Date: 11th December 1024
Location: The Capital
Time: 4:22 P.M.
"BBRRRRRRRRRRTTT!!!!!!!!!" 3 men were shredded in a matter of milliseconds, Explosions were everywhere killing many and injuring more. A Soldier unloads whole magazine to destroy just 1 T-800 just before he gets his head blown off by another T-800 using a shotgun. Bols' Teigu had almost no effect on the machines, as their skin burns off revealing their creepy metal endoskeleton while they still push forward.
And there was Tatsumi, his vision blurred, he looked around, it was complete chaos, an arm flew right at his face before he starts to realise what is happening. He looks down, his legs, ... they were gone, right up to the knees. "Why? WHY, WHY DID HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS????" Suddenly, a T-800 with no living tissue comes up in front of him with a pistol and points it at his head "Is this the end for us?"
7 hours earlier
Everyone was locked and loaded and ready for war. However, there were no signs of the machines yet.
"Captain, are you sure they are coming?"
"100%"
"There hasn't been any sign of them"
"They will come"
"Most of the soldiers are even wondering if we're Legit"
"Tell them, they will experience Hell soon"
"WHAT?" Wave was worried, he and Trevor were in a building, waiting for the enemy, Mine and Kurome were in a tower with their rifles ready yet still a bit sceptical of each other.
"So don't you dare try anything funny Jaeger"
"I won't, we might have been enemies before, but now we must focus on the mission"
"I'm watching you"
"Better lookout for the enemy instead"
Meanwhile, Michael, Tatsumi, Sheele, Bulat, Susanoo, Najenda, Run, Bols, Lubbock Akame and many more soldiers waited in another building after they were given orders by Trevor. "Are we sure the attack will happen today Michael?"
"If the Captain says so I believe it"
"I mean, we've been waiting for hou-- wait look over there!" Bulat points towards something outside the window.
"Look, there's something flying over there" Tatsumi commented as he pointed at the sky while everyone looked outside the window
"Looks like a really big bird"
"Nah that has to be a Danger Beast"
"Yeah, only a Danger Beast could be that big to fly"
"Hmm, it looks familiar, even from this distance even though it's unclear let me take a closer look" Michael took out a pair of binoculars and took a better look at the flying object.
His expression speaks for itself, he seemed shocked and worried
"N-NAJENDA! TELL EVERYONE TO TAKE COVER!!!!!" "What? Why? It's just a bird"
"NO, look! It's approaching us, everyone take cover!!!!"
"Fine, we trust you on this one"
Everyone went back behind cover before "!!!!!!!!!!!!!" sparks of light exploded right in the place where they were a few seconds ago, had they not listened to Michael, they would be all dead.
"BRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!"
"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?" Another explosion happened, but this time it was blood, a human body exploded after being hit by the enemy's weapon.
"MY GOD! What just happened?"
"It was not a bird, nor a Danger Beast, it was an airplane"
"What's an airplane Michael?" Najenda asks
"No time to explain just avoid it for now, 1 bullet is more than enough to kill any of us"
"Everyone! Calm down" the situation was bad, most were panicking after what they just saw. The Night Raid members were trying not to lose their mind. "Michael, was that the enemy? If so, we're FUCKED!"
"Not yet Lubbock, just avoid that thing for now"
"WHAT? That thing was fucking flying!"
"Come on Lubbock, It's just 1 plane, can't be that bad" Tatsumi thought
"Umm I highly doubt that" Michael replied
"Why?" they asked
"Look!" Michael pointed at the sky again, this time it was even more bad news. A fleet of 20...30...no atleast 100 airplanes were heading for the Capital
"EVERYONE! TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY!!!" Najenda shouted
Meanwhile, Trevor took cover too, "A Warthog huh? haven't seen one in a while, well time to get to work" Trevor grabbed a broken stone pillar and aimed at the fleet of airplanes. "This should do" he throws it and after a few seconds he sees 1 aircraft catching fire and falling to the ground. "1 down, a shit ton of them left" Wave looked upon the Captain in shook before Trevor orders him "You there, go get yourself an AA launcher, start killing those planes, their ground units ain't here yet"
"Y-yes Sir"
"I got to get rid of that Warthog ASAP" Trevor uses his mechanical eye to target and lock on to the Warthog, but it was fast, he had climb up a tower and wait for the Warthog to return for another sweep.
The Planes in a formation were closing in, their fired bullets ricochet off the ground and after sound could be heard which became louder and louder and louder and louder before "BOOM!!!!" About 20 explosions happened all at once.
"What the fuck were those?"
"F-53s, also called "Diving Falcons", known for reusing the Jericho Trumpets from WWII. These dive bombers make an eerie sound before one of their bombs hit the target with deadly accuracy. But I will explain everything later, for now, put all those training from base to good use" Michael explained
"EVERYONE! Grab an Anti-Air weapon and start eliminating the flying enemies" Najenda ordered. Everyone did as told and did exactly as told during training. Mine managed to take down a few planes with her Pumpkin, but many more remained. Trevor went up a tall tower and searched for the Warthog before seeing it going in for another sweep.
"Gotcha this time" the aircraft targets him and starts firing again he jumps at the Warthog and manages to dodge the incoming bullets "BRRRRTTTT!!" The Warthog ascends but Trevor grabs on to the left wing of the plane. He uses his chainsaw arm and slices the wing off before he lands back on the ground. The Warthog falls while spining with fire in it's halfed left wing before it crashes and explodes into a building. "I've still got it"
It's only been 20 minutes since the enemy attacked and 13 casualties have already happened. About 16 planes have been taken down but many still remain, some still in formation, some not. But then things were about to get from bad to worse to fucking terrible. The building in which Michael, Najenda and the others collapsed after being hit with huge bullet which came from the forest. Everyone evacuated the falling building and split up. Najenda, Michael, Akame, Bulat, Susanoo and Run went into 1 group, while Tatsumi, Lubbock, Bols and Sheele went into another. The rest of the Soldiers took cover in whatever building they can find. Then they saw something coming out of the forest, it was huge, metallic, had a long cannon before it fired a huge bullet at the Revolutionary Soldiers, they took immediate cover after Najenda ordered them. Bulat took a launcher and aimed it at the object. "NO NO N O NO, Don't shoot!" Michael stopped Bulat
"Why not?"
