Explosions can be heard throughout the complex, shaking the very planet. People are screaming, both in terror, and in rage and fury. Screaming rockets and shrieking bullets fly outside, where Warmechs battle the newest clan, the Raven. Every single Warrior, Technician, and Scientist is fighting outside, leaving the Laborers inside, protecting the children with large rifles with bayonets, several forsaking the normal armament for rockets and other explosives.
In another section of the vast city, two teenage warriors run towards their Warmechs, holding each other's hand. "Alex, try to make it through this, alright?" Meria said, her eyes filled with worry and sorrow.
"Do not worry Meria, I will not die before you. I could never leave that upon you, or anyone else. Just do your best to stay alive. Forget the honor that the Wolf clan drilled into your head, if you are about to die, flee back into the complex and let me handle these foolish Ravens. And remember: I love you, and I always will, even after death." Alex replied, his smile growing as he saw her face brighten.
"Come on, we've got Ravens to burn!" Meria yelled over a particularly close explosion, blowing a hole through a nearby wall. Fortunately, the Terraforming project was completed the week before.
"Alex! They've broken through the outer defenses! Where the hell are you two? Oh sh-" the loudspeaker boomed through the hangar.
"NETHRETOR! Damn them! He had finally become human, and now, they've taken that away. ATTENTION ALL DARK STAR WARRIORS! SHOW THESE BASTARDS NO MERCY!" Alex yelled, his face reddening in anger.
I've never seen him like this, and Nethretor was merely a friend to him. What would he do if I were to die out there? Meria thought, her eyes darting about as she started up her Warmech.
"Alex! I was able to get out just before the missiles hit. What took you so long?" Nethretor said, his face popping up on the commscreen.
"NETHRETOR! You're alright! I got held up by the turrets, a Kodiak, salvaged from the Ghost Bear clan, was trying to rip the turret off of the complex. I decided to take it out before I left. Come on, we got us some bastards to kill. They'll pay for attacking us during our wedding!" Alex said, his face and voice growing dark and cold.
"Whoa. He's pissed." Youkai said over Meria's commlink. "Opening the hangar doors. There will be just enough space for you both to run out right after your 'Mechs are powered up. I'm gonna hang back inside the system and copy myself, using the copies to run the defenses. Good luck guys!" she added as the doors opened and the Warmech's weapons came online.
"HEY TROLEC! SAY HI YOU UGLY FREAK!" the newly married couple yelled out as their LRM-40s both screamed out of their bays.
"It is the Khans! Focus your fire on them! If they fall then the battle will surely be ours!" Trolec yelled through both his loudspeaker and his commlink, allowing all warriors there to hear.
"You always were too confident Trolec! Now we're gonna show you real talent!" the couple said, their Warmechs drawing their melee weaponry as they lunged forwards, right into a tightly packed group of artillery-based Battlemechs. Hacking away without remorse, the two Warmechs, the Wolf, and the Dragon, sang out as they defended each other from everything.
"You know Trolec, they say that you can only reach your combative peak when you're defending that which you hold dear. You have attacked our home, our family. You have awoken the demons within the Dark Star clan! Now you will watch as we destroy your clan, down to every last Laborer." Alex yelled as he slipped in a new card for music. Every loudspeaker boomed the music as loud as they could, some overloading but still playing, spouting sparks as they sang.
"Uh-oh, this cannot be good. Even the machines will not stop. Alex and Meria, they are truly something. Too bad they must die in order for my dreams to come to fruition!" Trolec said to himself, his anger driving his mind through many different strategies.
"Alex, let's beat this guy with our guns, just to show him what you can really create." Meria called out, her claws retracted, gun barrels replacing them.
"Alright, how about my newest AC40 creation! Light enough so that even an infantry unit may use!" Alex said, switching to ballistics.
"AC40? That's not good. Maybe I underestimated them." Trolec said, not realizing that he was speaking into his commlink.
"Maybe? How about you did!" the entire clan yelled into their commlinks. Spurred into a berserk frenzy of anger and hatred, all the Warmechs turned into their more vicious forms, their animal forms. Some were devious foxes and cats, ambushing and destroying key parts. Others, Alex's and Meria's included, changed into more ferocious animals, wolves, lions, tigers, panthers, bears, and snakes.
"Now, Trolec, you and your Raven clan will all die for your idiocy and your crimes against us! COME MY BRETHREN! LET'S MASSACRE THESE FOOLS!" Alex screamed, his anger reaching new heights as he saw the cowardly tactics the desperate enemy used. "THEY SPOKE OF HONOR, YET THEY CONTINUE TO REVERE THEIR EUGENICS! THEY TOLD STORIES OF COWARDS GAINING GREAT HONOR FOR KILLING WITH COWARDLY TECHNIQUES! LET US NOW SHOW THEM THE REAL MIGHT OF A TRUE WARRIOR!" he added as his wolf Warmech barreling into a group of three Dire Wolves, tearing and ripping and growling and feasting.
People were screaming in horror, just barely heard over the screeching metal and screams of pain, as they watched Alex and Meria's wolf Warmechs tear apart the opposition without remorse, nor even apparent care of death. Missing both ears, the tail, and a nice chunk of the leg, Alex's display flashed with several warnings, but he had already overridden the automatic ejection.
"ALEX! HELP!" Meria screamed out as three Marauder IICs all shot at her at once with LRM20s. The missiles barreled into the 'mech, one smashing into the cockpit.
