(A/N: I'm gonna say it right now, we're getting into Batman Begins territory following this and the next chapter which I've been putting off because I can't get a clear view or idea on how it is gonna be possible for me to write down the Bhutanese Temple that's seen in the movie. I had to make changes like moving the temple from here to the location featured in Fate of the Komodo Unit: Out from the Shadows which is gulf that's based off not only Hong Kong but the fictional region called Tselinoyarsk which is Russian. Story's based on The Wolverine 2013 but I have my own spin on it like this story here that it was based on, which is Portable Ops and a bit of Peace Maker if I should. I just wanted this chapter to be posted as soon as possible and at last here we are, the man at the end is Mikekolt's rival when training in the Komodo Unit and he will return in the third and final story of the trilogy as an antagonist; not specifying which one he'll be like main, secondary, major or minor one. Just an antagonist along with the Komodo Remnant and the Emperor's Zodiac which is a street gang that had the funds to create their own Shadow Tong mercenaries. Other than all that, here we go with this story and one more thing to mention is that I decided the Owl Gut Tribe didn't suit him well; I went with something different for his real home and his real tribe as well in order to connect with his ancestor Tiburonkolt more easily. Enjoy)
In the Airzona-Utah red canyons region of San Hjierantruvalo, Mikekolt leapt through among from the coming storm clouds over to one part of the rocks to another; enjoying his freedom now with his equipment back on him along with his new harness as well as his others that he built back the medical office. Boosting with the vents underneath his soles to heighten both his speed and height when leaping through the air, the fresh wind of the cool air blew near his midnight black hair. Giving him the sense of how much he missed flying on the backs of his various dragons, there's no other way to express it then to imagine himself on one of his allies mainly Rainserviper but also on the few others. Deathstalker, Blood and Bone, often of course he feels like he's neglected Dustscorcher, Tuskfang, Frynir and Lethalruin as he didn't need Lanceuardian with him since he's just merely there for the sake of his female Skrill who was once his bane to live. He leapt across the squiggly lined water in the canyons
Landing onto a small island for a platform he looked forward ahead of himself, seeing a ledge that he web-zipped his way up onto so he can continue his trek through the canyons; jumping at the absolute lowest point of his landing to leapt higher than he could ever before. Running to gain altitude into the air, he had nothing to say about this time as nothing was on his mind to talk about. He just wanted to let the heat cool down for now and leave, regroup with every one of his human allies and dragons before setting off to rescue Hervatlock. Let it be that but nothing's really fair is it? Ah well, he'll just keep finding some place far away from Paratheon that he wouldn't be taken back to; he has a habit of being imprisoned hasn't he? Finding new ways to land in a jail cell. That all ends here now that he's heading to somewhere, a place that the Komodo Unit will never find him at until the heat wears off. But that alone is foolishness to think Grashunov doesn't have eyes everywhere
Inside the Komodo Attack Chopper where Grashunov was piloting the aerial craft, he looked at the screen that showed him the distance that Mikekolt was traveling at. Heading to some place safe so that he can't find him. He shook his head at this, did he forget who he is dealing with? This peninsula is property of the Komodo Unit, of course he's got eyes everywhere and although it looks like he's making a fool of them; there have been moments that they got this close to killing him had it not been him thinking fast. Therefore he told the commander in the back
"Contact the HPC (Hjierantruvalo Peninsula Control), patch coordinates to the assets; contact headquarters, have them initiate a immediate evacuation from the Paratheon facility. Set up a new location in the awakening of my death should I be slain by the Arsenal-Fox, prepare for a new place in the vicinity of the Eastern territories; the Paraliujiaduntwa Gulf" Grashunov told them as he rode above the flatbed canyon ground before moving over
Mikekolt on the other hand using his black webs to swing across three rock formations before he raised up at the end of the webline to launch himself over to the other side, leaping off to the ground with a palm to meet with the solid earth. Standing back up as he examined all of his new surroundings with tall red canyon walls, the archways providing enough shadows to take shelter from the hot sun and altogether it felt like he could camp here for now. Nothing too serious it looks like as he got himself comfortable, but there was no other source for him to create a Deathgripper Acid Flare grenade bandolier for him to slung over his upper chest on the opposite side of his bullets going underneath his armpits
The water underneath rippled with the wind coming from the coaxial propellers of the attack chopper that Grashunov piloted, leaving behind a trail that thinned out as neither water nor a few grains of sand could keep a shape of it's own. Flying over to the shadows he turned back to the other pilots on board to ask them
"Confirm the area has been cleared" Grashunov ordered
"Confirm area clear" The Komodo Pilot requested
"HQ confirms the Paratheon facility is cleared, assets online Mr. President" HQ responded
"Gentlemen it's time we dig in to our dessert laid out before us, I want this sly little fox stopped in his tracks right now" Grashunov hovered above the lake of the canyon, now heading towards the position that his nemesis is trying to hide in. Ready for the battle was about to take place here
Back with Mikekolt since he couldn't make his grenade bandolier he used his time to enjoy all what his surroundings showed him, from the red canyon earth to the fallen bush he looked at with the growing moss on a rock. Calmly taking in nature's beauty and how San Hjierantruvalo looked like, such beautiful fungi that was growing; it's times like these that he was starting to drool from his mouth but didn't feel wet when he wiped it off. At least he can take a break on all the fighting to enjoy the landscape before him every now and then, his only wish was that he had his dragons with him to enjoy this sight
