BlackRoseApocalyps: Now that you mention it, it is kind of poetic
justice isn't it? Yes Shadow will join up, but Mayhem will unleash a
major butt kicking in this chapter.
CHAPTER 9: THE RESCUE
Vince went to his closest and pulled out the clothing he would need. He wore a black T-Shirt with dark jeans. There was also a long black leather coat he put on and a special attachment to his belt to attach the sword to.
The coat would help hide the sword since the police would get suspicious of a guy who had a sword strapped to his waist. He put on some biker gloves and took one last item out. It was a piece of black cloth with his clan symbol on the center of it all in red. He brought it to his head and bowed slightly. He repeated the words of his clan that they all said before going into battle.
"Grant me the courage to face my enemy, grant me the wisdom to fight my enemy, grant me the strength to defeat my enemy, grant me the chance to die with honor." He said in Japanese. Then he put on the headband tightly on his head. On his way out he picked up his keys to his bike and headed down stairs.
He saw that Liz had come back and had put Benny's arm in a sling and he was out. Most likely she gave him something for the pain while she reset his arm. She saw him and moved to him. "Vince what are you up to?" She asked worried. She attempted to touch him but he pulled back.
Vince knew that she was trying to 'read' him with her powers since she needed to touch to do that. "You really don't want to know." He said coldly. She was taken aback by his tone. She had never seen him like this and it was kind of scary. "I'm going for Benny. Liz I want you to get everything ready, we may have to abandon this place I think they knew about us, how else did they know Rick had the X-gene?"
Liz thought about it. "But how? Unless a safe house was taken and they got the files but I haven't heard of anything...unless..." She trailed off at one very disturbing thought.
"The Underground might have a traitor." Vince finished for her.
He continued on when Shadow stood in his way. "I'm going with you. You need someone to watch your back and do you think you can just walk right into a base and walk out with Rick and defend him all at the same time?"
Vincent thought about it, Shadow seemed determined to go and he knew he would just follow him anyway. "Fine gets your bike."
Mary had watched this in silence. "Vince...bring him back." Vincent eyes softened a little as he looked at her and nodded. Then he went into the garage. Mary went up to Shadow. "You make sure they come back...and you better get back too mister or I swear I'll kill you." She told him tears welling up in her eyes.
He hugged her close. "I will, and trust me I'll be back babe." She kissed him softly on the lips and he had to flash her his smile and went off to the garage. He saw Vincent had opened the garage door and was on his bike and Shadow got on his Vincent had to ask him.
"Why are you really doing this?"
Shadow snorted. "Am I that obvious?" He joked. Then his face got grim. "The last time I was on a mission like this a failed a good friend of mine. I never forgave myself for it. Maybe this is my way of redeeming myself, if we can get that kid out of that place then maybe I won't feel like I'm such a failure."
Vince nodded and put on a helmet and gunned his bike, Shadow followed suit and they both drove off into the afternoon sun. They drove for an hour until they came to the edge of the base. They stopped in the distance on an old road that no one used. Well they did noticed fresh tire tracks so they knew someone still used it, and they had a good idea who.
Vince pulled a pair of binoculars and looked at the sight. "Well what are we dealing with? Some rogue faction of the Canadian Forces, or something like Department H?"
"They're not Canadian." He said passing him the binoculars.
Shadow looked but couldn't see why. "How the hell can you tell?"
"Their equipment." He said simply, Shadow looked again while Vince continued to explain. "Those are P90's, the latest personal assault rifles, and those are Rancor Jackhammer shotguns. The Canadian forces don't use those, those are weapons made for and used by US Special forces."
"Ah Hell." Shadow said at the weapons. "You think they're Delta Force, or Seal Team 6 or something?"
"More like Black ops." Vincent said to him.
"Yeah...makes sense." Shadow said putting down the binoculars. "Which means these guys are purely trained killing machines...this should be fun." He said gravely.
