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Karin:...

It's good he's gone.

Karin:... yeah, kinda irritating back there.

The sounds of gun fire sounds through the woods. Trees crushed and lands having holes. Fayt cursed his luck. They were transported near the vinicity of the village but all they found were burnt houses and corpses.

They were too late to save the village, but not too late to being spotted by the excutioners responsible for the damage. Fayt turned around and fired more shots. They were surrounded and Fayt had already lost five squads of men. Things were not going well in orbit either. The 'Eternal' was locked in combat with several new excutioners that emerged from the dark side of the planet.

"Admiral! I've got the 'Eternal' on line! He wants to speak to you!"

A boy spoke up. He carried some equipment on his back that reminded Fayt of those old movies of old Earth war radio men. Funny that they would still look the same even with technological advances. Fayt stepped away from the trench wall that they built and hurried to the boy's side. He picked up the ear piece and placed it into his ear.

"What is it?"

Fayt asked.

"Admiral? I think you better listen to this."

The communication officer said. Fayt heard a couple of keys being pressed and another sound came through. It was obviously a recording of a message.

"'If... any... hears this... Eternal... Synthesis... shot down... moonbase... overrun by... fleet... destroyed... Awaiting... rescue... don't have... time... hurry!...'"

The message stopped.

"Admiral?"

The officer asked. Fayt could only stare as his mind tried to make sense of the message. The 'Synthesis'? Shot down? What about Maria? He knew he shouldn't have left her alone.

"Can you connect to the nearest post to the source of the message? I want a picture of what's happening there."

Fayt hoped at least he had some sort of evidence that Maria was still alive.

"On it. Hold on sir. Got it, patching it through."

The boy holding the equipment pulled out a small screen and gave it to Fayt. Fayt took the screen and waited as the picture came into view. It was worst than he expected. Rubbles and debris everywhere. Not a single ship was left. The excutioners circled the moonbase, as though waiting for something to happen.

"Any sign of survivors?"

"Yes, about a hundred escape pods were ejected."

"What about the 'Synthesis'?"

"All escape pods ejected, sir. Special escape pod for the captain of the ship also ejected."

Fayt sighed in relief.

"How long can they hold out?"

"Estimated another two hours."

"We'll be done in an hour. Prepare to teleport us up and rip jump us out of here."

"Yes sir, but we may take slightly longer than that."

"I'm giving you forty five minutes, get your side mopped up."

"Yes sir."

Fayt pulled the ear piece out of his ear and passed it back to the boy. Fayt went back to the front and jumped up form the trench. Everyone stared as Fayt charged at the nearest excutioner. Either he went mad, or he just didn't care anymore. Fayt fired bursts of laser as he ran towards the giant. Taking out his laser weapon, he activated it and threw it towards the creature, imbedding it into its torso.

Fayt grabbed onto the hilt and threw himself up once more, landing on the excutioner's head. Fayt aimed his gun at the creature's eye and fired a couple of bursts. The creature cried out as it tried to grab Fayt, but Fayt quickly jumped onto the left side of the creature's head, letting its right claw scrape its own face. The creature screamed as blood gushed out from the wound.

Fayt fired more shots into its other eye and quickly slung his gun, taking out an energy grenade and throwing it into the creature's open mouth. Leaping down the creautre's shoulder, Fayt dislodged the laser weapon and rolled onto the ground as the creature exploded from its abdomen. Fayt wasted no time, taking out his other sword and charging at the next creature, leaping onto its claw as it tried to grab him.

Fayt plunged his sword into its arm and dragged the blade up as he ran up the creature's arm. Cutting through the shoulder, Fayt sliced upwards, cutting through its head and jumping off as soon as the creature started to fall. Fayt turned to where the trench was and saw that the men had shaken off their surprise and joined him in his attack. Kanai ran over to Fayt, huffing and panting.

"Admiral! You shouldn't do things like that!"

She weezed.

"We have one hour to clear things here, after that, we're heading back to the moonbase!"

Fayt called out for everyone to hear. Roars of cheers erupted as the soldiers charged towards the behemoth army that stood with surprise at their enemy's new found courage. From once having the enemy surrounded and in hiding, they found themselves being swarmed by the same beings that they thought they had cornered.

"Admiral! Reports are coming in saying more enemies have appeared just beyond the fields!"

Kanai looked scared as she told the report. Fayt looked towards the fields and saw that it was true. Masses of the giant beings thundered towards them. There were simply too many to count.

Fayt knew it was time to put his skill to the test. Up till now, he had wondered what would have happened if he did not have this power, if he never knew about it. What would have happened? What would he be doing now? Fayt shook his head. No, there is no 'if'. There never was. Though he may complain, whine and feel frustrated about it, there was no changing it.

His present was now, not something else. The image of Maria smiled at him. Yes, if he hadn't know about his powers, he would have never met her. The pain, the joys. All of that and the rest of his life, he would want to spend it with her.

"I will not let such petty things stop me!"

Fayt yelled running towards the cliff edge that stood above the fields. Focusing every ounce of energy he had into his mind, he pictured the symbol, willed the symbol. Using his anger, hatred, fury as energy, he forced his blood to boil.

Using his affections for everyone he knew, his mother, father, his friends, Cliff, Mirage, the crew of the Diplo, Nel, Albel and everyone on Elicoor II. His love for his family, comrades, friends, Sophia and... Maria.

AN: Another short chapter, sigh, this will never end...