Vanguards make a comeback. Review and Enjoy.
Normal POV:
Forge was walking down the aisle of junk, ignoring the stares he got from the Junkers. Scrapheap who had been scolding a Junker that had an oven for a chest began to follow Forge. "Yo Boss what's the news?"
"The news?" Forge repeated as he got to the end of the junkyard. Then he raised his hammer and banged three times on a busted car. "We" He began as he turned around "Are going to war." Coming towards them were every single of Junker, big and small, different colors of metal were all walking towards them. Many of them were armed with clubs, axes, maces, crowbars and some had attached guns to their body or were carrying them. The giant Junkers didn't have any weapons, their mere size suiting as tools to use.
Suddenly a hand appeared underneath Forge and Scrapheap, lifting them off the ground. A giant Junker made out of tanks, helicopters, trucks and smaller parts was walking ahead of the others. "Where to Master Forge?" He said in a slow deep voice.
Forge smiled as he hefted his hammer onto his shoulder. "New York City Lugnut, that's where to."
Chad POV:
As I started to come to, I felt something shake me. I looked up to see a Skrall poking me with his sword. That was when everything came back to me: Our boat had made it to the shore, but once we had gotten out it exploded, causing me lose conscious.
"Get up" He ordered. Seeing that I had no other choice, I did what he said and as my vision began to come back I saw that the others had been captured as well. I saw Katie embrace her husband and Gabby just before the three of them were pushed forward. I was placed next to my sister and Mark. "Crystal, you okay?" I asked her.
"Yeah I'm good and you?" She asked. I nodded in response and felt better when I saw Mom across from me. That's when I noticed a man with a cape and a hood walking pass the other prisoners. What caught my attention were the silver gauntlets he had on his hands.
I leaned towards Crystal. "Who is that?" I whispered. She shrugged. "Don't know, but it doesn't look like he's one of these guys."
The man stopped right in front of us. As I got a better look I saw that he had a scar on his face. His smile creep me out a little. "So you are the son and daughter of Blade, huh?" He said as he cradled Crystal's head in his hand. "Interesting"
"Get you damn hands off my sister." I snarled at him. He looked towards me with those orange eyes of me. Now he was standing right on top of me, just looking at me. Then in a flash he swept one of his gauntlets, slashing my face with the claws. It was so fast I didn't scream until it finally registered to me he had done it. I screamed in pain and lowed my face to the ground. I could hear Mom and Crystal crying my name out, but I could barely hear them over the pain I was feeling right now.
Claws POV:
I smirked in satisfaction as Blade's son cried out in pain. As I walked away I spotted Kronos and Bloodsound standing to the side. Bloodsound had dark grey skin, red eyes, two long fangs, three large toes on each leg, and bat ears. He wore light purple armor and had two sonic guns.
Kronos gave me a look. "I assume that our deal still stands?" he said
I nodded, "Once we have what we came for you shall be made the ruler of this world. As long you are sure that there are no other demigods to capture."
"Positive, the attack on Olympus drew them all in and now their either dead or captured. Now all this leaves is Hade's realm." He said.
I shrugged. "I shall leave that for you to deal with. I have more important matters to attend to." Then as I walked passed Bloodsound I said. "Take charge of the city's defenses, let nothing get through."
He bowed. "As you command Lord Claws."
I nodded before adding. "My thanks again for all this Bloodsound, if you hadn't killed Blade's parents (A/N: Very important) and had him sent to join the Vanguards, I would have never learned of my lineage, and I am deeply grateful."
Bloodsound did another bow before turning into a thousand bats and flying off. I teleported towards another location in the city: Olympus, in the throne room. In the center was a black armored being, with dragon wings. His eyeballs were completely red and his helmet had holes for his horns to stick out. In his right hand was a staff with two blades on one end. This being was Makuta Teridax, leader of the Makuta. Also in the center was a machine, with a tip pointing upwards. Strapped to it was Hestia, stripped of all clothing except for a tank top and underwear.
Teridax spotted me and did a bow. "My liege." He said as I walked up to the machine and Hestia. I nodded. "You have done well Teridax, now what of our forces in the Fade?" I asked.
