Its time for the true counter attack against the overwhelming force of the Erasers, Robots, and the Iscariot! With Alucard now going to face off against his Nemisis, Vaddix and David planning a risky gamble, Steffi and Benzene still in the fight and the unknown three allies haven't made their impact quite yet. Also who is this force that was to counter the Egg fleet that they contacted just right before the fleet got to the Mansion?
Forgot about that part didn't you? Don't worry, I did too.
Disclaimer: Once more I shall say that I only own my own Ocs and no one else! I HAVE SPOKEN!
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The very idea of being controlled by the darkness within himself has been a worry in the back of David's mind for quite some time, but being controlled by that same darkness while under the command of Ari? He would rather die then let that come to pass, but first he would have to deal with the army at his door "We need to cripple their power. If we can manage to stop the flow of reinforcements coming into the Mansion then we can free the other before starting a counter attack." With the basic plan thought up he ponders just how he could do this before his Nobody taps him on his shoulder then points upward as soon as he get his attention.
Following his pointed finger he sees the gigantic Final Fortress/Flag ship above the Mansion as well as the city when his Nobody's idea becomes clear to him "Take control of there flagship... then turn their own weapon against them." Looking back at his Nobody, who is sporting a rather sadistic grin, he says "Bingo."
With Ari somehow gaining new abilities that should have taken years to Master- or get- can these two somehow manage to defeat the newly enhanced Eraser with a plan made on the fly? We shall find out!
Now back to the Action!
With a holographic projection before them of the entire Mansion's internal design both Vaddix and David talk about their plan "Ok...First of all, I did not know we could do that with our powers," Vaddix comments slightly impressed by the detail of the image as he continues "Secondly, why am I going to the basement again?" Looking over at his somebody with a raised eyebrow the Nobody doesn't see the point of doing such a thing causing David to sigh before zooming into a specific section of the basement that looks to be a massive vault door.
Turning the image so its facing the two of them the teen with a heart begins to explain "Now you know that I am quite paranoid when it comes to the enemies I have made," ignoring the snicker and low comment of 'understatement' from his companion he changes the image to inside the spacious vault "So in case of the ultimate emergencies I have set a button in the back of the vault that would send out a distress signal to all the allies that I trusted enough to give the receivers to. With them coming in we can take back our home from the inside out while regaining those captured and adding to our forces once more." With the tactical advantages of such a thing made clear to Vaddix he remains silent.
"With the Mansion taken back then we can force back the forces in the City, and by then I will have hopefully taken control of the Flagship." Those final words causes an question to appear in Vaddix's mind that couldn't be ignored "Wait a minute... why can't I take on the flagship? I want to kill a bunch of things..." His counterpart merely gives him a blank look before replying in a blunt way "You lack the power to overpower whatever is on that airship." Despite the fact its the truth Vaddix pouts at the idea of losing a chance at a pure massacre, but does see the logic in the statement "Alright then... I'll be sneaking around here while you get all the fun."
His reluctant agreement makes David smile slightly, and as he makes the hologram disappear he reminds his companion "Remember that there is plenty of people to slaughter around here. You can still enjoy yourself, but you must remain cautious." Sighing at the fact he can't just outright slaughter them all Vaddix starts making his way to the staircase "Well... At least there is that." Despite his lost opportunity to just soak his blade in the blood of his enemies- or at least more enemies- he still grins as he says "Alright then! Operation: 'Take Back What is Ours' is under way!"
With his ally disappearing in the shadow of the stairway David spreads his wings as he gets a running head start, and after jumping off the roof he starts beating his wings to take him up into the sky as he hopes to catch the people on board off guard before being forced to destroy them- which is going to happen regardless.
At that moment a black blur zooms down the hallway shoving aside Erasers in his path while shaking off any attempt to grab the speedy person. This black blur is a black hedgehog with red streaks in his quills, a white tuft of fur on his chest and has rings around his wrists who is speeding down the hallways with his red and white jet skates-also know as 'Hover Shoes'- hovering him over the ground, and he takes a sharp right towards the stairs before jumping up to the rail. Quickly grinding down the rail he makes his way down to the first floor before being forced to stop by a solid wall of fur, teeth and claws, but he merely cracks his neck before charging at the closest Eraser.
The black hedgehog jumps into the air as he kicks the Wolfman in the face before shoving off it to get higher in the air while the air around him crackles in energy as yellow bolts of chaotic energy appears "Chaos Spear!" The bolts of energy hits down at their targets hard with each one piercing through a Eraser before disappearing, and when the hedgehog lands each one of his enemies have already fallen to the ground dead while blood drains out of their body onto the floor. Without looking at the corpses the speedy hedgehog continues his path down the hall seemingly heading towards the basement while forcing his way through anyone that dares to get in his way.
