Warriors: The New Era.
Chapter Fifteen: The Island of Scourge
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Scourge sat on his throne of bones and blood, grinning.
Bone stood beside Scourge, the hulk of muscle towering over the cybernetic monstrosity.
The two kings were inside an old construction site. A building that was supposed to be a trade center. Now ever since Scourge took over, the project has been disbanded. The cold dreary air flooded the room, curtains of plastic sheets provided cover for his new throne room.
"Bring him in," Scourge grinned.
Two bloodclan enforcers dragged a heavily beaten hostage wearing a burlap sack over his head.
Scourge grinned "Take the sack off, I want to see his face."
The sack slipped off by the enforcers grip.
Captain Redfield scowled, swollen eyes and bloody teeth "Scourge..."
"Captain Redtail..." Scourge grinned, his robotic eye gleaming "Thistleclaw spoke so honorably about you during my time as part of the Shadow Brethren. I know he was the spy."
"Makes no difference now," Redtail growled "He's dissapeared. He's gone...you'll never find him."
Scourge grinned, chuckling madly. He stood up, his metal arm clenched into a metallic fist "We need not be adversaries. I simply want Thistleclaw. That's all I want."
"You won't get him," Redtail growled "I'll never talk."
Scourge growled "Never. Okay. No need for torturing then. Throw him off."
Redtail growled as the enforcers dragged him away to the edge "You may take my life Scourge but your dead!"
"I seem to be alive and well!" Scourge hollered back.
"YOUR DEAD SCOURGE! INSIDE YOUR DEAD! THE MAGGOTS HAVE ALREADY DEVORED YOUR GUTS! YOU ARE GOING TO DIE SCOURGE! YOU WILL-"
Before the guards could throw him, Scourge pulled out his knife and threw it, the blade piercing The Captains neck.
Lionblaze huffed as he threw the attacker half a block away. He ripped a grabbing citizen and chucked him at three other charging lunatics.
Ivypool threw half a dozen knives in all directions, ducking under a wild swing from another Bloodclan enforcer, and stabbing the man twice in the gut, before twirling in a circle and slashing his neck, kicking him to the ground. Her eyes glowed green used her super speed to dodge a bullet coming from a Bloodclan member, and dashed at him, shoulder charging him to the ground, and then she held her hand up. clenching a fist. The asphalt road covered the man, drowning him into the pavement as he sunk.
Sparkpelt fired her repeater, blasting any men trying to get close with bullets galore. One got close enough to take a swing with a crowbar and she blocked it, thrusting the butt of the rifle into his face, before pointing the barrel into his stomach and blasting a huge hole through. She shoved the rest of the gun through the hole, shooting at other attackers while using the corpse as a shield.
Poppyfrost fired her revolvers with supreme accuracy and precision, loading dozens of men and women with holes. As she reloaded, she took a hit to the cheek from a lead pipe, as the Bloodclan member grinned, ready to strike again. Before he could, Poppyfrost tossed a revolver to the ground, using the free hand to pull out her rapier. She proceeded to use her gifts in fencing by breaking through the Enforcer's sloppy defense, and skewering him in the lungs, as he choked on his blood, contorting on the ground. She loaded up her other revolver, and blasted anyone getting close, finishing them off with her beautifully forged blade.
Jayfeather punched one enforcer, roundhouse kicking him to the ground, as he jumped over a low swing as one hoped to trip him. As he touched the ground, he uppercutted the man away, and as the enforcer stumbled back, he ran at him and leapt into the air, planting his boots into the man's chest, knocking him down. As Jayfeather rolled off the ground, he sent a wave of telekinetic power at one aiming at him with his gun. He grabbed the shooter, and threw him at Lionblaze, who punched the man to the ground.
Breezepelt was busy tanking blows from multiple people, before Icecloud shot him an opening with Jack's Old Magnum. Breezepelt took that opening, slipping out of the beating circle, before then proving himself the best streetfighter around. He grabbed one by the neck, and hoisted him in the air, before slamming him into the ground, and with one punch, he knocked out a charging brute, preceding to then break many bones and shatter lots of pride.
Icecloud was doing adequate, shooting any who got close to her or her friends. She reloaded rather slowly, but she was nimble and quick enough to dodge any stray bullets, and counter. As one charged, she slapped him with the gun, before grabbing him by the neck. She shot him in the side of his head, and then like Sparkpelt, used the body as cover, shooting and reloading like it was a routine.
As Lionblaze tossed multiple people away with barely a finger, he felt a heavy blow to his back, and turned around to see something he didn't want to see.
"TANK!"
"WHAT?!" Poppyfrost looked at the lunk of metal rolling towards them "HOW THE FUCK DID THEY GET A TANK?!"
"ARMORY, TRAITORS IN THE MILITARY, TAKE YOUR FUCKING PICK!" Breezepelt roared, finishing up his group of attackers.
"I got it," Jayfeather motioned, picking up the tank and crushing it into a boulder of metal.
Poppyfrost widened her eyes as she looked at Jayfeather's work "Woah."
As the group finished things up, they took a look at the carnage and chaos they caused.
Where they were standing was once the shopping district. Except now it was total Anarchy. Looting, murders, and the statue of Jay's Wing was knocked to the ground.
"It sickens me to see Forrestlake like this, I wish this chaos would never have happened," Icecloud sighed.
