9- The Journey Back to Earth
Neyla
I decided that I didn't need to leave Earth at all. I felt foolish when I left Earth dragging Sango, Kohaku and Mirokyu with me. Tears ran down my eyes when I finally realized that I all ready found a home and didn't need to leave the Sohmas; I broke down and cried after the battle against and seeing Eureka and Renton happy.
'Maybe it would've been better if I hadn't left at all,' I thought to myself as I went and found Eureka and Renton.
I shook my head disagreement before I found them in an empty field. They held each other and kissed each other as they landed softly on the grass. I smiled when I saw them kissing each other and I had tears in my eyes and wished so bad that I could kiss Kohaku. During our time away from Earth I hadn't really been close to him as much as I should've been. But composed myself for however long I could and met up with Eureka and Renton. They were surprised that I found them; I slipped a homing beacon in Renton's jacket pocket before he got to his quarters. After the repairs were done, I made my decision as I held the jewel that Kisa gave me in my hand; we went back to Earth and to the Sohma family. That's where I felt my heart truly belonged, with the Sohma family and with my "sister" Kisa. It took us a year to get back to Earth. We spent most of the time in the Pegasus galaxy helping people out and earning money for various jobs and even helped the Covenant Hierarchy, but you already know that 'cause I told you about. We left with the blessings from the Hierarchy and continued our journey back to the Milky Way galaxy. During our journey back, Colonel Ackerson and the Renegades attacked many times but we still beat them up and sent them running. They were the reason it took us a year to return to the Milky Way galaxy. Holland had suggested that we go after him and finish him off for good. So we did and found his base on Gaia in the destroyed city of Midgar. John sighed and Judah clicked his mandibles, which I'm guessing was a sigh, when they heard that they might have to go back down into the ruins of Deepground's old hideout. The Renegades constantly launched offensives against the WRO and were beaten back every time, well ninety-five percent of the time. When they gained a foothold in Edge, Reeve Tuesti was alarmed and tried to take it back from the Renegades but met with crushing defeats. Eventually we came in with the Gekkostate, Tiger Roger and the Super Izmo and reinforcements. But by the time we got there, the Renegades had already broken out of Edge and captured Kalm, killing the population of Kalm and leaving no survivors. This outraged Godo and the Wushang, so they sent some of their forces, from their newly built army. Colonel Ackerson began to remind me of Rosso the Crimson, he was thirsty for blood and it seemed he wanted to bathe in it. That sick son of bitch, I wanted to rush into Colonel Ackerson's forces and kill him personally for the unnecessary slaughter of innocent people. I could hear their cries for vengeance and justice to be done on Ackerson. Our newest and secret member, Azul the Cerulean finally got a taste of combat of after he was captured on Genosis and I got him to change sides instead being destroyed like Weiss, Nero and Rosso. Shelke was a bit disturbed when Azul joined us; she thought he was going to kill her. Azul assured Shelke he wasn't going to kill her and was rather cold about it. That was what I wanted from the commander for a new unit I created which comprised of Covenant Hunters, Brutes, some Helljumpers and half of the Spartans. They would handle our heavy guns and artillery in battle and they hadn't seen battle at all. The squad was called the 159th Artillery Division, a.k.a Painters of Death. Their motto is "Our Art is the Art of Death." On to the battle, I'm taking too much time on the Shadow Marines. Oh… sorry! We approached the WRO Headquarters only to find it deserted and half way destroyed… again. We figured they left the Main Continent and went to the Great Continent at Rocket Town and found Reeve, rather Cait Sith, his spy. I huffed in annoyance when I met with Cait; don't get me wrong Cait is real fun to hang out around but not to talk to. sigh The Renegades took half of the Great Continent and was swinging around from the north northeast in order to take Rocket Town and do exactly what they did to the people of Kalm. Luckily, the Gekkostate, Super Izmo and my ship moved to intercept a fleet approaching from the northeast coastline. The battle didn't last long because the enemy was caught off guard when we came from behind using the mountains to cloak our presence until we were literally behind them and attacked from behind knocking out their engines. The enemy didn't have their shields up, what a bunch of idiots, and we took them down in an hour flat. Ackerson got word that we were in the neighborhood and took out his prized ships in an hour; if you saw the look on his face, you could say he was pissed. After stopping his small fleet, we took to the offensive and made our way to the Corel Village and began driving them back off the Great Continent back towards Midgar going through Junon, liberating WRO Headquarters, through the Mythril mines, towards the Midgar Zolom and back into Midgar. When we walked into Kalm, there wasn't building that wasn't covered in blood or had blood splattered on it. I should be glad Eureka or Talho weren't there when we entered