Mobius: The Final Stand Ch. 33

Tails' house

4:47 pm

…."And so you know the rest from there…." Raymond finished telling his story to Galaxina, who had tears running down her cheeks. Tails and Cosmo had already retired to the living room downstairs, since they had already heard the story before.

"Aww…" Galaxina quietly muttered, leaning over and hugging Raymond sympathetically. "I'm so sorry for your loss… Do you still miss her?"

"Yeah I do…" Raymond replied, depressed. He sniffed. "Well it's been a week or so, but I can't seem to imagine how I'm going to survive the rest of my life—"

"Shh... don't worry, I'll help you to feel better, I promise!" Galaxina responded optimistically. Raymond sighed.

"Thanks! That means a lot!" Raymond tried his best to sound happy, even though he was still hurting inside….

Meanwhile…

Tails and Cosmo were sitting on the living room couch, watching a couple of movies. Though, they weren't really interested in the movies as much as each other. Tails had one arm draped lazily around Cosmo's shoulders, holding her closely. Cosmo in return was nuzzling her head on Tails' shoulder. His soft fur tickled her delicate cheek, making her giggle whenever he turned his head slightly. After the movie they were watching was finished, Tails turned to look at his girlfriend, who was sleepily yawning.

"Tired, Cosmo?" He smirked.

Cosmo blinked her eyes a couple of times and tried to sit up straight. "No, not at all! Sorry for yawning…" Cosmo tried to stifle another yawn.

Tails chuckled. "You sure? It looks like you're pretty worn out…" He stopped as he noticed Cosmo closed her eyes shut, slowly nodding off into a deep and peaceful sleep…

Tails chuckled again, and leisurely lay down on the sofa, gently placing Cosmo's head on his chest. She giggled in her sleep as Tails' fur brushed against her face, and enfolded her arms around Tails' body. Tails smiled, and gently laid one hand on her back, while he used the other to delicately rub the back of her head, smoothing out her emerald green hair. Tails sighed happily as he too slowly shut his eyes… Nothing could be more perfect in his mind…

Blue Falls (small city 20 miles Northwest of Newark)

Panicking civilians ran everywhere through the hazy smoke and fires of the destroyed city, screaming. Sounds of rapid gunfire and impacts from artillery fire rumbled in the distance, as well as the clash of metal. In all the confusion of the fleeing animals, some of them tripped and fell and were trampled underfoot as the rest rushed to escape…

Outside the city walls in the outcroppings of the surrounding forest, Commander Flash smiled grimly, and turned to his soldiers nearby, all of who were waiting patiently in the bushes. He raised one hand, and brought it down, yelling "FIRE!"

One of the soldiers brought forward an evil-looking mechanized high-tech cannon, and pulled the trigger on the side of it.

BANG!

A rocket shot out of it, screaming and spiraling upwards towards Blue Falls, sparks coming out of the back. Several more followed in succession, all coming from out of the vegetation of the foliage.

One of the citizens heard a strange, high-pitched noise, and looked up. Out of nowhere, several rockets crashed into a house nearby. It immediately exploded, sending a shockwave that knocked people off their feet. The nearest houses caught on fire, abruptly tumbling down to the ground. Everywhere, people moaned, injured or seriously wounded…

Beside Flash, Juggernaut nodded, and turned to his own soldiers. He waited a few more seconds, before running out into the open towards Blue Falls and yelling "CHARGE!"

Tens of thousands of men from the other 4 Commander's squadrons all rushed out of the forest, screaming blood-thirstily in their increasingly trademark 'smash-mouth' style of attacking. Up on Blue Falls, a meager militia was assembled to try to stop the raging invaders. Only about 500 poorly equipped, inexperienced men against 70,000 battle-worn fighters…

The defenders at the top of the hill tried their best to ward off the incoming army by shooting down at them with their rifles, but it was just a desperate attempt. The soldiers eventually reached the top, and swarmed all over the defenders, killing everyone in their path…

A group of men hiding behind an over-turned cart in the city jumped out, guns in hand, and tried to fire at the invaders, but suddenly they were taken away from their hands. Surprised, they turned around to see a silver cat smirking behind them.

"Nice try…" Metal called out as she watched her own soldiers savagely kill them all…

In another part of the city, another small fighting force tried to shoot the invaders, but before they could fire, a strong force pushed all of them to the ground, and stalagmites rose from the ground, impaling them. Gravity and Juggernaut watched on nearby, nodding to each other, and then leaving to help in different parts of the falling city.

Civilians everywhere were being downed by needles flying everywhere or if they managed to dodge them, a toxic-like substance enveloped them, suffocating them…

Finally after only 10 minutes, the massacre was over. Blue Falls had been completely annihilated, the last city to fall to Malcolm's massive army. The dead were lying around everywhere, all scattered in various places. The few survivors were all taken and chained up to be taken back to Newark. Malcolm would decide to let them join his heavily increasing army or not. Finally, the whole planet had fallen to Malcolm's Empire. All that was left to do was finally complete the ships that were taking so long to build…

Back at Newark:

Malcolm sat at his desk, pleased. He had just received reports from a scout that Blue Falls had just recently fallen, and was now planning to bring all of his troops back in order to ready the campaign to go into space. By his side stood Luke and Garry, both of whom were leaning on the wall nonchalantly. They watched apathetically as Malcolm pulled out his phone and ordered his commanders to return home. So far while the other 6 had been out battling, Garry and Luke had been staying in the fortress, obviously because Malcolm was still furious at them for letting Raymond escape. But now Malcolm was letting both of them re-earn his trust by sending them off into space along with the rest…

Luke coughed politely to try and get Malcolm's attention. Irritated, Malcolm looked up at him.

"Yes?" Malcolm snapped sharply.

Luke grimaced. "Sorry sir, but I was wondering if I should go out and assist my fellow peers in any way possible…" Luke obviously just wanted to get out of the stuffy room he had been forced to stay in all day.

"Yeah yeah," Malcolm dismissed Luke with a wave of his hand. Luke saluted smartly, and briskly left the room. On the other side of the room, Garry whistled through his teeth and yawned. He was still seething about the fact how Raymond managed to beat him. If only he just got another chance, he'd be able to redeem himself and finally bring the traitor to justice…

"Garry?" Malcolm looked up at him. Garry saluted. "Yes sir?"

"I'm trusting you with an important job. You see, even though you let Raymond escape which I am still extremely unhappy about, I admire your ferociousness and burning rage to vanquish him. Rally the returning soldiers and give a speech to motivate them to join us into space instead of becoming lazy and complacent after all their victories. Tell them that we still have not finished our primary mission, and that is to eliminate Raymond. Am I clear?"

"Yes sir!" Garry nodded, and also briskly left the room. Malcolm smiled leaned back in his chair, clutching a few important documents. Soon…. Very soon he would find Raymond and kill him….