Oh for fuck sake! Stupid logging in system made me lose all my AN's and the massive amount of editing that went into this bloody chapter, bloody logging in service, aye yiya. But anyway...so you thought that I wasn't going to update this story? Look out...It's an update! Now you'll remember me saying that I was loosing interest in this fanfic in the last chapter, well a small number of you wanted me to keep going with this. Incredible what a small number of people can do don't you think? As I write this AN, the whole family is going apeshit getting themselves ready for, at the time of writing, my cousin's wedding tomorrow. With that and the Royal Wedding coming up very soon, don't even think of saying the word 'wedding' into me, ye gods!

Now when writing this, I was surprise to see how fun this one was to write out (still more fun than the last one I will say), maybe I just have a thing for writing stuff with the bad guys? Just seems a lot of fun to do so if I will say so, then again that's just the words from another dumb, lazy Scottish Fanfiction author. And on another note, I have a requested HopexLight fic coming up, though it's mainly based on around their daughter, so if I were you, you can put me on your 'Author Alert' thing, hopefully that'll be up soon once everything here calms down, or as calm as it'll ever be round where I live about. Now I'am quite surprised that this chapter was pretty smaller than what I hoped for as this was more of a warm up chapter for what will happen next. Originally this was suppose to be part of the big chapter coming up, but with so many things going on at once...yeah, cutting it was to save me from being lost in work that would never be finished.

But enough with that, I can see you want to rip into this chapter now, do you? I guess you do indeed. So without anything else, here is a nice fresh chapter for you all. Also, I fucking love the title for this chapter, hopefully you'll agree with that little fact, so on you go!

Part 10

Instruments of Armageddon

Nothing they could do could help them get out of the situation they were in. Only thing they could do was watch in silence as the force of whatever it was that was pulling them in led the craft into the great black hole behind the opened doors. Such was the situation that on board knew what to do. Either panic for their lives or make phone calls to any relatives saying that they were going to die? No time for that as they were pulled more and more into the black abyss. What amazed both of them the most was how large the space was in the darkness. Now the Skybreaker is very large, the size of the monstrous machine made it look so small, and made the X-92 look like a fly on the wall!

Soon enough as soon as they were pulled in, everything on board went pitch black, they couldn't even tell if they were up or down as it was like the craft was standing in space. Then a rough clunk sound was heard, giving the ship a jolt indicating that they had landed. Trying to adjust to the surroundings, Snow leaned forward squinting his eyes trying to make out the exterior of wherever they were, though it was made the more difficult with the giant hanger bay doors closing. A loud, rumbling clang was heard meaning that the doors had shut.

All was silent, not even any of the gang's breathing could be heard as they stood there like sitting ducks. Then a blaring alarm sounded which brought with it a sudden burst of light into the cockpit. So intense was it that they had to cover their eyes from the great flash from being blinded almost. The alarm still sounded during this. The first to look out of the cockpit windows was Fang. Out of the window she was in slight awe how huge this hanger was; it was on a scale of having a medium sized town placed in it. All of it was in a metallic silver colour that glowed slightly with the help of the floodlights above them. Looking on to her right she saw Skybreaker Two sitting beside them and on her left, lo and behold, was none other than the missing Skybreaker!

The others all muttered to themselves once they all saw the lost Skybreaker sitting alongside them. Down on the ground level were thousands of people all dressed in black with a red stripe going down the side (matching with the mammoth sized ship) rushing towards the X-92 and Skybreaker Two. Many vehicles as well lied scattered all over the ground level, presumably to take them all around the vast area. Looking over to the right, they noticed the guards on the bottom attaching something the undercarriage of the Skybreaker with a long cable attached that led to one of the vehicles nearby. So much were they interested of what was going on that they hadn't noticed a group of them had headed over to the X-92 to plant the same thing on them.

Whatever it was placed on their undercarriage it made the craft jolt slightly. Suddenly the radio buzzed back into life. "Attention crew," Came a booming, yet strange accent. "You shall leave your craft immediately. Failure to do so and your ship shall be infected with cyanide gas."