Basking himself in the sun, he let out a breath of air that blew through the wind that started to pick up as he could hear the sound of a propeller nearby that broke him out of his trance; taking him out of his thoughts. Now where was that coming from he wondered, did his squad hijack a helicopter and found him? Mikekolt stood up with a jolt of pain that ran through his sole, a god damn cramp no less; he hated that shit. He ran to the edge and jumped atop of a flat rock on the cliff, looking out into the distance as he could see nothing but the canyons for miles on end. He could hear something but he can't see it, at least not before a slimmer built helicopter rose from underneath him before hovering right in front of his face; the sides had it's missiles self load themselves and all guns were targeted on him. This one was followed by two more at it's side, the fourth one came from behind as all weapons were aimed on him specifically; strafing off to the sides should he try to escape their sights. This slim built copter wasn't any one because it's main purpose was combat, meet the Komodo Gunship
Viewed on the sides and on the front it was one straight inverted trapezoid shaped body that had a medium length nose towards the tip, though it looked like two of a pair are put next to each other to look thicker but just as slimmed down to be nimble in the air. There's a forward rectangular helmet sunvisor shaped roof for the cockpit that slides forward on inner rails, the main body was based off the AH-64 Apache as mentioned before the two bodies were placed next to each other to appear thicker for durability but slimmed down for nimble aerial assault runs; it uses a single pilot for the leather ribbed seat that reclines back for comfort while in a dogfight as the legs are raised upwards too. The mid-section from the top to bottom is raised in accordance to line up with the sunvisor roof for the cockpit, in a rectangular block that was shortened on the back but remained just a bit longer all in the same; the main top sported an thick tri-stacked disc with three bladed propellers that work in a coaxial motor which the two of them spun in a fast motion, both of them were placed atop of each other to have a illusion of a single propeller that was spinning. The frontal nose met diagonally towards the center at the start of the cockpit window's upper edges when looking in front of the bridge, the lower nose had a trio of miniguns from the left to the middle and to the right sides all based off the Revenant's Talon III interlocked and slid on all sides as they can swivel downwards and from the sides too; adding to the amount of it's own destructive warfare on the enemies that are targeted. So while the front was meant to be shaped into the rectangular body that it's built on, the rear end's tail when straight a little more before simultaneously shrinking smaller in the middle until it reaches the top of the X-letter shaped tail with two spoiler rear wings that went across; all four tips went off to the sides slanting away from the body and ended with a line of five small round lights from the top to bottom at the main center of it all. The tips had reinforced rotors on both sides just ahead of them so that no one can take this gunship out as nothing is invincible. It's dual stacked rectangular boarded swings were guarded with a line of small squares acting like bumpers, three missile boxes near the edge's tips with thick drums of ten anti-tank rifle barrels right next to them as they're all full auto as well like the miniguns. In fact there was two of them on the sunvisor roof put up against the walled off ramps on all four sides to cover the tri-stacked discs for the coaxial propellers, the next pair that was put in between the other two were spreadfire barrels firing shotgun shells that exploded like clusters of impact bombs that blew into sparks on contact with the ground. At the near tip was actual anti-tank rifles that too are full auto taken from their new tanks as they've been attached with a portable China lake grenade launcher on the bottom for each one, having more to feed the chaos as there's nothing like destructive overkill to get the job done. In between the square borders there was a horizontal ladder rack which had a pair of them stacked atop of each other, stopping at the ends as the weapons were placed atop of the square plates thickened enough to fill the gaps themselves. On each side there's a trio of vents that acted as vertical take off and could land with a pair of dual ladder like skis next to each other on either side, the wings came out of the thick rectangular block protrusions with a forward slanted edge facing end which were also armed with a pair of miniguns with one on top and one on the bottom; another pair of vents found behind the wings were used for sustaining flight based off the Attack/Defensive Bomber Jet which in return was based off the Harrier 2 jet. The cockpit was the same as well with all the features including the square in the middle for clear targeting visual, left for radar and right for visual contact as the caller and receiver can see each other; left one has channel knobs on the right with five smaller ones on the top while the middle had a larger screen. Finally, this gunship used a Y-shaped control wheel to operate as the buttons can fire the weapons; along with the lower grip triggers and the upper two finger triggers, as both ends had levers for the hands to slip through and grab on in order to fly in the air as the insignia's displayed on the mid-section from both sides. This version of the gunship however had two seats for a front and back pilot
All sights set on him, the Komodo Pilots awaited for further orders under Grashunov who was coming due to earlier being ordered to surround him up ahead; though at least one of them is willing to cough out one thing to say and that's more about how this one warrior from a Norse based archipelago is putting up a total fight against their forces. "Jesus..." The Komodo Pilot looked at him through the targeting screen
