apart into a new pair of arms, each with two fingers, with one holding his sword and another pair holding his rifle at the ready position across his chest.
His Archangels did the same with their rifles, and once they entered the city they set their sights on the Capital Building at the top of the hill overlooking the Imperial Capital. Slowly they advanced toward their target, the elite guardsmen in service to the Supreme Vizier and the Holy Empress gunning down any soldier or policeman with brutal efficiency. The only things they uttered were garbled nonsense, but they seemed to understand one another as did Warsaw, who led them onward fearlessly.
At the Capital Building, Najenda and the other Cabinet members were in an uproar at what to do, the former General herself having to juggle debating with them and sending out orders to the soldiers within the capital in order to repel the enemy. Najenda was about to blow a gasket and try to get everyone to calm down before a sharp crack was heard outside and the door handles to the main atrium were sent flying away with wood fragments like shrapnel. Then marching in came several Archangels, five in total, each of them carrying a rifle that they immediately held at the Cabinet members. One of them uttered an unintelligible sentence in gibberish and two of the elite guardsmen moved up toward them, their rifles still trained and ready to fire at a moment's notice.
"So it's these guys...which means…" thought Najenda before the thing she was referring to walked in through the busted down doors, Warsaw handing his rifle to another Archangel without one next to him and glaring at them.
"Excellent, all of you are here." he said with a chuckle before he went into a fit of coughing, the hunched over cyborg military leader approaching Najenda specifically and glaring at her. "Hello again, Miss Najenda."
"Fuck you." she snarled back, Warsaw's left two eyes twitching slightly before he took one of his hands and backhanded her harshly, knocking her to the ground easily.
"Silence your tongue before me, worm."
Najenda glared up at him as she wiped some blood away from her lip, her anger beginning to rise before she felt a very powerful presence appear behind Warsaw. Before the cyborg could react, a navy blue boot was rammed into the side of his head and sent him flying, the Archangel that was next to him whirling around to engage the enemy only to meet the same fate.
"Wave! Thank goodness you're here! Where's Leone?!" questioned Najenda as Wave lifted her up on the ground.
"Right here!"
Right on cew Leone dropped down from the second floor balcony and landed right on top of one of the Archangels, her legs driving him into the ground and causing the other four Archangels to direct their attention to her. Wave made them pay for that mistake by forming Grand Chariot's Neuntote, the spear blue, and rushed them while shouting over his shoulder for Najenda and the others to run.
They made their way for the door while Leone and Wave kept the Archangels busy, but the one Leone had seemingly knocked out stood back up and shed the black cloak he was wearing, uncovering his body armor. Instantly from the disk built into the back grew two black metallic wings that he used to soar around the Cabinet members and block their exit, his short swords in his hands. At that time Wave was about to punch the Archangel he was fighting before Warsaw appeared suddenly in front of him with one of his clawed feet raised up high in the air.
He grabbed Wave's face with all of the clawed toes and smashed him into the ground, creating a five foot diameter crater beneath him from the impact.
"Insignificant pest...you must be one of those Teigu users, hm?" questioned Warsaw as he kept Wave pinned to the ground and slowly began to close his clawed toes around his head.
Without warning a sword was driving upward through a gap in his ribcage-like abdomen armor and Warsaw grunted, causing him to clutch his chest and tumbled backward a little. He looked for the attacker and found it was Kurome, who had helped Wave get up and now stared down the cyborg general intensely with hate burning in her eyes. He growled and use one of his four hands to pull the sword out, only to he kicked hard in the head again, this time by Leone, who motioned at them to go.
"Go, get out of here. We can't all be captured here! Go find Tatsumi and Mine!" she said quickly when she saw Warsaw recover quickly from her kick and stared her down.
"But Leone, we-"
"GO!" yelled Najenda sternly, Wave and Kurome looking at her and Leone before they quickly left the building past Warsaw's Archangels, the elite soldiers ignoring them as per Warsaw's orders to focus on the Cabinet members.
At that moment Gaster then decided to make his appearance and snickered as he pointed at them from just inside the door while he watched Warsaw's and Leone's staredown. "You know, the two people she said for them to meet, they killed the Inquisitors sent here by Doroline to find the missing Princess."
"What? Why didn't you tell me before the attack?" demanded Warsaw.
"Because you would have gone to take care of them yourself, even though I'm a member of the Inquisitorial. I would much rather be the one to hunt them down, thank you."
"I swear to god if you so much as lay a finger on them, I'll-" Leone started to say before Warsaw was right on top of her in an instant and knocked her out with one blow to the head.
"You swine...fine. Go after them with your little puppets." growled Warsaw as he turned his attention to Najenda and the others.
Gaster snickered and snapped his fingers, the five cloaked figures following him without a word as he took his time leaving the building and walking toward the demolished front gates of the Capital Building grounds. Warsaw growled as he watched one of his most hated acquaintances he was forced to know leave the premises, and once he was gone he stared Najenda down hard and walked over to her while remaining hunched over.
"Your New Kingdom has fallen...surrender this nation to Judecca at once, and I will grant you mercy."
