Nemo me Impune Lacessit 2.10
Theo Anders has grown from that chubby kid into a lean one "I stayed with Faultline when Kaiser killed...mom...it was...horrible" the now teen Theo said as he glares at Greg "where have you been?" he demanded, fist clenched.
"You promised Kayden...no...you promised us that we will be...protected..." Theo sadly said as Greg sighs.
"I had stuff to do Theo, I was helping the PRT with the fallout of Thomas Calvert, the New Wave retired so Khalid had to encourage the formation of the Circle of Steel" all that we have fought for will be for naught unless a circle of steel will defend them, Greg remembers Khalid's words "you can't expect me and Khalid to be at two places at the same time"
Theo sighs as the aura of dread and sorrow began to dissipate "you triggered..." Greg remarks and Theo nods.
"I watched...mom...die...Kaiser stabbed her in the heart...she tried to fight but...but...she didn't...and he just...embraced her" Theo struggles, deep breaths, "I ran away so fast that I didn't know...I didn't know father's men was chasing me, that I experienced a trigger event" Theo said as Greg gave him a hug.
"I'm so sorry Theo I wish I could have..." nothing can change it, "one thing is for certain I promise we will take back Aster" he said, Theo nods and then looks at Taylor.
"We'd have to make our move tomorrow, tonight..." he said as he looks at Theo, the kid that I once played scrabbles with was forced to grow up, he sadly thought "do you have a place to stay?" he asks, Theo nods.
"Faultline provided me with board, I had to pay the rent from time to time, its affordable at least and the landlady is reasonable enough" Theo said as he turns and then looks back, eyes darting between Greg and then Taylor.
"You two must be busy and I overstayed my welcome..." he chuckles "thank you, I just wish you were able to save...Kayden"
I wish it too, Greg thought but nothing can change such a fact. Kayden died helping them and he was just feeling its consequences, Theo leaves and Greg looks at Taylor "I remember you telling me about helping a pregnant woman give birth" she states smiling at him, "I just never thought that it was Purity of the Empire 88"
"I never told you that well because of the Unwritten Rules, Purity, no Kayden after the birth of her daughter told me to come visit her house, she makes quite a mean mushroom and cheese omelet and bacons" Greg said remembering his visits.
"Hey I cook too!" Taylor remarks and Greg laughs "what?!"
"Hey, I'm not saying your a bad cook or anything Taylor, to be honest I love your mac and cheese-!" Taylor kisses him on the cheek.
"Flatterer, I'd give this one to you but still no more than that!" she said and then they both looked at each other, there was a suggestive look on her eyes "there is a bed on the attic of the Spice shop by the way, Emma and I use it whenever we find ourselves unable to go home" she said as Greg looks at her and she blushes and buries herself on her hands.
"You still sing that song right?" he asks, she nods, he smiles and both of them went to the attic of the Spice shop retiring for the night.
"We never did a lot of things in a bed room setting" Taylor remarks as they both set themselves on a bed that was on the attic of the Spice shop.
"Well we usually make out on the forest at the base of the Captains hill, not that I don't like it but still we never did go as far as the third base" Greg states as he puts himself atop her and she reaches out and cups his face and kisses him which he returns, pulling away "I never wanted to make you uncomfortable that I'm some raging horn dog but still..."
"You have a lot in mind" Taylor smirks in between kisses under his neck, "dreams of having your way with me" she teases as a playful bite went from under his chin.
"Yeah that..." he caught her lips and lets her lock her legs on his waists but hesitates to move further down but then notices that Taylor casts a spell that removes her shirt "we shouldn't..."
"No its been a long time coming and besides..." she said as she removes his top "...this might be our only time to have this before life becomes too complicated again for us" she's right, Greg thought as he decided to just go with it.
"Huh...women..." he sighs in between kisses.
"Oh shut it you!" Taylor pulls him closer.
The moon waxes and wanes, setting down and the sun rises in the east Greg woke up to find himself alone again and he smells something good below and hears a familiar tune. "Good morning" he greets as Taylor turns with a smile on her face as their breakfast proceeded with discussions and phone calls of what to do when night comes.
Night went and Greg put on his mask, he remembers Theo and Kayden telling him of Medhall as a smokescreen company of the Empire 88. "My ex-husband is someone high up in the Empire 88, he represents them at Medhall, laundering the Empire's profits to make it legal" Kayden wasn't a good person but she knows when she is wrong and when she had heard of them she decided to come clean to him and Khalid.
Kayden is Purity and that would mean Max Anders, Kaiser, he remembers Kayden telling him and Khalid to meet her at the park of Downtown there she basically unmasked herself and offered to become an informant for them "you don't have to" he remembers Khalid telling Kayden that but the woman smiles.
"It is the right thing to do isn't it?"
"Hey who the-?!" a pommel to the gut took care of the guard at the front door of Medhall, his partner tried to move but he was quickly electrocuted by lightning bolt from Philippa.
"Do we need to have a briefing before we go in?" he asked as the sorceresses simply shrug.
"We do this how it is done in the Continent" Margarita said as she began to chant in Elder speech, "huh...strange..."
"What is it?" Triss asked as his medallion's humming stopped.
"The place is almost empty as if they weren't expecting us" well they were going for a grand offensive on the scale of what we did with New Wave, Greg thought as he put on a combat stance.