Out from the gap in between the three-pillars on either side came their President who took a look at their target, transmitting the order to fire the three mounted miniguns at the front side as he stood his ground with a narrowed eye expression; what were they up to with him? He'd also had his shield out just in case and once the gunship fired it's tri-miniguns directly toward his upper left chest with bombarding bullets, several of them struck him hard with the rest of them being blocked when raised. He reared his arm back and threw it against the cockpit that smashed the glass, hitting the frontal pilot as he then ran up to the gunship to jump on with a sword out to his side; stabbing to balance himself on top
"Mayday, mayday!" The gunship was coming down in a spiral as it's tail was then cut off with his fire sword, the Phoenixripper which he seriously needs some ecrisma stick training so he can dual wield them both at the same time. "Aaah shit!" Before forced downwards, Mikekolt who was bulked up brought it down but it did not explode this time around; remaining onto it until the cockpit flipped over
Thrown off and up against the wall, the Komodo Pilot started coughing inside before calling through the communications on the gunship. "Tango-6 is down, have C-SAR (Combat Search and Rescue) respond to our twenty ASAP" Mikekolt took out the frontal Komodo Pilot before stabbing him three times with his sword, the third stab delving straight into him as the corpse was thrown off to the side
"I'm all right, but dammit get him off us before he rips us a new asshole apart!" Tango-6 responded as he witnessed him ripping out a missile to throw it towards one of the other two gunships who were looking at the wreck
"I've got no shot! You have a clear line of fire?" Tango-4 asked but once the two of them saw that their target brought out it's missile launcher, both of them dodged the four missiles with two of each chasing the two gunships while Tango-2 and Tango-5 destroyed the projectiles that were homing on them
"Watch it, Tango Flight!" Grashunov warned the main gunship as the co-pilot proceeded to tell the spinning two-seated chopper that was spinning in front of them
"Break left, break left!" Tango Flight commanded as the gunship flew overhead, shaking the attack chopper before beginning to strafe around the target next to the wreckage of Tango-6. "Tango-3: Pull back and set up for a hellfire shot!" Tango-4 ordered
"Hold your fire until we draw him off" Their President delayed the order to the gunships as he then flew overhead to meet with their target eye-to-eye, having Komodo Heavy Gunners loaded on the back with their Quin-Shot Rail Harnesses readied; some new additions made to them like the middle cannon now firing alongside the reciprocating upper and lower cannons as well as looking a little more box shaped compared to the half octagonal shape it once was. The two other gunships responded and replied respectfully
"Tango-1's hot, guns running" Tango-1 responded
"Understood, going hot. Guns readied" Tango-5 replied
The two enemies shared a intensified angry and focused narrowed eye staredown towards one another, a showdown as both of them waited for each other to make the first move. Seeing a gunship readying for a stealth shot using it's anti-tank rifle barrel at the tip of it's wings, it was a good time to start gaining the higher ground from here. Running back towards the tall wall, he fired his grappling claw that launched him up to the higher edge of the cliff wall just as the 32nd President of the San Hjierantruvalo Peninsula ordered. "Engage at will"
Tango-1 and 5 began their hellfire shot as the missiles were fired, hitting only the spots that their target was at before moving fast to outrun them; both of them got him at their sights as the two fired all at once with Mikekolt running for it to jump when the explosion blasted him off forward, slamming his front side onto the ground. He loaded his missile launcher back up, taunting them with a middle finger as if he was challenging one of them to come and get him; Tango-1 took the bait and hovered near the ground. It fired one of it's missiles near his face in that instance, grazing his skin that left a seared bloody cut caused by the booster fire
Slinging his missile launcher to his back he started to run with Tango-1 opening fire directly at his back, using the vents in his boots in order to outrun the gunfire that chased him down; he increased his speed running along the diagonal curve of the bowl shaped canyon that's based off the delicate arch at Utah. "Tango-1: Pull back, clear my line!" Another gunship hovered in the center of the bowl created from this land formation, firing missiles at their target and all the while patching through needing a clear shot to take him out
"Tango Flight: clear back, I got him painted hellfire!" Tango-1 continued to fire it's tri-minigun weapons at the front, chasing him through the namesake delicate arch behind the bowl that's apart of the land formation; outrunning the second one at the left of him
"Roger that" Tango Flight and Tango-1 pulled back and the former strafed in front of him with the latter still strafing him from behind. The first gunship at his left fired a missile that he had thrown his shield to deflect it, the second shot his right flank to whom he threw a Acid Flare grenade at the projectile in order to protect himself from the blast. Throwing it off course and exploding at the same time as the bomb did. "Tango-4 clear, take the shot!" Without a sign of hesitation, the gunship fired the homing missile down to the lower left side
Mikekolt leapt across the gap of the smallish medium in between gully, blocking the gunfire from the pursuing gunship as he looked back to see a homing missile horizontally coming out of the right side; catching up to him when it curved toward his back. He ran a few more miles before he leapt across to the other side, the homing missile would not relent it's pursuit and neither would the gunship. When it was about to hit him he jumped away from the diagonal slanted v-shaped canyon to the other side, blasted forward by the explosion as Tango-5 had emerged out of the smoke and fires. Another round of missiles were fired with him bringing out his dual crossbows to destroy each of them, shooting the remaining few with rapid web shots that threw them off course. After that, Grashunov decided to open up the doors with the Komodo Heavy Gunners seating themselves on the edge; strafing alongside his nemesis