Behind him- without knowing he was ever there- Vaddix sees the two bleeding corpses as he quietly makes his way down the stairs "Ok now this is just taunting me now." He grumbles under his breath as he makes his way towards the basement as well while carefully avoiding the blood on the floor, but unfortunately a couple of Itex's watchdogs exits a nearby room and immediately sees the Nobody next to the dead bodies with his keyblade in hand "You killed Billy, Bobby and Steve! I'll destroy you for that!" The outburst over the ever memorable dead Erasers that lasted around two seconds causes Vaddix to look over at the group of enemies before slowly grinning sadistically "I shouldn't leave witnesses around to inform anyone else now should I?" His mumbles only further enrage the emotional Eraser who charges in anger "FOR SSSTTTTEEEEVV-"
The enraged yell changes to a gargle of blood as he ran into a Dark spike right in front of the Nobody "Now, now," Wagging his finger at the wolf hybrid he pretends to admonish him "One should keep their temper in check or more importantly... "Unleashing his full sadistic nature he stabs his keyblade into the already dyIng Wolfman's gut before slowly twisting the blade "You shouldn't accuse others of something they never did." Embedding his blade further into the gut of his victim he sends an electrical charge through it electrocuting the person from the inside.
Growling out in pleasure the Nobody finally shoves his blade upward slicing the victim's upper body in half splattering blood over his face in the process "That was rude of you." His comment is followed with a slash that separates the lower body from the two sections of the upper body before blasting the sections with flames "Don't worry though. I forgive you." Looking over at the other Erasers they seem to somehow pale as he notices them "You know... it's rude to not introduce yourself."
With his sadistic grin never leaving his blood splattered face the deadly Nobody throws his Keyblade making it spin in the air, and it tears through the chest of one of the Erasers as if it was a flying saw blade before Vaddix hold his hand up higher. On it's return trip the Rejection of Fate flies higher allowing it to slice off the head of the final enemy as it goes back into Vaddix's hand.
Surveying the scene before him of three pieces of a single body set a flame, a corpse missing it's entire chest as it had splattered behind it across the floor, and a decapitated body with it's head a little ways from it Vaddix shudders in joy "Now that's a beautiful scene." Spinning on his heels he flicks his wrist splattering the blood off his blade onto the wall as he continues on his way to the basement feeling much better now that he slaughtered a foolish party of enemies.
On his way to the basement the nobody sees many corpses laying on the ground in different levels of mutilated from stab wounds to being sliced in half "Someone has been enjoying themselves." He mutters to himself while swinging his blade casually "Which wasn't me for some reason." With a disappointed sigh he makes it to stairs that goes down to the basement, and it is dripping with the blood of some poor causality of this battle which causes the sadistic Nobody to get more disappointed "I managed to make it here and only killed three people before finding that everyone else is already dead!" Pausing for a moment he thinks about his last statement "How the hell are we losing!?"
Groaning in annoyance he makes his way down to the basement while abandoning the idea of stealth as he stomps his feet down the steps echoing his footsteps to whoever is below; however, when he gets to the bottom he is greeted with the sight of Eraser body parts strewn everywhere with an actual thin level of blood pooling across the floor as well as the Vault's very thick metal door crumbled up and tossed against the wall where quite the crack is, and the sound of fighting can be heard from the inside of the Vault "Why the hell am I missing all the fun!?" He yells before running into the Vault to join whether he is wanted or not.
The inside of the Vault is a rather simple marble tiled floor that is much more spacious then it should be with the most important items found across David's journey being placed in here like the floating golden sphere with arches of energy coming from it in the center of the room, or the old MJOLNIR Armor that the Chief used to wear in the side, or the green Chaos Emerald the black hedgehog is defending from a blue robot that resembles a hedgehog with the jet built into it firing up to push back against the black hedgehog.
"Hey Shadow! What is that thing?" The question takes the Ultimate Life-form off guard taking his attention off the fight just long enough for the mechanic hedgehog to increase its speed immensely and slam into the ebony hedgehog "...Ok perhaps that wasn't the best time to ask that." Vaddix sheepishly admits as he watches Shadow crash into the wall painfully before grinning as he whispers to himself "But I will enjoy tearing this fool apart." With his instincts to destroy kicking in Vaddix launches himself forward while Darkness coats his blade.
Back in the city the mechanic duo carefully follow their small hunter pack while doing their best to avoid the robots now patrolling the city along with Gentek Soldiers as they continue the path towards the grid "Steffi... I don't think we should continue going towards the Grid anymore. They already managed to get their main force into the city, so there isn't any point to this." The pink haired mechanic grits her teeth as she presses on while answering using the duo's personal radios to communicate with him in his mini-tank "Look Benzene they're still coming in with more and more ships. If we don't shut that Grid down then we won't have even the smallest chance to take back our home."
Inside his vehicle the boy sighs at his love's stubbornness, but does see the tactical logic to what she is saying "I know its just... I don't want you to die on me Steffi." Pausing for a moment he checks his screens thinking he saw the enemy before continuing " I don't think I'll be able to get over there quick enough to take a shot for you again." Steffi frowns at the thought that she would ever let herself die- even though she still hasn't put up a shield to defend her cockpit yet.