"We'll wait for dark then you cut a hole in the fence and sneak into that building there." Vince told him pointing to a large building. "That's most likely where the C&C is, and I want you to try and find out where they're keeping him."
"And while I'm doing that what are you going to do?" He asked him.
"I'll go through the front and make sure they're too busy to notice you." He said darkly. Shadow wasn't sure but he knew it was going to be one hell of a show. He looked at the setting sun. In about an hour they would move, he just hoped the kid would hold out until then.
At night it began.
Two guards were just walking in front of the gatehouse they didn't know what was going to happen. One moment they heard a sound of an engine and saw in the distance a motorcycle driving towards them at high speed. Then a crimson light suddenly came at them and the gatehouse exploded on impact, the guards were thrown aside from the sock wave, and the bike and the rider sped by and into the facility.
Shadow watched the explosion from the other side of the compound. He saw searchlights and an alarm sound. He could see soldiers and vehicles start to mobilize. He formed a shadow blade and cut open the fence and made his way to the main building making sure to stay behind cover.
He also caught some of the action on the way to. He saw Vincent stop his bike and jump off it and landed several meters away and throws off the helmet before he landed. He saw the troops begin firing at him, but all it did was mess up his clothing with holes.
Then he really went into it. He was a blur of motion as he punched, kicked, and blasted his way through the troops. They were swatted aside like rag dolls, he saw soldiers fly into the air and many of them laying on the ground. Shadow wasn't sure whether they were dead or just knocked out, but personally he didn't care. As far as he was concerned these guys were getting what they deserved.
He made his way into the building. He could still hear the action outside and felt the ground shake. 'I have no idea what that was but I do know who caused it and that I really hope it was expensive.' Shadow thought with a grin.
He made his way and saw sighs on the wall, one of which said 'Command Center'. He couldn't help but smile. 'Got to love how the military makes this all so easy.' He thought and followed the way.
He heard a lot of footsteps coming and ducked into a closet, he kept the door slightly opened and saw a lot of troops in black combat gear run by. After he made sure they were gone he quickly made his way to the command canter.
He found a metallic door with the name 'command' on a small metallic sign next to it. He saw that there was a lock on the door that required a code to open it. "Damn it, it's never easy." He looked around then looked at the ceiling sighing. Then he noticed and air duct. "There's no way it can be that easy." He said.
In the Command Center a man with Colonel insignia on his shoulders on a green uniform. "What the hell is happening out there?" He yelled at the men manning the security consoles.
"I'm sorry sir but several of the cameras have been knocked out." A private said with an edge of fear in his voice.
There was constant chatter through the communications on all the open channels.
"This is Bravo Lead, we need more people out here this guy is-AHHH!"
"I just hit the guy with grenade how's he still standing?"
"Good God he just picked up that tank! LOOK OUT!" (A crash is heard)
"Sir it's like World War III out here!"
There were more shouting and yelling over all the chaos. The Colonel stood and watched what he could. "He's getting in." He said grimly.
"Sir shouldn't we call in all the field teams?" Someone asked him.
He looked at his subordinate. "We were just given the order to take all the mutants in the area in one strike, even if we fail here the others will complete their mission...besides do you really think they would get here in time?"
The man just gulped at the thought. Then there was a groaning sound and the ceiling fell in with some of the air ducts. As the dust settled Shadow crawled out and groaned. "That never happens in the movies." One of the men went for his gun, but Shadow threw a blade at his hand. "I wouldn't do that."
Then he turned to the man in charge. "Now you took a kid that belonged to my friend out there and he wants him back. Now you can either tell us, or he'll just rip this place and anyone that gets in his way. Your choice."
"You think I'll do have a mutie like you says?" The man said with pure hatred. Shadow just walked up to him and decked him onto the floor. He looked around and formed a very long and nasty looking blade. "So anyone else want to keep their mouth shut or do I have to 'convince' someone...please tell me I can start to try and 'convince' you lot."
