Fight for freedom

Chapter 9: Adam's last stand

Disclaimer: Don't own Sailor Moon.

Authors note: I'm ending this story, I'm still going with the two separate endings though.

Adam and his men on the west wall sit behind the wall with their rifles beside them everyone else slept except Adam who looks around at everyone sleeping, over the wall the troops of Endymion and Serenity take up their positions and form ranks, several ranks quietly make their way to the west wall. Meanwhile Endymion and Serenity watch as their troops make their way towards the school turned fort, Adam stands up and grabs his rifle and looks over the wall and brings it to his shoulder and turns the safety off and fires it waking everyone up.

"What a wake up call!"

"JUST SHUT UP AND KEEP FIRING!" Adam ordered as someone loaded the field gun and lowered the barrel so it faced the enemy when they get to a certain point and fires it, on the south wall Reiko and the others were fighting for their lives as was everyone else on the walls but the enemy troops assaulting the south wall had carried siege ladders with them and were climbing up them and everyone on the south wall were aiming at the enemy troops heads as soon as the got to the top of the ladders or hitting them with the butt's of their rifles as the senshi come running out of the school with rifles in their hands.

"What the?" Serena said as she looked around at the battle.

"GET BEHIND THAT FUCKING PALISADE!" Adam shouted to the senshi as he ducked behind the wall to reload his rifle and looked at the dead body next to him before standing back up and opens fire.

The senshi did as Adam told them to and they stood behind the palisade around the AA gun, meanwhile Serenity and Endymion watch the battle and look at the flash of gun fire and the field gun as it fires, Smitty grabs a machine gun and loads it before cocking and firing it "GET SOMEBODY TO FIRE THOSE MORTARS!" Adam ordered and a few of his men run down the ramp and climb over the palisade and set up the mortars and drop the rounds into the tubes before they fly off and land amongst the enemy ranks.

"IF WE CAN'T KEEP 'EM OFF THE WALLS, FALL BACK!" Reiko shouted as she hit someone who came over the wall, the people on the gatehouse and the north wall had lost a lot of people and one of the wounded staggers over to the west wall and leans on the palisade.

"ADAM… ADAM!" the person shouted making Adam turn round and run down the ramp over to the palisade.

"What is it?" Adam asked "north… wall… about… to… fall." The person said before dying and Adam ran up the ramp "EVERY THIRD MAN, NORTH WALL NOW!" Adam ordered and every third man runs down the ramp and to the north wall "Smitty, if it gets too much take the men here and fall back into the school."

"What about you?" Smitty asked.

"I can handle myself, when Serenity and Endymion come over this wall, I'm going to be here waiting for them." Adam replied as he picked up his sword and strapped it to his back "and if you die?"

"I die with my boots on." Adam replied.

"If it comes to that good luck." Smitty said as the person next to him falls backwards dead "THEY'RE BRINGING UP SIEGE LADDERS NOW!" someone shouted as Adam reloads his rifle as the ones with the siege ladders made it to the wall and placed them at the walls and started to climb up and Adam shot one in the head and pushed the ladder away and the others do the same.

The senshi watch the battle from behind the palisade around the AA gun, they watch people falling off the wall dead and they could do nothing except watch, they had left Hotaru in the hall when the battle began, on the east wall some of the mercenaries lay dead over the wall as enemy troops started to climb over the wall and several of the mercenaries died trying to get the ones that had made it over the wall, one of the mercenaries stood on the wall where the enemy troops scrambled over with tow enemy soldiers in a headlock whilst kicking the ladders over and receives a sword through his back before falling forwards as they head to the north wall to open the gate.

Adam was reloading with his back to the wall when he sees the ones that got into the compound and taps Smitty on the leg "GET DOWN TO THAT FIFTY-CALIBRE, IT'S ALREADY LOADED!"

Smitty runs down the ramp and grabs the fifty-calibre and cocks it before opening fire and hitting them in the back killing them before getting shot in the back making Adam quickly turn to his right and shoot the one that shot Smitty before he runs down the ramp and stops Smitty from falling backwards "they got me Adam…" Smitty said.

"I'm sorry about all this."

"No… you're… fucking not." Smitty said before he died in Adam's arms "I'll get them, I promise you." Adam said before he puts Smitty's body down and goes back up to the wall and draws out his sword and cuts an enemy soldier in half and runs another one through before pushing the ladder away from the wall as an enemy field gun fires a shell and it hits a part of the west wall destroying it and killing a few of Adam's men and injuring a few.

Serenity and Endymion see this as their chance to end this battle quickly and enemy soldiers pour into the gap cutting Adam's men off "HELP ME TO GET THE FIELD GUN OVER THERE!" Adam shouted as several of his men look to here Adam points and they help him to move the field gun and load it before they lowered the barrel and open fire "BARRICADE THIS AND PUT A FEW RIFLE MEN THERE!"