"He knew you'd come here" a strong yet distorted accented voice said as they turn around and then saw a large man wearing a German style gasmask "I am Auschwitz and I am from Gesellschaft" the man announces as a noxious gas began to manifest and an almond smell permeates the air.
"Shaker!" Greg shouts as he immediately began to cast a Quen and charged at Auschwitz, his sword at the ready. Good thing I am immune to poisons, Greg remembers the Trial of Mithridates, he remembers the poisons and the venoms he and the other initiates took "he's spreading Prussic Acid!" he yells as he quickly dodges a blow from the Neo-Nazi cape that was armed with a tinkertech power fist.
"Spread out and don't inhale the gas!" Taylor yells as everyone began to cast their shields and did what she just yelled.
"This is gut!" Auschwitz declares "and here I am expecting that there will be no fight in you untermenschen!"
(OST: Witcher 2: Path of the Kingslayer)
Oh I'll show him who is an untermensch! Taylor thought as she looks at Greg and then at the other sorceresses they took cover at the parked cars in front of Medhall "Karasuba trap him with an Yrden and we'll trap him on a barrier, once there you can cast Igni and blow his ass sky high!" the sorceress were able to create a barrier surrounding them, making sure that the toxic air Auschwitz makes on his smoke form wouldn't affect them.
"..." Triss was already chanting in the Elder Speech, followed by Margarita while Philippa toss around balls of wind to clear the air, Taylor looks at Fringilla who nods.
"We'll have to buy the Witcher time!" Fringilla said as she tosses a wind ball.
It was unexpected as from what they had heard from Piggot earlier there had been concentration of Empire 88 non-powered thugs on their bases and safehouses that was nearby the Circle of Steel and PRT patrol routes and so they concentrated majority of their forces there as it would mean that the powered members of the Empire 88 would lead the assault.
But it seems they made use of the Gesellschaft reinforcement as reserves against any counter attack, Taylor thought as she looks at Greg who seem to be the primary focus of the Neo-Nazi cape.
Aard dispelled some of the noxious gas the Gesellschaft cape spreads around that creeps to his body but it only allowed for the gas to quickly regather "Yrden! Trap him with an Yrden!" Taylor shouts at Greg as she and the others began to prepare chanting for the barrier.
"Its harder than this looks!" Greg shouts back as he casts Aard and then quickly blocked a blow from Auschwitz' who seem to retreat back to the smoke whenever he makes a blow at Greg who casts Quen quickly "son of a-!" another blow and then another makes him stagger on the ground "fuck!" he quickly dodges another blow from Auschwitz but a body blow almost knocks his air.
"You think you can defeat the reich untermensch?! You are nothing! NOTHING!"
"Fuck off and go back to the trenches stormtrooper reject!" Greg had hooked his sword by the man's feet but it seems his feet faded, becoming smoke.
"Kitsune! Have the sorceresses cast the barrier around me with him!" he shouts as he dodges another blow and then make a counter-pirouette but it seems Auschwitz is fading around his smoke.
"But-?!" He'll die! Taylor thought as Greg smiles at her direction.
"Don't worry! I have a plan!"
"You think you can contain gas?!" Auschwitz said as he tried to move away from Greg then to the direction of Taylor and Fringilla but blasts of wind and light turns him away and Triss, Philippa, and Margarita was able to complete their chant creating a barrier and trapping Auschwitz inside.
"You bitch!" Auschwitz screams as he tries to break free from the trap.
"Checkmate asshole!" Greg shouts as a blast of Igni inflamed the barrier.
"Greg!" Taylor screams but when the fire and smoke dissipates quickly as it spreads it revealed that he was engulfed with Quen. The barrier falls down and the Quen subsides and Greg staggers.
"My ears are ringing...I might have gone deaf!" he jokes chuckling and coughing as he approached Taylor who can't help but chuckle and laugh, a phone rang and Greg then pulled out his phone.
"Its Lung" he announces as he quickly answered the phone and then put it on speaker.
"Hey got some bad news..." Lung said on the other line.
"You tell me about it, we got ambushed by a Gesellschaft cape at the front door"
"Well I'm on the back door with Kaiser's kid and right now we are having a standoff with Fenja and her sister and a whole lot of guys that are rejects of Nazi extras from Earth Aleph's Inglorious Bastards" there was a look from the sorceresses at that.
"Need any help there?" Greg asks as Triss and Philippa seems ready to spring into action at that.
"Well yeah that would be appreciated but while your busy at the front, I might as well teach Theo how to be a man" there was an amused snort on Greg's part.
"Lung, I'll send in Triss and Philippa on your way and also no homo and good luck"
"Eat dick" the line went dead and then Greg pulled out a syringe and then quickly jammed it on his neck, she could see the potion travel on his veins, merging on his body, he cracks his neck and with a grunt they all went inside Medhall.
Author's note: Now as much as possible I was planning the attack to be more upfront, chaotic, and deliberate as the original would be too slowly cut down the Empire 88 with its bases and sources of income and revenue that was until I said 'fuck it' and let's just burn Medhall to the ground, so yeah. About the Taylor-Greg relationship well it was supposed to be later but then I decided to just do it now since yeah things will be a bit complicated as I often planned upon writing the fic so yeah.
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