Time to start the battle enjoy the destruction.

Chapter 21

Enemy Encounters

Dusk had finished getting the filter download, so now he could use his visor to see the Invisible Demon that Aura controlled. "Now all I got to do is check up on the ride armor and we can get started with the fun." He said to himself as he walked down the hall. As he passed the R&D section one of the techs ran out to him calling his name. Dusk turned to see it was one of the techs he had gotten to know while he was guarding the buster.

"Yo Desh what's up?"

The female tech handed Dusk two containers, "These are something I've been working on, their advanced nano-mites. They should be able to repair your systems completely in a matter of minutes."

"That's great but I have my self-repair system, that usually gets the job done."

"I know but the system usually takes a while before it's finished, so with this you'll be up to 100 in a matter of minutes."

Dusk took the containers, looked down at them and then looked back at Desh, "You're not using me as a guinea pig are you?"

Desh gave a little giggle, "Of course not, it's been tested before."

"Oh yeah on what."

"Well if you must know on a few appliances in the lab and the big screen in the lounge."

A sweat drop slid down Dusk's head, "I'm not a damn toaster you know, haven't these been used on reploids before?"

"Well no one has wanted to test them for me. But they work on reploids, I used them myself to heal a while ago. I sort of caused a little explosion in the lab a few weeks ago, but I was ok after I used my little friends to fix me up."

"So nothing happened to you, no side effects or anything like that?"

"Nope just a complete recovery, so you'll take them with you right?" She looked up at Dusk with her big purple eyes.

"Ah alright alright I'll take them with me, just don't give me that look." Desh grabbed onto Dusk and squeezed him in a hug, "Oh thank you, thank you I'm so happy that I can help."

"Alright already" Dusk said as he tried to break free from Desh's grip, "I need to get down to the hangar, so loosen up with the death grip."

Desh let go of Dusk and stepped back, "Promise me you'll use them if you're in trouble ok?"

"I already said I would now I have to go alright. See you around." Dusk said as he stashed the containers in his armor and walked of to the hangar. "Bye Dusk-chan!" Desh yelled. Dusk's eye twitched when he heard Desh, "Chan, that little…" Dusk thought as he made his way into an elevator and smiled as he saw the girl tech waving at him as the doors closed.

In the hangar Night and Dawn were waiting over by the ride armor that Dusk had "requested". Dawn looked the armor over and wondered how Dusk had gotten such a kick ass armor. "You don't think he did something to anyone to get this do you?"

"Dusk do something like that you must be joking Dawn." Night said in a sarcastic tone.

"Yeah all I did was ask real nice." Dusk said as he came out of the elevator. "So where's the mechanic, you did get the droid pilot I asked for right?"

Dawn hoped off the ride armor, "I asked him but the mechanic said that he gave you enough."

"Oh he did, did he? Well just give me a minute to thank him for what he gave me." Dusk walked over to the info desk where the mechanic was sitting, he took out a credit card and threw it to the old reploid sitting there, "That's for you if you get me the droid pilot I need."

The mechanic looked at the card, "How much is on here?"

"10000 credits, that should be worth all this stuff I'm borrowing."

The mechanic spit the cigar butt he had in his mouth out, got up and shook Dusk's hand, "Deal."

"I knew you were a man of reason."

The old mechanic went into the back and came back a minute latter with a droid pilot, "This should suit your needs. All you got to do is program in the user control frequency and you should be able to control it with your own processor."

Dusk smiled as he looked at it, "Perfect old man just perfect." Dusk walked over and programmed in his control frequency, then closed his eyes and relayed the command for the droid to walk. As he thought it the droid began to move and it walked forward. Dusk then could see even with his eyes closed, he was seeing through the droid's eyes. "This is great."

"I'm glad you approve now take your stuff and get lost I have real work I have to do."

"Alright I'm going." Dusk and the droid began to walk back to the ride armor, Dusk was amazed at the control he had with the droid. This would make getting into the Mav base a bit easier. As he walked up to the others they saw that he got the droid he wanted, "Well can we leave now?" Dawn asked.

"If we have everything then we can." Night said

"Well I say we have everything so let's go." Dusk said as he grabbed hold of the ride armor, with the droid in the pilot's seat, and teleported away with Night and Dawn following close behind.

The Mountain Range base had undergone many changes the soldiers had not questioned the changes. Mostly because they were no longer the elite trained soldiers they once were, Sageus' influence had spread across his base and now they were loyal to him and only him. With the now virus buster bonded to him Sageus now could begin his campaign to move on the Hunters. He had ordered an assembly of all personnel in the main yard, the assembly would be his announcement of his plans to his loyal followers. As he walked along the hall toward the balcony over looking the yard, his remaining generals accompanied him. He was disappointed in his expectations of the reploids he had chosen to lead his army, they were supposed to be the strongest there was. However the loses to the mercenaries were too many, yet he had to move on and deal with them at a later time. Now on the balcony, his generals standing behind him, he looked down at the army before him, which was also lessened because of the same nuisances. In the same way as always Sageus was hidden by darkness, his face obscured as if the shadows themselves were his face.

"My loyal troops now is the hour of which history will be made. From here we will launch the cleansing that was meant to take place so long ago and then we shall take our rightful place as the dominant power on this planet." A holler came up from the ranks of the soldiers, yells that Sageus had not heard from his men in a long time. Sageus looked down at them, sneering with the thought of finally annihilating the human species from the planet. Feeling that the initial incentive has been instilled in his men Sageus turned to return inside the base the hollers and yells still reaching his ears. As he crossed the threshold of the door the yells began to change their tone, from adulation to horror and the following explosions were enough to tell him why. He quickly turned and saw what the cause was, in the sky was a ride armor firing down buster shots. His eyes flared red and a surge of electricity sparked from them, "Dusk." He hissed. The ride armor shot down and knocked a few of the soldiers into the air before shooting back up into the sky.