OUTSIDE
Mayhem was just going on instinct right now. He didn't think just acted, he made his way into the main complex. Behind him were many craters, cracked and destroyed pavement, ruined and smoking vehicles and bodies all over the ground. Some were crawling away some just laid there.
He didn't pay them any more notice. They wouldn't be a threat so they weren't relevant, he just moved on. He came to a hall and found a group of soldiers with their weapons ready. "Drop your weapons and leave and I'll let you live." He said coldly to them. Those that could see his eyes saw the cold fire that burned in them and flinched.
They didn't run, but began to fire. "So be it." He said to himself. With his left hand he used this thumb to free the blade and took it with his right hand and unleashed it. He let out a mighty roar and charged forward. It was over in seconds.
He made his way down the halls and defeated any opposition. "Hey Mayhem." He heard Shadow's voice call to him over the PA system. "I managed to find out where Rick is, I'll tell you were to go."
It was easily enough to find the place and he found it sealed with a huge reinforced metal door. But that wouldn't stop him. The scientist inside were cowering at the reports they heard of the attack. Then the door to their lab started to groan. The bolts snapped off and flew off then the entire door was forced inward.
They all stared in silence at Vincent's form walk in still hold his sword. They all noticed the blood on the blade and on the man and what was left of his clothing. "Where's the boy?" He asked them his voice flat.
Vince looked around and saw all the kinds of equipment he'd seen in his worse nightmares. There were even tanks there and he saw a form in one of them. It was Rick. He was stripped down and had tubes going into him. He walked up to it and with a blur grabbed the nearest scientist by the throat. "Get him out of there or I will rip your heads off."
They didn't argue and did what they were told. The tank drained itself and as they opened it took out all of the tubes. "Are there any more?" He asked one of them.
"N-n-not anymore." One said. Vince's eyes narrowed and glared at the man. He didn't like the way that sounded. He noticed the man's eyes nervously flick to a door, and Vince put away the sword and picked Rick up and went to the door.
It was a simple double door that easily pushed open. He was immediately hit with a foul stench and then he saw them. The bodies. Men, woman, even children. All of them dead, some looking like autopsies were being done on them, others were missing parts and some were unrecognizable. He felt the bile rise to his throat but pushed it back into his stomach.
What he saw brought tears to his eyes. Then they started to glow and his face twisted in pure rage. He went back into the other room but found it empty. He let out a mighty blood thirsty roar in frustration at not being able to avenge those that had suffered.
Shadow had to tie up the rest of the command staff and went to join up with Vince. Then he stopped at a hall at what he saw. It was littered with bodies, some had burn marks, others had slash marks too, others were bent at odd angles that he knew no human body should bend.
"Damn." He silently swore to himself. "Now I really don't want to piss this guy off, I got off easy the first time." He moved down the halls seeing more evidence of his path. "At least this makes things easy."
He found him in the halls carrying Rick who was wrapped up in the tattered remains of his coat. "Good you got him, is there anyone else?"
Vince didn't say anything in face Shadow saw a faraway look in his eyes, but they soon returned to normal. "No." He said simply but by his town Shadow had a sinking feeling their used to be at one time, but not now.
They made their way out of the facility. With most of the troops taken care of it was a lot easier getting out then in. Vincent got to his bike forgetting his helmet and held Rick in his arms.
Rick moaned slightly and didn't look so good. He drove off with Shadow on his back then he let him off at his own bike and the two of them went off, leaving the smoking ruins of the base behind them as fires continued to burned.
They managed to get to the house but what they saw they didn't like. They stopped at the corner and not only was their own van still there, but they saw three black vans parked outside. "Mary and the others." Shadow said quietly.
Vincent pick up Rick and handed him to Shadow. "Look after him...I'm going to get the others. Stay here, if they're still there then I'll bring them back out."
"What if they're not?" He asked.