"An Anti-Air launcher would hardly damage that thing"
"Then, what should we do? what is that thing anyway?" Tatsumi asked
"That's an M1 Abrams, a tank, it is heavily armoured. Bullets, swords, fire would not do shit to that thing. Here, use this instead" Michael hands over another launcher. "This is an Anti-Tank rocket launcher, about 5 hits and that thing's destroyed.
"5 Hits? We only have 3 Bullets"
"It's rockets, not bullets. So we need another method to kill it then. Najenda"
"Yes?"
"Who is the fastest and most agile comrade we have?" Najenda didn't answer since everyone else said "Akame"
"Akame, this AT charge can destroy the tank, however you need to put it at it's weak spot, it's at rear, would you volunteer?"
"Yes" Akame said, she was fearless, and completely calm even with all the chaos going on.
"Alright, be careful, 1 hit from that tank and you're dead, not to mention it has a machine gun too, so avoid being spotted by it. The 1 blind spot it has is at its top, so get on top of it and you're save from the cannon and the machine gun, then quickly stick the explosives to the rear"
Meanwhile, Trevor landed on his feet before another plane crashes behind him
"14th down, still more left" Mine attempts to shoot the planes and another one was shot down, Kurome tried to aim her newly obtained rifle and took a shot at the tank, but it just ricochets off the armor of it. "Oh that thing's tough, watch and learn Jaeger, I can kill it in 1 hit" Mine aimed at the slow moving tank and focused on the target before pulling the trigger, firing a huge bright beam at the vehicle. The beam hit the armoured tank, debris and smoke covered the area for a few moments. "See? Nothing stands a chance against the Genius Sniper"
The smoke and debris cleared and well... things went as expected. "Um Mine? Take another look" Kurome pointed at the tank again. The metal beast was still intact and hardly a scratch on it, the shot from the Pumpkin did absolutely nothing.
"WHAT??? Never has anything survived a shot from my Pumpkin!"
"We got more problems to worry about now" the Tank turned its cannon at the tower in which Mine and Kurome were in. "Are we done for?" the Tank fire but, by sheer coincidence, the shell hit a big pillar that was blown after being bombed by an F-53 target them in the tower. "THAT WAS CLOSE! We got lucky this time but we need to move out of here. That thing's gonna shoot again"
They both quickly took the stairs and went down a level and before they could proceed to another level down, the tank fired. Shattered the entire room. The tower was damaged badly which made it slowly collapse. Kurome jumped first and landed on another building before Mine followed. However, Mine didn't make the jump. Mine leapt but only managed to grab on the cliff of the building. "DAMN, this is bad " She was hanging on to dear life, her right hand was on the cliff and her left was holding her Teigu. "To Hell with it, if I don't make it, atleast my Pumpkin will" Mine threw her Teigu over cliff before she grips the cliff with her other hand too. However, the explosion from the tank shell caused some injuries that weakened her badly. She slowly loses her grip on it before both of her hands slip as she falls. Mine felt something grabbing her hand and preventing her from falling, she looks up, it was Kurome, "Hang on, I got you, Mine"
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING? this cliff won't hold for Long!" the cliff was starting to fall apart as a result from the explosion. "I won't leave an ally behind" Kurome pulled Mine over on to the cliff before they both continue to run to safety as the tank continues to aim its cannon at them. As they finally got into a small house the tank finally stopped firing at them.
"You saved my life, thank you Kurome"
"We might have been enemies in the past, but now we are allies, we must look out for each other"
"Agreed"
Back to Akame with her task to destroy the tank. She stalks the tank from the shadows in a small tower. "That thing is on full alert, attacking now would be risky"
Akame hid in a small tower. The tank was firing at some soldiers desperately trying to run away. Akame jumped from the tower, landing directly on top of the tank's main cannon, she took out the AT charge and went to the side to swiftly stick it to the left rear of the vehicle. "5 seconds before it explodes" She jumps off the vehicle and ran to safety before ...BOOOM!!! The charge explodes together with the tank. Akame then proceeds to go back to her team.
Yet another Airplane crashes after Trevor sliced off its left wing. "That's 17, ah this sure is enjoyable" Although things were in complete chaos at this point, things were about to go from bad to horrible. "Hey, look at that! something is coming out of the forest" Tatsumi pointed to the many trees at the forest and everyone saw a group... no a battalion no ,AN ENTIRE ARMY of heavily armed soldiers charging towards the Capital with more tank by their side. "Huh just soldiers, must eliminate them quick" "Now be careful Akame, don't get too close to them, their not like the soldiers from the former Empire" Michael warned
"I will" and Akame went off with her sword charging towards the army "AKAME WAIT!". "Eliminate" She used her 1 hit kill sword to cut over 20 soldiers and caused the poisonous curse to spread all over their bodies. This can be seen as black markings start to appear and spread from the wound. Akame slides her sword back into its sheet but the soldiers were still alive "What? Why isn't the curse working?". Even worse now, they all pointed their weapons at her. When she took a look at them, they all seem lifeless, they were like Kurome's dolls, they didn't even seem to have or had souls. "I must run" Akame was surrounded by them with all their guns pointed towards her, one of the soldier's M134 minigun started spinning up, they were all ready to open fire. But then the area was covered with lots of dust and debris as if an explosion had happened, when the dust cleared, all the soldiers head or torso were chopped off and there he was, Captain Trevor saved Akame just in time. "You girl, these guys ain't human, they're machines, mechanical, they wouldn't bleed out or die from wounds" "What? machines?" suddenly a NET Soldier with only its upper body left grabbed Akame's leg and slammed her to the ground as it crawled on to her and clenched its fist, Akame kicks its head to get it off her. "Ah, why is his skull so hard?" The soldier's skull felt like it was made from steel. Akame felt her leg nearly break. The soldier was sawed right through his chest before Trevor threw the halfed soldier away.
"These are A64s, or also called T-800s. Heavily Armoured, normal 9mm, 7.62mm would not kill them, only AP rounds are enough to pierce their body. So your sword will only be useful if it can cut hard alloys, come up get up" Trevor helped her get up and ordered her to regroup with her squad. The numbers of Androids coming out of the forest increased rapidly.
