Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't updated this fic, been working allot lately. Anyway. These last few chapters, not including the end, are going to be made in a rush-like writing style. There are going to be about three separate final fights going on. Yes, I will be fighting with the sword again, but that's not all. I reacted the fight scene to remember how the fight went, so everything in the sword fight, I can do incase your wondering. Oh! I want to note that everything happening (my fight, Randall's, Red's), is happening at the same time, not real time. Ok then.

Anyway. Enjoy and review please.

Chapter 24 Liberty Finals part 1

The copter had landed on the grass of Liberty Island. The statue's shadow overlaying it as the passengers exited.

"Come now dear....." Kroitz said in a sickingly tone, dragging Leia out and heading toward the entrance of the statue, Slade and the pilot following.

Kroitz scampered up the steps, dragging Leia without a care. Slade followed on all eight, the pilot, with a gun in hand, followed slowly, wanting to see if anyone was coming.

Upon entering the building, Leia caught sight of a large torch. It seemed like the one that the statue holds in its left hand but...seemed older. The room itself was two stories. There were some other closed off areas, but Kroitz was looking for the staircase. He was about to head through the door....

"STOP!"

Almost immediately, Kroitz turned back, shifting Leia to his side. Everyone was standing at the entrance. Randall was ahead of them. Joy and Carmyne beside him, and Mary beside Caylin. Kroitz laughed in his mockingly way.

"Persistent aren't we?" he said. "Let Leia go Kroitz! You have what you want!" Randall yelled, taking a step forward.

"I'm surprised your alive lizard.....guess you really can fly....." Kroitz said. "My friends are my wings Kroitz!" Randall confronted said. Kroitz merely laughed, then nodded his head at the gunman to his left. "....Well.....lets see if your invincible.....give my regards to your friend...." Kroitz laughed.

"Or you could just say it yourself!"

Randall looked calmly at the second floor of the room with a smile. Kroitz looked up in shock. Sean stood on the top, his thin sword in his right hand. In an instant, he jumped down, sending a downward slash onto the gunman's figure. In the same instant, the gunman fell to the floor, Sean landing on his knees, his sword out ward to his right. His head titled up, giving a smile to Randall before getting up.

"I thought I rid myself of you!" Kroitz yelled, taking a step back as if he had seen a ghost. "Next time you kill someone with friends behind him.....be sure you'll see'em again...." Sean said, moving his arm forward, his sword's point at Kroitz.

"We have an unfinished duel Kroitz!" he said. Kroitz starred blankly for a moment. ".....Hmph....your a minor flaw....so are all of you....the hunters are already invading that Monster World....and as soon as I get all of you out of my hair...." Kroitz started.

"If you think you'll be the winner, think again!" Randall yelled, taking another step forward. ".....Alright then....." Kroitz said.

With that, he moved Leia over to the large display torch. Around its rim were several small black spikes. Kroitz tied Leia's hands to it, using cuffs from his belt that he intended for later use. Once Leia was cuffed, he turned back to Sean.

"Too bad your friends will suffer a different fate.....Slade!" he called. On an instance, Slade came from behind the display, stopping beside Kroitz.......

".....I'll help you Slade...." Randall said, taking a step forward. "Heh....I'd like to see how a monster could go against mon-robotics...." Kroitz mocked.

"Joy...." Sean started, looking over at her. "You, Caylin, Carmen, and Mary get down to the lab to stop those hunters...." he said.

"Got it!" Joy said. Caylin, Carmen and Mary started to edge to the direction of the lab's entrance, Joy quickly following. "Be careful you two!" she called back before getting to the door leading to the stairwell. "We'll be fine!" Sean called back. Joy went through, leaving only Slade, Sean, Kroitz, Leia, and Randall alone.

"A one on one....this will be interesting" Kroitz said, starting to the left. When he reached an open space, he stared at Sean across from him. Slade and Randall doing the same. Leia watched them both without wanting to get out.

"It ends here Kroitz.....this escapade....and perhaps your life...." Sean said, his sword touching the floor beside him. "You seem confused boy.....you lost last time...." Kroitz said. Sean smirked. "Yeah well..... everyone deserves a second chance....." he said.

Slade looked directly at Randall, his arms high behind him. Randall was the same, looking as if preparing to draw in a western gun fight.

"Don't worry Slade.....I'll get that thing off ya...." Randall said, eyes darted on his real target, the bracelet on Slade's arm. ".....I.....Can't.....Hold.....Back......" Slade said, almost seeming machine-like. "Don't worry.....No one ever does......" Randall said.

Back in Monstropolis........

It was nearly dusk in the city. The C.D.A had announced a national warning of an encounter that would occur. Naturally, many of the monsters were already in their houses. For this, hardly any sound was heard. Except from the few unseen hills around Monstropolis' borders.

A tall gruesome figure stood on its top. Its long thick claws dragging the grass of the outland. Another came to its left, then another on its right. All of their eyes were sighted directly on the city. Before long, two more had come, then three. Several were appearing, yet their presence was not known. They started their decent into the city, wanting to rip anything in their path to shreds......