The Komodo Heavy Gunners all fired their reciprocating Quin-Shot Rail Harnesses as there's a one second delay in between each shot fired, but all in the same these were ready for use on their number one enemy. It's initially designed for slow moving infantry like tanks, APCs and whatnot? Because Grashunov wanted revenge for the one fifth of his forces being killed, he's throwing everything that he's got at him. A few of them had jumped on top of the wings from two other gunships to see if that'll kill him, using their restraining cables to secure their boots on the surface in this both-knees-down formation as it puts less strain on their kneecaps that way. Mikekolt was shot and grazed at the back of his left and right flanks, leaving him with an bit of blood that bled out on the side but not stopping him down
In retaliation for that he aimed his Revenant's Talon III crossbows at the heavy gunners atop, it didn't even slow the gunships down when they did this though they might be because of a fact that they're suppressing their weight as much as they can to continue their pursuit. Killed one on the right side while shooting another in the head from the left, the gunfire from their rail harnesses weren't leaving him much of a choice so instead he shot both pilots; the metal monstrosity falling out of the air and sliding right behind him just as he jumped off using the boost of the sole vents underneath, he shot a black webline toward Tango-4's underside and raised himself up with a forward catapulting zip; to bring it down he had to raise himself up and drop his body a few times, he's using something that Shrek taught him when he had to save Donkey from the Dragon's kiss inside the treasure hoard within the throne room. Though, it looks more like a treasure room than an actual throne room from the way he saw it
Eventually, he brought down the gunship with a few more pull-ups as the weight of the rider was too much for the gunship to withstand such strain; coming down hard to the ground. The entire metal monstrosity crashed to the ground, flipping over a few times before rebounding off the ground and eventually stopping the crash course as the two Pilots came out wounded but still alive. "Tango-5 and Tango-4 are down, we need medical assistance!" Leaning back on the crashed gunship as they patched through to them, awaiting for C-SAR to respond to their order
Tango-2 responded with a missile fired, racing up against his side but Mikekolt merely took it by the body with his hand; being dragged through the air by it when he boosted upward with the sole vents of his boots. After that he threw it off to the side when the helicopter came in to confront him. "Tango-1, Tango-3: I have contac- HOLY SHIT! HE'S GOT A QUAD-SHOT BARREL BOX LAUNCHER!"
"Damn right I do" He fired his missile launcher as all four of them came flying out at the same time, aiming towards Tango-2's tail rotor as it went down
"Mayday! Mayday! We've been hit, we're going down!" And down it went with the smoking black tail rotor, hitting the ground with it's propeller blades breaking off and flipping on top of itself. The Komodo Pilots broke through the glass of the cockpit, exiting out slowly as the frontal one was bleeding but the second one just had a few cuts on it's skin; the tail had also broke off from impact just so one would know
"Give me a head count" Grashunov requested, looking down at the side of his attack chopper
"Tango-3: Give me sit rep" Tango Flight ordered
"Gunship's busted but we're all right, Quin-Shot Rail Gunners on our wings are unharmed as well though Tango-5 and Tango-4 have lost their own when they went down" Tango-3 replied
How relentless can they be with these new mini-choppers? Mikekolt's upper hand backfired and was now forced on the defensive when Tango Flight started to fire at him with the trio of miniguns at the bottom lip. The Komodo Heavy Gunners provided him no mercy or relief with their continued assault on him, having to hide for cover and running far away until he leapt to the air and boosted forward through the wind; shifting both of his flightsuit's wings outward to glide over to the combined cluster of tall hoodoo rocks that stood tall. Each of them's thick enough to be crowded but it's wide enough to walk through, Mikekolt crashed into the wall and took to hiding himself inside but Grashunov's got him in a trap; so he ain't letting him see the end of this
"Tango Flight, you have eyes on the Arsenal-Fox?" Grashunov asked with a focused glare on the hoodoo rocks
"Tango-1, I have him in the cluster of rocks" Tango Flight replied. Perfect, now let's see him survive this one when he gives out this next order
"Salvo the walls, turn it into a parking lot for your President" Grashunov ordered, he wanted this fox stopped in his tracks even if it meant that he has to lay siege to some of the beauty of San Hjierantruvalo itself
Firing missile after missile to the tall hoodoo clusters of rocks, entire thing's coming down to every last pebble that's crushed to dust as the red canyon walls were breaking apart; all of it's collapsed to bury the Arsenal-Fox alive. This attempt must not fail if they're to terminate him for interfering with their main goal to launch the ICBPSM into the corrupted core, where their true target is located. After one last barrage of missiles were fired, the gunships and chopper were readied to leave
"Mr. President, the new parking lot is ready. Bingo for ammunition, R.T.B (Return to Base)" Tango Flight informed him and suggested, nodding to the order as Grashunov flew away with the rest of his remaining gunships; disappearing in the blue
"We won't be needing to see him again" Grashunov laid back on his seat and with that, all of them vanished from the horizon
Underneath the sieged wreckage of red canyon rocks that turned to dust, something shifted in the landslide with a few more disturbances coming through before finally emerging alive; Mikekolt was but exerted from this battle. He rested his head against a rock and gave out just a few more light huffs until he breathed a drawn out one, falling silent afterwards. Seeing no sign of the gunships and no signs that they're coming back to ensure that he's dead, it's time to dig himself up and out of here before he went on the run again. Seriously, where the fuck are his dragons at this point; are they still with his men, still loyal to him waiting for his return during their search for Hervatlock? Even they have to wonder where he is sometimes, it's the loyalty of his dragons that means breaking the rules and disobeying the orders; he can't really be that out of range of them could he? Jesus, ah well time to get a move on and take cover so he can think of what to do next
