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Titanium Showdown: Tale of the Zero Clones
Chapter Seven: Hack and Slash
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The group marched on, almost at a sprint, to Alpha Site. The rage still boiled in the veins. Soon the city came into view. They stopped and formulated a quick plan for their siege. They kept arguing about how to attack, and eventually came to compromise.
As they crept toward the edge of the city, a sense of fear crept into each of their minds; they were unfazed. Soon they were at Alpha Site's great outer wall. Ashes gave the signal and all at once, they began to take sections off with their weapons. Soon they were inside, wreaking havoc on everything inside. There were fireballs coming down from the sky, people fleeing and screaming with fear and adrenaline, explosions rocked entire streets.
The mayhem and damages were immense and all consuming, but there was not even a single death. Each reploid stayed his hand before killing another –these were, after all, civilians; innocent bystanders to the chaos Sigma had created –even in their maddened state, they could not, would not, slay the innocent, fore, if they had, would not Sigma's label truly fit?
In a matter of minutes, the entire southeastern sector was empty of all civilian life, and the most of the buildings had been razed. The scene was one of utter destruction. The empty expanse of rubble gave End the impression of a great arena, but what fight would take place even he could not tell.
'The enforcers will be coming soon.'
'Good. We'll take as many as we can handle. We'll show them how much they will lose.'
End heard footsteps behind him. He was away from the rest of the group, and he didn't know where they were exactly. He thought the enforcers had come for him already, but there were too few steps for it to be that. He turned around, and before him were two nearly identical reploids, alike in every way, but for their armors. One wore bronze colored block-style armor, and the other wore purple band-style armor.
'You are the maverick known as End.Zero. You will come with us immediately, or we will use force.'
'You bastards think you have a right to call me that?' The question was more of a statement than a question. 'I will not go with you. Not now, and not ever again.'
'Bastards huh? I'll have you know that my name is Hack. (and I'm Slash!) Our names are feared and respected as officers of Sigma's law. Already there are only three of you left! (Our ally is on the way to finish you off, but if you'd prefer, we could do that right now!)' Without waiting for an answer Slash, who wore the banded armor, drew his weapon and charged at End. Hack followed suit.
Primitive energy sabers greeted End's own, and he knew the two were excellent swordsmen –he also knew he was better. For several minutes, all three swords clashed and swung, hardly hitting anything. Hack and Slash were worthy opponents, and kept End busy defending himself.
End was so absorbed in the duel that he never noticed when his allies came to help him win –even less, did he notice the five battling reploids were being watched. Not too far off in the shadows, lurked the most hated enforcer of Sigma's law. Heero Doubledrive watched in ecstasy, as Hack and Slash were rendered unconscious; he would have a wondrous battle indeed.
He prepared his buster cannon for battle. Every fiber of his being was aching to attack the three mavericks before him, but something held him back –against his will.
'Think of what you've done.' There was a loud bursting noise, and Heero fell forward to his knees. Before he blacked out, he saw all three of his targets staring at him. Then he fell to the ground completely and forgot himself in the blackness of unconsciousness.
Meanwhile
Sapphire ran towards Alpha Site with both excellent and terrible news for all its attackers. She hoped she would get there before it was too late. The heat of the afternoon sun still pounded away at her, but she kept running for all she was worth. The gravity of what she had to say would affect everyone; even Sigma would feel its pull at his neck.
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I'm back, and while I had my major writer's block, I wrote up all this so I could update the story. Thank you to all my loyal readers! I'll diligently try to update more often ;;
You can expect some sideplots soon, as I'm certain a few of those will liven things up.
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