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Chapter 19: Progress
Aldus was centered in a darkened, stone room in a seated position as four of his Skull Soldiers walked around him, all wielding rifles and aiming them at him. This was one of the ways that Aldus would always train his men, and at the moment he was not impressed with their observation skills. Every two or three seconds, each of these four would make a quick glance at the wall or ceiling as if expecting someone else to be there. The point of this exercise, after all, was to teach them to keep a constant eye on their opponent, no matter what. That at any second they decided not to keep a close eye, said opponent could use the opportunity to kill them. With all of the time these sorry excuses for soldiers were spending gazing the room, as hard as it was to believe, Aldus could've taken all four of them out easy.
It never mattered to Aldus what kind of weapon one would be wielding within his own forces. All that mattered to him was that each soldier knew how to use said weapons, and that they also knew never to take any sorts of chances on anyone who could easily prove a threat. To say the least, Aldus was not impressed. He had even noticed two of them whispering to each other about he didn't care what. If he didn't need men he would've killed them both right there. But instead he would just have to enjoy making fools out of these amateurs.
Three seconds later, Aldus quickly stretched out both arms, red mist escaping from all ten of his fingers and hitting the four unsuspecting soldiers, knocking them down easily, the rifles falling from their hands. Aldus stood up quickly, waiting for one of the soldiers to start rising before dashing gracefully towards him, then knife handing him in the head, knocking him unconscious.
Two more soldiers rose to their feet. Aldus dashed towards them, knocking them both down and out with a jump proceeded by a single roundhouse kick. Aldus rolled towards the last one then, rising to his feet and waiting for the last soldier to make his attack. The soldier removed a knife from the holster in his chest and swung at his neck. Aldus quickly leaned away, then grabbing the arm and jamming a hard elbow into the soldiers arm. A sickening crack echoed from the impact, causing the soldier to cry out in pain as bone stuck out from the skin in his arm, blood leaking furiously.
Aldus rolled his eyes. 'Wuss'. Aldus thought before then flipping the soldier over his shoulder and onto the hard concrete floor, then kicking him hard across his forehead, knocking the soldier unconscious as he rolled across the floor, stopping at the wall across the roof.
Aldus growled in frustration afterwords. 'What is wrong with these people'?! Aldus thought. All day he had been trying to find men who could MAYBE hold their own against the Ghost Warrior! Even now as he had given these few rookies a chance to prove their worth, he had gotten nowhere. Aldus prepared himself for more disappointment as he felt his walkie talkie vibrate against his leg. If Crumble had once again failed to deliver, he was going to take today's frustration out on him, not caring whether or not it would end the buffoon.
Aldus raised the Walkie Talkie up to his left ear and pressed the button on the side that allowed him to speak through it, then responding in his currently angry tone: "Talk".
"Skull King, I've found him". Crumble's voice responded. "He and his friends are stationed at a wooden house in Turpinville".
Aldus lowered the Walkie Talkie for a moment to let out a much needed sigh of relief. 'Finally SOMETHING goes right'! He thought, before then raising the Walkie Talkie back up to his ear. "They went that far out huh"? Aldus commented. "Well it's to be expected of Grun and his men. To run and hide".
Sure, Grun was obviously there for that last piece of Nui Armor he had been hiding, but that wasn't to say Grun wasn't a coward. Aldus had offered Grun a chance to be a part of his organization. To have the chance of rebuilding the entire world to his vision. The weak, all living under and in fear of those stronger than them. But like the coward he had always been in Aldus's eyes, Grun had turned the offer down, wanting everything to stay the way it was, obviously in fear of a much needed change.
For too long now, the weak had been in control of everything. The weak had been given tons of undeserved power to manipulate and tear apart the strong in whatever corporate or political way that they could. Years ago, a drunk weakling had even taken his wife and daughter from him. But no more. Once Aldus got his hands on all of the Nui Armor, the entire earth would go by one single rule: Survival of the fittest.
"Go in and get the relic, and be fast about it". Aldus ordered, then scowling down at the still conscious rookies. "I have had a very long day and if I have to wait any longer, I might kill half of my men.
Crumble's voice let out a chuckle. "It will be a pleasure Skull King".
Aldus smiled a bit, a bit happy that SOMEONE was taking their job seriously, unlike a few groaning soldiers whom remained on the floor. A few seconds later, Aldus decided to add: "Oh and Crumble, if you come across Grun, tell him I said hi".
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Crumble smirked from where he stood on a large grassy field just a mile away from Steven's house. "Will do". Crumble replied simply before hanging up and placing the walkie talkie onto a magnetic latch on his left leg that one of Aldus's men had handed to him earlier. Crumble smirked wider as he continued to gaze at the house.
After that embarrassing failure at the house of the Ko-Matoran, Crumble would finally have a chance to once again prove his worth. He had failed on purpose the time after that so that he would get his hands on the next Nui Armor. By the end of today, Kakan would've accomplished two victories. He would finally defeat the Ghost Warrior, and the Skull King's search for the Nui Armor would be over. Or at least for the most part. But Crumble decided not to focus on that slight detail right now as he turned to the other Skull Soldiers.
"Well you heard him". Crumble said. Then ordered: "Go get them".
As if there were no second to waste, the Skull Soldiers all rushed to the van parked a few inches away, grabbing whatever firearms or close range weapons that they could before rushing past Crumble, towards the wooden house that waited ahead, with Crumble walking slowly behind. If Ghost Warrior was going to come out during this attack, Crumble decided that a few pawns should go in first. Not out of cowardice, but to give the creature false hope that he would win this battle. 'Not today'. Crumble thought as his sick smile grew wider.
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Biomarvel740: Sorry I'm posting this so late! I nearly forgot! Please forgive me? Also, what did you think of this chapter? Please feel free to leave a review or PM for questions, and please have a God-blessed day! XD