Heroes From Above: Black Storm
Disclaimer: I do not own the Powerpuff girls or anything that relates to them. They are the property of Cartoon Network and Craig McCracken. However, I do own the main plot of this story.
A/N: Hi again everyone. I hope I didn't kept you waiting too long. Here is the much anticipated chapter 7! Enjoy!Chapter 7: Fighting by the Amazon
Butch slept lightly on the second day of the invasion. Brazil isn't really a safe place to sleep right now. Before dawn, he woke up and roused up his troops for the march into the jungle. Before the charge, herallied his forces, saying his words of encouragement. "Those demons, we fought them all the way from the beachfront to the jungles. Now they after something so precious, so hardcore, that they are scrambling over themselves to get it. I don't care if it is our Lord's 'Anti-Son of a Bitch device' or a giant rock, we are not going to let them have it! What we going to let them have is a gut full of angelic whoopass and a pool of their own blood to drown in! Am I'm right, warriors?"
The angel warriors roared with equal encouragement as they muttered, "Sir, Yes, Sir!"
"Mmhmm, damn right I am. Now move out!" With that Butch charged into the jungle line with his sword pointed as he led the charge. The swarm of angels flocked into the Jungle, eager to banish the demons to hell.
General Denas was fast approaching the temple storing the stone in Brazil. "Master! Hostile forces! They have overwhelmed the beach and are now moving into the jungle! What shall we do?" "Hold them off you imbecil!" The demonic general roared as he kicked his subordinate in the gut for being an idiot. "Rally the reserves! Gather a defense line to cover our flank!"
Butch could see several demonic cannon emplacements ahead. They began to fire as soon as he and the other warriors got close. Explosions started going off in the jungle as those cannons fired like mortar. Butch jumped into the air and landed on one of the cannon emplacements, swinging his sword around, he slashed and killed several demons. Looking to his side, he watched one of the other cannons swing around to aim at him. "They actually willing to fire upon their own position to get rid of me…I've got an idea." Butch thought. He jumped just as the other cannons fired and watched the cannon emplacement below get destroyed as well as some demons. He proceeded by leapfrogging between cannons, knocking them out himself or having them perform friendly fire upon themselves.
The demon legion prepared itself for the onslaught, arming themselves with various demon rifles and demon blades of various monstrous sizes. A lesser legion commander screamed in a demonic tongue as they were told to hold their line against the angelic attackers. The demon gunmen aimed their rifles and fired rays of dark energy at the angels, killing several warriors with precision.
Butch secured the closest cannon emplacement to the legion and rotated the cannon around. He fired a shell, blowing up the demonic ranks. They began to turn their attention to him, as some of their warriors disobeyed their commanders' orders and charged at his position. The riflemen began to fire upon him. "Attack!" Butch ordered his men as they all swarmed at the demon line. Firing shell after shell from the cannon, he softened up and crushed the attacking demons. Using the energy of his element, he critically damaged the enemy line. Picking up a demon's rifle, he dropped to a prone position and began picking off demon by demon as the warriors clashed.
General Denas watched the formidable opponent pick off his forces as his legions fought against the opposing forces. "Send the reserves to secure the stone in the temple. I'll deal with this human and will return shortly." Denas said as he prepared to engage Butch on the field of battle. The demon champion leapt into the air and landed next to Butch, taking out his blade and proceeded to swing at the young hero.
Butch sidestepped and proceeded to return the attack. The demons stood aside as Butch and Denas fought in a duel. Butch locked his blade against Denas' as he then proceeded to bump his shoulder into the demon. Knocking the demon off balance, he struck Denas, cutting into the demon's flesh. The demon grabbed his arm in pain as he growled. "Well met, human!" He growled as he threw an explosive at Butch. Butch dodged to the side, and when the smoke cleared, Denas has already fled to go to the temple. Wasting no time, Butch ordered his troops to follow him in a charge. With that, Butch pursued the retreating enemy forces.
Ahead of the forces, the first demon troopers arrived at the temple entrance. With a grunt, the lead demon led the troops into the catacombs. One of the demons stepped on a stone, triggering a trap. A large spiked stone tablet came sliding down the hallway, forcing the led demon to growl in surprise as he barked an order to retreat. The demons ran as fast as they could, only to find the entrance blocked off by another spiked stone tablet. They screamed in terror as their cries of death could be heard by everyone else that were outside.
