Disclaimer: Wow, I'm actually using one of these. It's given that I don't have any ownership of Advance Wars or the characters of Final Fantasy... Duh. But the characters Glenn, Brad, Aldrea, Ashley, and Cecil, are used from "Bahamut & the Guardian Forces" by the permission of Gregory Stephen/nightdragon0. So you know, you should go read it, you would enjoy it.
-Advance Wars 2
--Project Black Portal
---Chapter 11: Going, Going, Gone...
Bahamut! Look out!
Glenn's warning came just in time as a bullet whizzed by Bahamut's head. Lash's Nutcracker had been set to full auto and spat out a barrage of bullets. Lash's size made sure that bullets went everywhere as she could hardly keep control of the gun. The arms of the dish provided no cover as Bahamut ducked behind them, because the high velocity rounds would tear right through the metal and then into his body, carving clean holes through and through.
"Hey! My arm is getting tired! Stay still and get dead!" Lash whined.
In reply, Bahamut spewed forth a blast of fire which shot out in Lash's direction. She easily glided out of the way with her inline skates and fired back.
"Tee hee hee! I wish I had played with you sooner! This is fun!"
It seemed at that point Bahamut registered how hard the rain was coming down. His vision was limited to a couple of feet, and it was easy to lose track of Lash in the distance. She would disappear, and then the click clacking of her skates would signal another burst of bullets from the Nutcracker. Blindly, Bahamut spat another burst of flame but could tell he had missed by Lash's insane giggling.
"Dammit! She's too @#$% fast! And too @#$% small!" Bahamut hissed angrily.
His human partner was about to suggest something when pain began to rip through Bahamut's arm and roll down his right wing. Lash had made contact with her Nutcracker again. The wounded dragon simply bit down on his lip and dove blindly to the center of the dish to avoid any more shots. It was easy to hear her tear by on her skates and then spin around, ready to come back for more.
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Lash skid alongside the circumference of the dish knowing that her target was lying in the middle with a busted wing and who knows what else. She smiled when thinking about her gun. The Nutcracker was a messy weapon, not at all one to be used if you were concentrating on accuracy. Giddily she began to circle the center and fired into the darkness ready to hear more roars of pain from her dragon pet. But it didn't come, and all she heard was the sound of metal being punctured. She skated to the center to see her dragon had disappeared.
"Hey! Mr. Dragon! Where'd you go? We just started!"
There was no response as the rain began to let up and the view became clearer. But then she heard a metal clank and looked upward to see Glenn climbing one of the metal arms, heading toward Leviathan.
"No no no no!" She whined. "You can't change to your human partner! That's not fair!"
"So sue me!" Glenn yelled back and continued to climb.
"What are you trying to do? I got locks on the locks up there! You're wasting my time!"
Lash paused and got an evil grin and took out a radio. The helicopter stopped circling the dish and began to descend. In the storm, it took a while to level out to the height Glenn was at and it soon began to circle inward, generating quite a whirlwind. But Glenn still made it to Leviathan and began to yank on the chains as if trying to loosen them. That's when he noticed the copter begin to lean forward with it's blades ready to chop whatever got in it's way.
"That's right! Tee hee hee! Chop him in two! Two for one!" Lash chanted while watching on the ground. "Slice and diced dragon! Mmmmm! My favorite!"
The sound of the swirling blades were unbearable as they closed in on Glenn.
Now! Bahamut shouted.
Glenn soon let go and the copter blades missed him. They kept going forward until they sliced right through a section of the chains holding Leviathan. When that happened, the copter jerked back just as quickly as it had jerked forward and soon it began to lose altitude. Meanwhile, Glenn had transformed back into Bahamut and his dragon partner simply glided back down to the dish. Lash quickly lost her simile in seconds as the chain began to unwind and lowered Leviathan from the antenna.
"No... no..." Lash pouted. "NO NO NO NO!!!!"