Four mercenaries grab a few heavy boxes and pile them up shoulder height before they grab a few rifles that they had stacked and started to fire, the ones that got through made it to the gate and opened it "FALL BACK!" someone on the north wall shouted and the people on the north wall abandoned their positions and made a line and fired a volley killing the first row before they run back to the fall back spot, some people get behind the palisade where the AA gun is and fight from there.

"NORTH WALLS FALLEN, FALL BACK!" Adam ordered to his men and they do so and Adam runs down to the palisade and shouts the order to fall back before picking up Smitty's body and putting it over his shoulder and climbs over the palisade and runs towards the fall back spot just as enemy artillery started to rain down on them as the mercenaries behind the palisade with the AA gun opens fire with it hitting the enemy as Adam made it over to them "fall back, I can handle it here." Adam said as he put down the body.

"What about you?" one of them asked.

"I'll be right behind you." Adam replied as he hid the body from sight and picked up a rifle and brought it up to his shoulder and looked at everyone behind the palisade "go, THAT'S AN ORDER!" he told them and they do so as Adam aims and fires before falling back and stops at the entrance to the fall back spot before he drops the rifle and draws his sword with one hand and his knife with the other hand.

"What are you doing?" Reiko shouted.

"Making a last stand here, I'll hold them off for as long as I can." Adam said before he walks out and everyone had to drag Reiko away as Adam walks out of the entrance and stood between the enemy and the fall back spot "goodbye mom, goodbye everyone." He muttered to himself as he blocked someone's rifle with his sword and stabbed the enemy soldier in the neck and continues to do the same.

An hour later

Adam's face completely covered in blood still fighting against all the odds and surviving just stood behind a pile of bodies just as Mirai Hotaru stood in the entrance holding her rifle and watches as Adam continues to fight when she brings the rifle up to her shoulder and fires off a round at an enemy soldier who wasn't quite dead and the battle stops and the enemy parts making way for Endymion and Serenity to walk down and Adam just walks round to stand in front of the dead bodies.

"I'm going to make sure you two stay dead for good." Adam said as he wiped his sword and knife clean of any blood before taking his jacket off to reveal a black tank top and a tattoo on his left arm that said 'yield to none, mercenaries of B Company' before throwing his knife up in the air before catching it with the blade pointing downwards.

"Let's end this then."

Endymion steps forward and draws his sword as Adam steps forward and they clash their swords creating sparks and Adam brings his knife round the back of Endymion's neck and stabs it through his neck and steps to one side letting Endymion's body drop dead making Serenity step forward and picks up Endymion's sword.

"This ends today." Adam said as he kicked up a bayonet and caught it in his other hand with the blade pointing upwards and blocked a downward strike with the bayonet and returned the favour as he jumped back and threw the bayonet into the ground where it stuck and Adam jumped into the air with his sword raised above his head as Serenity looks up just as he brings the sword down and clashed with the sword Serenity brought up to block it as Adam lands and she kicks him in the stomach and watches as he falls on his back and rolls to one side as Serenity brings the point of the sword down and Adam flips back onto his feet cutting Serenity's lower right arm off.

"First blood to me." Adam said.

Serenity looked at what is now left of her right arm as he pulled the sword out of the ground "just give up Serenity." Adam said as he dodged a slash from Serenity and countered with his own slash, Serenity thrust her sword into Adams chest and Adam pulled it out and thrust his sword through Serenity's neck before he dropped his sword and fell to his knees holding the wound "it's over." He said when Mirai Hotaru dropped her rifle and ran over to him and caught him as he fell forward and leaned him back in her arms.

"Don't die." Mirai Hotaru said with tears in her eyes "I'm not coming back this time." Adam replied before coughing up some blood and grabbed Mirai Hotaru's jacket and brought her head closer "there's someone out there I want you to find and take care of her, my daughter." Adam said.

"Maybe I can still…"

Adam shook his head "no and that's an order… you know where to bury me." Adam said before he died and Mirai Hotaru cried as the senshi and her friends came out to see what was going on before she stood up "no…" Mina said as the ex Crystal Tokyo soldiers dropped their rifles and held a moment of silence for Adam.

A few weeks later

Everyone at the battle from both sides were at Adam's funeral, Mirai Hotaru stood beside Adam's daughter as he was buried with his comrades from the Serenity war, he was buried next to Ricky at what used to be the western palisade before she gave a speech.

"I only knew him during the latter stages of the Serenity war, he kept himself to himself. I remember something he once said to me 'we all have our demons, no matter how hard we try to get rid of them, we can't.' he died leaving behind many friends even though he told most of us to 'get the fuck out of my face' a lot and a daughter… I'm proud that I was his friend and to have fought beside him during many battles."

The senshi give a little speech before everyone goes back to Juuban as the ghosts of the militia that defended the place where Adam now rests stand at his grave as Adam watches them leave before he turns round and looks at everyone, "well, guys I'm back." He said as he picked up Yuki and looked at Ricky before they all disappear.

Authors note: I decided to end this story for a reason, I used all my ideas during Fight for the future.