Denas arrived just in time. "What…what is this? Why aren't you imbeciles inside!" "Master! We were, but the door closed directly in front of us! And our brothers! We heard them scream inside." A demon muttered. Another demon screamed in fear and began to desert. "Deserted will be killed!" Denas screamed with a commanding bark as he shot out a spell at the deserting demon, killing him in an instant. Denas led the troops to another entrance and charged inside.
Butch arrived with his forces at the temple grounds. Seeing the demon forces rushing into an entrance, he ordered his troops to fire at that position. Killing a few demons, he then rushed with his men after them. Once inside the temple, Butch knew that there must be traps so, he took of into the ceiling to avoid triggering any trap triggers. Hovering, he fired the demon rifle he picked up at the running demons. One of the demons decided to fire back and stepped towards him in a shooting stance, accidently triggering a trap. Some spikes near him popped out of the narrow walls around him, instantly killing him and some of his comrades further down the tunnel. "Hah, idiot." Butch muttered as he followed after the spiked walls shift back into their positions. He looked at the mangled demon bodies that dropped to the ground after the spikes returned into their hiding places. "Urgh." He returned his glance to his men, warning them to be careful before continuing down the tunnel.
Butch flew further with some of his men tailing behind. Seconds later he entered the main chambers and within seconds, heard the sound of a wall sealing him from his troops. Only about 3 Angelic Paladins and 3 angelic archers had entered in with him. "This makes things a challenge." He looked ahead, the chamber is rather huge, but obviously, there are nooks and corners that they must navigate through the second labyrinth to reach the ritual site. The stone is at the end of the second labyrinth at the ritual area. Various demon warriors have already disarmed the traps and have setup defensive positions. "Come my men, we can do this! Forward!" Butch said as he charged the enemy line holed up ahead.
Butch used the shield to cover his men as the archers did what they can to fire at the handful of demon warriors that were returning fire with their dark magic. As soon as the fire stopped, the archers exchanged their own volley as Butch then leapt at the enemy line, slashing and cutting them up to pieces. One demon warrior managed to drive his lance at Butch, and since it was enchanted by dark magic, Butch was struck. He stumbled back, holding his bleeding side. "My lord!" A paladin shouted as he leapt towards the enemy that had took a stab at their leader. The demon prepared to finish Butch off when the paladin leapt in Butch's place and drove his sword up the demon's chest. The demon still stabbed in a dying reflex as the angelic paladin took the blow for Butch.
Butch was angered as he held his bleeding hide. "Wounding me is one thing, but forcing one of my men to risk their lives for me is another. You will pay, foul demon!" Butch said as he stuck his sword into the ground, sending earth-shattering energy around him, destroying demon warriors that were getting ready to attack him. Butch took to the ceiling, flying past as he unleashed earth elemental energies throughout the chambers, destroying the warriors that stood in his way. The remaining 5 soldiers that came into the dark temple with him watched their leader unleash a fury of power upon the demonic forces. They cheered as they charged on, to help their leader in any way as they followed in his destructive wake.
Denas lost his concentration as he was trying to conjure the corruption and destruction ritual of the Darashianish stone that stood before him. He turned around to see a demon warrior get blasted off his feet and come flying at him. Denas raised his weapon to block, slicing the mangled flying body into pieces as it came in contact with his blade. Denas stared at the smoke and debris generated by the constant unleashed fury of the earth embraced Rowdyruff boy. The smoke cleared and the lone hero stood in the spot where his best warriors had secured a nearly impenetrable defense. Looking past the hero, he noticed the wake of destruction that this mortal had done. Just him, and a few angelic warriors could get past all of his demons set up in here.
"Well met, Hero…but you won't survive this!" Denas growled as he threw a volley of energy blasts at Butch. Butch just rolled to the side and returned with a high powered eyebeam and then a forward lunge with the sword. Doing a round house kick to the demon general, he knocked him off balance and then struck with the sword. Denas stepped back, grabbed the side that Butch had cut, and groaned. "Gah." Without warning, Denas struck with his blade. Butch raised his blade to intercept it and they both engaged in a blade lock, each one struggled to gain the upper hand.