Getting out of the rocks a few minutes later, Mikekolt looked back at the canyons and ran in a different direction toward the northwest where the sun was still burning daylight in the skies
Later in the afternoon with the orange glowing rays bathing the red canyon outskirts and the beaches, Grashunov was returning to the main regions of San Hjierantruvalo on the brink of the silo; remaining silent throughout the time. That silence was shattered when HPC called, informing of some troubling news
"Mr. President, this is HPC. Be advised: the Arsenal-Fox is not terminated, he's on the move again" HPC called in to inform as the 32nd President banged his fist against the smooth top of the controls, pounding on the surface at this news that's been brought to him
"Fuck!" The Arsenal-Fox is more than remarkably resilient to even a salvo attack in a crowded place like that he thought, looks like he's the perfect man to send him right into the training program though it looks like he'll have to leave the peninsula for this one. So let's see if this next plan is enough to drive him to need it. "I've got it, he appears to be heading to a colder location. Launch fast movers, have them intercept and engage; I have a plan ready. Keep in contact for further orders, and get ready for a bombing run if I damn have to order it" Grashunov told HPC before contacting Queen on the radio
"Mr. President?" His medical chief was heard on the other side as some wind ambience was heard against the metallic structure, he decided to break it to her about the news from back at the Paratheon facility
"Queen, the Arsenal-Fox broke out. He's headed somewhere cold your way, no doubt that it's you he's heading to. How far are you from a outpost?" Grashunov lied to his medical chief that it was her that his nemesis is after judging by her relationship with him and asked her
"I've arrived at the base, they're taking us further in now" Queen notified, heading into an hangar that was lit with floodlights with some cold mountains out nearby; she was riding in a truck when he called her
"That's all good news, stay there Queen I'll be coming there soon; and I'll be making sure that our nemesis does not reach that base to kill you" Grashunov told her before ending communications with her, the medical chief looked out to the cold region of the peninsula. If he's heading here to this base then she's gotta warn him about his interception maneuvers
The Komodo Attack Chopper flew off toward the northern regions where the cold wind blew forward later in the afternoon, the fast movers that were sent to intercept and engage were already on the move. For the deaths of their men and forces that were comrades killed under his hand, all Komodo Pilots for the attack/defense bomber jet couldn't be more happier than to start a good bombing run wherever the Arsenal-Fox was at this time. So they jumped on in with their good friend, took off vertically out into a location that for sure Mikekolt's heading to. There's no doubt about it that he would be out in the open asking to be killed
HTTYD
Back with Mikekolt he was not out of the woods just yet, he was being chased through what's based on at least for the mountains on the sides the Icefields Parkway with the wide space of earth before him being based on Lake Louise; there was a field of sharp jagged stones that're pointing what was awaiting up ahead, even pointing backwards on the ground that's filled to the brim with a few ashes. This must be some kind of volcanic area in the cold tundra area of sorts, the things that were chasing him were the Komodo Attack/Defense Bombers that were issued under the command of Grashunov just to divert him away from the path that led to the hangar outpost. He had no idea where to go and was lost at this point, so he thought that he'll be heading in one direction and arrive at someplace when the bombers came in to attack; at first it was a metallic roar in the air before the rainfall of bombs were dropped and he knew it's time to run. Heading into cover he shifted his Revenant's Talon III to it's grenade launcher formation, pumping the guard to prime the shells it fired and auto-ejected; he waited for the jet to come diving down in front of him
Like a bird braking in mid-air the sound of a metallic roar in the skies followed after minutes of waiting, biding his time paying off as the jet came into view to begin ramming against the rocks; he jumped out and fired off three shells that flew forward straight to the deadlier and even more of a pain in the ass than the gunships metallic monstrosity. The shots exploded on contact which seemed to damaged the jet a little bit but hasn't even scraped the surface of it, the sound of a engine rumbling was heard next as the Komodo Unit had also sent the APCs to deal the job on the ground when the jet needed time to get back into the air to continue the bombing runs. But just like the encounter with the gunships, the APCs had extra help on their sides with the quin-shot rail harness cannons to provide added firepower with the turret that was on top. Forcing him back on the run from them, Mikekolt instead ran toward them with a jump onto the vehicle; cutting down the heavy gunners with his sword before throwing a belt of explosives down the hatch, and then he ran away from the APC that blew up afterward. It's not stopping the jets from attacking though
He leapt across the flat rock to get further away from the bombs being dispensed from atop, a Komodo Attack/Defense Jet that he couldn't see to destroy. Their pilots were having the time of their lives with teasing him into thinking that they've flown off, but then ambush him with rushing their opponent to dodge out of the way when they then fly right in front of him; it is a neverending battle with them keeping the hope out of his hands. At that point, Mikekolt had found a lake nearby; diverting his course through the field of rocks he jumped into the water to dodge the rainfall of bombs and the missiles that were bombarding the earth. Having lost him, Grashunov contacted the pilots to have them return to base; he believes he's gotten the message to stay away from their restricted outpost's outskirts that he was trespassing on. So, they turned their backs on him and flew back to the base with Mikekolt reemerging out from the water; allowing the heat to dry him warm he continued his trek through the colder region of the peninsula
