I know I haven't updated in awhile, but here's the next chapter. Hope you like it.
Chapter 13: Blitzkrieg Bop
Over at a different section of the battlefield Denzel stood on top the hood of a recently destroyed truck. Denzel shouted out commands to his troops from his position, he scanned the area as more of Darkwater's troops surrounded him. Denzel leaped over their heads and pulled out his massive buster sword taking them down with one mighty swing. Denzel knew they couldn't keep this fighting up forever. The WRO's forces were divided between his side and Cash's forcing Denzel's soldiers to not only fight Darkwater's men, but fellow WRO soldiers as well.
Darkwater's men set up a machine gun turret and began firing at Denzel's troops. Denzel used his buster sword to deflect the bullets, when he was close enough he sliced the turret in half. He punched the soldier sitting in the turret then spun around and kicked another nearby soldier's teeth in. Denzel kept running when all of a sudden he found himself surrounded by a group of Cash's soldiers. They each pointed their guns at Denzel.
He was cornered; they ordered him to drop his weapon which he did. Denzel quickly sized up his options. He took a deep breathe and looked up at the sky, suddenly he started smiling. The soldiers stared at him confused, slowly they approached Denzel when Lucy dropped down to the ground and cleared away each and everyone of the soldiers with a violent display of her awesome demonic strength.
"What took you so long?" chuckled Denzel
Lucy transformed back into her regular form and smirked at her brother-in-law.
"I had to help out my way-ward husband and my flaky brother." Joked Lucy
"I see thanks. How are they doing?" asked Denzel
"They got a handle of things." Replied Lucy
"Good, Lucy I need you to help me clear out some of these enemies……" Denzel was cut off when a group of specially equipped member's of Darkwater's army raised there arms into the air to reveal that they were equipped with summoning materia
The soldiers began summon all sorts of creature, Ifrit, Shiva, Ramu, even Bauhmut. There were even copies of some. It was clear to everyone that Darkwater had come prepared.
"Scratch that, just take care of these guys." Asked Denzel as he lifted up his sword ready for battle
Lucy made sure her gun was fully loaded before she followed Denzel toward the summons. As they headed toward danger, they saw hundreds of WRO soldiers fleeing from the over whelming odds. Denzel angrily approached one of the Ifrits and slashed it across the chest. The creature cried out in pain as it swiped at Denzel. Denzel side stepped the attack and finished the creature with another swift slice of his sword.
"EVERYONE ATTACK, keep going don't give up!" shouted Denzel
The fleeing soldiers turned around just in time to see their commander slaying the fearsome summon creature. Fueled by his bravery they turned around and headed back into battle.
Lucy leaped out of the way as came under attack by two Shivas. Lucy dodged their first attack then shot one in the head. At first glance Darkwater's troops summons looked powerful, but in reality they actually weren't. Darkwater obliviously didn't take the time to raise the summons properly.
The two Shivas released a powerful tandem ice attack completely incasing Lucy in ice. The Shivas smiled at their handy work when, suddenly the ice exploded revealing Lucy in her Chaos form. Lucy grabbed one of the Shivas by the throat and started to squeeze it until it disappeared. The second Shiva hit Lucy from behind with another ice attack.
Lucy spun around to unleash a furry of energy attacks on the second Shiva until it was defeated as well. Lucy growled angrily as she shot into the sky to go take on the rest of the summon creatures.
Cid zoomed through the air with a Bahamut close behind them. Bahamut fired a blast of energy straight at airship only for Cid to dodge the attack last second. Cid's excellent piloting skills would help him so much. As jr. dodged another attack from the summon creature he received a radio signal from his sister Izumi.
"Okay Bro, I'm in the ships cannon." Reported Izumi
"Good, now Fire at that thing!" ordered Cid Jr.
Izumi grabbed a hold of the firing controls and started firing powerful energy blasts back at Bahamut from the ship's cannons. Izumi's aim was dead on as the blasts brought the mighty dragon to a halt. Cid seized the moment and started to circle around back toward Bahamut. Izumi flipped a switch unleashing a series of missiles upon the summon, defeating him. The siblings only had a few seconds to celebrate before another Bahamut arrived and started attack the airship. Jr. pulled back the ship just as Bahamut's attack grazed the ship's side.
Back at General Cash's base camp John dodged the in coming gunfire then leaped behind some more cover. John took a deep breathe before he took aim, John took his time making sure not to leave himself too exposed. He pulled the trigger and took down one of the one of the two soldiers helping Cash. Seeing his soldier go down Cash pulled out a grenade and tossed it at John's location.