"MERIA! No… Meria… grrrr…" Alex screamed as he stood there, watching the horror as 60 missiles thump into the Warmech named Puppy, watching as his Love died in burning flames. "Meria… Grrrrr… YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE FOR THIS! EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU!" Alex cried out as his eyes began to burn. The normal glow of his Warmech's eyes, blue, turning as red as blood, responding to the heightened adrenaline pounding through the young Khan's veins. The Warmech seemed to be angry as well, its attacks using more and more force, sending smaller 'Mechs flying away with it's great swipes of fury and sorrow.
"What's wrong Alex? You one reason for this campaign gone? That's too bad. Now you are nothing more then a small hurdle. Good bye, this should be just as easy as killing your pathe-"
"DON'T YOU DARE TROLEC! FINISH THAT SENTACE AND YOU WILL BRUN SLOWLY AND PAINFULLY, LISTENING TO ME LAUGHING AS YOU SCREAM OUT IN ANGUISH! YOU HAVE SEALED YOUR FATE! ACCEPT DEATH, FOR IT IS YOUR ONLY PATH NOW! I DON'T CARE IF I HAVE TO HUNT YOU DOWN THROUGHOUT THE FURTHEST REACHES OF THE UNIVERSE! YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!" Alex screamed, turning to face the overconfident Raven Khan. "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS TO LOVE, AND YET YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO KILL ONE THAT SOMEONE LOVES WITH ALL THAT THEY ARE!YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS AND THE FATE OF THOSE WHO COMMIT THE MOST HORRIBLE CRIME! NOW, TROLEC, NOW YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS WITH MORE THEN JUST YOUR LIFE, BUT THE LIVES OF YOUR CLAN AS WELL! YOU ALONE SEALED THE FATES OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TROLEC! PREPARE FOR YOUR FINAL BREATHS!" Alex added, the eyes of his Warmech becoming more and more like flames, matching Alex's eyes.
"Whoa. I think I went too far on this one. I got to get out of here, but I am surrounded! Well, I might as well take as many of them down with me as I can!" Trolec said to himself, overloading his CASE so that the explosions would increase in size, taking out any Battlemechs in the area.
The Dark Star warriors simply stood and watched, their mouths agape in horror and awe as Alex took on an entire army on his own. Every second it seemed, another heavy Battlemech went down in flames, the pilot screaming in pain. Even the music playing changed, the original Youkai watching the whole thing. Tears would have been flowing from her eyes if she was out of the computer system, but as she watched Alex fight, she could only feel anger and hatred towards the other clans.
There was only one single survivor. When he returned to the ilKhan Theoric Harredir, he was demanded to explain what happened. "The only word I can find to describe the battle would be chaos. Alex Kerios, he truly lives up to his reputation as the greatest Mechwarrior who ever lived. After we killed his wife Meria, his Warmech, it was like the Warmech itself was angry! I have never seen anything like it before in my life, and I hope that I never do again. I was the only one who got out of there alive. I had to fly the dropship myself.
"The entire planet seemed to be in such a fury. Defense turrets all around the planet, both on and above, opened up on the Jumpships, destroying all but one, the one I was on. It did kill all the crew though, so I had to pilot it back here. Alex, he really Loved that girl, I am ashamed to have been part of the expedition, no, the clan, that killed her." The survivor said, his face twisting in horror as the scene unfolded again in front of his eyes.
"Alex took on an army all alone? He must have known that he would die! You are telling me, then, that he did not care. He poses a serious threat to us. He is alive you say?" Theoric said, his voice trembling.
"Yes, and he is still angered at the death of his Love. He has declared open war against not only us, but the Inner Sphere as well." The warrior said, his eyes pointing towards his feet.
"Well then, we will simply have to kill him before he kills us. Let us wait for him to come, then we will crush him with the combined might of the three remaining clans of the Kerenskys!" Theoric said, his face twisting into an evil smirk.
Two hours earlier…
"Meria…" Alex said quietly as he walked back into the complex. His Warmech had taken severe damage, and was being repaired now. "Meria, why? Why did this have to happen? I should never have brought you on this perilous journey!" he added, his eyes burning with tears that wouldn't come out.
"Why did what have to happen Alex?" a soft, familiar voice of caring and Love said behind his right ear.
"MERIA! It, it cannot be! You were killed out there, I watched as Puppy was bashed by 3 LRM20s! How, how did you? Never mind that, never mind any of that. I'm just so glad you're still here!" Alex said through his tears, snatching Meria in a gentle, warm embrace.
"Alex, I was able to watch after my Warmech was destroyed. You fought like a true wolf enraged by the taking of his Love. I've never seen anyone fight like that. Everyone else in our clan was so in awe that they could do nothing but watch! Even I found it hard to take my eyes off of your combat. You took on an entire army alone, and only one survived. Look outside Alex, look at the destruction you wrought in your fury. You were dodging missiles one right after another. Even your Warmech was pissed off, it's eyes glowed blood red. And I'm so happy to see you too. I really, really am Alex." Meria said, her voice ending in almost a whisper as her arms tightened around Alex. "I really was scared that you had lost yourself."
"Don't worry Meria, I won't lose myself anytime soon. I doubt that Dragon will ever work to its fullest again. I'm gonna have to make a new body for him. I should still be able to use the cockpit. Come on, we should be celebrating your safety! Everyone is so depressed. The clan really likes you. Come on, I'm gonna call a meeting." Alex said, releasing Meria. Their hands closed around each others as they leaned towards each other, their lips meeting in an embrace of happiness and Love.
Author: Well this was fun to write! It's been a while since I've written any actual war type chapters.