In a rage she raised her Nutcracker and held the trigger down until the clip was empty. Bahamut quickly grabbed the unconscious Leviathan and rolled out of the way as the area was shelled with lead. The kickback of the gun forced Lash to roll backwards on her skates and soon she shot herself right off the edge of the dish.
"AAAIIIEEE!!!!"
Her shout echoed into the darkness until silence descended upon the dish. Bahamut got up and walked to the edge Lash had fallen off of.
"Damn... I wanted to kill her..." He muttered.
Just be happy she's gone. Glenn sighed. I don't think I've met anyone so...
A screech of jets soon filled the air as a Black Hole harrier rose up with Lash clinging on the back of it. Her face was filled with anger and she shook her fist at them. There was some insults coming out her mouth, but the roaring jet engines drowned them out. It was a tense pause before the harrier pulled back and began to fly off.
"You have to be kidding me!" Bahamut roared. "I'm gonna..."
Forget about Lash! They're going to blow this base to kingdom come! Just get Leviathan and get us out of here so we can tell the others.
"Hm... right." The dragon admitted weakly while looking off into the distance.
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On the ground Flak's tanks were no longer invisible having exhausted the cloaking time in each device. But they had gotten what they needed from those moments invisible and had effectively surrounded the three GFs. Phoenix, Unicorn and Valefor were all breathing heavily and gazing upon the tanks around them in disbelief.
"I don't... believe this... They just keep coming..." Phoenix choked out.
"Did they have this many when we started fighting?" Unicorn wondered aloud. "It didn't seem... I couldn't tell..."
"Fa lyh'd keja ib!" Valefor cried.
Valefor says you guys can't give up! What about Bahamut and Leviathan? Cecil reminded them. I know you're tired... but... we can't...
They just... outlasted us... Ashley admitted silently.
The tanks shuttered as they prepared to open fire and Flak began to step forward with two soldiers at his side. There was a sickening grin upon his face as he could hardly contain his excitement.
"Ha! How'd you like that? That's Flak power!" He bellowed. "You crummy things are a handful, almost as tough as that Kanbei guy. But not tough enough! Alright, kill em'!"
Unicorn stepped forward and began to chant something as the tanks took a momentary pause to brace themselves for such a barrage. When they did open fire, the faceplates on Flak's soldiers wobbled as the boom could be heard miles away. Flak didn't move an inch as his eyes were concentrated on dead center, which was now a mix of smoke, fire and explosions.
"Yeah! Yeah! Hell yeah!" Flak chanted. "Shows who's the boss of Wars World! Black Hole is! Not no one nor no body who's gonna- HUH!"
When the smoke cleared, Unicorn had her horn into the air and soon collapsed. Most of the tank rounds had been deflected by the Barrier magic, but she was too weak to stop it all and some got through. The GFs had survived, but they looked even more worse for wear than before.
Unicorn! Cecil yelled out. Is she?
"She's just..." Phoenix tried to answer.
Flak cracked a smile.
"Alright! It's a double feature! Shoot em' again! They ain't going nowhere!"
"Flak sir, forgive my interruption." One solider cut in. "But the bombing. Green Earth has dispatched a rather large strike squad to decimate the facility. Perhaps we should leave the creatures to die from their hands."
Flak slowly turned around and balled his fists as if barely containing himself.
"You know what worm? I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear nothin' from your snout! I kill them! Me! No one else! You got me worm? You reading my lips? Sides', I gots a T Copter waiting to take off at a moments notice!"
The soldier straightened up and nodded firmly.
"Alright, now where were we?"
"I believe it's the part where you die." A voice growled.
Flak had turned around to yell at his soldiers but soon realized that wasn't where the voice came from. Instead he looked past where the GFs were cornered to see who more approach his tanks. Leviathan and Bahamut. This caused the lumbering Black Hole CO to take a couple steps backward.
"Hey, I thought Lash was supposed to..."
"Lash just checked out!" Leviathan interrupted.