John jumped out of the way putting him in the line of fire once again. John started to roll away as Cash and the remaining soldier fired at John. John took cover once again as Cash tossed another grenade; John had to keep moving as cover became even more sparse. John leaped up into the air and started firing at the turrets. One of the bullets hit the soldier in the shoulder. Cash retaliated by firing at John with his turret. John tried to dodge, but unfortunately one of the bullets nicked him and John hit the ground hard. John pushed himself up and leaped behind cover took take a breather.
"Please give up John! I don't want to hurt you." Exclaimed Cash
"I know you don't, General. I don't want to hurt you either." Replied John
"Then please leave me alone, it's the only way!" shouted Cash
"Stop this madness, Cash. There's another way!"
"Tell me then John, how?"
"If we work together, we can beat him!"
"I wish I could believe you, John. But I can't take that chance."
"Listen Cash stop now and we can stop Darkwater before……."
John looked up to see the sky be taken over by a bright white light. The light shot up and started to encircle the entire planet. Most of the soldiers on the battlefield began to flee in terror including the one in the turret pointed at John. John stood there in awe of the light as General Cash ran from it in horror.
"HOLY crap!" exclaimed John as the light began to approach him.
About 8 minutes earlier………
Alex and Darkwater stood eye to eye. Darkwater gripped his machete and submachine gun angrily, without his materia Darkwater lost most of his advantages. He still had one thing over Alex, Darkwater had his weapons in hand. Alex was unarmed and his Tsurugi was still stuck in the ground a few feet away from him. Darkwater couldn't afford to let Alex get his hands on that sword.
Darkwater took a step back and began firing wildly at Alex. Alex rolled out of the way of the gunfire. Alex made his way behind Darkwater and swept his legs with a kick bringing him to the ground. Darkwater quickly recovered and started firing at Alex again. Alex took cover behind a piece of machinery.
He took at quick look and spied his Tsurugi in the middle of the base camp. Alex look a deep breathe and headed straight for the sword. Darkwater made it to his feet in time to see Alex running for his weapon. Darkwater growled in anger and began firing in the direction of Alex's sword.
Alex managed to stop himself last second and side step Darkwater's gunfire. Darkwater keep firing at Alex leading him away from his sword. He needed to get close in order to get a better shot off the fast moving Strife.
Darkwater ran up to Alex and began swing at him with his machete. Alex dodged the first couple of swipes. Alex side stepped Darkwater again, but Darkwater anticipated this and shifted slightly putting Alex in point blank range of his gun. Darkwater pulled the trigger, Alex needed to think fast. Using the haste materia on the pendant he was wearing, Alex managed to dodge the gunfire only to walk into a counter attack from Darkwater's machete which sliced across the chest just under his throat.
Darkwater grinned in satisfaction as he began firing at Alex again. Alex back flipped out of then followed up with a round house kick to Darkwater's right shoulder throwing him off balance. Alex quickly hit Darkwater in the face with an elbow strike forcing him to stumble back. Darkwater began firing wildly at Alex again, Alex fell back and rolled out of the way. Darkwater kept pulling the trigger when suddenly his gun stopped signaling he was out of ammo.
"Looks like you're out. And you missed….for the most part." Smirked Alex
"That's what you think, Mr. Strife." Replied Darkwater grinning
Alex looked down to see that the pendant was missing from around his neck. Darkwater must have sliced it off when he slashed him. Darkwater smiled as he reloaded his machine gun and pointed it at Alex. Alex looked Darkwater right in the eyes and smirked.
"Why are you smiling?" grinned Darkwater
"Well…just look where I'm standing." Replied Alex as he reached behind him
Darkwater stared at Alex in shock as he realized that Alex was standing in the middle of the base camp, right in front of his Tsurugi. Alex grabbed a hold of his sword and pulled it out of the ground. Darkwater panicked and began firing wildly at Alex. Alex used the massive size of the blade to deflect most of the gunfire as he ran up to Darkwater.
Darkwater tried to move out of the way, but it was too late Alex swung his massive sword and sliced Darkwater's submachine gun in two. Alex used the momentum to spin around and nailed Darkwater with powerful kick straight to the chest knocking him on his back.
Darkwater gasped out in pain as Alex pointed his sword straight at him. Darkwater had certainly under estimated the young Strife. Not only was he filled with youthful vigor, but he had as learned much from his predecessors.
"It's over!" commanded Alex
Darkwater began laughing maniacally. Alex was taken back by his odd behavior, but none the less stood his ground.
