Chapter 6: Flying out
"Are we out yet?" Bass asked from behind, tired of carrying Zero.
"This should be it…" Blues replied, pulling down a lever.
Cracking sound came right in front of them. Light began shimmering the floor as the almost pitch-black room lightening up. A shutter rising, opening its gates to allow more sunlight in.
"Daylight!" Bass cheered.
"Hohoo!" Blues howl in joy.
They stepped out. The flutter is still outside. Good, nobody ever bother it when they were out. Blues went in first, followed by Bass.
"Let's leave them here." Blues advises.
"Right!" Bass replied.
He laid Zero on the couch as Blues took Roll to her room. Things looked like everything will be fine, later a blasting sound rocked the flutter. Chairs were overturned and Zero nearly fell from the couch.
"What happen!" Blues barked, then another explosion sent the flutter to another rumble.
"Outside." Bass ran out to the door. Blues followed him.
Bass looked around, missile came right for him. He jumped out of its way as the blast almost shoved him over the edge of the tower.
"Bass!" Blues called out.
"Shoot those things!" Bass barked at him, pointing out to a squadron of small one-man size 'airplanes.'
Bass got up, couldn't shoot in the loss of his buster. Instead, he picked up a laser pistol, despite it had weaker firepower than his buster. Though Bass had long fighting experience, the aircraft managed to dodge his firings easily. Blues fiercely fired his gun onto the crafts but he too was unsuccessful to hit even one of them
"They're fast!" Blues commented. Leaning his back against Bass' and vice versa.
"I don't care how fast they are…" Bass grunted, not even giving a second thought to stop firing. "I'll knock them out of the sky! If you can't"
With that, Bass took a few more shots then a large missile came for the middle of the tower.
"LOOK OUT!!!" Blues called out, jumping away. Bass followed.
The explosion separated them. Bass fell off the tower's edge but wasn't able to fall, his empty hand held the edge prevented his potential end. Blues was slowly getting up and Bass was pulling himself back to the ruin.
An airplane fired its machine gun onto Blues, knocking him down. It was coming for Bass, without stopping his machine gun from firing. Bass pulled himself high enough and noticed that he had lost his pistol. No, without the pistol, he really is powerless to stop that thing, especially in his situation of hanging on one grip and no arm on the other.
Bass' eyes watch in horror as its machine guns are coming for his hanging hand, the very part of his body holding the rest from falling. He could have the time to pull up and jumping down would just destroy him anyway because of the impact for falling almost half a mile from where he is to the sea.
A small missile suddenly hit the plane. A fireball erupted beside the plane just a few inches before its gunfire could hit Bass. It spins around, burning, falling before crashing below the tower and into the ocean with a splash.
Bass hastily pulled himself up at last. He sees a girl with long black hair, wearing a glass mask, and black 'spy suit' flying with the use of a booster strap at her back.
"Timmy!" Bass called out. Blues slowly got up, despite the damages. "This is no place for girls."
"I'm so sorry that you end up like this…" Timmy cried, removing her mask.
"Never mind." Blues hastily broke up the dialogue. "We've gotta go back for X!"
"Right, but we've got to get rid of them first!" Bass protest, pointing to the hovering over them.
The last remaining plane fired its machine gun machine gun onto the party. Bass jumped out first. Blues was far enough to get hit and didn't bother to move but fire at the plane.
Timmy fired at the aircraft for three times using her laser pistol; the first two missed but the last hit its hind engine, causing it to catch fire. She jumped out almost too late from the firing but she was unharmed when she hit the deck.
Blues finished off the burning craft's wing and the main body. The shooting knock the plane off course and it exploded in mid air.
"Good shooting…" Bass cheered.
A sudden sound of steel breaking off was heard. The tower then shook.
"What the." Blues grunted, feeling he seemed to be losing his balance. Bass tried getting into upright position and Timmy felt the floor slipping in one direction.