"Uh... the plan said I was only supposed to deal with three of these things... Hey, we got any more tanks?"
The soldiers exchanged nervous glances as if trying to find out who would be the one to tell Flak the bad news. Flak let out a cuss and began to run as his tanks slowly spun around to target the new arrivals. Phoenix and Valefor took this distraction to grab onto Unicorn and fly out of the way. Once they were clear, Leviathan had summoned a monumental tidal wave that had immediately begun to sweep away the tanks. They were rolled, tossed, flipped and smashed together until there was nothing left.
Flak and the two soldiers made a mad dash to the T. Copter that was standing by. Bahamut and Leviathan gave chase across the asphalt field. When the soldiers turned to open fire, they were cut down instantly. But it had bought the opportunity for Flak to escape as he neared his copter, but a rocket dropped from the sky and blew it to pieces. Flak looked around confused as Yellow Comet helicopters sped by and recons and tanks began to approach.
This moment of hesitation allowed Bahamut to tackle the large man and drive him to the ground. There wasn't any expression on Flak's face as Bahamut had his claws up in the air and ready to plunge down into him. The snarl upon Bahamut's face promised a great deal of suffering.
"Bahamut! Don't!" A familiar voice shouted.
The dragon vaguely looked up to see Sonja leap out one of the jeeps.
Bahamut take a deep breath! Just hold on! Glenn wasn't ready to watch someone to get torn apart.
"All of you shut up!" Bahamut growled.
"Flak is your way home!" Sonja tried again. "You don't want to kill him!"
"Right, I'll just let him go like Lash so he can attack again. How does that sound?"
By now the other GFs had gathered behind him simply watching carefully.
"Just... drop him... Bahamut." Phoenix told him slowly. "I don't want to be stuck here forever."
Eventually Flak slowly slipped from Bahamut's claws to the ground where he promptly began to crawl away into the waiting arms of two Yellow Comet soldiers. Soon, the GFs slowly shifted back to their human forms after an exhausting day of fighting. Brad and Ashley helped an unconscious Aldrea over to where Sonja stood.
"Sonja, what are you doing here?" Glenn asked. "Isn't this Green Earth?"
"My father helped Green Earth out of a pinch, and they owed us. I managed to delay Eagle's bombing run... but he won't wait long."
"You were saying something about a way home?" Ashley asked expectantly.
"Yes of course. I just have to make a couple calls first." Sonja smiled while looking toward Flak.
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It was now a week after the dish assault. Green Earth had bombed the facility back to the foundation it was built on, so now the only trace of the GFs was in their human partners. Glenn, Brad, Ashley, Aldrea, and Cecil were all riding in a Yellow Comet Copter towards a decided destination on the southern most shore of the Black Hole territory. Sonja was sitting in it as well. Further down was Flak, chained nearly as much as someone can be chained and four soldiers watching him.
"Are you sure about this Sonja?" Aldrea spoke up nervously. "You said we're going to Black Hole's continent?"
"Technically it's Macro Land, Black Hole merely crushed all resistance and took it over. But yes, I'm quite sure we'll be fine. So long as we have Flak here."
Flak himself had said nothing and simply kept his vision forward like he was preparing for something. Outside was a number of Yellow Comet fighters, odd looking jets that kept in a tight formation as they approached the area which was darkened on the map. There was a number of cruisers and battleships floating around, but they seemed more abandoned than ready to open fire at a moments notice. Soon they were flying over the coast to a base with a landing pad.
Everyone but Flak and Sonja gazed out the windows to see the multitude of Black Hole infantry on the ground. But they looked different than most. Their suit looked more gray than normal soldiers they had encountered, almost silver. As the copter got lower, they could make out more things, such as the portal Glenn had noticed earlier on the blueprint. By then, the copter had set down.
"Alright, let me go out first." Sonja told them. "You can all step out after Flak gets out."