"ALRIGHT LISTEN UP! REMEMBER YOUR TRAINING AND HOLD THIS LINE" Trevor ordered everyone to set up their weapons for the incoming enemy. The Night Raid with the Revolutionary Army had quite an arsenal of weaponry, but both Captain Vadim and Trevor ordered them to use Guns with AP rounds. "You there, Wave, set up a .50 cal HMG in that house. Bulat, Run and Bols, set up that flak gun to destroy the airplanes. Najenda, you and your team must defend this area, and do absolute not drop your guard"
"Affirmative, you will not stay here?"
"Heh, I gotta always be on the move during battle"
Trevor just charged at the soldiers alone, with his chainsaw arm ready and everyone could watch absolute carnage unfold. With Trevor around, things were looking good for the Revolutionary Army, not for long. Suddenly loud steps could be heard by everyone, the enemy must be gigantic, then from the distance Michael and Captain Trevor saw what they had worried about the most would come
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
"WARPRIEST!!!!!!!!"
A War Priest came from the woods charging at the Capital and the Night Raid were already intimidated by it. It was ENORMOUS, bigger than most Danger Beasts, probably 15 meters tall, carrying an enormous rifle, mostly gray in colour, with an entire metallic torso armour, on both shoulders there were also stationary guns, it wore a silver metallic mask, had pure white glowing eyes, its arms seem weaponized too. Then there were the enormous legs which could definitely outrun a human.
"fuck, this is fucking bad. EVERYONE FALL BACK GET TO COVER!" Trevor Ordered everyone to fall back before he contacted Vadim at the New Order Base. " Kazakov, we need reinforcement immediately, them bastards just threw in a War Priest, HEAVILY ARMED, S CLASS!!!"
"WHAT? then I will send some Reapers from here"
"Eta?"
"Unclear for now"
"Things are about to get real ugly here, we've already loss bout a hundred, them bastards had F-53s, a Warthog and a few tanks"
At the New Order Base with Vadim, Jeff, the rest of Team 45K, the T-800, Leone, Kiyoshi and Esdeath. "Everyone, group up with me immediately in the control room" Vadim Announced through the speakers. Once they were all there, he told them the situation. "Now there is an ongoing battle in the Capital, NET launched their first attack. Captain Trevor Irons requested reinforcement as the NET has brought in a War Priest"
"WHAT? What's his status now? How many friendly K.I.A?" Jeff asks
"As of now, 100 plus. That was before the War Priest came"
"What? it's not even been an hour, those soldiers have also been trained for the battle about to come" Leone thought this battle would be easy like any other before this.
"It's normal" William answers
"Are our enemies much more stronger than us?" Esdeath asks
"To compare us to them, it's like comparing a rat to a lion, even with some strong comrades by our side, they might also outnumber us 1 to 10"
"They also brought in some F-53s, Tanks and a Warthog"
"Is that so?"
"But there is still a chance, how do you think we survive in our world when the NET controls a continent?" Kiyoshi says
"Alright enough, Save the talk for later, Now, our comrades are in trouble, big trouble, we must help them. Anyone want to volunteer?" A moment of silence came first until Hussein spoke up "I believe all of us want to" "I will fight, I know the ins and outs of the Capital" Esdeath Volunteered
"Hah, I wonder what will be left after F-53s were there"
"F-53?" Esdeath wondered
"No time to explain, we need to move now" Jeff said
"Yes, What's the plan Sir?"
"Captain Trevor requested Reapers, and it is a real coincidence that we have two here. So let's move, someone must stay here to control the drones and protect the base from any attack"
"Um, Sir? I don't any of could could do that" William replied
"Well then, I will stay and guard the base. I will sent in some Reapers from here, I used to fly drones during the late months of the War"
"Then, we will make it so, what is the plan?"
"Our Sniper, Hussein, shall provide cover for our land forces, he must be on high ground"
"The Capital has plenty of towers"
"Yes that will be convenient"
"William, you can fly a aircraft yes?"
"Affirmative Sir"
"I can too, Captain Vadim" The T-800 said
"Ah Yes of course, every A64 has the ability to fly any aircraft. Good, William, take a Transport Aircraft and carry some armed men. And you there, leave your shotguns here, take an AAA-59 and escort William and his team, your callsign is now "Sandman". everyone shall call you that as of this very moment.
"Affirmative" The T-800 replied
"Alright, LET'S MOVE"
William went up front in a C-50, about a hundred men went into the passenger area ready for deployment. Jeff, Leone, Hussein, Esdeath and Kiyoshi followed in the C-50 while the T-800 went over to an AAA-59. The matte Black plane hardly even shined because of it's dull painting, it was bigger than a normal fighter aircraft and loaded with much more Missiles, Bullets and Flares.
As both planes took off, Vadim, who stays at the base goes into the Hangar to set up the Drones.
Back to Trevor and the others.
!!!!!!!!!! "Everyone fall back!!" Trevor Ordered before a few F-53s bombed the valley killing many. "GET INTO THE BUILDING, QUICK!!!!" Everyone was retreating at this point as the War Priest came closer and closer. "Reinforcement will come soon, but until that time comes, how can we survive that War Priest? Captain, your orders?" Michael asked
"It's too risky, you are an ant compared to that thing, I guess There is only option"
"That is?" Najenda asked
"I will fight it, I can hold em off for long enough"
"WHAT? Captain, are you sure?"
"I have fought some before, I can hold my own against them. But more importantly, how many do we have left?"
"1950 Sir"
"We must try to lose as little as possible"
"Yes Sir"
"Make sure everyone else gets into cover and hold the line against the rest of the army"
"Affirmative"
Trevor left the Team as everyone else went nearer to the centre of the Capital in order to hold the NET off
"Alright, everyone, FOLLOW ME!" Najenda leaded the way to one of the Capital's town hall.
Meanwhile Trevor charged and the War Priest while it just noticed him coming. It was a giant compared to Trevor who was already a giant compared to a normal human.