Kalm; well Renton wasn't there either. After combing the town for any Renegades left behind, we buried the people of Kalm outside of the town and set up a memorial for them. After regrouping three klicks north northwest of Kalm, we began our offensive against on Edge and found it empty except for three hundred and fifty civilian survivors forced to produce munitions and vehicles for the Renegades. Most of them were children and one thousand five hundred thirty seven people were mercilessly slaughtered. Mostly torn apart by Renegade Brutes while others were shot in the head with plasma pistols in execution style by Ackerson's subordinates; the bodies were even laid out where they were shot in a straight line. I began to feel rage in my body but I had to suppress it otherwise the darkness would turn Natonku evil and I couldn't do that. I put my fist through solid concrete and let go of my anger. I knew I had to focus on getting rid of Ackerson and presenting him dead or alive before the UNSC HighCom brass and the Hierarchy. As we finished our plans to assault Midgar, as I predicted, John and Judah didn't like the fact that we were going to have to go down into Deepground and take the fight to the Renegades. They didn't want to go back down into Deepground after going down with my mother during the First Omega War. At oh-three hundred hours we launched our final assault on the Renegades. What we didn't know was that they had already set up motion sensors all around the mesa, while we were planning our attack, to warn them of an oncoming attack. I almost took Ship Master Jala Noloosen's suggestion to glass Midgar into the ground, but that left the problem of reaching Ackerson in Deepground's hideout beneath Midgar. So I decided we would go into Midgar and Deepground kill Ackerson before Ship Master Jala Noloosen glassed Midgar to the ground. We followed the same battle plan as mom did when she launched Operation Tiger Strike against Deepground, except there were no Mako reactors to blow up and that sucked. Fighting didn't last in the Sector 7 Train Graveyard and the Central Complex. The Renegade Brutes fell to the rocket crews easily as did the Renegade Hunters. Fighting in Deepground took longer than expected; the Renegades set barricades through out the Data Vault and the outside wall. You could hear the gun battles going on around you and would feel like you'd been sent back to 1942 during the battle for Stalingrad. We were fighting house to house, hand to hand and street by street; we fought for every square inch of ground and took some causalities as we fought to Mako Reactor 0. When we got into Mako Reactor 0, the Renegades became even fiercer and fought back ten times harder then before, they even began to send their soldiers to their death by attaching plasma grenades and blowing themselves up like suicide bombers just to try and stop our advance and make us turn back. But we managed to get in the heart of Mako Reactor 0 after blowing up three Covenant dropships and sweeping his two lieutenants, Lieutenant Andrew McCassey and Squad Master Itoolo Nasarerra. Ackerson didn't die or come quietly, we knew he was too big of a threat return alive but the brass at HighCom insisted that he be captured alive. So we eventually caught him and bond him tightly in an Elite double knot restraint. We took him High Charity where the brass met with the Hierarchy for a joint trial. He was tried by a UNSC JAG court and by the laws of the Covenant. You wouldn't want to be found guilty if you pleaded not guilty to a charge like murder under Covenant law, because you'd be executed, but that's not what you'd have to be concerned about. It's before the execution that you'd have to be worried about; you'd be tortured by the Elites and it's very painful to endure. By the time they were done with you, you'd be begging them to kill you and just put you out of your misery. I'm not going to tell you how what they do to torture people because I swore under pain of death not to tell. After Ackerson's execution, we made it to the Halfway Station between the Milky Way Pegasus galaxies and had a three day waiting period to send notification to SGC in Cheyenne Mountain of our arrival and new personnel joining up. That meant the Gundam pilots, the crews of the Gekkostate and the Super Izlo and a cyborg that could ghost hack in anyone's mind use their body, her name was Motoko. After receiving authorization to proceed, I wanted to see mom and return the reinforcements she sent for the battle against Colonel Dewey. So we did after performing the randomized jumps required as per the Cole Protocol. Even though the Renegades had been defeated the Cole Protocol still applied. I was very happy to see my mother and my family in three years. I thanked my mother for sending the reinforcements and introduced some of the friends I made during my time in the Pegasus galaxy. Mother recognized Milliardo Peacecraft from a previous mission. The rest of my friends spent time exploring the city and I think Renton tried to do some lifting, which isn't a good idea during hurricane season. Even though I was happy to see my family, I still felt sad and down and my mood wasn't improving anytime soon. After spending a month with my family, I went back to Earth and decided to start over with my life. So now here I am, I'm in Japan starting my life over. I probably won't go back to Tokyo until I feel I can handle facing the Sohmas again.