The five nodded and simply waited as Sonja and Flak piled out. Now they could see the soldiers lined up on the path leading to the gate almost like it was a ceremony of some sort. Their gun arms were pointed downwards, and they seemed more like statues than soldiers. Flak was making whining sounds and kept his head low as the five stepped in front of him and looked around. With a sudden clap, the Black Hole soldiers all turned at once towards the portal as someone began to approach.
The figure wore a long purple cloak where you could almost see some sort of armor underneath. It was hard to tell if the bronze colored face was a mask or not. It looked partly mechanical and partly organic at the same time. There was a snout which resembled the grill of a semi truck. Two snaking tubes connected to this snout and disappeared somewhere behind the back. The generals cap the figure wore cast a shadow over the two eerie teal eyes.
"Sturm." Sonja began loudly. "I think we have something that belongs to you."
Flak was reluctantly pushed forward by the four soldiers.
"Flak..." Sturm began with a red cloud of smoke escaping from his snout. "You wholly disappoint me. You insolent little cur. And now you stand captured before me? How dare you."
Sturm's voice was chillingly clear and intelligent.
"Yeah... I'm really... uh... boss..." Flak stuttered.
"Quiet! There will be plenty of talking once you are back in my hands. Now, our terms stated you wanted these five to be returned to their world. Very well. They mean nothing to me, only a project that belongs to one of my underlings."
There was a flash and a hissing noise as the portal soon began to open up to reveal a picture of some other world. The lights were all at their brightest point and looked like they would short out at any moment. Sturm took a step to the side and allowed a clear shot to the portal. But Glenn and the others didn't move.
"No." Glenn started. "You're going to open fire the minute we step through aren't you?"
Sturm tilted his head and then began to laugh maniacally. Smoke shot from his snout like the exhaust of a car. He soon began to train his vision on Glenn with a cold lifeless stare.
"You foolish worm. You should think to yourself. Why does it matter if she dies now or later, when the outcome will be the same either way? She cannot escape the fate I have given her, the fate I have given her country and ultimately Wars World itself."
There was a long silence between them.
"Yeah, right." Glenn scoffed. "You make it sound like you've already won."
"We've heard someone who sounded a lot like you." Ashley added.
"He eventually got what was coming to him." Brad agreed.
"It'll happen to you." Aldrea continued.
"Because you're no exception." Cecil finished.
They all nodded and began to approach the portal, walking down the row of soldiers. Sonja's heart began to pound as they passed by Sturm. They paused at the portal and looked back towards Sonja. She waved back at them and soon ordered her soldiers to let go of Flak. The massive man fell forward and was soon picked up by a trio of Sturm's soldiers before being lugged away.
"Your time will come, worms." Sturm vowed. "I will not be content with Wars World for long. Now, leave."
Sonja got back into her copter and lifted off as Brad and Aldrea stepped through. Cecil was next and finally Ashley and Glenn. There was a pause before the lights on the portal shut off, and the image of the world disappeared in a flash. Sturm simply stood there watching as the Yellow Comet forces disappeared in the horizon.
"Make sure we never visit that world again. At least until we are done here." Sturm ordered.
-The End
--Party! Woo! And all that stuff...
Author Closing Comments:
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Wow, it's done! All that writing and I got it done. Just has that sense of accomplishment with it. I want to thank Gregory Stephen/nightdragon0 one last time for letting me take a chance with his excellent characters. Also anyone who took a chance reading a story with Final Fantasy and Advance Wars stuff. Thanks for reading, also, thanks for any feedback you might have given me or gave me.
Oh yeah, here's my little guide for Black Portal. Where Black Hole stole all their stuff, how many did you catch? Oh yeah, this is a correction. I actually miscounted my chapters.