The War Priest aimed its rifle at Trevor,
BRRRRTTTT! It fired a burst of rounds at him which sounded similar to the sound the Warthog made before. "Huh, 30mm, this is going to be hard" Trevor Dodged all bullets and jumped with his chainsaw ready to slice the beast but as soon as he got 50 meters from it, he was shot repeatedly by a hail of bullets. The War Priest then punched Trevor with its right hand and Trevor was flung many meters away before he crashes into a squad of 10 T-800s."Khhh Khhh, son of bitch, its got a few defensive gatling guns" Trevor coughed a bit of blood before he saw NET soldiers all around pointing their gun at him. "I got no time for y'all bastards" Trevor easily ripped all of them into many pieces before he focused back on his real target. The War Priest had moved forward towards The Capital before Trevor found something pretty useful. "Oh this is sure damn helpful" Trevor found a FGM-172 SRAW, He grabbed it, activated it, aimed and looked on exactly to one of the War Priest's shoulder Cannon. "Gotcha now" Trevor fired the missile before he threw the launcher away. The Missile flew through the air rather slowly compared to a bullet, well of course...
Trevor found some smoke grenades too, he quickly grabbed them and charged again towards the War Priest. BOOOOMMM!!! The Missile hit the War Priest's Left shoulder cannon hard and damaging it severely. But that was just 1 of it's many armaments. The War Priest hardly even flinched, however it still turned it's attention to Trevor. Trevor pulled all the pins from a number of smoke grenades and tossed it all near the War Priest. "This shall fuck up his mind a bit" The War Priest wasn't able to locate Trevor as the thick smoke covered the ground. Suddenly, Trevor Jumped up from the ground and sliced a huge wound which pierced right though its thick armor on the War Priest's Torso. Trevor kicked the War Priest and he went many meters behind, however, The War Priest didn't even gave a damn about it, it instead proceeded to take out a flamethrower from its right hand and started to burn the wound shut. "Huh, this will be a fuckin pain in the ass"
The rest of the team guided by Najenda were in the town hall with Run, Bulat and Bols on top of the roof firing the flak gun to take down a few airplanes, many others including Wave, Tatsumi and Lubbock were guarding the main door with the few machine gun nests. As a Tank fired at them they went into cover before that tank exploded from the AT mine planted by Lubbock a few moments ago. The other entrances were also full of combat, Sheele was able to cut plenty of the soldiers with her Extase which easily cuts through metal. Susanoo had absolutely no problem with dealing with the many charging T-800 with his weapon. Things looked stable in the town hall, but not for long, 20 F-53s approached the town hall from above, the Anti-Air team shot down 6 but the other 14 were too close, their Jericho Trumpets made an eerie scream, Bulat, Bols and Run had to retreat to cover before !!!!! !!!!!! !!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!
a dozen bombs were dropped on the roof which caused it to collapse, it would've fell on the soldiers had if not been Susanoo smashing the bricks into tiny pieces. Now the Town hall with no more roof was completely open to enemy bombers. A red coloured F-53 approached the building together with many others, the AA team wasn't able to shot down any as the Machine Guns from the aircrafts prevented that.
"INCENDIARY BOMBER INCOMING!!!" Michael warned everyone about the red one but it was too late, the incendiary bomb exploded right in the middle of the hall, the fire spread rapidly. "AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHH!!!!" the screamings of soldiers from being burnt by the fire, worst part is, the fire can hardly be extinguish, everyone tried to extinguish the fire with water but nothing happened. "Why can't we Put out the fire!?" "Of course, it's Napalm, THOSE WHO GET BURNT ARE DONE FOR!"
"Everyone! WE NEED TO RETREAT! FOLLOW US!" Najenda and the rest Of the team leaded the way for the other soldiers, they all had to fall back again and went into another building, this time a court house, soldiers knocked down many of the table to block the door. Najenda asks Akame "How many soldiers do we have left?" "1500 only, the incendiary bombing cause over a few hundred casualties" "What? It's only been 2 hours and 1/4 are already gone?"
"Yes Boss" "We need a new strategy immediately"
"Split up" Michael suggested
"WHAT? The main reason for our power is the fact that we work together in numbers"
"Not anymore, now grouping up would be the last thing to do, it's a heavenly situation for incendiary bombers. So I suggest everyone to split up"
"Alright then, we will do so, EVERYONE SPLIT UP! REMAINING TOGETHER IS A DISADVANTAGE NOW" The soldiers were at first confused at what Najenda said But after the whole explanation, Tatsumi, Wave, Michael, Lubbock and some soldiers went into 1 group, Bulat, Run and Bols into another, Najenda and the rest of the team went into another. They all ran from the Court house before...
"B-67 INCOMING!!!!!!!!" Michael shouted before
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a huge aircraft dropped hundreds of bombs on the building, killing another 100 men and injuring plenty others. "ARGHH, what just happened?" Bulat didn't notice the bomber soon enough, everyone had just got back on their feet. Dust was everywhere. Bols and Run were there and helped Bulat back to his feet and they all went into an old school for cover. "The 3 of us got separated by the rest of the group, we must find a way to get back to them" Run said "No, remember Najenda said not to group up" Bols replied "What about our ammunition? I have only a few bullets left"
"Here, take mine" Bulat handed Run a few rounds. "Thank you, so what is the plan now? Going outside is suicide" "Wait a minute, this place, This place used to be where I used to teach kids" "Oh? You used to a teacher? Why did you stop?" Bulat ask "My students were slaughtered, but the town kept it quiet"
"Oh, I'm sorry, then why didn't you go against the Empire? Don't you think their ways are wrong"
"I do, my intentions of joining the military was to find the person who did it and try to change the Empire"
"I see, you had good intentions, but now everythings messed up"
"Take a look at this place after it was abandoned during the evacuation" children's textbooks were scattered all over the place together with paper on the ground or desk. It was once a place of happiness and joy, now it felt like it was haunted. The group continued and took a look at the place. Then they arrive at one room, a room really familiar to Run.