He walked through the field of jagged stones which there were becoming less and less seen the more he passed by them, coming across a dead Komodo Commander who held a Strayer Voigt Infinity pistol in his hand; taking it from the body which he examined for a minute and decided that he could use the slide for a extension, make the barrel thicker for smacking with no threat of it being busted and even give the dual pair he made to one of his own men. He'd found something worth keeping in this god forsaken peninsula, time for him to move on then and reach a village so he can build that grenade bandolier for himself. Walking through a land that was more akin to a barren desert of black sand, his mind went to other thoughts like the actual tribe that he was apart of; that's right, the Owl Gut Tribe was NOT his tribe but rather a summer home that they thought they could live in for the time. He did move back in with his real tribe but that didn't mean he would come back since, think of it like a sub-tribe to each of the minor ones
The name of it was a combination of Tiburonkolt's homeland Auditore, Italy and the second part of his first name which was Bauron except take out the O and N to replace them with a E and K; the Audibaurek Warriors were nothing short of being just like that, warriors who were the ones that Viggo mentioned before. Formed by his ancestor when Grimbeard took over as the ruler of the old kingdom of the barbaric tribes, the memory of his father telling him about Owl Gut Island; that actually took place on their island as it's also where he first got his bud, it was some difficult times he had back then with him still having those memories of enduring a torturous and tormented session inside the prison fortress by the Dragon Marauders. They're not acting barbaric if they aren't acting smart behind their image, he hoped that he can in the least confront the Infernal Jackal and fight him. He had a design in mind for the bandolier as it will consist of a upper pectoral muscle sash diagonally crossed with each other, belted across the top like a X-letter formation as each end had a square pouch with the closed flaps facing upward. All in the shape of a berserker's pauldron and it still lays against his chest without it protruding outward
This shield was the darkest oak brown with a bronze coat which had white markings depicting the outline for a biohazard symbol with thick three-way pillars that made up an spiral, each of the sides had black lines bordering them off with a thick stripe for the inner wall and a pair of thinner parallel lines around the shield itself. It had a pointed triangular conical boss right up there on the front with four metal studded strips on all four corners of the rim, straightened out without curving like it was damaged by water and thin enough to be thrown but it's also thick enough to defend with. It had four studded holy cross tipped shaped strips which went along the thick three-way pillars with the paint itself looking new, scratched up, splintered, weathered by scorched bronze and yellow battle damage and splattered with dried blood as this was not used the first time by him. The Audibaurek Warriors Tribe crest's basic enough, it was a Alpha Speed Stinger because as the leader it's slightly bigger than the rest of the pack it leads; having a red crest and wings rather than the normal one like it's followers, and having a number of luxurious dark red stripes all over it's body, limbs and barbed tail. As because it is a Titan Wing that meant it had a second pair of small wings with their tail that became thicker as such, the other pair of wings were bigger of course as it looked like it had whiskers on their head to back with sharp eyebrow appendages on their red eyes; this crest was drawn in a way that the individual of the same species "Corroderunner" is posed except it's background leg is raised while the foreground leg is standing to reveal much of it's parallel horizontally lined underbelly that went underneath all the way to it's tail, it's head facing toward the side and it's barbed tail curving overhead like a crescent as it's stinger as part of it's namesake had a few extra barbs like the Titan Wing itself
Climbing up a few large rocks like stairs he found a Bhutanese settlement nearby, thinking of using it to build his bandolier at last he made a run towards it hoping to see if there's a smith here. Running down the road to the village, he allowed the vents under his soles to activate; helping him reach the town a little faster before he dived for cover when a third Komodo Jet flew overhead scanning for signs of the Arsenal-Fox, disappearing for the time being as soon as he came out. After that he just walked through wearing his jacket, the villagers looked up and turned around to see this stranger taking a look through their settlement all armed to the bone without condoning the unfamiliar sight that he's presenting to them; a vibe that enacted wonder as to what would he be coming here for? Whispers about his armor, his weapons and his equipment that sparked a few brave villagers to check him out; though it was all spoken in Chinese so he didn't have the time of thought to translate them in his head
One of these brave villagers was the settlement's blacksmith who approached to ask him if he was of Norse, seeing how he's familiar with this gambeson style: "您来自斯堪的纳维亚半岛吗？"
"Auditore, Italy as evidenced by my ancestor Tiburonkolt who knows this language you speak due to acquiring weapons he needed for his brigantine; under the Peacock Clan, Lord Shen to be exact. We are both Italian and Hispanic, now then, it looks like what we do have in mind is the enemy that we share if the Komodo Unit does indeed harass you"
"科莫多的攻击机较早通过，他们寻求什么？" The blacksmith asked seeing how they saw a Komodo Attack/Defensive Bomber Jet fly through earlier just now, wondering what do they seek