Guardian Forces (All Chapters): Final Fantasy
Nutcracker's Rail Gun Technology (Chapters 2, 3, 7, 10, 11): Metal Gear Solid
Energy Siphoner(Chapter 7, 10): Star Fox 64 - Think of the Meteo Crusher
Half Pipe Bridge (Chapter 8): F-Zero GX
Cloaking Device (Chapters 9-10): Perfect Dark
-Advance Wars 2
--Project Black Portal
---Chapter 11: Going, Going, Gone...
Bahamut! Look out!
Glenn's warning came just in time as a bullet whizzed by Bahamut's head. Lash's Nutcracker had been set to full auto and spat out a barrage of bullets. Lash's size made sure that bullets went everywhere as she could hardly keep control of the gun. The arms of the dish provided no cover as Bahamut ducked behind them, because the high velocity rounds would tear right through the metal and then into his body, carving clean holes through and through.
"Hey! My arm is getting tired! Stay still and get dead!" Lash whined.
In reply, Bahamut spewed forth a blast of fire which shot out in Lash's direction. She easily glided out of the way with her inline skates and fired back.
"Tee hee hee! I wish I had played with you sooner! This is fun!"
It seemed at that point Bahamut registered how hard the rain was coming down. His vision was limited to a couple of feet, and it was easy to lose track of Lash in the distance. She would disappear, and then the click clacking of her skates would signal another burst of bullets from the Nutcracker. Blindly, Bahamut spat another burst of flame but could tell he had missed by Lash's insane giggling.
"Dammit! She's too @#$% fast! And too @#$% small!" Bahamut hissed angrily.
His human partner was about to suggest something when pain began to rip through Bahamut's arm and roll down his right wing. Lash had made contact with her Nutcracker again. The wounded dragon simply bit down on his lip and dove blindly to the center of the dish to avoid any more shots. It was easy to hear her tear by on her skates and then spin around, ready to come back for more.
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Lash skid alongside the circumference of the dish knowing that her target was lying in the middle with a busted wing and who knows what else. She smiled when thinking about her gun. The Nutcracker was a messy weapon, not at all one to be used if you were concentrating on accuracy. Giddily she began to circle the center and fired into the darkness ready to hear more roars of pain from her dragon pet. But it didn't come, and all she heard was the sound of metal being punctured. She skated to the center to see her dragon had disappeared.
"Hey! Mr. Dragon! Where'd you go? We just started!"
There was no response as the rain began to let up and the view became clearer. But then she heard a metal clank and looked upward to see Glenn climbing one of the metal arms, heading toward Leviathan.
"No no no no!" She whined. "You can't change to your human partner! That's not fair!"
"So sue me!" Glenn yelled back and continued to climb.
"What are you trying to do? I got locks on the locks up there! You're wasting my time!"
Lash paused and got an evil grin and took out a radio. The helicopter stopped circling the dish and began to descend. In the storm, it took a while to level out to the height Glenn was at and it soon began to circle inward, generating quite a whirlwind. But Glenn still made it to Leviathan and began to yank on the chains as if trying to loosen them. That's when he noticed the copter begin to lean forward with it's blades ready to chop whatever got in it's way.
"That's right! Tee hee hee! Chop him in two! Two for one!" Lash chanted while watching on the ground. "Slice and diced dragon! Mmmmm! My favorite!"
The sound of the swirling blades were unbearable as they closed in on Glenn.
Now! Bahamut shouted.
Glenn soon let go and the copter blades missed him. They kept going forward until they sliced right through a section of the chains holding Leviathan. When that happened, the copter jerked back just as quickly as it had jerked forward and soon it began to lose altitude. Meanwhile, Glenn had transformed back into Bahamut and his dragon partner simply glided back down to the dish. Lash quickly lost her simile in seconds as the chain began to unwind and lowered Leviathan from the antenna.
"No... no..." Lash pouted. "NO NO NO NO!!!!"
In a rage she raised her Nutcracker and held the trigger down until the clip was empty. Bahamut quickly grabbed the unconscious Leviathan and rolled out of the way as the area was shelled with lead. The kickback of the gun forced Lash to roll backwards on her skates and soon she shot herself right off the edge of the dish.
