Chapter 7
Hellish Space PT 1
Vampire Scourge
Elijah's P.O.V.I'm in my room to check on any weird signals from space. Where we look for info was dead information, it leads nowhere. Then I score the jackpot, there is a powerful signal coming from a nearby star system that's 40 light years away.
"Weird. The Dustro system is suppose to be empty of all activity. Let's check it out" I said to April on the radio.
"Alright Captain" she said as I head for the Nova to head for the Dustro system. "Should you get your friends to help out?" she asked.
"Everyone is off somewhere doing stuff. It's just going to be you and me" I said as April giggle like a cute innocent girl.
"I like that" she said her voice sounding cheerful.
I got inside my ship to prepare to liftoff as I started up the thrusters to push out towards space. Within a few minutes, we are out of Mobius's atmosphere to go into light speed to the star system.
In two jumps, we are in the Dustro system. This is a dead system where no visible sign of energy can be found or seen. "This feels suspicious" I said looking around to planets whirling around a dying star.
"My sensors pick up no sign of strange objects that are a threat but I detect some weird objects in the ice field near the edge of this system.
I move my cruiser in position near the ice field. "This whole place is covered with giant ice fragments as big as a mountain" I commented.
Then a hidden satellite is watching our every move inside a giant piece of ice. From a secret location someone is looking over the video.
"Sir, there is a ship in the area. You want us to capture?" the droid soldier asked to its commander.
"Yes, take it in" he said with no emotion in his voice as the droid went to its station.
April and me are scanning the area for anything suspicious. "I still have a bad feeling about this" I said as an incoming object is speeding towards our ship. "Crap, EMP blast" I try to move out of the way but it was too late as the ball of energy slam against the ship's hull for the systems to start malfunctioning.
April start to scream in pain from the sudden surge of electricity going through the ship. "April are you alright?" I asked worry for her safely.
"Let just say, A.I.s and EMP don't mix" she said as I run up to the mainframe to get her out of the hard drive.
"I'm going to transfer you into my suit's hard drive to protect you against any damage" I link a cord from my suit to the mainframe. Then a beep is heard in my helmet, "Good, you're going to be alright. You're in my system now" I said as April sounds like she's having trouble breathing.
"Thank you, I thought I was a goner" she said as she rest up inside my suit's memory banks.
"No problem" I said as I heard strange shaking on the ship as it knocks me off balance. "Boarding parties here in the middle of nowhere. I knew something is up" I pull out my blades to follow the sound.
I stop behind a corner to peek around to see tall, skinny humanoid machines with cones for heads armed with laser rifles. "What are droids doing here? Fisher, fisher" I said as they seem to be looking for something.
"These are not types Eggman would use" April said as I sneak around to reach the other side to head for the elevator to get to the hanger bay. "What do we do now?" April asked.
"I don't know. I'll figure out something" I said as the lift started to act funny. "Nope, this can't be good" I thought as the lift suddenly drops at a rapid rate towards the bottom floor." Brace yourself" I said as the lift falls between floors. Then everything seems to blur away as start losing consciousness.
My whole view went totally black as we hear a large crash; everything just went numb after this point. I can only hear faint words like 'capture target and prison' before I completely faint.
Time seem to go on forever in this state of mind like you are stuck in oblivion. My mind went out elsewhere to find myself on the glass stain platform I was on before.
"Soon you will learn the truth" an unfamiliar voice pierce the darkness echoing though the empty space.
"About what?" I asked confused because Moses usually greets me in this place.
"The true nature of life itself from Light and Darkness, Good and Evil don't exist" it said as a flight of stairs start to appear going downward towards another platform. "Continue on to learn more" it said like a command.
I move down the stairs drawn by strong curiosity to figure out what its saying. As I step on the small platform the stairs disappear in a flash.
"You aren't like the others on your world. You're a pure hearted young man are you? You stay the way you are despite chances of gaining greater power and wealth. Most people will take in temptations like without a thought" it said.
"I never let idiots who force their beliefs on me get too close. Pricks, that's what they are" I said with deep resentment about the W.O.L.
"I'm correct about you. You don't like the old ideals on earth about the Light and Darkness because you are not a child of darkness or Light but something more meaningful, deeper than they possibly imagine. You are a child of twilight, stuck between the realms of moral nonsense of good and evil. Our time is short, I must leave now" it said as it starts to vanish away.