"Icarax is overseeing of all Makuta forces within the Fade while I am here. The Shadow One has sword allegiance to you the Dark Hunters are now yours to command."
"Good, good" I murmured as I check my gauntlets. A groan caused me to look up. "Well someone's awake." I commented.
Hestia opened her eyes slowly, probably trying to figure out what was going on. "Uh, where…where am I?"
"Ahh, Annala!" I said as I walked up to her. "So kind of you too join us on this fine day."
She tilted her head in confusion, staring at me. "You're the second person who has called me that. Why?"
I smirked, enjoying this. "Surely you must remember who you once were, wife of Chaos."
Her eyes widened at that, looking at me with disbelief in her eyes. "I am no one's wife, please, this is a mistake."
"It doesn't matter if you believe it or not." I said as I raised my hand. "All that matters that you shall help bring the destruction of this world, whether you like it or not."
I snapped my fingers and the machine began to rumble. Markings of the Ancients began to light up all over her body, with a blue glow. Then she screamed in pain as six pincers, three on each side, stabbed into her flesh and began sucking her energy. A beam fired from the tip of the machine and headed straight towards the sun.
Chad POV:
I managed to use my sweat that I got to heal the wound somewhat, but it still stung unless I ate some ambrosia. But since it was unlikely that they would give us any, I had to deal with the pain.
"I'm bored!" Hankann said as he waved his gun around. The one named Thok sighed at his companion's wailing. I watched them carefully, waiting for an opening, but with them and so many Skralls around it seemed doubtful we could get out. Right now it would be nice if the Vanguards could come and get us out of this mess.
Then I heard Thok say a sentence I never wanted to hear. "You know…they never said we had to keep them as prisoners."
I looked up and saw both Piraka giving each other a sinister smile. Then Thok got up and began walking towards my directions. I closed my eyes, praying to every God and Goddess (Though at this point it seems kind of pointless) so he would not pick me first.
My heart nearly stopped when he said. "You first" But when I opened my eyes I realized it wasn't me first, but was Mark. "Wait, wait can't we work this out or something?"
Thok laughed evilly. "I like it when they beg. Now stay put and I'll make this quick."
He pushed Mark to the center, sweating like crazy. Finally he snapped and tried to make a run for it…but Thok had already fired his ice gun, turning the man into a frozen statue, motionless. I couldn't believe it, none of us could; Mark was alive one moment and in flash he was nothing but a statue. And as if to add insult to injury, Thok laughed in glee as smash the statue with his ice pick, pieces were flying everywhere.
I gasped as I felt a rough hand grab me by the throat. I managed to get a good view of Hankann before he said. "You're mine"
I was pushed forward roughly, hearing the cries from my Mom, sister and friends. As Hankann kept pushing me, I spotted Mark's head, mostly intact and with a look of fear on it. It didn't really help much and just made things more bleak now.
"Face the other way." Hankann said as he spun me around while readying his lava blaster. I looked at my sister while I still could. She was looking away from the scene, tears streaming down her face. My Mom had her head leaning against Thalia's shoulder, tears going down the woman's jacket.
As I close my eyes for what seemed like the last time I heard a clang on the ground. I opened my eyes to see a Skrall pick up an object, an object that was beeping and glowing too. All of a sudden it exploded, killing the Skrall. Above us several portals open in the sky, and jumping out were the Vanguards. Their move caught the daemons completely by surprise, giving us a chance to move.
With Hankann now distracted by the attack, I switched on my armor and punched him in the chest and then tried to punch him in the face. But he caught that punched and raised his lava blaster towards my chest. Before he could fire however, the Minotaur, Charger, came in and smacked the Piraka away from me. Then he pulled out his axe and slashed Hankann in the chest, blood coming out. Hankann fired heat beams at Charger, but the Vanguard dodged it and punched the Piraka in the face.
The other Fade forces weren't doing so well. Somewhere in the confusion most of the demigods had retrieved their weapons and were joining the battle, with the Vanguards already pushing the enemy back. "Damn, retreat! Retreat!" Thok yelled as he ran from the battlefield. Most of the Skralls followed after him, many already dead from the surprise attack.