"The flutter!" Timmy yelled, seeing their flying machine rising for a few feet from where it was.
They ran for it but with caution as they too were dodging some of the attacking plane's firing guns.
Blues was on the lead when he slipped. He got up and nearly falling to his back. Bass and Timmy were behind him, better off with their balances when they noticed the horizon is no longer horizontal; it's inclining. Worse, the faster they run, the flutter seemed to be moving away. Then finally Timmy realized what was going on.
"Hurry, the tower is collapsing!" Timmy called out. With that everyone took no hesitation in running fast to reach he flutter
Blues reached the flutter through the door he had left open. He turned around stretching his hand for either Timmy or Bass to get up.
Bass stumbled. He tried to get up but falls again. Timmy helped him up but Bass still could stand, his left leg always lets him down.
"Are you alright…?" Timmy asked then turned shock to see a hole on Bass leg. "You're…You're shot!"
"No." Bass sound despaired. "Leave me."
"I won't." Timmy countered. "If you let yourself fall into the ocean then I'm going down with you!"
Timmy lifted Bass from the ground. She could barely lift him yet she tried. This is no surprise as Bass is really heavy, about 200 kilograms.
The tower tilted even further, making it even harder than ever to get to the flutter.
Timmy glanced up to see Blues gone. The flutter started moving away. No, he's leaving!
"NO!" Bass yelped. "You can't leave without us!"
The Flutter shifts its direction then hovering around and under the tower's top platform. Then it hovered just a few meters above Bass and Timmy.
"Let's jump!" Timmy called out.
Bass jumped with her, despite his malfunctioning leg. As they landed the flutter started moving away.
Timmy and Bass watched in horror as the Flutter distanced itself away from the tower. The tower tilted further and faster. Waves of the ocean grew angrier as it swallows the structure's bottom. At the height of its tilt, the tower broke from somewhere below the sea level, causing it to instantly snap. The ruin's entrance fell like a timbered tree, splashing out several tsunamis in its directions.
"X…"
Carnage stood still inside the ruin. "That's what's wrong with you, always in a ho!" Carnage grinned "Who says heroes shines…" X was on the ground, badly damaged. His armor was again, torn to pieces, and his body was 'bruised" all over.
"What the…" Carnage turned. The cave was rumbling and water is dripping down the sliding door's crack. "Leaks…"
With that, the steel door blew open by the force of water from outside. The force of water also swept Carnage and X, flushing them to nowhere; not knowing if they will be sent deeper into or out of the ruin. The water drenched then deluged then completely submerging the entire room in water.
Bass sat on the Flutter's living room, depressed. "X…" he gasped, knocking the table with his fist. "…Why did you…"
"It should be my fault…" a female voice came. Bass turned and sees Timmy.
"Its not yours…" Bass replied, turning his attention to the aquarium nearby. "You didn't know all these would happen."
"Bass…" Timmy called out but was somewhat inaudible. 'Boom' the Flutter quaked.
"What the!" Bass yelped. Another deafening blast rocked the Flutter even more. "To the bridge!" Bass jumped out of his sit then dashed, though he was literally dragging his other foot. Timmy followed.
"Come on!" Blues gasped, having difficulty moving the wheels left then right.
"What's going on!" Bass yelled. Timmy came following in.
"We're under attack!" Blues called back
"Again!?" Bass sound irritated.
"Yes, by another squadron!" Blues replied. Another blast followed; the Flutter was hit again elsewhere.
"Watch your wheels!" Bass grunted as he frantically observed the window.
"No, you take the wheels." Blues let go of the ship's wheel. "I'll take them out!"
"But I…" Bass complained.
"Not without your buster." Blues pointed out on Bass' lost buster gun as he dashes out of the bridge.
"Darn it!" Bass grunted taking the wheels. "Timmy, you take…" he called out but turned surprised to see that she was gone. "Where are you?"
Blues burst out of the opening of the Flutter's deck. He sees a squadron of five flying ships, not airplanes. A chipping sound was heard. Machine guns fire coming for him!