"This... This... This used to be the class which I used to teach" "It looks like it had a joyful atmosphere" Bols said
"It did, all of my students were good little kids, I loved them all, they always brought joy to my life..., but... but then...then someone murdered them, AND FOR WHAT REASON? THEY DID NOTHING WRONG!!!" Run couldn't hold himself together, "Oi oi Run, get yourself together, it's not your fault"
"Not my fault? Had I been there that day, I would've saved them all and killed the heartless person responsible for this unforgivable crime"
"Now there, we're both sorry for your loses, but we have bigger problems to worry about now"
After a while, Run calmed down and they stayed at the school for a while before,
Suddenly, a loud crack can be heard from bottom end of the building. "Did you hear that?" "Yes, it sounded from below" Bols replied to Bulat
"I know the ins and outs of this place, the basement is underneath us. However people from the outside can get in, the basement is connected to another building we left behind a few moments ago" Run once being a teacher knows about the place. "Must be the enemy"
"Let's find out" They all took the stairs down with weapons ready and saw a heavily locked door with someone breaching it from the other side. "Alright get ready, let's make some cover" They all kicked down a table for each and waited with their guns aiming at the door. !!!!!! The door was breached, they saw a NET soldier with half of it's face gone making the metal endoskeleton visible. They all Immediately opened fire, the AP rounds from their rifles did do the trick to kill the android. "It's dead I guess?" Bulat asks "Destroyed is a more suitable term since they are not humans nor biological I believe" Run corrects him. "Anyway this route down here seems to be a great opportunity to flank the enemy from behind, they all would be way ahead from this point" Bols suggested
"What? But we weren't given the order" Bulat replies
"Right now, with the mess we're in, we can't be as organised as before"
"Alright let's go with that plan"
Meanwhile, to Tatsumi's with his team including Wave, Lubbock and Michael. They managed to get into another building, it was a bunker. The entrance was blocked by broken bricks. They were completely stuck.
Their group had lost many men as a result from the carpet bombing and their situation just worsened after they realise they are all trapped. Many soldiers nearly panicked from the situation
"Hey are we going to die?"
"We Trapped here forever!"
"You can't be serious!"
"ENOUGH, we're not going to die, we're going to get out of here" Michael calmed down the situation
"Alright, who would be in charge now?" he Asks, everyone stared at right back at him. "Alright Fine, I will lead everyone, first of all how many men do we have?" "Michael, we lost plenty during the bombing, now 54 men" a soldier told him "WHAT? Najenda assigned 100 for our team" "Many didn't make it"
"I see, may they rest in peace, but the mission must still go on, let's move"
The Bunker was very dark, yet it was quite huge, had many carvings on the wall and was very dusty, it must have been an old building. Luckily it wasn't rigged with traps. "Where is the exit?" with every step their hope to get out of the bunker became less until they reached one room. "Hey wait a minute, I recognise this place" Lubbock said "Really what is it?" Tatsumi asked
"This is the bookstore I used to work in as as a means for my cover" "Good, so you must know your way around this place? Including the exit?"
"Of course, but I didn't know it was connected to an underground passage"
"Well then better point the exit to the soldiers"
"Will do"
Lubbock showed everyone the exit and they all felt relieved. "SO LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!!!" "YEAHHH" they shouted, most of them wanted to rush out. "NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT" Michael didn't allow them
"WHAT? why not?" Tatsumi asks
"Don't you see? once we step outside, aircrafts, T-800s, Tanks and worst of all the War Priest will shred us in seconds. So we need a plan first, who is the stealthest here?"
Tatsumi said exactly right after Michael finished his sentence "I can turn invisible"
"Oh? that will be good, so here's the plan, you can go outside first and see if it's safe or not. But still be careful, some enemies have thermal vision which can track invisible targets too"
"I will be" Tatsumi activated his Teigu by stabbing the sword into the ground before he was covered in Incursio's armor. He went out from the rooftop at the top floor instead, it had a trapdoor. Tatsumi went outside on top of the roof, the air still full of dust from the bombing but he could still see around and he spotted the town hall he and the rest of the team was in, It was nearly completely obliterated. Airplanes were still flying in the sky, even though many have been destroyed, many still flew in formation, Tatsumi's invisibility made it possible to hide from the enemy.
Tatsumi leapt onto a tower for a clearer view of the Capital. He saw some soldiers and tanks patrolling the area searching Enemies and on the other side, Captain Trevor fighting the War Priest alone. However, it wasn't looking good even from Tatsumi's view. Tatsumi went back into Lubbock's bookstore by the trapdoor again and told everyone what he has scouted outside. Michael gave it a thought for a few minutes. "EVERYONE GATHER UP, here's the plan, we would go slowly from building to building and every time come closer to the enemy." "Yes Sir!" They all followed Michael's order by taking advantage of the dusty air and low visibility and went into building after building each time getting closer and closer to the enemy. They were all armed and ready but Michael still ordered them to not engage unless absolutely necessary.
Now on to Mine and Kurome who were in a pretty tight situation but still looked out for each other. Kurome was on her knees after a F-53 dropped a bomb near them, her rifle was almost out of ammunition, "Come on get up! THAT THING'S GOING TO STRIKE AGAIN!!!" Mine Grabbed on to Kurome to help her up and they proceeded fleeing from the bomber "Thank you, we must get to that house over there to make it" They were both running on the roof of some buildings completely open to enemy bombers. "Come on, let's MOVE!!!" The F-53 dived again, the Jericho Trumpets of it screamed through the air, it was ready to drop its bomb. Both Mine and Kurome jumped off the tall building and landed conveniently near to a house for cover.
"Phew that was close, you alright Kurome?"
"Yes I am"
"Good, we would already be dead if we were only a second late"
"Yea, this place would be good for us to rest from the Battlefield for a-AHH" Kurome suddenly lost her balanced and fell, "Hey you alright there?" "Yes I'm fine,I just tripped" Mine helped Kurome back to her feet but she had some trouble to get up, Kurome said to Mine she was fine, before Mine noticed something. "Don't lie to me, your left leg is injured, I can see it"
"No, I told you I'm fine"
"Seriously, just admit it, your injury might trouble us in the future, and might cause the end for us"
"...fine, I might have broken something in my left leg, you can go without me, just leave me here"
"NO, you're vulnerable, i would stay here with you"
"No, I will just trouble our fight"
"I can't leave an ally to die here, Furthermore, sniping would be nearly impossible in the dust filled air now"
"Fine"
Finally to Najenda and the rest of the Army, they lost the most but the surviving still managed to get away and went into a palace which used to be home to the wealthy before the evacuation. The moment had calmed but the amount of lives loss lowered the spirit of most of the soldiers. "What's the next order boss?" Akame asks
"We must wait for reinforcements just as Trevor said"
"But how long is that going to take? It's been hours and we have lost many soldiers already"
"It is still unclear, but as of now, we don't have a choice, we must hold off the enemy until reinforcements arrive, everyone must to prepare their defences"
"Noted"
Now, with only over 1300 soldiers left, the team must make every shot count, some soldiers up on the towers of the palace for overwatch saw the huge NET Army, they immediately reported to Najenda. A few minutes later, Najenda gave out the order "Soldiers, Prepare your final defences, this might be the last place of our battle, we are nearly at the Capital's central, if we retreat again, our enemies will be able to corner us and trap us in" This was it, the last stand, the last objective the team must defend, the last piece of hope. Sheele, Akame and Susanoo went off into the combat field, the T-800s kept on coming but the 3 Night Raid members can hold against the Enemy. In the palace, most soldiers equipped with guns broke some of the building's pillars for cover, and every time a tank came, it would be blown up by the AT Mines laid on all the entrance of the Palace, but it can with the cost of some lives being loss too.
