Escape from the Devil? The sand storm continued to get closer and closer to the people as they were helplessly trapped in by the fire. Archangel rushes back out of the fire looking for Marlene not taking to much notice to any other person on fire. Then all of a sudden bullet starts to wises by him. " Damn it. these guys aren't idiots." He ducks in hopes that it will help to keep the bullets from hitting them. People start to fall over as he continues to look for Marlene. " They are killing so many people.. what is it you want me to do Vash?"
Marlene stares at the fire while it is only a few feet away. She was standing right next to it when it went off. She hears manifesto start to yell to her. She turns to look at him. "Are you ok?" rodreuguies laughs." Hey I thought I was expose to say that. Of course I am ok. I just had a bullet graze me that is all." she smiles at him and is thankful for that. " So are you ok then? Are you on fire?" she laughs a little and then hears a sound in the fire of a woman being shot. " Umm I am ok. just was surprised that's all." Then archangel runs out of the flames with his coat half melted on to him. " We got to get the people over that dune!" Manifesto and angel look up at him and wonders why he is not in severe pain. " Come on! We wait any longer and we are all going to be dead!" Archangel starts to run off. " Hey! That dune is the only thing that is gonna keep the sandstorm from swallowing us up!" "You can ever survive the storm or die by the flames of lead! And besides if we die by the storm at least they will never get the money." Angel and manifesto agree with him as they start to get people to go up the sand dune. Many people followed the three of them up the hill, some didn't follow. They were never found again.
Archangel, angel, and manifesto get over the top of the hill as they look outwards to see the giant typhoon spinning franticly. The size of it alone put them in awe. " We got to find a way to hold us down otherwise we are gonna be worse off then in the flames." " What!?! I thought you had a plan!" manifesto said knocking on archangel's head. " I will it's just that I have a hard time thinking when bullets are flying by and people keep hitting me." Manifesto takes his hand off of archangel and gives a simple "oh". Archangel started to think as more and more people started to flow over the hill. Manifesto and angel stares at archangel in hopes that he might come up with a plan soon. " Ok I got nothing." They both fall over in disappointment. " What do you mean you got nothing? We got people that are gonna die if you don't come up with something!" " The only thing I got is that we wait it out here and hope the bandits leave so that we can go back down the dune." " And what if they don't leave! We are all going to end up buried in a pile of sand!" " then I guess we are just going to have to go and get them to leave.." " Wait I'll help." " Don't bother you can't stand the flames like I can." " Don't need to I just have to get a hundred meters close to them and my guns will do the rest." " You wont be able to see through the flames." " That is why angel here will help give me coordinates of where to shoot." " Make it work."
Archangel and manifesto start to slide down the hill as angel holds up a walkie-talkie and a pair of binoculars. They reach the base of the hill and archangel keeps running into the fire and manifesto takes out his gun and turns on the power to his gun that lies at the top of the hill. The fire is so bright that archangel has to squint just to see where he is going. The bandits who have been done shooting for some time now. Start to notice a shadow in the flames. One of them alerts the boss of it and they all get there guns ready to fire again. They stand there waiting for the image to make its human form as they continue to point their guns at it. Archangel takes no time for them to react as he starts to fire at them while they still can't make out his appearance. Two of the bandits are actually taken down by archangel random shooting. That leaves only four left including the boss. Archangel finally gets out of the fire while he is put at gunpoint by the rest of the bandits. His coat totally destroyed beyond repair. And his only friend at the moment his gun. "Very brave demon, but for what? To be shot down at this very moment?" archangel smiles" don't worry I wouldn't be much of a good leader if I didn't have such a good plan I don't need another." the bandit looks at him a little puzzled, but are stopped from figuring out what he meant by a bombarding of shells. Archangel can hear manifesto on the other side of the fire yelling and laughing as he fires off on the bandits. " Gees this is easy we will get these bandits out of this place before Archangel is even going to get to them." " Watch out! Your nearly hitting Archangel!" Manifesto stops shooting but is to late before he lets off one more round. The blast hits the side of archangel tosses him down to the ground. " You hit him! He down! You gotta keep the bandits from hitting him!" Rodriguez winces as he yells at her." Well give me the coordinates already!" angel looks down for a second and then lefts her head back up and starts to instruct manifesto where to aim.