In Luna Lab. Randolph had been typing like crazy. He had gotten authorization, although he knew he didn't need it, to change the Contamination Inhalers. Naomi took Curtis' place of staggering back and forth. Rayford was quickly peeking out of the window into the hall, many frantic monster scientist were running through. Curtis had a hand to the side of his face, in disbelief that Randolph was right. Albert was eagerly tapping his digits on the metal wall on the side.

"There must be a hundred of them...." Randolph said. Rayford crossed his arms and looked over at his son. "Randolph.....I still don't understand what those things are...." Rayford said. "I don't know completely either dad.....who ever created them is a genius...." Randolph replied.

"We're all gonna die just watch....ever since that whole zeppelin I knew that this city was in for trouble! I should have moved!" Curtis yelled, placing his hands to the back of his head.

"Get a hold Curtis! Jeez.....have a little faith will ya!?" Albert called back to him. A moment of silence came again. Rayford had been looking out the window, seeing no one this time. He looked back at Naomi, seeing her a little worried.

"Something wrong Naomi?" he asked, worried. Naomi looked up at him. ".....I'm worried about Randall and his friends...." Naomi replied. Rayford placed a smile on, one that he had passed to his sons. "Why worry? Randall's been through worse than this.....he has friends now...." Rayford said. Naomi seemed a little cheered by that.

"Besides mom....". Naomi looked over at Randolph, who was looking over his screen. "For as long as me and Randall have been together....I know he won't go down without a fight......and with friends like Sean and Joy......failing is an option that doesn't exist...." Randolph said.

"What?!"

Below Liberty Island, Joy, Carmyne, Mary, and Caylin were starring at through the elevator at the entrance to Kroitz's labs. The hallway was covered in colored stone and blocked up with no way through. There was also water slowly dripping through, laying in an already wide puddle. Luckily the elevator wasn't affected.

"What are we suppose to do now!?" Caylin yelled. Everyone in the elevator switched to thinking mode, trying to figure out how to stop the attack on Monstropolis. "We can't get into the lab....." Joy said. "Kroitz has got to be controlling those creatures from somewhere" Carmyne said. "Maybe somewhere where we were Joy?" Mary thought.

Caylin decided not to ponder, having hurt his head already from everything going on. He simply looked around for anything of interest. Finally, his eyes stopped on something near the elevator's exit. "Maybe we could blast our way through?" Carmyne asked. "We don't have anything to do it with" Joy retaliated. "Or we could just push this...." Caylin said.

Everyone turned back at him. Looking at what he was pointing to, they noticed a hard to see slid up panel near the exit of the elevator. "Hmm....can't believe we didn't notice that before...." Carmyne said. Pushing Caylin back, she slid it up. There was keypad with numbers 1-9.

"Maybe this could take us somewhere else...." Joy thought. "...Yeah but....what is it?". They all thought, wondering what the code was.

"You reign of terror ends here" Sean said. He and Kroitz had switched oppositions from circling, as had Randall and Slade. "You don't know the half of it" Kroitz said.

Randall reared back his arms, as did Slade. "I'll get that thing off you Slade.....then we can end this and go home...." Randall announced.

The four stopped conversation. The fight started.

"Engard!". "Die!". "Come on!".

Sean charged with his thin short sword toward Kroitz, who sped toward him with his thin long blade ahead. Kroitz jumped as he ran, coming down with a right diagonal slash. Sean twisted to the side, making Kroitz's blade slap the floor. Sean quickly swirled his blade to the left, but it was impeached by Kroitz raising his blade up his left, blocking the attack. Kroitz twisted his blade to the right, pushing Sean a few feet away. Kroitz ran at him, his blade held far back on his right side. Sean stretched his right leg far and dodged Kroitz's upper slash. Bringing his blade up to guard his face, Sean stopped a downward slash from Kroitz.

"How does it feel boy!" Kroitz yelled, pushing his blade down to make Sean lose grip. "Ehh...not even....a challenge! Give me what you've got!".

With that, Sean swayed his blade upward, backing Kroitz off, followed by a horizontal slash to the right. Kroitz crossed it with a vertical slash.

"Why don't you....eh....use your little glove a!?" Sean said. "Hmph....how did you know!" Kroitz said, trying to get Sean to loosin. "Because a creature like you doesn't deserve to be given powers!" Sean said. Taking Kroitz by surprise, Sean pushed his blade to the left, moving Kroitz's, and quickly spun, giving Kroitz a hard elbow to the ribs. Kroitz backed off a few feet, getting on a knee.

"How does it feel Kroitz!?" Sean said.

Randall looked over at his friend's battle. Seeing Sean had the upper hand, he turned to Kroitz. "Lets get this over with....." he said.