They all went silent, looking at Snow thinking he might have something up his sleeve to get them out of this. 'Well Snow," Mir asked looking at him, "got any ideas to get through this?"

The rest looked at the NORA leader hoping for the same. Snow though couldn't think of anything. "No," he said sadly, "just go along with it."

The others felt a tinge of guilt in them when they heard Snow's words. Mir though had to follow along with it as he grabbed the mic to speak into it. "Now hear this, the captain speaking," Mir replied into the mic. "We shall come now." He placed the mic back on its stand. "Well fellows, let's have a walk then."

And without thinking of anything else, they did just that. Now the area with the loading ramp was still pretty dark with only some rays of light coming from the cockpit room. Opening up the ramp, more rays of light illuminated the room, they could see guards with guns awaiting them to come down the ramp. Being the captain, Mir went down first with Snow following behind. Once down the ramp and on to the ground level, they couldn't help but look around awe at the vast scale of it all.

"Hurry up Captain and your crew!" Boomed that voice again, which sounded like it was coming from a megaphone. "I'm not renowned for my patience!" Quite frighten by the sudden outburst, they followed the guards into one of the airport-like vehicles waiting to take them to possibly their prison. They noticed that the crew of the Skybreaker was being led to one of the vehicles for maybe the same fate as they were getting themselves into.

Getting inside the van like interior of this vehicle, they heard that booming voice again from a speaker system inside. "Attention crew of Groundhog thirteen," came the voice, "I want that crew brought to me immediately." The gang looked around at each other with worried looks. Just what was going on? It all seemed far to fast for them.

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Looking out at the back window as they went further and further away from the crafts, the crafts looked completely inferior to the hanger bay itself. Mir was starting to wonder if he would see his beloved X-92 ever again, but he couldn't complain now as if he did, he thought he was going to get thrown off the ship and to his death.

What seemed like five minutes just to get to the over side of the hanger, the gang were led out into one of the many elevators on sight by two guards. Up and up they went to the top floor to meet this person who had captured them in the first place.

"Nervous?" Fang whispered to Snow with a small smile.

Snow looked over to his wife. "Guess you can say that," he whispered back, though he kept a brave face on what was going on.

The motley gang then when led into a large room, as soon as the doors of the elevator opened, with many classical style paintings hung up on all the walls. About five of these guards stood around the room with their machineguns in hand. But they weren't the ones that caught the attention of NORA and Mir. The person that caught their attention was about a head shorter than then, wore a maroon coloured housecoat type coat. He was quite an old person and when he turned to look at them, he had a fearsome look in his eyes that made the gang stuck to the spot.

"Good morning, NORA," The man said to them walking up to them, then he looked over to Mir. "And good morning to you, Mir Pacora. The Fireman." Now it was Mir's turn to look surprise.

"How'd you know who we are?" Yuj asked in disbelief at the fact that the person knew who they were.

"And who are you anyway?" Fang added, also looking quite stunned.

The old man gave them a twisted smile while placing his hands behind his back. "Ahh, the wonders of technology," he replied walking past them to look out the window onto the hanger, which they could see hundreds of people hurrying into the two Skybreakers, not to mention the hanger doors opening up. "To track a craft's movements and to know how close it is to us, we track them by hearing voices onboard."

He paused to look at them. "It was only useful to know that to introduce myself to you, my name is Marcus Nocall." The group gave each other curious looks to each other. "Oh yes, we could hear every little voice on board, even that heart warming wedding onboard, and the little moments in that room after…"

Snow and Fang slightly lowered their heads while the others looked quite disgusted in them. Marcus then looked down to Fang's belly. "Ah yes, the reason for the marriage was by that, interesting indeed." He looked at both Snow and Fang's appearances rubbing his chin in thought, "No doubt the child will be a handsome one, only if he or she will see another day after this."

Then Maqui looked back at Marcus shocked by his words. "But why do you want the Skybreakers for?"