Vincent didn't answer him, he just started the bike and went to the house.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 10: FLIGHT
The last chapter is coming next.
CHAPTER 9: THE RESCUE
Vince went to his closest and pulled out the clothing he would need. He wore a black T-Shirt with dark jeans. There was also a long black leather coat he put on and a special attachment to his belt to attach the sword to.
The coat would help hide the sword since the police would get suspicious of a guy who had a sword strapped to his waist. He put on some biker gloves and took one last item out. It was a piece of black cloth with his clan symbol on the center of it all in red. He brought it to his head and bowed slightly. He repeated the words of his clan that they all said before going into battle.
"Grant me the courage to face my enemy, grant me the wisdom to fight my enemy, grant me the strength to defeat my enemy, grant me the chance to die with honor." He said in Japanese. Then he put on the headband tightly on his head. On his way out he picked up his keys to his bike and headed down stairs.
He saw that Liz had come back and had put Benny's arm in a sling and he was out. Most likely she gave him something for the pain while she reset his arm. She saw him and moved to him. "Vince what are you up to?" She asked worried. She attempted to touch him but he pulled back.
Vince knew that she was trying to 'read' him with her powers since she needed to touch to do that. "You really don't want to know." He said coldly. She was taken aback by his tone. She had never seen him like this and it was kind of scary. "I'm going for Benny. Liz I want you to get everything ready, we may have to abandon this place I think they knew about us, how else did they know Rick had the X-gene?"
Liz thought about it. "But how? Unless a safe house was taken and they got the files but I haven't heard of anything...unless..." She trailed off at one very disturbing thought.
"The Underground might have a traitor." Vince finished for her.
He continued on when Shadow stood in his way. "I'm going with you. You need someone to watch your back and do you think you can just walk right into a base and walk out with Rick and defend him all at the same time?"
Vincent thought about it, Shadow seemed determined to go and he knew he would just follow him anyway. "Fine gets your bike."
Mary had watched this in silence. "Vince...bring him back." Vincent eyes softened a little as he looked at her and nodded. Then he went into the garage. Mary went up to Shadow. "You make sure they come back...and you better get back too mister or I swear I'll kill you." She told him tears welling up in her eyes.
He hugged her close. "I will, and trust me I'll be back babe." She kissed him softly on the lips and he had to flash her his smile and went off to the garage. He saw Vincent had opened the garage door and was on his bike and Shadow got on his Vincent had to ask him.
"Why are you really doing this?"
Shadow snorted. "Am I that obvious?" He joked. Then his face got grim. "The last time I was on a mission like this a failed a good friend of mine. I never forgave myself for it. Maybe this is my way of redeeming myself, if we can get that kid out of that place then maybe I won't feel like I'm such a failure."
Vince nodded and put on a helmet and gunned his bike, Shadow followed suit and they both drove off into the afternoon sun. They drove for an hour until they came to the edge of the base. They stopped in the distance on an old road that no one used. Well they did noticed fresh tire tracks so they knew someone still used it, and they had a good idea who.
Vince pulled a pair of binoculars and looked at the sight. "Well what are we dealing with? Some rogue faction of the Canadian Forces, or something like Department H?"
"They're not Canadian." He said passing him the binoculars.
Shadow looked but couldn't see why. "How the hell can you tell?"
"Their equipment." He said simply, Shadow looked again while Vince continued to explain. "Those are P90's, the latest personal assault rifles, and those are Rancor Jackhammer shotguns. The Canadian forces don't use those, those are weapons made for and used by US Special forces."
"Ah Hell." Shadow said at the weapons. "You think they're Delta Force, or Seal Team 6 or something?"
"More like Black ops." Vincent said to him.
"Yeah...makes sense." Shadow said putting down the binoculars. "Which means these guys are purely trained killing machines...this should be fun." He said gravely.
"We'll wait for dark then you cut a hole in the fence and sneak into that building there." Vince told him pointing to a large building. "That's most likely where the C&C is, and I want you to try and find out where they're keeping him."