Slade nodded, rearing back his hands. Taking the initiative, he dove straight for Randall. Randall quickly got on all eights. In a quick motion, he turned onto his back. As Slade went over him with the dive, Randall grabbed all his limbs and pushed forward. Slade was pushed onto his back, Randall on top of him. As quick as he could, he grabbed the armlet on Slade's arm, but wasn't fast enough. The bottom half of Slade's body curled around Randall's bottom half. Before Randall knew it, he was on the ground, stomach first. Slade grabbed his back and threw Randall far in front of him, straight toward one of the many poles in the room. Taking in his reflexes, Randall's suction cupped hands and feet grabbed the pole. Slade gave a disappointed grin and headed straight for him.

"(What do I do!? I can't get that thing off him!)" Randall thought.

The hunters came into the city boarders. There gruesome tongues running along their teeth. There was around 40 to be seen. Following the road, they entered the streets. No monsters in sight meant that they were all hiding. Knowing their task, they split up into un-counted groups.

"Oh Haven...." Randolph said. Nearly everyone was watching the screen Randolph sat in front of. The radar he had used in the computer was connected to the Monstropolis Intelligence Agency, so that he personally could see the hunters.

"Come on Red....where are you" he said. "Everyone we could fit in this place is here right Albert?" Rayford asked, looking across his son to the monster. "Yes....as many as we could....everyone else is locked and bolted in their houses" Albert answered.

(BRRTT. BRRRT)

An icon appeared on Randolph's computer, a radio-like icon. Clicking it, half of the screen became a voice measurer. Turning on the side speakers of the computer, static came through, accompanied by a cracked voice.

"Randolph.....there!?" came the voice. "That's Readagar ain't it!?" Rayford spoke out, regarding the voice. Turning on a microphone that Randolph had gotten for announcements, and changing the speaker frequency to the one indicated on the measurer, he spoke through it.

"Red? That you?" he asked. Everyone around him stood near the speakers. "Oh thank haven.....listen.....is everyone out of the west area, Stalk Street?" he asked.

Randolph checked the radar of his computer, seeing around 15 hunters approaching the area. "No one in that section that I know off....but I'm not working on finding monsters though" Randolph said, thinking of switching.

"Is everyone out of there Randolph!?" Readagar repeated, louder. "Yes...." Randolph confirmed. After a moment of two......

"Tell us when those creatures get within the middle of the block....." Readagar said. "What why?" Randolph started. "Just do it!". Readagar seemed to close the frequency, as no sound was coming from the receiver.

"What is he planning?" Albert wondered, getting up and crossing his arms. "I don't know....but we can trust Readagar's plans in this" Rayford said. Naomi looked at her son, feeling that he was a little concerned about something else at the moment.

"....Ok Red....better not be doing something stupid" Randolph said.

The hunters of the west area continued their pace, still no sound of any monster around. One stopped ahead of the two behind it. It seemed to look around in front of it. Just then, it seemed to know something that the others caught on. Twelve followed the other two to it. The first three ran straight forward, the other twelve following. The three came close to the middle of the street.

".....NOW!"

As soon as the three came do it.

(BBBBGGGGGHGHHGHGHGHGHH!!!!!!!)

The twelve behind them slowed down as the ground burst with an explosive. In front rose with smoke and dirt, parts of solid pavement rained down with the remains of the three hunters. They backed away, the smoke impairing their vision. Having simple curiosity, they started forward, the cracked ground not impeding their run.

They halted, seeing something blocking the road. Unknown to what it was, it looked like sandbags. Five continued on, their vision still blocked by the smoke. Coming closer, they came to realize what had set up the blockade, and.......The smoke in front of them started to clear. Soon, they could see black figures. Then......

Behind the blockade stood a row of monsters in military uniform, all behind the bags with assault rifles in their hands, claws, and tentacles. The hunters stopped, seeing something else behind them. Forming at first as a black figure soon came as a huge armored vehicle. Standing at top with two others behind him......was Readagar.

Two of them hunters knew of the monster, as they had seen him before. Soon, the smoke cleared. In Readagars hands was a large cylinder weapon, a large cone-like shape at the end. He smirked as they all could clearly see a whole blockade of monsters, ones lined against the bags, others on jeeps to the side of the armored vehicle with machine guns mounted on the sides.

".....In case your wondering....." Readagar started, mounting the weapon on his shoulder. "Here's your invitation to this party!" he said.

With that, the weapon's ammo fired. It went straight, then curved downward, hitting four creatures in the to the side of the streets. The hit caused an explosion split the creatures into pieces, raining them down onto the ground.

"Fire at will...." Readagar said, jumping down from the vehicle. Following the order, the monsters fired. The assault rifles picked at the skins of the creatures as the machine guns split the limbs. The creatures still followed their slow path toward them.

As said, a bit of a rush. If anyone is questioning how I got up to the second floor, don't.....not yet anyway. There will possibly be three parts to the end, so the fight will seem to be long. Anyway, tell me how it was...but I had a hard time with these last few chapters, so....well...you know.