"AAAIIIEEE!!!!"
Her shout echoed into the darkness until silence descended upon the dish. Bahamut got up and walked to the edge Lash had fallen off of.
"Damn... I wanted to kill her..." He muttered.
Just be happy she's gone. Glenn sighed. I don't think I've met anyone so...
A screech of jets soon filled the air as a Black Hole harrier rose up with Lash clinging on the back of it. Her face was filled with anger and she shook her fist at them. There was some insults coming out her mouth, but the roaring jet engines drowned them out. It was a tense pause before the harrier pulled back and began to fly off.
"You have to be kidding me!" Bahamut roared. "I'm gonna..."
Forget about Lash! They're going to blow this base to kingdom come! Just get Leviathan and get us out of here so we can tell the others.
"Hm... right." The dragon admitted weakly while looking off into the distance.
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On the ground Flak's tanks were no longer invisible having exhausted the cloaking time in each device. But they had gotten what they needed from those moments invisible and had effectively surrounded the three GFs. Phoenix, Unicorn and Valefor were all breathing heavily and gazing upon the tanks around them in disbelief.
"I don't... believe this... They just keep coming..." Phoenix choked out.
"Did they have this many when we started fighting?" Unicorn wondered aloud. "It didn't seem... I couldn't tell..."
"Fa lyh'd keja ib!" Valefor cried.
Valefor says you guys can't give up! What about Bahamut and Leviathan? Cecil reminded them. I know you're tired... but... we can't...
They just... outlasted us... Ashley admitted silently.
The tanks shuttered as they prepared to open fire and Flak began to step forward with two soldiers at his side. There was a sickening grin upon his face as he could hardly contain his excitement.
"Ha! How'd you like that? That's Flak power!" He bellowed. "You crummy things are a handful, almost as tough as that Kanbei guy. But not tough enough! Alright, kill em'!"
Unicorn stepped forward and began to chant something as the tanks took a momentary pause to brace themselves for such a barrage. When they did open fire, the faceplates on Flak's soldiers wobbled as the boom could be heard miles away. Flak didn't move an inch as his eyes were concentrated on dead center, which was now a mix of smoke, fire and explosions.
"Yeah! Yeah! Hell yeah!" Flak chanted. "Shows who's the boss of Wars World! Black Hole is! Not no one nor no body who's gonna- HUH!"
When the smoke cleared, Unicorn had her horn into the air and soon collapsed. Most of the tank rounds had been deflected by the Barrier magic, but she was too weak to stop it all and some got through. The GFs had survived, but they looked even more worse for wear than before.
Unicorn! Cecil yelled out. Is she?
"She's just..." Phoenix tried to answer.
Flak cracked a smile.
"Alright! It's a double feature! Shoot em' again! They ain't going nowhere!"
"Flak sir, forgive my interruption." One solider cut in. "But the bombing. Green Earth has dispatched a rather large strike squad to decimate the facility. Perhaps we should leave the creatures to die from their hands."
Flak slowly turned around and balled his fists as if barely containing himself.
"You know what worm? I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear nothin' from your snout! I kill them! Me! No one else! You got me worm? You reading my lips? Sides', I gots a T Copter waiting to take off at a moments notice!"
The soldier straightened up and nodded firmly.
"Alright, now where were we?"
"I believe it's the part where you die." A voice growled.
Flak had turned around to yell at his soldiers but soon realized that wasn't where the voice came from. Instead he looked past where the GFs were cornered to see who more approach his tanks. Leviathan and Bahamut. This caused the lumbering Black Hole CO to take a couple steps backward.
"Hey, I thought Lash was supposed to..."
"Lash just checked out!" Leviathan interrupted.
"Uh... the plan said I was only supposed to deal with three of these things... Hey, we got any more tanks?"