Jayfeather nodded "Me too."
Lionblaze brushed some soot off his shoulder and smirked "You guys act like we haven't done this before?"
"We got to get deeper into the city," Poppyfrost picked up her other revolver "The sooner we get to Scourge, the sooner we can end this."
"How?" Ivypool asked "He has bombs all around the main cities. Why wouldn't he just blow them up if we get even a mile close to him?"
Poppyfrost smirked "Because it's Scourge. He wouldn't blow them up if we get close. He would fight us all, and then once he starts losing, he would blow it all up. Once the cities blow, countries will find out via satellites, so those bombs are his only hold on this city. He wouldn't blow them up unless he deemed it a lost cause."
"That sounds like Scourge," Sparkpelt growled.
"Then how do we get the detonator?" Jayfeather asked.
"There is no detonator."
Jayfeather curled his lip "God DAMN it!"
They looked behind Jayfeather and had the same reaction.
The Triumvirate floated to the ground behind him, via Ravenheart's magic. As the touched ground, Crowflight held his hands up in surrender "We-"
BANG!
Crowflight fell to the ground clutching his ear, screaming.
Tigerjaw growled, already making an advance at the group before Ravenheart stopped him by holding her hand in front of him.
Icecloud growled, holding the magnum at the rest of the Triumvirate. "IT'S BECAUSE OF YOU THIS COUNTRY HAS GONE TO SHIT!"
"YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS TO TELL US WHY WE SHOULDNT KILL THE WHOLE LOT OF YA BEFORE WE KILL THE WHOLE LOT OF YA!" Poppyfrost growled.
As Tigerjaw sneered at them, Ravenheart held her hands up "We broke Scourge out-"
"That doesn't help your case. Eight Seconds," Poppyfrost snapped.
Crowflight stood up, still clutching his left ear, and snarled "WE KNOW HOW TO DISABLE THE BOMBS!"
The group fell silent.
Poppyfrost sighed "Congratulations. You now have five minutes before we kill the whole lot of ya."
Ravenheart cupped her hand on her brother's wound, as she healed the injury.
Tigerjaw snarled, pointing at Icecloud "You shoot at any of them again, and I'll rip your spine out and use it as a pogo stick!"
"Big man, little threats," Icecloud smiled sweetly, gun still at his face.
As Crowflight stood up, he growled "Before I was so RUDELY interrupted, I was going to tell you all that there is no detonator. The Bombs are linked to Scourge's cybernetic implants himself. His brain, his arm, his eye, they're all connected. He can activate them with so much as a thought impulse. So the question is not how do we get the detonator. It's how do we make the detonator ineffective."
Jayfeather growled "And you know this how?"
"Because the bombs are of the same type we made with father," Ravenheart said with a hint of sadness.
"So you ARE responsible!" Sparkpelt scowled.
Poppyfrost growle "Twenty seconds now."
Ravenheart held her hands up in surrender "Please...we're sorry! We were betrayed! Rock has lost it, he killed father! He's taken command over the rest of my siblings, and we've tried to wrestle them back! But they're loyal to him, a thousand times more loyal then they were at father."
"Why should we trust you?!" Jayfeather growled "KILL THEM!"
Sparkpelt had already loaded her gun before Breezepelt pointed her rifle down at the ground "Wait! We can use their information!"
"No we don't!" Jayfeather hissed "Foxleap can come up with some device that can deactivate Scourge's mainframe. All we need is that. They aren't needed, and as far as Forrestlake is concerned, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE!"
"Which is why we're trying to help!" Ravenheart pleaded "We know we messed up! Give us a chance to help you take Scourge down! That's all we ask! Then you can kills us yourselves!"
Jayfeather snarled "KILL THEM!"
Lionblaze shook his head at Jayfeather "No. We'll let them help. Sparkpelt, put the gun down."
As Sparkpelt lowered her weapon, Jayfeather grabbed Lionblaze and hissed in his ear "You goddamn fool!"
We're not killing defenseless people, Jay."
"They are NOT defenseless! They hold power just like us! They are a threat that we need to deal with!"
"Maybe, but they're not a threat right now," Lionblaze broke Jayfeather's grip on him as Jayfeather glared at the Triumvirate.
Suddenly, his anger subsided and he smirked "As long as they don't kill us after, they can stay."
Lionblaze looked at Jayfeather strangely, as he stammered "Wait...what?"
Jayfeather shrugged "Yeah...they tried to warn us so what's the harm?"
Lionblaze blinked several times before shrugging "I-I guess I don't know."
Crowflight continued "My sister can cause an EMP with her magic, and that could Deactivate Scourge's enhancements."
Ivypool grinned "You know what? You three are gonna fit in just fine."
"I still don't trust them," Sparkpelt huffed.
"I'll allow their presence," Jayfeather chuckled, only further confusing Lionblaze.
Poppyfrost shook Ravenheart's hand "Well then...let's go take the aussie rapists down to hell."
Fear not, for I HAVE RETURNED!
After a HUGE burst of inspiration, I have decided to finish this story, or at least this arc. Updates will be quicker, and if not, then I expect you all to hold me accountable.
For now, enjoy my return, and happy new year.
So Scourge is looking for Thistleclaw. Why? What does he want with him?
Jayfeather is acting strange? Well, I gave a hint a while back that this would happen, namely during Chapter 10. Might want to look closely on it...
Adios.