Timeskip 30 minutes.
"Hey look at that!" A Soldier on the tower equipped with a sniper rifle said to his teammate. "Wait, isn't that Bulat, the 100 Man Slayer?" "Yes it is and those 2 with him are from the Jaegers Right?"
"YEAH! From that angle they can flank the enemy easily"
Bulat, Run and Bols had arrived near the Palace they grabbed some of the NET soldiers' weapons, Bulat grabbed a huge rifle, with a big magazine, "I know this weapon, Trevor said it was called a Barrett M82" Run collected some more AP rounds for his M16 as it was running low and Bols found what he would be looking for, "Look what I found!" It was a M79 Grenade Launcher with plenty amounts of 40mms. They were all ready to do some damage, they charged at the enemy destroyed an enormous number of T-800s, Bulat even managed to stick some C4 on a tank and destroyed it before they all made it to Najenda and her team. "I'm relieved you 3 made it, airplanes are getting less now, what about Michael and his team?"
"We haven't seen them since the Carpet Bombing"
"I see, Let's just hope they are ok, now we're at 1157 fighting,and 47 injured, this is the last place we can retreat to, after this, there is no place to go anymore, we will be trapped"
"Then let's keep on fighting!"
Not long after, Tatsumi's team arrived at the Palace, Both Tatsumi and Wave were ready with their Teigu armor, Wave's Teigu had the ability to fly and he took to the skies to combat some of the aircrafts as their team had hardly any AA weapons left. Lubbock had actually rigged the place in front of the Palace with his Cross Tail and... about 40 NET soldiers were disassembled by the sharp strings of the Teigu. Unfortunately it also attracted some attention "welllllll shittttt" Lubbock thought to himself. The machines charged at them instead, "KEEP MOVING! TO THE PALACE" Michael ordered the soldiers left to join Najenda and her team.
Timeskip a few minutes later,
All of them were in the building (Excluding Trevor, Mine and Kurome). They all had to hold the line for as long as possible.
The friendly T-800 now known as simply as Sandman flew alongside William, Jeff, Leone, Hussein, Esdeath and Kiyoshi and a some more Revolutionary Soldier ready to attack were suddenly interrupted by the NET. "Sandman, do you copy? We got a few enemy Fighters and Interceptors approaching us" William said via the radio to "Sandman" while they were both in the air. "Copy, will engage immediately" Sandman in the AAA-59 was ready to take down some enemy planes. "Jeff, get to the AA Cannon, we got some company" William said through the speakers "Alright, got it" There were about 5 Fighters and 2 Interceptors, Sandman flew directly at the enemy all Fighters opened fire while the 2 Interceptors targeted the C-50 William and the others were in.
Jeff used that AA Cannon at the tail of the C-50 to unleash a hail of shells at the Interceptors damaging 1 badly enough to make it lose control and crash. On the other side, Sandman and now 4 Fighters were having a dogfight like no other, it was like a pride of Lions trying to kill an Elephant. Sandman chased down 1 Fighter airplane while the other 3 are on his tail, he locks on to the target and fires the Firefly Missiles of the AAA-59 which 5 out of 7 hit the enemy Fighter, although not all Missiles hit, it was more than enough to damage the engine of the Fighter and make it crash on the ground. The 3 Fighters left fired bullets and missiles at Sandman, but he managed to dodge most of the bullets and used decoy flares to avoid the missiles targeting the engine of his aircraft and instead go for the flares. Sandman pulled back with his aircraft allowing him to turn the table between him and the 3 Fighters following his tail. The hunters have became the preys for Sandman as he destroys 1 with Missiles, another with the 2 30mm Autocannons on the wings of The AAA-59. And the last one was destroyed by the Bird Killer system of the AAA-59. The Interceptor was still chasing the C-50 William and the others were in, Jeff and the Interceptor both continued firing at each other, before William announces to Jeff "WE'VE BEEN TARGETED, TAKE IT DOWN QUICK!"
"Damn I'm fucking trying" Jeff said to himself before he hit the Interceptor's wing,tipping it off its balance, making it drop to the ground and explode. "Good Job, Now get back to the rest"
"Thank God that's over"
Once Jeff went back to the rest, William made another announcement through the speakers, "We are nearly there, another 10 minutes before we arrive, so get ready"
Meanwhile
"DO NOT LET THEM PASS!!!" A soldier yelled to everyone when all the armed T-800s were rushing in as if there was no end to them. Wave from the skies was there to take down anymore incoming aircrafts before !!!!!! "arrgghhhh, they got me" Wave drops to the ground after he was hit by a hail of bullets from a F-53. He somehow survives because of his Grand Chariot armor. Many more soldiers were on the field fighting from cover. Things were looking solid for the moment, most of the tanks and planes have been destroyed.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Suddenly, all hope for surviving was nearly gone, Wave was down, he can't take down anymore aircrafts because of another Warthog that came and worst of all, "HOSTILE B-67S INBOUND, FIND COVER!!!!!!" Michael shouted to everyone to get to the Palace which some of them did not managed to.
This time, 5 B-67 CARPET BOMBERS dropped possibly a thousand bombs on the Palace. BOOOM!!!!! BOOOOM!!!!BOOOOM!!!!!