"It's me that they want, Grashunov wants revenge for the one fifth of his soldiers being slain all while I go on the warpath against them. He's planning to launch the ICPSM into the Norse seas where the Barbaric Archipelago is that you asked me about earlier if I was of that blood. That is what I want later, now I need to build an bandoiler so I can carry extra of these that I built with my dragons: Deathgripper Acid Flare grenades, explode on contact and melt with flammable acid while burning them to hell if it doesn't melt their skin off. I need to get back with my team, rescue the commanding officer and stop the ICPSM from being launched. If you cannot help me then spare your tools to me so I can build it myself and leave you in peace" He explained
"因此, 您就是他们所说的阿森纳-福克斯 (Arsenal-Fox),与我一起进入铁匠铺, 并尽快离开" The blacksmith told him as he proceeded to lead him into his forge, telling him to disappear as soon as possible so he cannot waste time
"Thanks, I'm gonna need every bit of your help and I have the plans written so you know what to build" He showed him the picture as he drew in his journal, allowing him to copy off what's on his mind
The blacksmith entered inside his forge as he wrapped a skull cap bandana around his head in order to allow the sweat to take up the covered space rather than soak his forehead in grease from the heat, before telling his customer that he best take a seat outside the forge; there is but nothing that he can do to help him with his work for although he's one himself back in the land of his ancestor Auditore, he feels it is necessary to spare him the trouble of having him to work his hands off for something that he requested his help for. Mikekolt understood and sat down at the farthest left seat near the double doors that slide off to the sides, shrouded in half and half of both the shadows and the light inside illuminating from golden lit lanterns; he decided to keep a look out for intruders
Outside far from the village, a Komodo Eviscerator in the form of a nomad walked up along an pathway from the wall of the right side with a Sniper following suite before stopping; he had his partner kneel down up against the rock that jutted forward and connected his rifle on top of it to swivel around with full 360 motion. A turntable tripod if one ever saw it, fitting on the horizontal rectangular anti-tank muzzle on the front the Komodo Sniper shifted his goggles to his eyes using the rails on both sides; scanning for signs of their target as the ruins of the APC were leading them to the village. A faint cloud of smoke risen from the forge and knowing he was a blacksmith from his tribe like Haddock was before his death, he would be constructing a piece of equipment to arm himself with. Better that the Eviscerator make his move just as his partner directed his attention to the smoke that was rising, allowing him to jump into the action by sliding down the face of the rocky wall. He gestured the Sniper to fire if trouble has arrived on the double and if he must, call in an suicidal airstrike bombardment on the village; Grashunov wants this fox dead and that's what is gonna happen as the Eviscerator acted like a villager, mingling with others to buy himself time
Inside the forge where he rested his head against his fists that were formed together into an single overhead pounding fist that someone would use to pound someone overhead, instead he's just resting his forehead against it while he was hunched over from his seat outside and waited for the blacksmith to be finished as if he was a father who waited for the doctors for the news of his wife's labor. Not being a man enough to see the birth of his new child, but it's that paranoia which makes him human. The Komodo Eviscerator peaked inside of the forge to see their nemesis waiting there right until he was called over through the doors, standing up and disappearing through as he achieved what he requested. He had no time left to ask for anything else he could require
"Take the jacket as payment for the grenade bandolier, I have a spare ready" Mikekolt gave the blacksmith his jacket while wearing his spare one that would remain for the rest of his journey here on the peninsula
"谢谢您的好意, 现在我们必须分开 因为我认为附近有一个刺客. 现在离开 这样你就可以逃脱追击者" The blacksmith thanked him for the kindness before telling him to leave so he cannot be caught by his pursuers, the Komodo Unit's forces as he then exited out through the back doors and the smoke extinguished itself so it's not to burn down his forge. Now taking it for his own uses, Mikekolt equipped himself with his new grenade bandolier not seeing that the Komodo Eviscerator that at first disguised himself as a nomad was now a suit of armor in the room; standing by and posing as a mannequin
Fully distracted the Eviscerator ditched posing as a mannequin before creeping up behind his back to wrap a restraining cable around his neck, pulling him back as Mikekolt fought his way to be freed from the assassin's grip. He fell over with a springing kick on the floor and flipped backward where he elbowed the eviscerator's face in order to escape, his tomahawk flipping right into his hand so he can deal with this assassin that's been waiting to execute him quickly before it was blocked by the switch blades that extended forward from the side of it's arms. He was kicked across the face and sent backward up against the wall, jumping to it's feet and spinning towards him; he slipped one blade through the teardrop shaped hole to throw off one of them and stepped on the face to stop him from using his left arm, blocking the right arm blade with his flaming sword before he chopped across the left side of his face with his tomahawk in order to kill the assassin
A anti-tank rifle shot was heard as the bullet entered through the wall and grazed near him, a Komodo Sniper was close and in fact there was a call from the soldier who had a radio on him; he began to make his threat: "FOX! I know you can hear me, I saw the APC you left behind out there. You're too exerted to get much further and the forensics team sampled the grime so I can track you back here. I'm calling down an airstrike to kill you, me, this village, everyone here in this region. Bombed to the last man unless you come out where I can see that filthy, bloodied and unshrouded face and die; NOW!"