"And while I'm doing that what are you going to do?" He asked him.
"I'll go through the front and make sure they're too busy to notice you." He said darkly. Shadow wasn't sure but he knew it was going to be one hell of a show. He looked at the setting sun. In about an hour they would move, he just hoped the kid would hold out until then.
At night it began.
Two guards were just walking in front of the gatehouse they didn't know what was going to happen. One moment they heard a sound of an engine and saw in the distance a motorcycle driving towards them at high speed. Then a crimson light suddenly came at them and the gatehouse exploded on impact, the guards were thrown aside from the sock wave, and the bike and the rider sped by and into the facility.
Shadow watched the explosion from the other side of the compound. He saw searchlights and an alarm sound. He could see soldiers and vehicles start to mobilize. He formed a shadow blade and cut open the fence and made his way to the main building making sure to stay behind cover.
He also caught some of the action on the way to. He saw Vincent stop his bike and jump off it and landed several meters away and throws off the helmet before he landed. He saw the troops begin firing at him, but all it did was mess up his clothing with holes.
Then he really went into it. He was a blur of motion as he punched, kicked, and blasted his way through the troops. They were swatted aside like rag dolls, he saw soldiers fly into the air and many of them laying on the ground. Shadow wasn't sure whether they were dead or just knocked out, but personally he didn't care. As far as he was concerned these guys were getting what they deserved.
He made his way into the building. He could still hear the action outside and felt the ground shake. 'I have no idea what that was but I do know who caused it and that I really hope it was expensive.' Shadow thought with a grin.
He made his way and saw sighs on the wall, one of which said 'Command Center'. He couldn't help but smile. 'Got to love how the military makes this all so easy.' He thought and followed the way.
He heard a lot of footsteps coming and ducked into a closet, he kept the door slightly opened and saw a lot of troops in black combat gear run by. After he made sure they were gone he quickly made his way to the command canter.
He found a metallic door with the name 'command' on a small metallic sign next to it. He saw that there was a lock on the door that required a code to open it. "Damn it, it's never easy." He looked around then looked at the ceiling sighing. Then he noticed and air duct. "There's no way it can be that easy." He said.
In the Command Center a man with Colonel insignia on his shoulders on a green uniform. "What the hell is happening out there?" He yelled at the men manning the security consoles.
"I'm sorry sir but several of the cameras have been knocked out." A private said with an edge of fear in his voice.
There was constant chatter through the communications on all the open channels.
"This is Bravo Lead, we need more people out here this guy is-AHHH!"
"I just hit the guy with grenade how's he still standing?"
"Good God he just picked up that tank! LOOK OUT!" (A crash is heard)
"Sir it's like World War III out here!"
There were more shouting and yelling over all the chaos. The Colonel stood and watched what he could. "He's getting in." He said grimly.
"Sir shouldn't we call in all the field teams?" Someone asked him.
He looked at his subordinate. "We were just given the order to take all the mutants in the area in one strike, even if we fail here the others will complete their mission...besides do you really think they would get here in time?"
The man just gulped at the thought. Then there was a groaning sound and the ceiling fell in with some of the air ducts. As the dust settled Shadow crawled out and groaned. "That never happens in the movies." One of the men went for his gun, but Shadow threw a blade at his hand. "I wouldn't do that."
Then he turned to the man in charge. "Now you took a kid that belonged to my friend out there and he wants him back. Now you can either tell us, or he'll just rip this place and anyone that gets in his way. Your choice."
"You think I'll do have a mutie like you says?" The man said with pure hatred. Shadow just walked up to him and decked him onto the floor. He looked around and formed a very long and nasty looking blade. "So anyone else want to keep their mouth shut or do I have to 'convince' someone...please tell me I can start to try and 'convince' you lot."
