As the monomolecular cutter pierced the armor of Leviathan Leonard could feel the bursting of something in the cockpit.
-You always were a nusicence Saraga Sousuke-kun.
He could not feel anything upon his death. No feelings of sorrow or regret, just emptiness. The only thing left was to let Sofia change the world. But what was this? The feeling of change before was omnipitent but now there was nothingness. The psychic wave that seemed to resound upon the earth was now silent. Something had gone terribly wrong.
At the shock of this he pulls the monomolecular cutter from the cockpit and instead of seeing blood, flesh, and oils on his knife he only saw oil. There had been no one in the cockpit from the start.
-DAMN HIM!
He had one shot left.
-I have to make it! I have to...
The rocket launcher was aimed for the deteriorated area on the Belial's waist, where the demolition cannon had blown away a good portion. The cover he created was better than expected, hiding by the feet of the Belial wanting to get the closest shot possible. He fired point blank. The armour, weakened by Sousuke's previous shot, broke into a thousand pieces that pierced the outer core and the fuel systems of the palladium reactor. It was not a fission reactor, so it would not cause an uncontrolled chain reaction - as the nuclear core was detroyed, the plasma inside overflowed and melted everything like butter. For a moment, a great, uncontrolled surge of current overloaded all of Belial's systems, burning out most of the muscle package. The devil was devoured by its own flames, and fell. The world's most powerful machine was destroyed by an old infantry rocket launcher.
The fight wasn't over yet.
Cocking his Glock 17 he pointed it at the burning wreckage of the Belial. He began to cautiously move forward, eyes trained on the spot he figured Leonard would come from. Then he saw him, pistol pointed at Sousuke with a large wound in his abdomen. Sousuke shoots first. He strikes Leonard's shoulder causing the gun to fall to the floor with a liquid metal sound.
-I saw it happen, I kill you, you should be dead and the world should be changing. Leonard mutters.
-That was my plan from the start, to make you think that way. Sousuke cooly replies.
An emotional floodgate opens in Leonard and he is laughing, crying, happy and sad all in the same instant.
-If she knew what mother did...How could she? I always thought she was a stupid little sister, but now it appears that she is tougher than me. All I wanted was to be normal... live a peaceful life...
-I've wanted the same thing for a while now, though when it started I can't really say. Sousuke states as he lowers the gun.
-YOU THINIK THIS IS OVER?
-No.
Sousuke had already noticed the small remote that Leonard held in his hand. A detonator of some sort, maybe the self-destruct button for the facility. There was no choice but to kill him, even if he was Tessa's brother. Suddenly a shot from behind and the blood is shooting out of Leonard's chest. Sousuke rolls into cover and notices that man- Andri Kalinin – shotgun in hand and a limp form of a girl over his shoulder.
-YOU FAILED KALININ LET THE GIRL GO!
He had no intention of giving up and Sousuke knew it. He was not the type of man to stop fighting because the leader had been killed. In fact he was the one who killed him. Kalinin for all of his years on the battlefields he had never looked more terrifying then he did at that moment.
-I'm taking the girl. She is to fulfill the mission at all costs.
-Traitor!
He had never felt more hatred towards a human being in his entire life. He wanted to kill this man, for his own reasons. He knew him from way back- Afghanistan, he was like a father to Sousuke why was he doing this? Yet now it seemed like a lifetime ago since they became enemies. Any affection towards the man he once considered like a father was gone in a flash. After exchaning several rounds of fire at eachother the Russian man took the girl down the corridor and to the runway. Sousuke followed, only giving a brief look back at Leonard, feeling a sense of pity wash over him.
He counted his bullets, and strode forward.
-The power of Sousuke Sagara and Teletha Testarossa is terrifying.
The old Russian soldier thought even though he had faced many a daunting foe. They have broken through our defences and now it's come to this. They had utterly defeated him in this sourie. At least if he had the girl he could start off again, to change this world he had come to despise so much. If his protogee was going to try to stop him, he would show no mercy.
-Chidori!
Sousuke was on his heels and the helicopter was on stand-by. He would escape and start the process all over again.
-Chidori!
He kept screaming her name trying to rouse her from her stupor.
-Have to make it there. Have to get on that helicopter, or stop it.
A burst of inspriation! A bundle of cording used to fix things is affixed to the floor with 3 meters of reinforced steel cord. Then the sound of a horrible wreck, metal against metal as the helicopter swayed, but refused to fall. At that Souske jumps into the hovering heli and rushes straight for Kaname. She seems to be waking from her stupor.
-Chidori! Get a grip on yourself we have to go now!
He rushed to her side and helped her to stand. This was the closest he had been to her in a year and the flood of emotions just had to stay their banks, now was not the time.
-Wha? Is this a dream?
-NO! It's real and we're going back together!
At that Kalinin bursts into the cargo hold with a rifle in his hands. He shoves Kaname out of the open door as a piercing pain punctures his back. Since the AS pilot suit was bulletproof he wasn't hurt but there was a deep pain. The helicopter was swaying dangerously and the cargo freights that filled the hold were beginning to fall. The helicopter lurched and then began to move up and away, leaving Sousuke to deal with Kalinin alone. Thats when it happened. The helicopter starts to loose control and beings to fall from the sky. The trees were the first thing it hit followed by the rocky ground below.