"I'll be fine Benzene. If anything I'll be the one who has to take the shot for you." Her teasing banter brings a slight smile to the boy's lips as he returns it in kind "Oh sure. And maybe after that I'll need you to fix my leg over and over again just so I can stare at your focused expression as you work." Imagining how red her face just got as she learns that he figured out why she always came to him when something happened to her leg is a priceless image in his mind as he laughs at the possibilities; however, before Steffi could fire anything back one of the Hunters growl at something while crouching signaling that something is there and it might not be friendly.
With the possibility of being discovered both of the pre-teens cautiously edge their way forward to see what it is that the Hunters found, and to their surprise they find that it is a black and white robot that has a white marking on its side of '101' "A robot?" Steffi comments as she examines it as well as she can from her vantage point, but when she can't determine anything from where she is the girl exits her Kiwibot causing Benzene to hiss into his com "Steffi! What are you doing it could be a trap!" With his worry over her taking over the boy exits his tank and hurries to her side to try and keep her safe.
When he gets over to her she comments out loud "This Robot must have been in one heck of a fight." Looking at the metallic creature he would agree at her statement as the rockets on the back of it seem to be completely destroyed while the main body looks to have taken a beating. Looking around though he comes to the conclusion that the beating might have happened as he ended up in the city due to the strange indents in the side of the buildings around them, but the one thing he can't seem to explain is why the back of this robot's 'hands' are scorched as well as slightly dented for some inexplicable reason.
With the examination continuing they soon discover that the laser blasters could still function just fine, but other then that the Robot is wrecked. The rockets on its back are mangled terribly, the main body of it is practically bashed in on one area as if someone just punted it from that one spot into the city, its rockets are jammed in their spots, and finally the robot's 'mind', or computer system, seems to be damaged as well; however, despite all of these damages Benzene begins to see an opportunity that could give them another ally, and in this kind of fight one needs as many allies as once can get.
"Steffi... if the hunters can silently scrounge for some parts around here maybe we can fix this Robot and refit it's mind to protect us." At the idea of getting another Protector Steffi begins to smile widely "Yeah! Our own robotic helper!" With the two of them in agreement they quickly get into action as they manage to get the damaged robot into the cockpit of Steffi's Kiwibot before silently making their way into a more spacious ruin of a house that can shield them from view.
Now out of the view of any enemies Steffi gets her tool box as Benzene instructs the Hunters to get anything that could help in the repairs of the robot, and once the pack leaves to scavenge he goes over to begin modifying the Robot's mind. As the hunters start coming back with scrap metal, arms of robots, legs of robots, general limbs of robots as well as the more useful items needed the repairs on the damaged robot starts to pick up speed with both of the mechanics making good progress. Despite the initial worries it seemed that the machine hadn't actually taken a lot of damage other then the bashed in section as well as the wearing down of the back of it' hands, so the Pink Hair mechanic simply straightened out the bash as well as reinforced the worn areas.
On Benzene's side he finds the original task signed to the machine to have been 'Kill David Graves' with secondary tasks assigned as well along the lines of: 'Capture Graves Family', 'Destroy all enemies', 'Secure all Chocolate Pudding in the area', 'Gather Powerful Artifacts, and 'Learn to create Chocolate Pudding instantly'. Ignoring the part of his mind confused by the purpose of Chocolate Pudding the boy rewrites the tasks to 'Protect and Obey your Masters' with the stipulation of 'Master' being the first two living organisms it sees.
When both are competed Benzene rewires the robot's mind into it's body before taking a step back with Steffi while it's one eye flickers back on with a green light, and after a brief boot up it scans the area before locking onto the Mechanic Couple "Unknown Entities found." With a light green ray scanning the two of them the robot seems to stare into space for a few moments before finally saying something "Masters acquired: Steffi and Benzene. I am E-101 MRK II. I will protect you." With those words coming from the formerly hostile Robot the two mechanics share a smile as they have gained a unique ally.
I'm going to cut that there. Sorry but I think I'm getting a bit delirious from lack of sleep... I mean seriously its very hard not to fall asleep right now... but I have a few things to explain first! One: When Vaddix was created I wanted him to personify traits that David has, but just doesn't show, For instance: Vaddix can be very lazy at times and easily bored at others while David keeps himself always busy. Once Vaddix is in a battle he enjoys causing as much pain as possible before killing his enemy and then possibly doing something to the body while David has multiple ways to end a fight quickly.
See my point? Also E-101 MRK II wasn't originally going to be making a reentry, but I came up with the idea of being 'converted' to the good side thanks to Steffi and Benzene who are still heading to the Grid (That was part of the original idea).
The unknown assaliant that is fighting Shadow- as well as Vaddix now- is a very old replica of Sonic who proved to be a very hard enemy to a certain blue speedy hedgehog as it had all of his moves and more as well as all of his 'Life Data'. That should be hint enough.
Well anyways I'm going to post this now before passing out. See ya next time! Bye!
P.S Thank you for Nobody 0 for spotting a mistake of mine.
~DeathOnWings1203~