Then darkness starts to overshadow the platform as it disappears under my feet for me to fall into the empty abyss below.
"Remember, you are the child of Twilight, you are beyond light and darkness, good and evil. You are the truth that your world tries to hide" it said as everything starts to go blank.
Then all of a sudden, I see a bright light shining on my forehead to come back to reality. I wake up inside a small room with just a bed and a window show very little light. "Where am I?" I asked myself as I look around the small room.
"Finally you're awake, been two hours since we got knocked out" April said inside my earpiece, now within the nano computer in my suit. "We are inside a cell of some sort" April stated the obvious as I get up from my dingy bed to feel a numbing pain at my side.
"Must have hurt myself pretty badly back on the ship" I said as I clutch to the sore on my left side. "April check anything on this place?' I asked as I sit on the crapping bed.
April is searching for the answer but came up with nothing."Odd, nothing is showing up about this place, like it doesn't exist" she said as I look outside the laser gate to rows of cells full of different people from all cross the surrounding star systems.
"This is a prison" I said as I hear a disgruntling sound from the cell beside us. "Who's there?" I asked.
"Just your average prisoner, is all. The name's Cho, Tai Cho. At your service" he said.
"What the hell are you? A freaking Chinese James Bond" I said as Tai laugh at the comment.
"I like you already; I'm guessing you're Elijah Robinson. Right?" he asked.
"How do you know my name?" I asked feeling suspicious about it.
"I heard the droids mentioning you. Saying they found the one who killed Amber the Wicked One, it's a big deal killing a top officer of the Chaotic Legion" he said as a bunch of questions pop into my head as April went offline to save energy.
"Chaotic Legion? Who are they?" I asked as Tai sighed.
"I would be surprise that you don't know about them" he said. "They are a shadow organization that operates behind the scenes. Trying to gain control of the Milky Way galaxy and beyond, saying the order of things is not up to their standards" he said.
"So they are radial idealists who what to changes things their way. Like that's so original" I said sarcastically.
"Well, they imprison you because you kill a superior officer and you conspire with a traitor" he said as Moses suddenly pop in my mind.
"What about you?" I asked as he said nothing in 5 minutes to say.
"I'll tell you later but now we need a way out of here" Tai said as two war droids appear in front of a cell to deactivate the laser gate to drag a prisoner from out of it. "Not another one" he said.
"What's going on?" I asked as the small holo-vid on top of the ceiling start to come alive.
"They are putting the prisoners up against some bloodsuckers or vampires for amusement" he said sounding disgusted by their names.
"Vampires here, in a prison?" I asked feeling really confused by the logic of what he said.
"Well, this is also a research lab. Taking subjects from Earth and testing there powers against the prisoners here" he said as I look at the screen to see the prisoner that got taken out to fight against some pale face guy who's about around my age.
"Who is he?" I asked as Tai has a spiteful on his face.
"His name is Folen; he came from the Derek clan in the southern part of China where I used to live" he said as we watch our separate holo-vids to see the event but before we know it, the fight was over. "That guy didn't stand a chance; those bastards are near unstoppable with their superhuman speed, strength, and senses. Not to mention their skins are nearly unbreakable to any contact. Any mortal can't stand against them, but good thing we're not mere mortals" he said as a war droid step up to my cell to unlock it.
"Move you scum, on to the arena" it said as I move out the cell as Tai flash me a thumbs up.
"No problem" he said as I pass his cell. I have a feeling: he got some crazy surprise waiting for me.
I got toss into the large circle to see my blades in their sheathes, lying on the floor. I grab my weapons to see the pale face man stands before me 6 feet tall with a strong lean figure compare to my 5'9 height with my thin frame.
"Size is never a problem for me" I said as I took my combat stance to face against this vampire foe. "Got to stand on my toes with this one" I said focusing on the task at hand.
Folen has a strange look on his face looks like he's in pain "You are weak, you can't stand against me. Walk away or face death swiftly" he said as I remember my resolute.
"Sorry, I can't do that. I have no choice to fight you for my chance at living. Thing about it is that, you vampires lost your lives when you turn this way, so you can't have a reason to continue on in this existence" I said as Folen charge at me with mind blowing speed to catch his blow to feel a powerful blow knocking me off balance. "Damn, he's strong" I said.