The older man smiled at the younger NORA member when he heard this. "I was hoping someone would be curious at what was going on." He walked up to them. "As you know, onboard those two aircraft are the homing bombs 'Solace' and 'Risco', both have the power to blow apart Gran Pulse. Use both of them at the same time and every little being over the landscape will be eliminated."

Had Fang not been restrained by two of the guards, she would have thrown Marcus right out of the window. "Ahh yes, the Gran Pulsian woman," Marcus said rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "The last of your type if I'm correct. Well, your home which we all called hell back on Cocoon will become that very Hell we all dreamt it to be."

"But why'd you want to do this for?" Mir pouted, also held back by the guards.

Marcus looked over to the fireman with that twisted smile. "I was wondering when one was going to ask that." He walked back over to the window looking over the hanger. "I only wish to live my life out on my own terms. When Cocoon fell from the sky, we had the great opportunity of living a new life here in the sky over hell. Instead, we chose the lesser option of living in the hell below. Poor choice I will say." He paused to see the Two Skybreakers roaring back into life to leave the hanger. "…The only option will be to destroy every single life form, large and small, from the face of Gran Pulse."

Snow and the others looked at each other horrified at each other. "Why do this? You'll kill millions!"

The older man looked at Snow with no expression in his face. "You care about the useless race called 'mankind?'" The others starred at him confused by it all. "Mankind as we know is corrupt and pathetic." He walked over to a small silver table like structure in the room, pressing a button that turn on a hologram of all of Gran Pulse, a large red dot in the centre would have been them on it. "The race as we know it will eventually tare itself apart, I'm merely accelerating the process."

The noise from the two Skybreakers became more and more louder, catching the attention of the group and Marcus. Skybreaker thirteen had now left the hanger with its sister ship raring to go. Looking at the hologram, a small red dot from the larger red dot indicated that it was on its way.

"Observe my friends," Marcus said while looking at the sight, "the instruments of Armageddon at work." The NORA gang could only watch dejectedly as the next Skybreaker roared off from the hanger, leaving only the X-92 in the hanger looking intimidated by the hanger's massive size.

The sinister man looked up at the clock showing it just being past half past eight. "At exactly nine o'clock, the world as you knew it..." he said this calmly, then looked back to Fang to Fang practically, "this world you once knew as home will be a barren wasteland."

The bronze skinned woman looked like she was on the verge of boiling point. "Destroying my homeland and killing everyone…you think you can top just that then?"

Marcus gave a slight chuckle walking up to her. "Of course, we have to destroy everyone and everything on this hellish land, but it doesn't mean that we can't have a souvenir from this land. As the last remaining member of your clan and anyone else from your era, you'll be a permanent monument to that." He looked over to the guards. "Bring her with me, send the rest to the prison cells with the others."

And on his command, two guards with weapons led Fang alongside Marcus to an open top like vehicle nearby. Snow felt both useless for loosing her to that bastard of a man, yet a part of him was raring to save her and even the world.

"Don't think you'll be able to do much to change the course of history," Marcus' voice said as the vehicle left, "even if you do escape, it'll all be too late."

Watching them leave, the NORA leader felt pretty reluctant to move into the prison van to take them to the prison deck. But as they were placed in, Snow had his hero confidence back in him again. Hero's never run away from a fight and neither would he in this one.

He only hoped that he would have just the time to pull this all off.

The race to save the world is on! Now don't think Snow and the gang will save the world and come back in one piece, one must be sacrificed, 'tis be the way of making you wonder if they will save the world, then again what would you do if you were mankind's last hope to save the world in less than half an hour and defeat the bad guy? Well I can tell you that I'd shit myself, but good old Snow (being the brainless fool) will do just that.

So yeah, that's yer lot for now! Now the next chapter will be a big one that'll be the griping finale to, what will be I think, the first SnowxFang story on here. Wow, you can say that it is a big ass responsibility to do so now, don't you think? Just give me time to do the next part and It'll be good, give you can't wait, make your own SxF story, either chapter or oneshot based, or even better, fanart for me! If you'd like to do so, PM me if you want to.

Until then, see you lot in a bit!