Butch gritted his teeth as he let out a howl of power as he overthrew the demon general's blade lock, and drove his sword deep into the demon general's side. Pulling it out quickly, he concentrated all of his power and beheaded the defeated general. Butch leapt back as the demon's corpse suddenly cracked as a bright light filled the cracks on the demonic body. The demon's corpse exploded in a flash of bright light as the forces of light banished him back to the pits of hell. The demon general's blade fell out of the disintegrating Denas hands as it hit the floor with a loud thud.
Butch let out a sigh of relief as the battle here was over. Now that he could rest, his body was way exerted. He collapsed on his back, exhausted, now feeling the full force of his exhaustion. He struggled to keep his eyes open as he passed in and out of consciousness.
While this is happening, something dark remained with Denas's abandoned sword. A dark glow still came from it. Within seconds, the blade exploded in dark energy as a blast of dark power rushed towards the stone, corrupting it and turning it into a dark red color. This noise forced Butch to rise back to consciousness as he realized what had happened. The sword was corrupting the stone. He picked up his sword and with as much strength he could muster, he brought his blade down upon the dark weapon, shattering it in a blow. The stream of dark energies flowing out of the blade to the stone suddenly stopped. The stone wasn't fully corrupted, but something didn't look right.
Butch let out a breath as he groaned again after destroying the blade. His remaining men had found a way to enter the chamber elsewhere. They looked at the stone and became worried. "Lord Butch, the stone isn't fully corrupted, but in the case of such an corruption and if it is stopped early, the stone will self destruct as a self measure to prevent further attempts, we have to escape!" The angels told him. Butch looked at the stone and saw their point. The stone was essentially getting brighter as though it was getting ready to go into meltdown. "There's nothing we can do? The stone will still be destroyed…" "Let's hope the others will have better luck, general. But now, we need to leave the temple with haste!" The angel advised him. Butch nodded and prepared to leave but collapsed. He was too exhausted. The angels didn't say anything as they picked him up and moved as fast as they can out of the chamber and out of the temple, taking to the skies.
Last thing Butch saw before he passed out into a day long slumber was the temple erupting in explosive earthen energies as the earth swallowed the ancient structure whole, before spewing it out like debris from a volcano. "Rest, General Butch. You have done well…Stopping a demon lord from corrupting the stone completely before its destruction is good enough." The lord spoke to him in his mind as he was evacuated with his troops to meet up with Buttercup's forces in the East, in China.
Meanwhile, around the world, Boomer is making his way once again through the mountainside of the Himalayas. He growled as he lead his men through the snow covered peaks. "Why! Why does everyone of my adventures always have to do with snow?" He complained as he led his troops in hot pursuit of a demon general.
While Boomer trudged through the snow, his girlfriend Bubbles was charging across the plains of northern Scotland with her winged cavalry against an army of demon wyverns riders to dominate the area of the stone's burial site. The demons had summoned ancient wyvern dragons to aid in their mission. "Nothing I never fought!" She screamed as she let go a war cry as she took flight with her angels in their winged horse-steeds.
Buttercup in China was engaged in a deadly naval engagement against the demon hordes. The demons had commandeered human battleships and were shelling the coastline before sending their troops on shore. Helpless humans fought futilely against the demon commandeered ships. Buttercup and her forces "hopped" from ship to ship, hoping to overrun the demon occupants and retake the ship for the forces of good, and return fire on the demon ships. Currently their forces are low, but Demon reinforcements keep appear off the horizon. Buttercup doesn't know how much longer her army can keep this up. She prays that someone will come to her aid soon.
Brick and Blossom chased after Blarina and her two closest generals as she left an wake of destruction southeast, towards the heart of Africa. Deadly skirmishes were encountered frequently during the chase. Nonetheless, the two will push on, as they led their forces deeper into Africa, after the menacing Blarina.
A/N: And that's the end of this chapter. Sorry once again that this took a long while to finish. I had a really, really long stretch of writer's block. But now the ideas are flowing again! In the next chapter, Butch will arrive to aid buttercup and her naval battle, and maybe a few more tidbits of the other armies. In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed this chapter.