Folen send a punch to push back several feet away for him to drop kick me for me to drop to the floor. "Sword Rain" I let out rapid thrusts to pierce his stone skin. "Unbreakable skins my ass, Sonic Thrust" I pull out a powerful thrust to bore a hole in the vampire's stomach.
"Impossible, you hurt me?" he said as I show him my prized blades.
"This are the sharpest blades made with a potent metal. Extremely hard to break and can cut through hard materials like diamond, so you are screwed, Sword Beam" I shoot out a beam of energy from the tip of my blade to head for the vampire for him to dodge the attack to charge at me.
Folen start to swing punches to only hit my blades to feel the sheer force of his blows. Then he kicks me in the chest to send me flying into a wall on the other side. Folen pick up a large rock and tosses it in my direction.
"Shit" I pull myself together to leap off the wall to dodge an incoming rock, the boulder crashes through the wall to create a large hole in it.
I land near the vampire to run for the vampire, " Time to take you out, Alpha Sword Rain" I rapidly stab at Folen to rip the body apart to see hundreds of holes appear on his body. Then I slash his head off for it to flop on the floor to still see his eyes still moving around.
"I'm undead, I can't die" he said as I bore my blade into his head to destroy his insides.
"Now you're just dead" I said as the whole prison look awestruck by my performance.
The war droids take me to my cell but as we head for the exit, a figure came behind with a dark long katana in his hand. "Get down" John slashes the droids heads off. "Let's get out of here" he said.
Tai Cho is about 19 years old and is 5'10 tall. He has short black hair, light tan skin tone, brown eyes, and a slender build. He's wearing a black armored suit with a grey cloak covering it, black boots and an eye patch over his left eye.
We run through the hall to see more war droids fire their rifles to light up the whole hallway for us to deflect the shots with our blades. "Tai, get behind me, Reflect" John leaps nears me for me to project a magical barrier to deflect all the shots back to wipe out the battalion.
"Nice trick" he said as he walks up to a damaged droid to slice its head off. "These war droids are nothing but puppets in the Chaotic Legion hands" he said as he cut a droid's head to see it fall to the ground.
"Where are the ships?" I asked as Tai point to a lift.
"Your ship is most likely to be on the Planet Chrome where all the hijack ships go. They are in a vast spaceport on the surface that harbors the capturers before they head off for this prison. Come on, I'll head for the 10th floor" he said as we use the lift to head for the hanger.
Meanwhile in the main room, a huge dark armored figure stood over the droid operating the prison's monitoring systems."Sir, they are heading for the hanger. I'm cutting off power to the lift 09" it said.
"Get them on level 8 where the rest of the subjects are held up" he said as the droid sets the lift to stop on the eighth floor. "Our vampires will have a bloody good time" he said.
Back to us as we pass the seventh floor as our elevator stop right at the 8th floor. "I smell a trap" I said getting suspicious.
"So, this is the research area" Tai said as I look on confused. "This the area that holds the dirty blood suckers in life tubes" he said as he pulls his sleek black katana and points his sword at the tube with the vampire inside.
"Where you get that katana from? I never seen this kind before" I asked out of curiosity.
"Family heirloom, pass down from generation to generation for several hundreds. It's made from a stone that came from the heavens or so they say" he said as I check out the metal is made from.
"This metal is Duralite, a special metal that only can be found from the deepest depths of space. It's made from the same material, a meteorite must of crash in China hundreds of years ago" I said as look at the black blade with increase interest.
"It's called Shadow Tooth" he said as he slashes the tube for the tank to burst open water pouring out for the small female vampire to fall on the floor.
She looks about 12 years old, petite, long blond hair, blue eyes, and pale skin.
She looks at us with deep innocent etch on her face. "She looks so cute" I said as the little girl crouch on the floor to bare her fangs out.
"Must feed" she said her eyes pulsing blood red as John went up in an instant and bore his blade into her skull to kill her.
"Don't be fool by their appearance, they use their unnatural beauty to catch their prey" he said as he slides the dead girl off his blade.
"Thanks for the tip" I said as we walk through the lab to see more tanks with younglings still inside them. "Why are they stealing vampires?" I asked.