- Tatsumi and Mine's House -
- Two Hours Later -
The couple awoke in their own bed at the usual time and they got ready their usual way before going down the hallway to Unryuu's room where Mine was the one to wake her up, Tatsumi smiling at his daughter's reaction. When they went down stairs he moved on to the guest bedroom and gently knocked on the door to see if their newest tenant was awake.
No sound came from inside, so he pushed the door open slowly and peered inside the room to see that Esdia was still sound asleep in her bed, snoring softly with a look of happiness on her face.
Tatsumi chuckled as he closed the door again and made his way downstairs to be with his wife and child, the two parents giving their child breakfast first before themselves and then sat down at the table with their breakfast. A few minutes into their meal they heard footsteps on the stairs and soon enough Esdia appeared in the entryway to the kitchen, rubbing her eyes and smiling a little.
"Good morning…"
"Hello Esdia, would you like some food?" asked Tatsumi, the Princess nodding her head.
Tatsumi got up from the table to get her a plate while she sat down next to Mine, the Princes smiling softly. He returned with a plate filled with their typical breakfast, two pieces of toast with eggs and bacon, and put it down in front of Esdia before he went to his spot and continued eating. Esdia thanked him and started to eat her plate, Mine and Tatsumi both smiling as they watched the Princess eat her food and enjoy it.
"Thank you for this and all of the hospitality you've shown me...I really appreciate it." she said after finishing her toast.
"Of course, it's the right thing to do." replied Mine.
Esdia smiled softly and continued to eat, Tatsumi and Mine watched her for a few more moments before they returned to eating their own food in silence with their child. The rest of their morning went by the same as it always did with the addition of Esdia, the four plus Unryuu completely unaware of the downfall of the New Kingdom that had just occurred.
- Imperial Capital -
Warsaw held his hands behind his back as he stared down at his new prisoners, the entirety of the New Kingdom's governing Cabinet as well as the now awake Leone, whom he knew was a friend of Najenda's, sitting on their knees before them. Each one had either a grim or heavily pissed off expression on their face, Leone and Najenda's the darkest.
Warsaw had removed her belt since he knew it was her Teigu, thanks to his extensive research of the Teigu, and so the belt was now in the possession of one of his Archangels, who stood close nearby while he would interrogate the prisoners. The first person he walked up to was Sully, the cyborg commander kneeling before him and stared him in the eyes with his four eyes as he thought of what to ask the man.
"Whatever you want, I'm not saying a word." said Sully darkly, Warsaw caught off guard by his sudden response.
"Well then, that saves me the trouble of asking." he replied before he rammed his hand down onto the top of Sully's head, lifting him up into the air.
All that came from the man's mouth was a scream before Warsaw grasped his body and forcibly ripped off his head with his spinal cord still attached, the cyborg dropping his lifeless body at his feet. He stared at the distorted expression of shock and pain on the man's face as he gripped his head, his bloody spinal cord dangling from his neck like some sick and twisted ornament.
"Y-You...monster…" stuttered another cabinet member, Warsaw glancing at him and dropping the head to the ground.
"Hm? Sorry, I can't hear you."
He brought his clawed foot up and slammed down onto Sully's skull, shattering the bone and pulverizing his head into a bloody mess of bone fragments and brain matter that splattered everywhere.
"Could you speak up again?" asked Warsaw, the cabinet member who had spoken up shaking his head vigorously and refusing to say anything.
Warsaw then returned his attention to those directly before him and kneeled down in front of Najenda, his blood-covered foot mere inches away from her knees. "Now, Miss Najenda...I have a question for you."
Najenda only glared at him in silent fury, her single eye staring so intensly at him that it would have burned a hole through his very head, which is something she would have greatly enjoyed seeing.
"Where is the Teigu vault?" he asked calmly, Najenda only narrowing her eyes and remaining silent.
"I do not have the patience to play this game. Tell me now, or I wall grant you the same fate as your friend." snarled Warsaw as got up close and personal with Najenda, his face mere inches away from hers.
With a shaky hand she reached down and held Leone's hand, defiantly standing against the Supreme Vizier in order to prevent him from discovering the location. After another few moments of staring he got up and took a step back, his cape fluttering behind him.
"Grab them. Those four."
"fgCgornyfirmhedd." replied one of the Archangels in a garbled, deep voice as he and several other Archangels approached the group and grabbed two of the Cabinet members, Mervanka, and Leone.
"Get your hands off of me!" she shouted, but a harsh punch from the Archangel jarred her vision and made her easy to handle.
She, alongside Mervanka and the two other Cabinet members were held down on the floor on their stomachs, the Archangels with their impressive strength preventing them from escaping. Najenda and the other members watched in horror as Warsaw walked over to them and stood next to the first in the line, his bloody clawed foot landing heavily next to his head.
"Miss Najenda, please procure the location of the Teigu Vault, now." he demanded in a low tone, Najenda swallowing some saliva nervously but remaining silent.
Without warning Warsaw raised his foot up and smashed the man's head into the ground, the force causing it to explode and spray blood everywhere, the shattered remains of his skull and a mutilated brain sticking to Warsaw's foot for a moment before sliding off into a bloody mess on the floor.