Hankann however, was still engaged with Charger, and from my view, was not doing so well against the raging Minotaur. Then I could feel the mental blast he unleashed, striking Charger hard and stunning him. This allowed Hankann to kick Charger down to the ground. I knew I had to do something, so I concentrated on my right hand, trying to form energy around it. I smiled as I got some forming and then I did something stupid: I charged Hankann.
Just as Hankann was lowering his weapon to shoot Charger, I grabbed his arm and rammed my fist into his chest. The result was energy shooting out of my fist and through his chest. The Piraka flailed wildly before going limp. I tossed his body aside just as Charger got up. The Minotaur looked down at me and gave me a polite nod of thanks, which I willingly returned.
The Vanguards were already sweeping up the remains of our captives. Everyone else were hugging their love ones, happy to be alive and safe. I spotted Mom and Crystal and ran towards them, all three of us embracing each other. I had tears coming down my face and so did Crystal, while Mom rubbed our heads.
"Where did you guys even come from?" Leo asked as he hugged his son and then his wife. Ram, who was being hugged by his son's family, answered that question.
"Well we were buried down under, but fortunately we activated our emergency pocket dimension capsules and managed to land here." He said with a smile as he ruffled Russell's hair.
"By the looks of it we came in just in time too." Axxon said as he pulled his axe out of a Skrall's body, with Brutaka letting out a huff behind him. I didn't mention about Mark, I mean sure it was shocking to see him killed so quickly but I didn't really like him. Lory and I locked onto one another, and we gave grateful smiles to one another.
"Yahoo! We kicked some major bloody ass lads!" Ka-Boom cried as he kicked a dead Skrall's head. Ty was carrying a bag, which turned out to be our confiscated weapons. "Alright boys and girls saddle up and get ready for a big showdown, cause we are taking the battle to them!"
As I picked up Tidal Wave I heard a screech from above. "Uh I think they're bringing the fight to us."
Everyone looked up to see a giant multicolor monster flying right towards us. When it landed just a block away from us, it shook the ground underneath us, making us lose our balance. Before it could move however, something struck it in the face.
Percy/Havoc POV:
The Makuta Beast had already entered my sights when I had passed the Statue of Liberty. I activated my new powers and fired comet missiles at its face, stunning it. But it quickly recovered and fired a large shadow hand at me, I merely smirked as I charged my hands with the energy of a sun going nova and charged right through it cutting it in two.
"You're mine!" I yelled as I kept flying through the shadow. Just as I got close to it I flew upwards and pulled out Xalnohk. Then spinning, I did a nosedive straight towards the beast. I could feel the power in the sword increased as I got closer to my target, which let out a final screech just as I plunged through its body. I severed its neck and sent chaos energy through its body, slashing it everywhere. I did a perfect land with the body following right behind me.
Satisfied with my work I put my sword away and retracted my wings back into the armor. I turned around to be greeted by the shock and awed faces of the others. "Dad…that was awesome." Chad said in awe.
I shrugged, and then noticed Wolf was sniffing my body while they got closer to me. "Something is different about you Blades." He said.
I smirked. "Actually call me Havoc." I said proudly, than frowned when I got a better look at Chad. "What happened to your face?" I asked as I walked over to him. He ran his fingers over the claw marks. "Oh, some guy with claws did that, I managed to heal it somewhat." He replied.
Knowing the person that he was talking about, I place my right hand just a few inches from his face. Then I let out healing energy to do some more healing. When I was done the skin had softened up and the bleeding had stop, but there was still a scar of four claw marks on his face. "That's all that can be done for that. The man who gave you that mark, his are permanent."
Ty pumped his shotgun. "So what's the plan boss?" He asked.
I lowered my hand as I turned to the others. "We get somewhere safe, free as many more of our allies as we can, the hit the Empire State Building, but we must rescue Hestia quickly before its to late." I explained.
Travis had a confused look on his face. "I don't get it, what do they want with Hestia?"
I sighed, knowing this would come up. I just replied. "I'll explain along the way. Now let's get moving people."
Well I got rid of Mark huh? What do you think of Percy or Havoc now?
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