Archangel slowly starts to get up from the ground. He can't hear anything.his eardrums screaming as fire and lead burn by him. He looks over at the bandits who in fear of the shots manifesto is giving off. He feels so tired like all that is left for him to do is to sleep. He turns to look at the fire as blazes out of control. Then from the fires comes the figure of Vash. His pupils grow small as he stares into the fire. He reaches in there as if to grab hold of him, but pulls back nothing. He starts to walk into the fire stumbling a little here and there. Angel sees him leave into the fire. " There is something wrong. Archangel has left the bandits he is in the fire." Manifesto nods as he starts to shoot off more rounds at the bandits. Archangel continues to walk towards the shadow. He would get so close to it and then the shadow would disappear and another one would show up in a different direction farther away. " Vash. I need your help." he hears the echoing voice coming from the shadow. "Come on friend just a little closer.all our friends are waiting for you to show up. And wolfwood wants to meet you too." Archangel repeats wolfwood's name as he hears it. He continues to walk to the shadow. Suddenly the shadow changes it form as it starts to laugh franticly. The shadow turns into a figure of Knives. " Now lets kill them all brother!" Archangel pulls away from him. " You. I wont listen to you anymore!" archangel takes his gun and starts to fire at the shadow and empty his gun at it.
Manifesto starts to hear gunshots and wonders if the bandits are firing back. Suddenly manifesto is shot in the chest as he falls backwards. Angel goes into a panic as she sees that now manifesto is down as well. She starts to scream over the walkie-talkie, asking if he is all right if he can get up. He gives no response as starts to fade away to nothing. The bandits' starts to fire into the fire in hopes of getting rid off all these annoyances they have been getting.
Archangel stands there. The shadow gone now. The fire still burning, but he knew what he had done. He had shot Rodriguez. He shot him, and he killed him. His anger started to take over him. He knew the conciqunses for doing such things, but he didn't care anymore. To many have died, and he is not going to play around there deaths anymore. It is time for the bandits to die.. Archangel lifts up his gun and begins to activate the angel arm. He keeps the angel arm from going to its full phase and leaves it on one of its simpler forms. The gun glows brightly as it begins to gather the energy needed for the attack. The bandits and angel begin to see the glow of light coming from the fire as they begin to wonder what it is. The fire parts in front of archangel as they see their deaths lay before them. The boss begins to think to himself. " This can't be happening. this isn't possible! You're not human. You're a monster. You are.." The boss begins to yell out " the devil!" As archangel fires the angel arm. Angel can't see what is going on for the fire actually is burning brighter behind archangel. The blast starts to a hole in a dune hill right behind them. The hill begins to collapse as it falls on them burying them alive.
After a while archangel comes out of the fire. With what is left of any of the clothes that he was wearing. The people already at the bottom of the hill staring at the sandstorm as angel holds manifesto's dead body. Archangel looks down at angel, but doesn't say anything. The people of the town worked through the night to make a burial for manifesto. When morning came archangel looked to see angel still by his grave. He doesn't say anything as he starts to travel out of the town. "Archangel?" He turns around to look at her. " You haven't visited manifesto and your leaving now?" " There is no point to visiting him. There is nothing past death.. And besides if there is a heaven my presence to him would probably cause him to come back to the dead just to annoy me." Angel tries to smile from that. Archangel starts to travel away again as angel starts to follow him. " What do you want?" " I am going with you." " Haven't you lost enough already?" " Rodriguez would of wanted me to continue, he would of wanted me to finish this adventure." " Fine by me, but don't think that I can save you ever time just because there is only two of us now." Angel smiles and keeps following him.

Preview: (archangel) the merchants and the wander decided to travel together even longer then expected as they started to form a union. Until one day the wander found what he was looking for. He turned to the merchants and yelled out to them. " This is what I have been looking for! This is my false god! This is my saint."