OUTSIDE
Mayhem was just going on instinct right now. He didn't think just acted, he made his way into the main complex. Behind him were many craters, cracked and destroyed pavement, ruined and smoking vehicles and bodies all over the ground. Some were crawling away some just laid there.
He didn't pay them any more notice. They wouldn't be a threat so they weren't relevant, he just moved on. He came to a hall and found a group of soldiers with their weapons ready. "Drop your weapons and leave and I'll let you live." He said coldly to them. Those that could see his eyes saw the cold fire that burned in them and flinched.
They didn't run, but began to fire. "So be it." He said to himself. With his left hand he used this thumb to free the blade and took it with his right hand and unleashed it. He let out a mighty roar and charged forward. It was over in seconds.
He made his way down the halls and defeated any opposition. "Hey Mayhem." He heard Shadow's voice call to him over the PA system. "I managed to find out where Rick is, I'll tell you were to go."
It was easily enough to find the place and he found it sealed with a huge reinforced metal door. But that wouldn't stop him. The scientist inside were cowering at the reports they heard of the attack. Then the door to their lab started to groan. The bolts snapped off and flew off then the entire door was forced inward.
They all stared in silence at Vincent's form walk in still hold his sword. They all noticed the blood on the blade and on the man and what was left of his clothing. "Where's the boy?" He asked them his voice flat.
Vince looked around and saw all the kinds of equipment he'd seen in his worse nightmares. There were even tanks there and he saw a form in one of them. It was Rick. He was stripped down and had tubes going into him. He walked up to it and with a blur grabbed the nearest scientist by the throat. "Get him out of there or I will rip your heads off."
They didn't argue and did what they were told. The tank drained itself and as they opened it took out all of the tubes. "Are there any more?" He asked one of them.
"N-n-not anymore." One said. Vince's eyes narrowed and glared at the man. He didn't like the way that sounded. He noticed the man's eyes nervously flick to a door, and Vince put away the sword and picked Rick up and went to the door.
It was a simple double door that easily pushed open. He was immediately hit with a foul stench and then he saw them. The bodies. Men, woman, even children. All of them dead, some looking like autopsies were being done on them, others were missing parts and some were unrecognizable. He felt the bile rise to his throat but pushed it back into his stomach.
What he saw brought tears to his eyes. Then they started to glow and his face twisted in pure rage. He went back into the other room but found it empty. He let out a mighty blood thirsty roar in frustration at not being able to avenge those that had suffered.
Shadow had to tie up the rest of the command staff and went to join up with Vince. Then he stopped at a hall at what he saw. It was littered with bodies, some had burn marks, others had slash marks too, others were bent at odd angles that he knew no human body should bend.
"Damn." He silently swore to himself. "Now I really don't want to piss this guy off, I got off easy the first time." He moved down the halls seeing more evidence of his path. "At least this makes things easy."
He found him in the halls carrying Rick who was wrapped up in the tattered remains of his coat. "Good you got him, is there anyone else?"
Vince didn't say anything in face Shadow saw a faraway look in his eyes, but they soon returned to normal. "No." He said simply but by his town Shadow had a sinking feeling their used to be at one time, but not now.
They made their way out of the facility. With most of the troops taken care of it was a lot easier getting out then in. Vincent got to his bike forgetting his helmet and held Rick in his arms.
Rick moaned slightly and didn't look so good. He drove off with Shadow on his back then he let him off at his own bike and the two of them went off, leaving the smoking ruins of the base behind them as fires continued to burned.
They managed to get to the house but what they saw they didn't like. They stopped at the corner and not only was their own van still there, but they saw three black vans parked outside. "Mary and the others." Shadow said quietly.
Vincent pick up Rick and handed him to Shadow. "Look after him...I'm going to get the others. Stay here, if they're still there then I'll bring them back out."
"What if they're not?" He asked.
Vincent didn't answer him, he just started the bike and went to the house.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 10: FLIGHT
The last chapter is coming next.