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
And now we were where we started
"Is this the end for us?" Tatsumi asks himself while looking at the T-800 who had a pistol at Tatsumi's skull. !!! "SNAP OUT OF IT TATSUMI" Wave Beat the metal skull of the T-800 with his sword before he grabbed on to Tatsumi, "Come on, you'll be fine, I got you" both of Tatsumi's legs were blown off from the explosions from the bombs. Wave carried Tatsumi on his shoulders and ran across the battlefield back into a small hall of the Palace where Michael, Najenda and many others who were injured during the bombing run were staying at. Michael being the medic helped the injured while many of the others were now outside fighting the NET after the Palace was destroyed, it was a complete mess of a battle, there was no specific order given and soldiers from both sides were exchanging fire between each other. Bulat, Run, Akame, Lubbock, Sheele, Bols and Susanoo were still on the field. Now they were joined by Wave. Now they were up against a few more tanks, the Warthog, the 10 airplanes left, and the T-800s.
"BBBBRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!" The Warthog went for another firing run, killing some Revolutionary soldier but most were able to dodge it, then came the F-53s, now not dropping bombs anymore, instead firing their machineguns. !!!!!!!!!!!! "AHHH DAMN!" Bulat got his arm completely shredded off by a F-53 "BULAT! GET TO COVER!" Bols yelled before he and a few soldiers provided covering fire which allowed Bulat to retreat but not before he shoots 1 last NET Soldier in the Head with his rifle and at that very moment, his gun ran out of bullets. Sheele had her trusty Teigu, Extase which made it easy for her to slice through the metallic bodies of the NET soldiers, things were looking good for her until... !!!! "AAAHHHH!" She was caught off guard when a T-800 stabbed a knife into her back, it continues by taking another knife from its holders at it's calves and stabbed in into Sheele's stomach, injuring her badly. "SHEELE!!!" Akame rushed to Sheele and used her Murasame to poke the T-800's eye making it malfunction and let Sheele go. "Sheele, Stay with me! COME ON, we can make it" Akame took Sheele's arm on her shoulders to help escort her back to Najenda.
"You surely will Akame, I don't think I am going to survive this nightmare. Please, Leave me" Sheele said those words with a sweet smile and a clam voice, she closes her eyes and was ready to accept her fate. "Don't do this, DON'T DIE ON ME!" Then everyone saw in the distance something huge flying towards them, "WHAT THE?" It fell near them and the impact could be seen by the dust. "FUCKING HELL!! Wait a minute what is this?" it was Captain Trevor, he was flung by the War Priest all the way into near the centre of the Capital "Captain Trevor?"
"Yep you there tell me what this is"
Akame has no words for someone who could survive an impact like that but still she replied "That's the Teigu Extase, Cutters of Creation, said to cut through anything provided the user is strong enough, it's Sheele's but she's badly injured"
"Take her to our medic, and I'll borrow these Giant scissors"
"NO! Most Teigus can only be wielded by specific people only"
"O RLY? Let me try and clear the area to test them out" Trevor obtained the Extase and cleared the area within seconds.
"Nice, seems like these giant scissors like me, so I'll take em for a while, also don't let her die, she's still alive, only unconscious, now every ally counts " Akame had no more words to reply to Trevor anymore as he ran back towards the War Priest with the Extase in his hand. Akame then Escorted Sheele back to Najenda and Michael. "Put her there" Michael ordered Akame, before Michael took a look at Sheele's injury. At that very moment, Akame saw Tatsumi, "T-Tatsumi? What happened?"
"The bomber blew my legs off, Damnit, I could still fight had it not been for my injury"
"You did good enough, Don't give up just yet" Akame went back into the Battlefield to support the team
"ARRRHHHHHHH" Run was grabbed by a T-800 which then pokes his left eye with the bayonet of its M4A1 which sticks into Run's eye socket, "GET OFF!" Run grabbed his secondary, a 1911 with AP rounds and shot the NET soldier a few times until its systems gets deactivated. "AHHHH" Run grunted in pain as he pulled out the Bayonet.
"Run! Retreat!" Bols shouted
"No, My left eye won't recover, but I can still fight"
"They keep on coming, guess it's time to use this.I'M GOING TO BLOW THEM UP!!! EVERYONE RETREAT!!!!!" Bols shouted, everyone went to cover quickly before he tossed the Cylinder of his Teigu, the Rubicante at the enemies and shot it with his rifle, it created massive explosion which destroyed a good number of T-800s, but not all. Everyone had spirit in fighting again until... "B-67 INCOMING!!!!!" Bols shouted just like Michael and all hope's loss again, everyone wanted to give up already, Wave can't destroy it because of the Warthog, they were all cornered by the NET soldiers, they had nowhere to go.
"BRRRRRRT!!!" the sound of the 30mm Autocannon can be heard again but this time it wasn't from the WARTHOG, IT WAS FROM AN AAA-59! SANDMAN WAS HERE!!!! and he just destroyed the B-67 Bomber before targeting the leftover F-53s. The C-50 finally arrived, and dropped Hussein on a tower before dropping the rest of all the team aside from William onto the battlefield."How dare they destroy my country?" On their way down with their parachutes,a very angry Esdeath Froze some T-800s before Jeff and Leone ejected from their parachutes and shatter the frozen androids. Hussein immediately went into action in the tower and fire his Istiglal at an enemy tank disabling it, Kiyoshi landed on the tank and planted an Explosive charge on it and blew it up. Many other soldiers from the C-50 supported the already tired out army at the Capital, they fought side by side as The battle grows more and more fierce. "Finally, Captain, you have arrived" Bols and Run were overjoyed to see their Captain on the field to fight alongside with them. "Yes, What happened to your eye Run?" Esdeath asks as Run now wears an eye patch over his left eye
"Will talk about it later"
"You're right, now we must fight!"
"How many have we lost Akame?" Jeff asks
"Many" she replies
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED HERE?" Leone asks
"Long story, let's fight now first"
Then there was Susanoo who absorbed all bullets like a sponge because of his regenerative ability.
Not to forget Lubbock using his Teigu against the enemy very sneaky.
Mine and Kurome were still in a small house unaware reinforcements have arrived. "Here some water" Kurome passes a bottle of water to Mine
"Thank you. I think I have mistakenly judged you and the rest of the Jaegers wrongly, you are actually a nice person on the inside. So I would like to apologise"
"I accept your apology, guess now we will be watching over each other instead of fighting each other"
"You're right, I hope the rest of our allies are ok"
"Why don't you check then?"