"If the mercenary is here then he might make it through the troops below I want the three of you to guard the lower levels I expect not to be disturbed while I prepare to 'recruit' our army." Sageus said as he turned and walked back into the building the three generals bowed as he walked by. After he had left they walked over to look over the carnage below, "They'll definitely make it through that ride armor is loaded to the teeth. So Yami you take the first level," Aura said, "I'll take the second level and Meteor can take the third."

"And why should we listen to you?" Yami questioned.

"Because you fool the order sounds perfect we put the weakest of us in the beginning so that they waste their energy and by the time they get to the stronger they will not be a problem." Meteor said. Yami just looked at him with anger, he was not in the mood to be called weak not when his younger brother had given his remaining power and bonded with him. Now he was no longer the same person he originally was, he was possessed by revenge and no longer saw clearly.

"Do not make the idea of underestimating me any longer you walking rock, I'll follow your orders for now." Yami faded into the darkness.

"He's grown arrogant since his brother's death."

"You probably wouldn't understand loss, not that you have any real reason to know it. Well let's be on our way." They walked into the compound letting the yells coming from the yard continue uninterrupted.

"This isn't even any fun anymore." Dusk said as he sat with his eyes closed mentally controlling the ride armor.

"Well you took care of most of them just a little longer and the path will be clear."

"Forget that I'm ending this now."

"How you going to do that Dusk?"

Dusk smirked, "It's simple watch the armor and you may want to lower your visors."

The two looked over to the battle being waged and they saw the ride armor land on the ground. All the soldiers quickly bum rushed the now landed ride armor and started to assault it and try to take it apart. However now they were all in close proximity to the inert ride armor, "And now it's time for the finale!" Dusk held up his hand and pointed his thumb down toward the ground "Boom." A light shone from the ride armor followed by a massive explosion eliminating the remaining troops. Dusk stood up from the rock he was sitting on a walked over to the cliff edge overlooking the base.

"Now that's a show stopper, too bad I had to lose an awesome ride armor."

"You know that was just a bit over kill oniichan."

"Bah over kill nothing I don't have time to deal with grunts, not when someone's waiting for me."

"Well it's not polite to keep a lady waiting Dusk so let's get going." The three of them took off toward the base, sliding down the cliff side. As they got closer to the base they passed by the charred remains of the ride armor strewn with the remains of the soldiers it took with it. Entering the base they proceeded to move up to the second level taking the centralized stair case.

"The layout of the building shows that there are five levels, my guess is that the big boss is on the top floor."

"Why can't they ever be on the first floor cause you know they have people set up to stop us on the way up there." Dawn complained as they continued to run up the stairs.

"Bad guys have to have these complicated plans, it's like a union requirement or something." Dusk joked as they reached the door to the second level. They huddled to the sides of the door Night and Dawn on the right and Dusk on the left.

"Ok busters at the ready we go in on three." Night instructed. He held up three fingers and slowly counted down, when he got to one Dusk kicked open the door and the three of them flew into the room busters up. The room they entered was completely dark, they slowly walked forward ready to fire at any threat.

"Welcome mercenaries and also goodbye." The voice belonged to Yami and no sooner did he finish talking than lasers shot from all corners of the room. The three siblings jumped and dodged the lasers as best they could. Dusk let loose a shot from his buster, Dawn following suit. The light from the shots showed the source of their attackers, laser turrets mounted on the walls. The three began to fire off shots in every direction destroying the turrets. Within a matter of minutes the turrets had been destroyed and holes in the wall were letting light in, illuminating the dark room.

"Very good, but I'm not a motionless weapon" a massive wave of energy swept the room knocking all of them onto the floor, "I am a revenge driven machine and I will not stop until I kill you all for the death of my brother. B.A. is just wasting her time waiting on the next floor."

Dusk sprang back to his feet, "Aura's on the next level? That is what you said isn't it?"

"Don't concern yourself with someone you'll never get to see." Another wave swept the room, this time they were ready and jumped or ducked the wave.

"Dusk go on ahead of us." Night yelled.

"Yeah we can handle this guy." Dawn yelled.

"Are you two sure?"

"Come on do you think we can lose here?"

Dusk smirked and turned to the door, "No I don't think you can." He took off running toward the door. Yami saw what Dusk was doing and finally showed himself moving in front of Dusk. However Night and Dawn both jumped Yami knocking him off to the side.

"Sorry but he has some personal business to attend to." Night said igniting his beam staff.

"Yeah you'll have to just settle for the two of us." Dawn said as she swung a tonfa to rest on her shoulder.

"Thanks you two." Dusk yelled as he ran through the door up the stairs. Running as fast as he could Dusk quickly climbed the stairs. He reached the door in minutes and stood in front of it panting, "Behind this door is a part of my past I haven't been able to face." Dusk thought to himself, "Will I be able to handle this?" He took a deep breath and then pushed the door open, "Only way to find out is to go forward." Dusk stepped through the doorway and at the other end of the room stood Aura.

"Well it looks like you got past Yami."

"Night and Dawn said they could handle him without my help, that and they knew I wanted to talk to you alone."

"Talk? We're not here to talk, I'm here to kill you."

"So there's nothing I can say to change your mind?"

"No."

"Very well then" Dusk slowly raised his arm and morphed his buster he aimed it right at Aura, "let's do it."