Chapter 35: Emily's Sky Part 4: The Battle Begins
Emily's Apartment, King's Row London, 8 PM
Abel sighed as Lena and Emily cooked dinner, leaving him to just sit back on her couch, listening to them giggle and talk about possible future outings. However, while the atmosphere was generally relaxing and a good change of pace compared to his fights, he knew the time was running out, and that as soon as the clock struck midnight,all bets were off, and Damien would try his best to bring him down bring hell or high water.
He reached into his pocket, and pulled out a small C96, and made it grow to full size as Lena walked over to him and told him "Dinner is ready love." then she saw the gun. She saw him place it on the table, and tell her "When today ends, be prepared..." Lena nodded, and watched him get up, stretch and walk over to the small dining table, where Emily was smiling as she placed their plates down.
Abel took a seat and noticed Emily reaching into her wine cabinet and pulling out a bottle of Amarone wine. Abel poured the girls their glass as he just realized how dim the lights were, making him swallow the lump in his throat as he took his seat and stared at his plate, chicken teriyaki with vegetables. He took looked up and noticed Lena and Emily holding hands, and with their free hands outstretched to him as he nodded and held their outstretched hands.
They gave grace, then slowly started eating, with Abel being rather quiet as Lena asked him "So love, what did you think of the day?" He glanced up at them, only replying in a low tone "Well, it was a very relaxing day, we got to go around town, and even messed around and had fun. So I would say I enjoyed it alot." Emily couldn't help but smile as she took a sip of her wine, while Abel continued eating.
- Insert Theme: Little Trinketry by Daniel Jacob Teper -
After three glasses of wine each, did the conversation move over to the living room, Abel's cheeks flushed as he laid on a chair made of substance, one arm waving lazily up as he explained "-Then, out of nowhere, against all odds, there they were, 29 and 28... Flying over us as the reinforcements finally arrived... Ending my time in Russia..." Emily and Lena both were back to back on the couch, half drunk as Abel chuckled and added "Yeah... Also where I got my non official designation..."
Emily finished taking notes, her handwriting a bit messy as she asked "Did you... You know, celebrate afterwards?" Abel was juggling a knife with one hand as he replied "Not really... After two months in the cold wilderness if northern Russia, the only thing everyone wanted was warm food and a hot bath."
Lena chuckled as she asked "So, let's recap. You went to Russia, spent two months, during winter if I might add, having to stay outdoors, fighting the Russians with nothing but the weapons you could make and food you could carry. Did I get that right?" Abel nodded as he juggled stick grenades, and added to that "Don't forget also having to share five tents with a hundred guys... Winter sure was long..."
Lena and Emily chuckled as Abel looked at the digital clock on the wall, seeing it was already gonna be ten, making him sigh, catch each grenade and tell them "I suggest we go to bed..." Lena and Emily both nodded, but tried getting off the couch at the same time, ending up getting in the other's way, bumping the back of their heads and almost falling off the couch, just for Abel to catch both of them and pull them back up.
They blinked and watched Abel as he popped his right shoulder, telling them "Now, let's try to get up one at a time." He then walked towards the bathroom and closed the door behind him, making Emily sigh and mutter "Why do I have a feeling he's planning something?"
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Ecopoint, Antarctica, 11 PM
Abby and Jamison both waited on the top of the facility, Jamison holding his RIP tire as he asked "err... Is this really a good bloody idea? I mean, normally I'd agree and just do this bloody shite, but I don't wanna be responsible for your bloody funeral."
Abby gave him a flat look, and told him "If I survive I'll let you know where Talon keeps their explosives." As if Jamison had just turned off his moral compass, did he open the tire's engine and watched Abby zip into the wheel and let Junkrat lob her at the wall as she revved up the engine herself and drove up the icy walls of the cavern, shooting upwards as Mei and Ana stood on the edge.
They watched the RIP tire rolling towards 27's camp as Mei continued setting up ice walls to cover them, making Ana ask Mei "Think this will work?"