"Answer me, Najenda!" bellowed Warsaw, his patience running thin.
"S-Shit, shit, shit!" said Mervanka frantically as she and the others tried to squirm free.
"Najenda!" asked Warsaw one last time before he stomped down on the head of the second Cabinet member on the ground, his fate the same as the one before him.
Mervanka screamed loudly as the right side of her face and hair was covered with blood and brain matter, her body freezing up when she saw Warsaw's foot land on the tiled floor next to her head.
"S-Stop it! You fucking Monster!" said one of the Cabinet members from behind Najenda, who was speechless and shivering in terror.
Warsaw stared down Najenda as he slowly lifted up his foot and hung it over Mervanka's head, who was now crying and doing anything to try and break free from the grasp of the Archangels. Blood dripped from his clawed toes down onto her hair and she whimpered each time a drop hit her, expecting her life to come to and end at a moment's notice.
"Don't tell him anything Najenda!" yelled Leone, Warsaw staring at her with the eyes of a demon before he crushed Mervanka's head and sent chunks of it flying out in all directions.
Then to everyone's horror he picked up her lifeless body and with a snarl he ripped it in half ,flinging each part to the left and the right. "My patience is running thin, Najenda!"
He slammed his foot down next to Leone's head and she stared at it with wide eyes as he raised it up over her head. She continued to squirm and try to break free, but the Archangels held strong and her efforts were rendered useless. Blood was dripping from each toe into Leone's golden blonde hair, staining it red and wetting her skin when it soaked through the strands and dribbled down the back of her neck. This was one of the first times in her life where she felt truly helpless and afraid, her life literally hanging in the balance with Warsaw's judgement maker directly over her head, and if she just so happened to have it crushed into a pool of blood and disfigured flesh there would be no saving her, not even with Lionelle.
"Last chance, Najenda...tell me where the Teigu Vault is." asked Warsaw, Leone flinching as a drop of blood fell onto her cheek.
"Najenda, don't tell him! Don't do it!"
Warsaw slammed his foot into the tile mere inches away from her face, making a small crater and casting dust onto her face, before he held it above her head again and glared at Najenda. "Don't test me, Najenda. Tell me now!"
"Don't!"
Najenda flinched when Warsaw slammed his foot down again, this time on the other side of Leone's head, and snarled as he lifted it up one last time above her head, intending to not miss on purpose again. Terror gripped the hearts of everyone in the room as the vicious cyborg threatened to kill one of Najenda's closest friends and allies, a veteran of the Revolution and a powerful Teigu user like he was snuffing out a tiny candlelit flame.
"I will not miss again...tell me, right now, where is the Teigu Vault?" he asked, drawing out every single word to get his point across that he wasn't messing around.
He looked at Najenda for a couple of more seconds, and when she didn't reply he looked down and raised his foot up higher to brutally execute Leone. He thrust his foot down but stopped mere centimeters away from Leone's head when a cry resonated from his right and echoed within the space, his head slowly turning to look upon the source.
Najenda, with shaking hands, slowly brought her head up to glare at Warsaw with an angry expression coupled with tears streaming down her face. "I-I'll show you...j-just don't...kill her...please…"
"Thank you for your cooperation, Najenda."
He calmly set his foot down on the ground and ordered his Archangels to lift Leone up from the ground, the cyborg going to Najenda and grabbing her by the arm. He brought her up to her feet and pushed her a little out front of him while his Archangels stood behind him with Leone still in their iron grip.
"Lead me there at once. Your friend shall remain in my custody until we have arrived. Now move."
Najenda looked back at Leone and only started walking when the lioness hung her head in shame, for not being able to protect them all and getting so easily defeated. She took them to a secret room only she had a key for and led Warsaw into the depths of what used to be the old Imperial Palace's underground chambers, a labyrinth of passageways that had managed to survive the siege of the capital and the Shikoutazer's awakening.
Every time she heard the metal clunking of Warsaw's footfalls she twitched, an image of one of the people she knew having their heads smashed apart associating itself with the noise. She was granted reprieve when she arrived at the heavy metal door guarding the Teigu vault, and she glanced back at Warsaw as if she was expecting him to move her out of the way.
He only stared at her and she looked back at the door to unlock it on her own, a pull on the lever built into the door's frame causing several metallic groans to come from within the construct. Eventually it clicked loudly and she grunted to pull open the huge vault door, Warsaw walking past her and going into the vault himself to search.
"Thank you very much, Najenda." said the cyborg over his shoulder when he approached a table holding several Teigu, one in particular catching his eye. "This is what we've been needing."
Najenda peeked into the vault and she became confused as Warsaw picked up the Teigu formerly owned by the late Prime Minister's son, Shambhala, and looked at it for a few moments. With the wave of his hand she was suddenly restrained and held just like Leone was, the cyborg glancing over at them and cackling as he shooed them away.
"Imprison them with the rest. I'll decide what to do with them later. For now...I must send this back to my Mistress immediately."