This Komodo Sniper has fucking lost his mind here, and Mikekolt was gonna take that chance as he left out through the back door of the blacksmith's forge inside. Climbing up the back of the building where he laid flat against the roof the soldier walked through the village, he had a beacon to activate the airstrike and he had it readied as the attack jets are too far from here thanks to not actually leaving the area. Mikekolt took a grenade from his new bandolier that's been made and primed it as he stood up, making a run across the roof where he jumped forth to pounce on the Komodo Sniper once he was close enough. Turning his back he took no time to shoot him just as the grenade was thrown and blew up with the beacon being activated, it signaled the Komodo Attack/Defense Bombers to fly in and begin their airstrike. All while he ran as far away as he could right before the swarm came in
Leaving the abandoned village to be bombed by the airstrike from behind him, he slid down a slope inside the ravine seeking shelter inside of a solitary prison cell that was part of an old Bhustanese fortress where prisoners like him would be put for protection of others wounded by the offender. He remained there for as long as the jets were heard until everything fallen silent, at that point he was really exerted because there were so many out there; he needed to know what their training was, but where does he start to become one of them? He'll have to infiltrate as one of them in order to use their abilities against them, can't beat them then he'll join them as one of their soldiers. That's the only way he'll ever be setting his mind on rescuing Hervatlock from his prison and that's when a man asked him
"Are you this desperate to stop the Komodo Unit that you separated yourself from your own squad to take them head on one at a time?" A shrouded man asked him
"There were ten Frontliners that moved in at the mountains" Mikekolt didn't bother to keep track
"I counted seven, Castle. The Archipelago's too small, no matter it's expansive size, for young warriors like yourself hailing from the tribe of Tiburonkolt during the fall of the old kingdom to disappear no matter how low he chooses to sink and so far he chooses to distance himself from those who remember the times that he wasn't hellbent on seeing the Komodo Unit fall dead to the ground after the death of his half-brother" The shrouded man explained how he knew him
"Identify yourself" He demanded in a low voice
"The name is merely Henric as a man greatly feared by the underworld of criminals from the Paraliujjiaduntwa Gulf, the far east of the Archipelago which is as modern as Hjierantruvalo is with it's beautiful landscape based off... let's have you see the details themselves; I can offer you a path there" He explained before stepping out to reveal himself as a man who wore an black suit that had a clip-on tie, a jacket that went around to the sides of his waist and a dark grey shawl on his shoulders that went side by side; connected to his jacket that could not be removed. He had slicked black hair with a light stubble, three tiger stripes on the bottom of each side of his lower cheeks and a stache that went to form a M-shape due to the front of it slanting down to form a V-shape. His true appearance consisting of wearing samurai armor as such but he was not in combat as of now
"What path can you offer?" He asked him
"It's been made clear that someone like you that's taken shelter in this Bhutanese prison is by choice. You've become truly lost in honoring the memory of whom that was killed at the end of the Uprising that you sought to create against a remnant faction. The Warlords reign from behind the shadows and will see that the beasts you love with those who guard them all die in the name of profit. It is the path of a man like your nemesis who shares hatred of the ones who removed him from office, wishing to serve the Archipelago by eliminating the source of corruption that's poisoning these minds into becoming them. That is what we offer" Henric told him
"I could never have used my own enemies to help me bring them down more than now" He let it out of his system though Henric denied being affiliated with his enemies
"No, no, no, no. Your enemies are a battalion of men that become stronger and deadlier by the hour on the march, they can be slain and recycled with newer knowledge of their enemy. But if you are to make yourself more than a man like them, devote yourself to a ideal where you cannot be stopped; then you become something else entirely. To fight and at last kill the enemy of which you are waging a war against, you must become your enemy as I shall help in achieving the skills you seek. Tomorrow a transport from the arctic base will be taking you to the land I hail from, if you seek a difference in brawling opponents then there's a rare indigo flower that grows on the northern slopes. Pick one of these, if you can carry it to the top of the mountain and you will find what you were looking for in the first place" Henric explained as he prepared to leave
"And that what I seek out would be?" He asked him though was left with a vague answer
"Only you alone can know that"
After that Henric left the cell, vanishing as if he was a illusive specter of his madness that he's seemed to be undergoing in this war he's waged on while Mikekolt followed minutes after to look outside the tunneled cave. A shortcut that had him situated on the edge of a mountain's side with a few poles that slanted forward, flags that blew through the wind like a banner; he trekked through the mountain side where after four hours later; he found a outpost base that wasn't too far from where he's at. With an attack chopper flying overhead, he grappled right onto the leg and let it bring him to the base rather than walk through the entire way down
As soon as he was close enough and the attack chopper was about to head toward the landing pad, he dropped down to use his wings to glide his way into the hangar where Henric said the transport was waiting for him there. Because it was unoccupied at the moment, he snuck into the back and sat down inside; now he can be taken to find what he sought out at last; taking off his belt to meld it into more of a solid single belt while still having it look like it's really a dual parallel styled one, even cutting down on the number of spikes and razor blades so that he can have it match his bandana
This is gonna be a long trip to the far east of the Archipelago since this is supposedly from the southeast side of Whiteburah Island, but on the western side or perhaps Henric's not the man to be telling him the truth about where he is. Nevertheless, it looks like Grashunov's plan had worked out and he was gonna become one of them