- Insert Song: Summit by Skrillex Ft. Ellie Goulding -
The tire kept rolling forwards as the winds picked up, but the spikes kept it on it's path as the blizzard picked up, making Abby groan as 27's men scouted around the camp. Abby groaned as she kept driving forwards, running one of the scouts down and stabbing him with the spikes as she rolled into the camp, alerting the men and women to her presence as she continued into the heart of the camp.
The wheel shot into the food tent while Abby jumped out of it, letting it detonate as the men inside who were eating were blown apart. She pulled her cable whips out and started fighting against the men of the 27th legion. The men and women in their tents hurriedly armed themselves as Abby cut them down, her whips charged with enough electricity that her lightning fast swings actually cut through steel support beams like a hot knife through butter.
Abby reached up and slammed her hand down, sending a wave of electricity through the camp, chaining through the metal poles and support equipment as it shocked and in some cases killed soldiers.
Abby kept her whips swinging as she looked around, and felt the blizzard pick up, making her turn to find 27 standing in a clearing, saber in one hand and ice casing the other as she fixed her tricorn hat and approached the blonde.
Abby and 27 both stood before one another men aiming their rifles at Abby as 27 asked Abby "So... This is your choice?" Abby nodded and zipped up to 27, whips swinging as a wall of ice blocked it and made her smirk.
Abby zipped along the whips and smashed through the ice, sending static flying as she kicked 27 in her stomach just for ice to encase her leg as 27 turned to ice and slipped out of it, leaving an ice clone. Abby sent her electrical current through her leg, making the ice clone explode as she gasped at her leg's freeze burns, skin having peeled off with the ice clone's body.
27 lined her saber up and poked Abby's left shoulder from the blizzard as the snow blinded Abby. Another poke stabbed into her right thigh, then her fore arm, back and lastly the side of her head.
Abby raised her hands and dropped them, causing the lightning to come down onto the camp in full force, making 27 hide under the ice as the camp was bombarded with bolts. Abby had her electrical veil floating backwards as she looked down at the ice and glared at her sister.
27 smiled, and sent ice spikes up to try and stab Abby, causing the blonde to zip back as the spikes kept coming, seeing how the whole ground was made of ice. Abby kept dodging, getting occasionally cut when 27 managed to guide her into traps, then things got worse when the men of the 27th fired at her as well. Abby threw chain lightning at them, but the problem was that the longer she fought, the less electricity she had to work with.
She sent one last volley I lightning bolts down into the camp as she zipped skywards, making 27 come out and growl as she watched the orange and blue bolt that was Abby fly along the storm she made. 27 looked over at her men and ordered them "Start the siege... Abby is surely going for our brother... And we can't fight a two front war... GO, NOW!"
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Emily's Apartment, King's Row London, 11:58 PM
Abel laid on his bed, eyes open as he waited for the witching hour to be upon him, C96 on his nightstand, a Winchester 1907 SL beside his bed and a parabellum mg14/17 on the floor. He listened as every second ticked away, every instant he prepared for the inevitable, the unavoidable fight that would hit as soon as the clock hit midnight.
11:59… Abel sat up, already dressed to fight, put his C96 in it's holster, put his rifle's sling over his shoulder, then picked up the LMG and put it on his lap as he sat on the bed, staring at the clock until-
00:00
Abel stood up, opened the window and looked outside, listening as he remained beside the window, just out of sight as he kept his ear out. The moon shined down on the old City, making Abel silently wait, then notice that there was somebody staring at him, not from outside, by from his door.
Lena silently gazed at him as he stared back at her, and whispered "Get Emily to safety..." followed by him pulling his LMG's charging handle back, loading a round in as he heard a buzzing sound from up above.
He teleported onto the roof of the building adjacent to the apartment, pulled out tube from his pack and pulled the wire at the end, sending a star shell I the sky, revealing Damien's Spitfire as Abel took aim and fired at the plane as it commenced evasive maneuvers.
But then Abel saw another Spitfire, then two, six, eighteen, there was an entire squadron, but then, a deeper groaning followed, and Abel saw the bombers approaching, Lancasters.