Blues turned his head and jumped out of the line of fire. Blues fired his buster but misses. He turned his back only to see a missile coming for him.
The missile was very close and Blues barely manage to jump out of the way. The explosion too, almost knocks him out of the sky and left a dent on the Flutter's deck.
He stood up and a missile from the flutter knocked one aircraft. The craft's engine got a direct hit and fell to the clouds below as Blues could see.
"Timmy!" Blues gasped, seeing her holding a rifle with a launcher below.
"We must take them out!" Timmy spoke, frantically. "The Flutter can't take more damage!"
Blues got onto his feet, firing his buster gun like a trigger happy onto a nearby craft. It dodges most but some hits were especially critical. Timmy jumps in and fires her rifle, finishing the craft until it exploded in mid air.
"Are these craft with the Bonnes!?" Blues gasp, shooting onto the crafts.
"I knew the Bonnes and this is not one of theirs." Timmy points out as she fires her rifle onto another craft but none of the bullets hit. "Look!" Timmy points out at the wolf like logo at the craft's side, just above their wings.
Blues turned and sees the logo and sees a bright red circle in the center of the craft's head. He didn't noticed them before.
"They're reaverbots!" Timmy yelped.
Blues fired nine shots at the craft, managing to knock its wing. Blues goes for its engine, finishing it off. He smirked as he sees the craft blew out of the sky.
"Look out!" Timmy, from behind, pushes him down. Blues fell kissing the floor then an explosion behind him follow.
Blues raised his head. Another missile came and he sees Timmy screams as she fell to the back of the Flutter because of the blowing winds of the explosion.
"TIMMY!" Blues dashed quickly to the Flutter's back. As soon as he got there, he sees Timmy hanging on the ledge on the lower platform. She was bruised.
Timmy pulled herself up slowly as Blues climbed down to help her. The forth craft fired its gun and it hit one of Timmy's gripping hand She screamed at the pain of the bullet's impact. Now she's left with only one hand to spare.
"Hang on!" Blues had just landed on the lower platform. He fired a few shots to ward of the crafts but Timmy lost her lone grip.
"No!" Blues banged the barrier ledges, breaking them and caught Timmy. "It'll be alright, please hold on…" he assures her though he could see that she must be badly in pain with the sustained injuries from the earlier blast and the bullet shot she had on her other hand.
One craft returned. Blues fired at it but the other craft shot his buster gun, damaging it. Blues groaned. He turned to Timmy only to notice her grip on his slipping.
"I don't deserved to be rescued…" Timmy gasped. "Save the ship or else you and everyone else in this ship will be gone…"
"Timmy…" Blues gasped "don't give up! You must live…!" They were nearly frozen to their thought of each other's care to live then…
During the moment, the airships moved to the back of the flutter, behind Timmy. Their guns were firing…towards Timmy's back! The numerous bullets hit into and through her. Blood gushing and badly staining Blues and the flutter with red. Despite her black suit's color, red blood is unmistakably clear. Timmy was unable to scream though the pain was just unbearable. Her mouth gushed out some blood and her every system in her body was damage to cease functioning. Her eyes widen to stare at Blues one more time just before she froze.
Blues found it too horrible even in words. Never has he seen anyone underwent such torture. Worse, the victim was right before his eyes. Nevertheless he tightened his grip to held Timmy on but its too late now.
Timmy locked her eye on Blues'.
"Help me…" Came a girl's crying plea. "Don't let go, I don't want to die."
It was not from Timmy. But Blues felt it from the girl's eyes. He wished to help but Timmy was in bloody shape, more dead than alive.
In the last possible ling of the chain of punishment, Blue's gripping hand was losing. Timmy went limp and her hand was all covered in blood, making it very slippery. Blues tried harder to keep her, though her soul must be gone by now, out of this world. His grip slipping and slipping from her palm then to her fingers then he lost it completely. He lost Timmy, her body falling to the ocean.