"They are developing new warriors to join their ranks by stealing DNA from the vampires to create newer versions" he said as we hear several sounds coming from the corner. "Blood suckers, Shadow Cutter" Tai slash the air to release a dark crescent to hit something.
"You are foolish to come here. You humans will suffer beyond compare, but if you walk away. We let you go" a strong yet musical voice booms over us.
"I know that sound. These guys are another clan called the Cullens, they got capture too but looks like they escape too" he said as a group of young adult vampires appear before us in dark cloaks.
"Your kind always finds some way to destroy things to get what you want" the lead one said as a smaller figure hold on to his arm.
"You one to talk asshole. You kill several humans in self-defense, bullshit" Tai said as he pointed his sword at the group.
"You think you can hurt us with that, don't make us laugh" he said as the others laugh at our threat.
"Try us" Tai rushes at them to thrust his blade into the lead blood suckers chest to bore a deep hole in him. The others look on with surprise especially the one right next to him.
"Sweetheart you alright" the female said. "You nuts, we show you mercy, then you attack" she said as Tai thrust his blade with enough force to blow their hoods off to show their faces.
"Isabella. What a wonderful surprise, you are one of them now" Tai said as the brown haired woman pouted from his comment.
"Names Bella and I'm here to follow my heart" she said as she helps her husband up off the floor.
"You knew the risk and yet you still did it. Boy, you are a stubborn one are you? You know your kind will vanish off the face of the existence soon. You are monsters in human skin, that's all you are" Tai said as he readied his blade. "Get ready" he said.
"Edward. What should we do?" Bella said as the lead one nodded.
"Looks like we have no choice. You, Emmett and Rosalie can fight Elijah while Alice, Jasper and I fight against Tai" he said as I felt confused.
"I never mention my name" I said as Tai show a grin.
"I forgot to mention that they have unique powers like Edward's mind reading, Alice's foresight, Jasper's emotion control and Belle's mental shield. Be careful" he said.
In a few minutes we battle out in the lab as I dodge the blows of the large one called Emmett. "Come on, you big lump. That's the best you can?" I said mockingly as the vampire swing another punch for me to block it with my blades to feel the strong force behind the blow. "This big guy is strong alright. Talon Scar" I kick him hard enough to send him a few feet away to release series of powerful wind crescents to hit Emmett several times ripping across his cold stone body leaving deep marks.
"You not human, how did you do that?" Emmett asked.
"Magic of course, have a taste of it, Electric Slash" my blades are electrify as I slash the large vampire's arm off for the limb to flop on the floor.
Then the blond vampire Rosalie jumps on me to knock me off balance to send several punches to my chest. The armor plating softens the blows but the hits still sting like hell. "I'll make you pay for hurting my husband" Rosalie said in angry as she grabs me to lift me off the ground.
"Sorry, lady. Only thing that needs the dirt is your attitude, Sword Rain" I rapidly stab at the beautiful female's body to bore holes in her skin. I push off her strong grip to slash at her body to damage her even further.
"You're strong for a human. I will not be beat by some punk" she said as she charges at me to swing a left hook towards me as I block her attacks to feel the strong pressure behind them.
"Like blocking flying bricks" I thought as I continue to block her blows as she send a kick towards my head for me to drop under it to slash it to leave a gash in her skin.
Bella came out of nowhere to slam her fist into my back to feel strong pain surging through my back. "This for my family" she grabs my arm to swing me around at crazy speed to toss me into a wall to nearly crack the armor on the back. She charges at me with Rosalie behind her.
"More like a cult" I jump out of the way for the vampires to crash into the wall to make a large hole. "Strike Raid" I toss one of my blades for it to impale right in Rosalie's stomach. "Belle. You're being used by these idiots" I said as Rosalie pull out my blade to stab it hard on the floor for it to stick out.
"Bella. Don't be fool by this human" Rosalie said as she dodge my Sky Fang attack.
"Coming from a woman who doesn't give a damn about anyone but herself. Reminds me of that shallow girl from that 70's Show. I can see it in your eyes" I said as I deflect her strikes as I counter by thrusting through her chest to lift her off the floor to slam her against the wall.
Emmett came from behind to grab my neck to throw me up in the air to try and punch me in the chest. I caught myself in mid-air to repel his fist to feel a strong force knocking me backward.