The whistling of bombs filled the air as Abel teleported back inside and quickly made a bubble of substance around him, Lena and Emily. They were shaken, tossed and battered around until they finally hit to bottom and waited, vibrations coming through the substance as the last few bombs fell further and further.
Abel made the bubble slowly fade, revealing the mass destruction of the bombs, the apartment building was missing the entire top part, while fires spread, revealing incendiary ornaments were dropped too.
- Insert Damien's Theme: The Vengeful One by Disturbed -
Abel stood up just to be kicked into the street by Damien as Lena covered Emily, Damien not paying attention to them as he approached Abel with two hand gun aimed at him. Abel teleported straight into Damien, slamming his head into his older brother's chin and pulling his C96 out.
Damien however grabbed Abel's wrist, then jabbed him straight in the abdomen then the collar, making Abel stumble back as he gasped for air, giving Damien time to aim and shoot Abel through his shoulder and stomach. Abel gasped and fired back, missing as Damien ran up a wall while shooting Abel as he chased the pilot.
Meanwhile Lena quickly got Emily to the nearest metro station and told her "Stay here, I'll go help up top." Emily nodded, kissed Lena and watched her zip away, all the while Abel shot Damien's leg, causing him to stumble and fall off the wall, allowing Abel to catch him, slam him down, and raise his fist just for a Spitfire to strafe fire at him, causing Abel to teleport back as he raised his Mg14/17 up and fire at the planes, his breathing hoarse and heart beating a mile a minute as his vision was going red, tunneling in on the planes and Damien as he growled.
The fights planes flew near the bombers as the British jets arrived, making Damien order them through his ear piece "Knock their lights out, and come pick me up." Within the bombers the crew stuck out an antena then charged up a large tube looking coil as the Jets approached them.
Abel fired at Damien as his brother slid, dodged and flipped over, under and beside the bullets, taking pot shots as Abel felt his blood boil, his heart racing faster as his face scrunched into am animalistic snarl, teeth gritting against one another as everything was blurry, pulsing wildly in a deep red color through his eyes.
Damien saw this and took a step back as Abel swung his left arm at him, the while substance appendage stretching out and nearly scratching his face off as it retracted to a more normal proportion, with the fingers being razor sharp.
Damien quickly shot at Abel, making him block with his left arm, then ran up a building towards the roof. Abel chased after him by teleporting up, extending his arm towards Damien, grabbing him and slingshot himself down onto him. Damien groaned, but quickly kicked Abel up as Spitfire strafe fired at Abel, just for him to teleport onto it, aim his machine gun at the glass and fill the pilot with holes.
He then realized as the plane spun out of control that he probably shouldn't have done that, seeing how now he and the plane were going down. He quickly teleported away as the plane crashed into the Thames, crashing down onto Damien just for his older brother to spin him around and sling him into the floor.
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Abel coughed as he sat up, blood exiting his mouth as his heart worked overtime and was being torn up again from his last wound. Damien looked down at Abel, aimed his gun at him and asked "Did you really think they wouldn't send us after you? After everything we did for you, you would do this to us?" Abel growled as he prepared to try and attack Damien, but right as he pulled the trigger, a blue flash zipped Abel up and landed down on the streets below.
Abel groaned as Lena laid on top of him, having accidentally used him as a cushion for her landing.
Busan, Korea 12:50 AM
Hana tossed and turned in her bed as the sun rose, until her eyes finally shot open, the sun creeping into her room as she sat up, a thick stream of blood running out her nose as she quickly pulled her phone out and speed dialed Captain Myung, and warned her "We have a problem."
Chapter 35: Done.
Damn... since July... Well, here i am, sorry for keeping you guys waiting, but alot of things have happened since the last update, some minor, others somewhat annoying, but the biggest hit i took would have to be the fact i got Covid... Yeah, that's all i'll say on that subject, so let's just continue onto the reviews:
BlueN0va: And here's two fights just because i had more than enough time, so hope you enjoy.
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And that would be about it this time around, i'll try to keep writing, but i can't promise consistent chapters... Sorry.
Like always... I'm still in the Trenches, and I hope You Enjoyed.