The soldiers exchanged nervous glances as if trying to find out who would be the one to tell Flak the bad news. Flak let out a cuss and began to run as his tanks slowly spun around to target the new arrivals. Phoenix and Valefor took this distraction to grab onto Unicorn and fly out of the way. Once they were clear, Leviathan had summoned a monumental tidal wave that had immediately begun to sweep away the tanks. They were rolled, tossed, flipped and smashed together until there was nothing left.
Flak and the two soldiers made a mad dash to the T. Copter that was standing by. Bahamut and Leviathan gave chase across the asphalt field. When the soldiers turned to open fire, they were cut down instantly. But it had bought the opportunity for Flak to escape as he neared his copter, but a rocket dropped from the sky and blew it to pieces. Flak looked around confused as Yellow Comet helicopters sped by and recons and tanks began to approach.
This moment of hesitation allowed Bahamut to tackle the large man and drive him to the ground. There wasn't any expression on Flak's face as Bahamut had his claws up in the air and ready to plunge down into him. The snarl upon Bahamut's face promised a great deal of suffering.
"Bahamut! Don't!" A familiar voice shouted.
The dragon vaguely looked up to see Sonja leap out one of the jeeps.
Bahamut take a deep breath! Just hold on! Glenn wasn't ready to watch someone to get torn apart.
"All of you shut up!" Bahamut growled.
"Flak is your way home!" Sonja tried again. "You don't want to kill him!"
"Right, I'll just let him go like Lash so he can attack again. How does that sound?"
By now the other GFs had gathered behind him simply watching carefully.
"Just... drop him... Bahamut." Phoenix told him slowly. "I don't want to be stuck here forever."
Eventually Flak slowly slipped from Bahamut's claws to the ground where he promptly began to crawl away into the waiting arms of two Yellow Comet soldiers. Soon, the GFs slowly shifted back to their human forms after an exhausting day of fighting. Brad and Ashley helped an unconscious Aldrea over to where Sonja stood.
"Sonja, what are you doing here?" Glenn asked. "Isn't this Green Earth?"
"My father helped Green Earth out of a pinch, and they owed us. I managed to delay Eagle's bombing run... but he won't wait long."
"You were saying something about a way home?" Ashley asked expectantly.
"Yes of course. I just have to make a couple calls first." Sonja smiled while looking toward Flak.
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It was now a week after the dish assault. Green Earth had bombed the facility back to the foundation it was built on, so now the only trace of the GFs was in their human partners. Glenn, Brad, Ashley, Aldrea, and Cecil were all riding in a Yellow Comet Copter towards a decided destination on the southern most shore of the Black Hole territory. Sonja was sitting in it as well. Further down was Flak, chained nearly as much as someone can be chained and four soldiers watching him.
"Are you sure about this Sonja?" Aldrea spoke up nervously. "You said we're going to Black Hole's continent?"
"Technically it's Macro Land, Black Hole merely crushed all resistance and took it over. But yes, I'm quite sure we'll be fine. So long as we have Flak here."
Flak himself had said nothing and simply kept his vision forward like he was preparing for something. Outside was a number of Yellow Comet fighters, odd looking jets that kept in a tight formation as they approached the area which was darkened on the map. There was a number of cruisers and battleships floating around, but they seemed more abandoned than ready to open fire at a moments notice. Soon they were flying over the coast to a base with a landing pad.
Everyone but Flak and Sonja gazed out the windows to see the multitude of Black Hole infantry on the ground. But they looked different than most. Their suit looked more gray than normal soldiers they had encountered, almost silver. As the copter got lower, they could make out more things, such as the portal Glenn had noticed earlier on the blueprint. By then, the copter had set down.
"Alright, let me go out first." Sonja told them. "You can all step out after Flak gets out."
The five nodded and simply waited as Sonja and Flak piled out. Now they could see the soldiers lined up on the path leading to the gate almost like it was a ceremony of some sort. Their gun arms were pointed downwards, and they seemed more like statues than soldiers. Flak was making whining sounds and kept his head low as the five stepped in front of him and looked around. With a sudden clap, the Black Hole soldiers all turned at once towards the portal as someone began to approach.