"Look ma, no hands, Electric Slash" my blades electrify to catch his fist in between the swords to cross them to sever his hand off. "Now's my chance" I spot an opening as I run towards him. "Kendo Strike" in an instant, I went through Emmett for his head to roll right off and bounce on the floor.
Rosalie looks on in terror to see her beloved husband suffer in front of her as I plunge my blade into his skull to end his life. "Immortal, my ass" I said as Rosalie giving in to her rage as she charges after me to throw punches at me for me to counter by stab my blades in both her fists to head butt her skull to feel a stinging pain in my head. "Damn, bad idea, Windmill" I jump over her head to spin around several times in mid-air with the vampire being taken for a ride. I finish my spinning to smash the female down hard on the floor to make a large dent in the floor. I leap on top of her to prepare to finish her off. "Sword Rain Alpha" I rapidly kept stabbing into her face until it was unfamiliar.
"You guys got no idea who you are messing with. I'm trained to fight guys like you" I said as I point my blades at Belle. "You chose your fate when you became them, death is your future" I said as Belle run for me to fight for her life.
Tai is fighting with everything he's got against two opponents Alice and Jasper. "You only choice are death Blood suckers, Dark Fang" he slash the ground to release a black energy wave across the floor for the two the leap out of the way.
"I never fought any human like this before" Jasper thought as he swing his fist at Tai to deflect it but to feel a powerful blow behind it.
"Hyper Thrust" he back away for a second to swiftly deliver a powerful thrust into his chest to bore a hole. He kept slashing at Jasper for the vampire to dodge the swings for Alice the smallest one to gang up from behind to grab his back to punch him multiple times.
"You'll pay for taking us to this weird place" Alice toss Tai with her super strength for Tai to crash through several tanks to slam right into a pillar to feel the terrible shock going through his back. Jasper leaps at Tai to aim for his head as John parry his fist.
"Are you crazy, you got complaints? Take it to the front deck, Giga Pulse" he stabs the ground to shoot energy out of the steel to come right for the duo. As the vampires roll out of the way, the energy quake burst violently to knock them off balance.
Alice got back up to kept at Tai but he continues to block her fists. "Come on little lady, you can do better than that" he slash across her left arm to leave a gash.
"I can't get a lock on him. He's being unpredictable with his movements" she said as she dropkicks the swordsmen but he catches her feet on the flat part of his katana to push her back.
"Shadow Razors" he cast a spell to unleash hundreds of small dark discs to spread that Alice and Jasper for to dodge as much as but got severely damage by the spell.
He withdraws his Shadow Tooth and draw out his personal revolvers: Twilight and Midnight, Black and White firearms to load them with heavy slug rounds.
"Meet my favorite girls, Midnight and Twilight" he fire on the wounded vampires to tear up their bodies into undesirable heaps of flesh. "Those are done with" he said.
Meanwhile in the monitoring room the dark armored figure is quite impress by our performance "They are wiping them out, sent in the war droids, kill everything in the room" he said.
Back to our battle, we notice the doors are opening to see droids pouring into the room firing their rifles at us. "Perfect, we wasted time here, let's get to the 10th floor to get catch a ride down to Chrome" Tai said as we rush to the lift to go down to the hanger.
As we go down the shaft, the thought came up "How you know that Belle?" I asked.
"Came across her once in the U.S., poor girl now she lives a doomed fate" Tai said as the lift stops at the hanger. The place is full of different starships and vehicles stored here.
The place is full of droids guarding the hanger, and then I spot a nice transport ship. "Let's go" I said as we both sneak off in the direction of the ship. We hid behind a pile of crates for a group of droids to pass by.
As they move on, we got near the ship to access the back of the ship to open the hatch. "Okay, let's go" we got on board to head for the controls.
The droids notice something strange with the ship to check it out as the engines came to life as we rocket out of the hanger to go into dark space. "Alright" I said as jet out of the asteroid belt around the Planet Chrome to head planet side.
April came back online "What did I miss?" she said as we head for the surface.
"A lot of usual weird stuff" I said.
Meanwhile on the Asteroid prison, the dark armored figure watches with vague interest. "Send Cobalt to deal with the targets" he said with no emotion in his voice.
"Yes, sir" the droid said as it send the message to Cobalt to go to the Axis space port to get his target.
"The Chaotic Legion shows no mercy to our enemies even old friends" he said as he vanishes to the inner parts of the prison.