"And leave you here ? NO, you can't even walk properly now, Don't dream of fighting on the battlefield"
Suddenly there was a knock on the door with someone asking " Is anyone there?"
"Shhh, keep quiet, Randall once told me these enemies could mimic human voices to confuse us"
"Should we open the door?"
"No, I will just wait here with my Pumpkin aiming straight at the door" Mine answered
"Ok"
"Suddenly the door was smashed open and...
It was Hussein together with his enormous rifle
"Wha? Why are you here?"
"Reinforcements have arrived"
"What Reinforcements?" Mine asks
"Didn't Najenda or Captain Trevor told you?"
"No? We were separate from the rest of the group for us to be able to snipe enemies from towers, but now since Kurome's injured, we can't do it anymore"
"Alright then, stay here, I will come back in a short while"
Hussein went back up a tall tower, set up his gear and picked off several more enemies.
"This is sure a nice change of pace" Esdeath smiles as she freezes even more NET soldiers, only for most of the Revolutionary soldiers to take advantage and shatter the androids when they are much more vulnerable and brittle. All Of the Revolutionary Soldiers and Night Raid members aside from Najenda could only think of 1 think "we are so glad to have Esdeath on our side now"
"Leone, be careful with those tanks, they are equipped with a cannon and a machine gun " Jeff points out
"I got it" Leone had her Lionel activated as she and Jeff who was Red in colour with black fists smashes through the enemies without any weapons.
Kiyoshi had an assault rifle after he picked one up then went on the full attack after he spotted a tank, his agility, stealth and speed made it easy for him to sneak by some of the enemies and planted a C4 charge at the side the tank, he immediately ran back before boom!!!! 1 less enemy tank left. But then while he was hiding behind cover, a T-800 spotted him and now about 10 rushed towards him he fired at them and only managed to destroy 1 before he tried to flee, but 1 grabbed on to his left and threw him to the ground, he closed his eyes by instincts and when he opened them all the androids surrounding him were all frozen solid right before they were kicked to the side Esdeath who gave a hand to Kiyoshi. "Get up, the battle is not over" behind Esdeath were Bols and Run after they had destroyed said frozen androids
"Thank you, Captain Esdeath" he says with always his smile on
What Esdeath replied "Oh you're welcome"
What Esdeath was thinking "HE THANKED ME, HE THANKED ME!"
Now on to Sandman currently in a dogfight with the Warthog, the Warthog was equipped with so many flares that every time Sandman fires a missile, the decoy flares sets it off target. Sandman concluded that the best course of action was to fire the autocannons at the Warthog and all for the better, it worked after a few scenes of both aircraft using the same time of guns, firing the same type of ammunition ended with the aircraft having 2 of said guns. He then proceeds with the B-67 bombers which had hardly any defences against an AAA-59. He made quick work of the leftover B-67s.
At the moment, less and less enemy soldiers were left but still the battle will never stop unless all hostile T-800s have been destroyed since any NET soldier will never surrender.
It was almost over except for 1 more,
The War Priest
"Fuckin hell, this bastard has learnt all of my tricks, hope them Reapers come soon, reinforcements have arrived a few minutes ago but not the MQ-9s, Where the fuck ARE THEY?"
Trevor stared down the enormous monster with his newly acquired weapon and the War Priest was waiting for Trevor to make a move, he charged at it with the Extase, and it just stood there, Trevor leaps and the War Priests fires its Flak guns at Trevor which he manages to block but gets pushed way back. "Well well, this would last forever. Oh wait, nevermind, finally" Trevor sees 2 MQ-9 Reapers coming in his direction before, "BRRRRRRRTTTT!!!!" The War Priest was shot multiple time by Sandman in the AAA-59, breaking it's defences a bit before !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOOOOOOOOM!!!!!! The GBU-12 Paveway II Bombs fired from both the Reapers obliterated the armor and the armaments of the War Priest. It was completely exposed to Trevor's chainsaw
"Fuckin finally.Now let's do this!!!" Trevor ran to the War Priest before it too prepared itself, but it was too slow. Trevor sliced open its chest with his Chainsaw, blood was splattering everywhere, before getting to the heart and using the Extase to Cut the Mechanical Heart of the monster. "WHAT THE FUCK?" Trevor realises how easy it was cut the metallic heart in half with the Teigu before jumping out of the War Priest's chest. The monster went to its knees before entirely collapsing to the ground which everyone at the Capital can hear. "FUCKING FINALLY!!!!! Goddamn, these scissors cut that thing like it's paper" Trevor goes back to the Capital to regroup with the rest of the allied army and tell them the good news
Timeskip 2 more hours
Back at the Palace (or what's left of it) The last Tank was blown to bits, the last enemy aircraft has been shot down, and the final NET android has finally been Terminated. Everyone regrouped at the Palace at the Center of the City. Many were helping the injured even though some didn't make it before. Captain Trevor went up on the tallest tower of the Capital everyone could see his 3 meter structure, and then he spoke up. "SOLDIERS!!!! AFTER 14 HOURS OF FIGHTING!!!!! THIS BATTLE IS FINALLY OVER!!!!!! EVEN THE WAR PRIEST CAN'T STAND AGAINST US!!!!!!!!!WE HAVE WON OUR FIRST BATTLE AGAINST THE MACHINES!!!!!!!!!!! TAKE PRIDE, BE VERY DAMN PROUD OF YOURSELF!!!!!! NOW HELP THE INJURED AND GET SOME REST!!!!"
"YEAHHHHHH!!!!!!" the remaining soldiers cheered as the battle finally comes to an end and all soldier can finally take a rest from he 14 hour Hell they have just experienced. Many lifes were lost, many sacrifices have been made. But their sacrifices shall not be in vain. With this Victory, The allied power of The Revolutionary Army, The Jaegers, Team 45K and Team 57X have gained a slight edge in this war, they have gain some intel on the enemies, but so did the enemy. At this point, this war can be won by either side.
The Battle has ended, but the WAR against the NET had just started. It's not the ending it's just the beginning.
This was one of the biggest if not the biggest battle to take place in the Capital. And it Shall be forever known as "THE BATTLE OF THE CAPITAL"