The figure wore a long purple cloak where you could almost see some sort of armor underneath. It was hard to tell if the bronze colored face was a mask or not. It looked partly mechanical and partly organic at the same time. There was a snout which resembled the grill of a semi truck. Two snaking tubes connected to this snout and disappeared somewhere behind the back. The generals cap the figure wore cast a shadow over the two eerie teal eyes.
"Sturm." Sonja began loudly. "I think we have something that belongs to you."
Flak was reluctantly pushed forward by the four soldiers.
"Flak..." Sturm began with a red cloud of smoke escaping from his snout. "You wholly disappoint me. You insolent little cur. And now you stand captured before me? How dare you."
Sturm's voice was chillingly clear and intelligent.
"Yeah... I'm really... uh... boss..." Flak stuttered.
"Quiet! There will be plenty of talking once you are back in my hands. Now, our terms stated you wanted these five to be returned to their world. Very well. They mean nothing to me, only a project that belongs to one of my underlings."
There was a flash and a hissing noise as the portal soon began to open up to reveal a picture of some other world. The lights were all at their brightest point and looked like they would short out at any moment. Sturm took a step to the side and allowed a clear shot to the portal. But Glenn and the others didn't move.
"No." Glenn started. "You're going to open fire the minute we step through aren't you?"
Sturm tilted his head and then began to laugh maniacally. Smoke shot from his snout like the exhaust of a car. He soon began to train his vision on Glenn with a cold lifeless stare.
"You foolish worm. You should think to yourself. Why does it matter if she dies now or later, when the outcome will be the same either way? She cannot escape the fate I have given her, the fate I have given her country and ultimately Wars World itself."
There was a long silence between them.
"Yeah, right." Glenn scoffed. "You make it sound like you've already won."
"We've heard someone who sounded a lot like you." Ashley added.
"He eventually got what was coming to him." Brad agreed.
"It'll happen to you." Aldrea continued.
"Because you're no exception." Cecil finished.
They all nodded and began to approach the portal, walking down the row of soldiers. Sonja's heart began to pound as they passed by Sturm. They paused at the portal and looked back towards Sonja. She waved back at them and soon ordered her soldiers to let go of Flak. The massive man fell forward and was soon picked up by a trio of Sturm's soldiers before being lugged away.
"Your time will come, worms." Sturm vowed. "I will not be content with Wars World for long. Now, leave."
Sonja got back into her copter and lifted off as Brad and Aldrea stepped through. Cecil was next and finally Ashley and Glenn. There was a pause before the lights on the portal shut off, and the image of the world disappeared in a flash. Sturm simply stood there watching as the Yellow Comet forces disappeared in the horizon.
"Make sure we never visit that world again. At least until we are done here." Sturm ordered.
-The End
--Party! Woo! And all that stuff...
Author Closing Comments:
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Wow, it's done! All that writing and I got it done. Just has that sense of accomplishment with it. I want to thank Gregory Stephen/nightdragon0 one last time for letting me take a chance with his excellent characters. Also anyone who took a chance reading a story with Final Fantasy and Advance Wars stuff. Thanks for reading, also, thanks for any feedback you might have given me or gave me.
Oh yeah, here's my little guide for Black Portal. Where Black Hole stole all their stuff, how many did you catch? Oh yeah, this is a correction. I actually miscounted my chapters.
Guardian Forces (All Chapters): Final Fantasy
Nutcracker's Rail Gun Technology (Chapters 2, 3, 7, 10, 11): Metal Gear Solid
Energy Siphoner(Chapter 7, 10): Star Fox 64 - Think of the Meteo Crusher
Half Pipe Bridge (Chapter 8): F-Zero GX
Cloaking Device (Chapters 9-10): Perfect Dark