Love & War 6: Replicants
Chapter 38: The Showdown In Uganda
Melody and her crew arrived, but their horror, so did the Mishima Zaibatsu, Shadaloo and Ultratech.
"Melody." Starfire arrives.
"Starfire..."
"Talon left behind a nuke set to detonate within a few hours. We can't stay long."
"I thought it was diffused."
"Sombra managed to reprogram it."
"Then I need to get inside that base and find the children. My father is there now ready to rescue Jade. I must go."
Before she left, Gargos arrived.
"Pathetic humans! I will crush you all. Replicants, attack!
Here we go! Starting first was the Tekken Force spewing bullets, followed by Sub-Zero facing a Ninja like himself.
"Who are you?"
"I am Freeze. You are not worthy of Lin Kuei grandmastership."
"Who are to judge?"
They fight. They both use ice powers, but Freeze, wearing a white UMK3 skin. They both fought well, but Sub-Zero proved his cryomancy was more powerful. And he proved that by ripping out Freeze's spine. The Disciples have arrived from the mountains. Nash was seeing the horror before him. Kristina never saw something so scary before. Riana and her pet lizard, Kurt, was scared as well. They moved around the mountains undetected.
"What should we do?" asked Bryan.
"Melody is going into that base to rescue her siblings," said Nash. She may need our help."
They proceeded to follow Melody into the base. Chris was busy trying to rescue Jade, but he was ambushed by Cinder.
"What the...? Who are you?"
"Chris, buddy old pal. It's me, Ben."
"Ben? What the hell is this?"
"It's my new Cinder project."
"Cinder? "
"Time to die, my friend."
They fight. Chris and Ben were friends once. They fought together in Afghanistan and Ben was decorated for his services. Now, Cinder hopes to level up with Chris. However, Chris was already in an advantageous position when he defeats his former friend.
"I'm sorry, Ben, but I can't allow you to stop me."
Chris continued to make his way to Jade, but Gargos stopped him.
"Greetings."
"Gargos! If I would've known you show up..."
"I've come for your daughter."
"My daughter is not yours for the taking."
"Then die..."
Before the fight, Melody infiltrated the base, unaware that she was being followed. When she entered the next room, she could hear the children, crying. She looked at her armband. Just two hours left. As she was picking up the signal which became stronger, she must be nearby. However, she heard some ruckus overhead. She found the crying children, shackled in against the wall. As she was about to enter, a cyborg jumped down and blocked her path. This cyborg changes colors from red, blue, yellow, and purple.
"Who are you?"
"You may call me Triborg, Melody Jones."
"You stop me from rescuing the kids?"
"They are not my concern. You are."
Melody fights Triborg. She's never fought a cyborg like this one, but she had no interest in knowing Triborg's origins. Triborg has Sektor, Cyrax, Smoke and Sub-Zero's abilities combined into one. This was proven to be a tough battle. She was careful avoiding Sektor's's missiles, Cyrax's bombs and plasma net, Smoke's electric trident and Sub-Zero's ice. She defeats him after only 20 minutes.
"All those weapons and yet still humanity prevails."
Melody went in. "Guys!"
"MELODY!
"Melody went to work on releasing the shackles. Triborg woke up and was ready to launch a missile, but was knocked out again by Nash.
"Melody."
"Nash! What are you guys doing here?"
"We came to help you."
"Help me release the kids."
They were successful in rescuing the children. "Dad, I got the..." Melody caught an image of Chris battling Gargos. He was inside a hallway when Gargos attacked outside with his projectiles. Chris was running at full speed. The floor was breaking right behind him as he ran. Eventually, he made his way outside.
"Come on, guys. My dad needs help!"
Melody teleported everyone out of the building and onto the same spot Chris was. She finds Jade still hanging.
"Stay here. I'm gonna try to save my mother."
But Gargos stopped her. "Melody."
"You."
"Too bad your father is not here to protect you."
"I can handle you myself."
"(Evil laughter) Show me!"
Melody fights Gargos. This battle is one she'll remember for years to come, if she survives. She recalled her war against Shinnok years ago when she was sent by her allies to rescue Chris. Meanwhile Chris was hanging on by the broken floor and managed to climb up. He found Melody battling Gargos.
"Melody..." He then saw his opportunity to free Jade. He went there to free her from the shackles above Lake Edward.
"Don't worry, baby. I'm here."
Gargos saw this and shot a projectile at him. It destroyed the shackle and both plunged hundreds of feet until Pharah and Starfire caught them.
"Thanks, girls."
"Glad we can help, Chris," said Pharah.
"Melody..." Starfire was concerned.
Melody was still fighting Gargos. But Gargos was having trouble defending himself. After 20 minutes and many sustainable injuries, Melody finally laid the finishing blow to his face. Gargos writhed in pain, his body was losing purple blood and light was spewing from his body. Melody, badly injured, barely escaped when Gargos exploded with one final scream. Everyone on the battlefield witnessed the explosion, including Chris and Jade.
"MELODY!" Jade cried. Chris held her close. "She's gone..."
The Replicants disappeared. The Tekken Force was dead and there were no more gunshots, no more blood being spilled. It seemed that the war was over. A few minutes later, a figure was heading towards them. It was Melody, badly beaten and near death.
"Melody..."
She was holding her left side, she was bleeding everywhere, her bodysuit was destroyed and so was her armband. She fainted face first...
Chris rushed to her.
"Melody?" Her body is broken. Chris began crying. "My baby girl..."
Tanya rushed to him. "Is she...?
"I don't know..." Chris rolled Melody on her back. "She has a pulse... but... she's... barely moving..."
Pharah says, "We need to get everyone out of here. The nuke is about to go. We have one hour for evac."
"Let's go," he said, no longer able to contain his sadness.
An hour later, everyone evacuated. Soon afterward, the nuke detonated, destroying Uganda completely.