"I commend you Mr. Strife. I underestimated you ability. But I'm always prepared!" replied Darkwater as he pulled a strange control device out of his belt and activated
Two auto-guns popped out of hiding and began firing at Alex. Alex leaped back to dodge the bullets and used his sword to deflect most of them. One of the bullets ricocheted off his sword and hit Alex right in his left arm. Alex dived behind some cover and checked on his arm. It hurt, but it wasn't a serious injury.
Darkwater slowly made his way to his feet as the auto-distracted Alex. As he rose to his feet, he suddenly fell back to his knees in pain. Alex's kick had done more damage than Darkwater had previously thought. Darkwater sheathed his machete then clutched his chest as he began to stumble over to the HOLY materia.
Alex spied Darkwater moving toward materia. He leaped out from his cover and did his best to avoid the bullets. Alex popped the switch blade sword out of his Tsurugi destroying one of the auto-guns. Alex then slammed his Tsurugi into the second auto-gun, driving the blade into the ground. Alex then popped out a hollow blade and a serrated blade from his Tsurugi and headed straight after Darkwater.
Darkwater reached the machine that contained HOLY, but collapsed before he could turn it on. Darkwater was in serious pain. Alex reached Darkwater in time and pointed his hollowed blade at him.
"Don't you even think about it, this little game of your's is over." Demanded Alex
"You've learned nothing Mr. Strife!" growled Darkwater as he pulled out the control device again and pushed another button
Suddenly the ground began to explode all over the base camp. Alex realized that Darkwater had placed hidden mines all over. Alex and Darkwater leaped out of the way to avoid the bulk of the explosions. Alex got caught in the shock wave and was slammed into some of the machinery. When the smoke had cleared Alex made his way to his feet. Alex breathed heavily he was sore and parts of his body ached. He had survived the blast…… for the most part. Darkwater wasn't as lucky, Darkwater had evaded the explosion, but his right leg was caught in part of the blast and it was badly damaged.
Despite his injury Darkwater was laughing, he was covered in dirt and blood, but was laughing, he was in tremendous pain, but he kept laughing. It was then Alex realized why he was laughing and it filled him with dread. Darkwater was lying hunched over the control panel for the machine that would activate HOLY.
Alex took one step toward Darkwater , desperately trying to stop him. Darkwater began to laugh even louder……as he flipped the switch activating the machine. HOLY activated causing a brilliant white light to shoot out of it practically blinding Alex. The light shot up into the sky and began spreading. A shockwave of energy pulsed out from the light knocking Alex to the ground hard. Alex gasped in pain as Darkwater continued to laugh.
As HOLY grew and grew John turned around to realize that Cash was gone. John rushed into the base camp to stop Cash. Cash stood at the controls for his own machine and powered it up. John began to approach him in order to stop him, Cash noticed John in time and spun around firing at John with his handgun. John backed away to dodge the bullets, but came right back and shot Cash right in the arm forcing him to drop his gun.
Cash stood there in pain clutching his arm, as the blood flowed. HOLY loomed over head casting an eerie light upon the battlefield. The light that reached down to the ruins of Midgar began to wipe out any soldiers in was unlike enough to come in contact with. John pushed Cash out of the way and began to deactivate the machine, when a lone soldier of Cash's came up behind and shot John in the back. John cried out in pain as he spun around and used his gunblade to shot down the soldier.
Cash made it to his feet and used a nearby rock to bash John across the head. John's head throbbed in pain as he fell into the ground, the bullet in his back only intensified his pain. Cash stumbled over to the consol and flipped the switch. METEOR activated causing a stream of darkness to shoot into the sky forming a massive ball of dark energy. HOLY flew up to clash with METEOR right in the middle of the planet's atmosphere.
The two powers clashed causing a epic battle of good and evil. The planet began to shake as the struggled took its toll on the world. Buildings crumbled all over, people ran in fear. John looked up into the sky to see METEOR and HOLY battle as he tried to fight his head injury. Alex looked up to see the same sight and growled in anger as he watched the beginning of the end.
The planet had had enough; the ground began to erupt as the lifestream poured out from it. The lifestream shot into the sky to meet with HOLY and METEOR. It clashed with the two powers desperately trying to quell the battle. However, this time the lifestream was not strong enough, the ground began to crack. Mountains crumbled, trees began to die.
The planet was running out of strength for the battle, but it desperately tried to push on. And so the earth began to crumble away as HOLY, METEOR, and the lifestream became locked in an epic struggle.
To be continued……….