A look of pain and lost remained in her eyes as her falling, coincidentally, keep it fix to focus on Blues. She continued falling until her body splashed into the ocean. The spot of the ocean where she fell turned pink then immediately returned to blue.
"No." Blues froze as well. It was more horrible to die than he once thought. The pain of death was not just physical but mentally and emotionally as well, and he felt what she must have been through. She only blame things onto herself and Blues thought of that he should be blamed for his inability to have rescued her. She doesn't have to die…She doesn't even have to come and risk all the way here!
Blues stood and fired his buster gun to the two remaining crafts at maximum power. One got hit and explodes immediately. The other dodges it and flews to the top of the flutter.
Blues bursts to an even hotter rage within as he climbs back to the Flutter's deck. The flutter shook again as a missile hits the sides of the ship. The craft moved above the Flutter and fired two very large missile, about three quarter of Blue's height the Flutter's history if that thing hits it.
Determined to save the flutter and avenge Timmy, Blues fired his badly damaged buster at a degree of power at dangerous level. The firing of the buster blow through the missile and to the craft, exploding in an orange fireball. Fragments of the craft, mostly very small, fell all over. Blues' buster shoots out some electrical charges and blew in smoke.
The other missile was still coming. Unthinkably, Blues jumped up the Flutter and towards the missile. As contact made, Blues and the missile were engulf in the blast.
Blues fell back into the Flutter. His armor was badly damaged and he was badly bruised. He tried to stand but fell back as he faint, his last energy had drained.
"Can't…keep on…"Bass tried maintaining the Flutter to move straight. Its damages caused it to shake. One machine in the bridge blew in smoke.
"Darn it!" Bass curse the smoke, for causing his view to be impaired. He let go of the wheel, inserted his broken buster gun into it to keep the wheel in place from turning on its own. Bass waved his hand to blow away the smoke.
An island appeared in the distance.
"Got to land." Bass gasped. Another machine blew up and the Flutter started rumbling a lot and began losing altitude.
"Darn it!" Bass cursed again, pulling out a lever to maintain altitude.
The Flutter was reaching the island but continued moving very fast. Bass frantically lowered another lever to reduce power but a third machine blew and the Flutter was freely moving out of control.
"Darn it all…!" Bass held onto the wheels.
The Flutter went on. Its lower fin brushing and breaking off as it hit ground. Bass watch more horror as he sees a forest right out the window. The Flutter bulldozed the mass of trees along the way, causing the bridge to rumble even more. Matters got worse, a mount, equally large as the Flutter, appeared after the forest.
Bass' eyes widen. He can't stop the Flutter and it is moving too fast to stop before the mound. He braced himself for an immediate crash.
The mount was at thirty-five degree slope and the flutter climbed it a bit with a strong impact but not over the mount. Bass, though tightly holding the wheels, was blown off the bridge and out the window.
Bass was free flying out the Flutter and hit ground. He felt himself weaken unusually; the fall must have damaged his system. As he tried getting up, he fell back. He was able to see the Flutter resting, leaning on the side of the mount. The Flutter was partly on fire. He was about a hundred meters away from the ship.
Bass was relieved a bit to have survived but only to be horrified again. The Flutter fell on its left and 'bang' the sides exploded. The Flutter's left wing broke off and more fires are bursting out. Bass couldn't help but watch the precious ship, and everything and everyone inside burning, before him shortly as his power reserved too ran out.
Finally, his sight of the burning ship was lost in the dark.
The ocean was clear but with some bubbles. Some of the remains of the fallen tower were exposed over the sea's blue veil.
A dark hand burst out and other and a figure came out, climbing one of the floating fragments. The figure was all wet but as the water clears him, his face took shape. Carnage…he lives…lives through the deluge.
A smirked was on his face. Carnage looked up the sky as far as he could observe and began laughing vociferously "HAHAHAHAHHAAA…."