First and foremost, Extra Kudos to my man, zero9g9 for not only coming the closest to figuring out the saying that everyone else confused me with. Below is a exert from a previous chapter, I highlighted the important parts:
"Type in the following command; eliminate all hostiles, especially any
in Global Justice'"
Unlike all the other replies I got (Asking why Apotheosis is going after them) made me completely forget I put that in a chapter. There's you're answer, so no more bugging me about it. (I have a rusty dull chainsaw and I'm not afraid to use it, as long as you give me the gas to run it).
As for the foreshadowing, zero9g9 is very close, as what I meant to the foreshadow was mentioned in that chapter, only it involved one of the weapons. Go through the weapons Vin has for himself, and you will find your answer, or just read and find out.
Now for the Will/Vin/Apotheosis thing, whatever you think will happen. Think again.
Also my apologies for the delay in writing this chapter, as it was one of the tougher ones for me to write (taking practically five days instead of the normal 1-2 I usually hammer these out at), but hopefully it is a nice fitting chapter as we draw so very closer to the end. I still don't know how many more are left, but I should have a good idea when this one is finished.
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Chapter 26
Knocking on Heaven's door
"Oh no" Rufus squeaked from Ron's pocket.
"Man, of all the wrong times to show up, that thing picks this one" Ron grumbled.
Apotheosis was a very unwelcome sight for them, especially since time was short till sunrise, when the air strike would most likely occur.
The Creature slowly lumbered towards them as they stayed close together in the center of the runway, trying to figure out a way out of this current dilemma, only they weren't liking the options.
"What do we do, what do we do!" Bonnie asked in a near state of panic.
Then the creature averted its gaze, looking back at the terminal where they came from, and where Will and Vin were currently fighting it out. It soon changed its trajectory and headed toward the terminal, ignoring them completely.
Kim's grip on her rifle tightened as she watched the creature turn towards the terminal, already figuring out what it was going to do.
I'll be damned if I let that creature kill him…
"Dad" She said through gritted teeth, her eyes already changing to the red.
"What is it Kimmie?"
She turned to look back at them, her face determined.
"Go with the others, find a plane, and get it ready for takeoff."
Before they even had a chance to protest she started marching towards the creature, leaving everyone else standing there in surprise.
Chris, Jill and Carlos exchanged looks with each other before they two started off after Kim, priming their weapons for combat.
Ron looked across the group; The Possibles nodded their head, as did his own family, knowing that he must do this. He started after Kim and the bunch.
"Hey Ron" Bonnie called.
He turned towards her as she tossed her AK-47 towards him, which he grabbed.
"Put one in the son of a bitches head for me"
A smirk crossed his face as he nodded his head before he started after Kim again, walking past Shego and Drakken.
"Oh hell, why not" Shego shrugged as she turned after Ron.
"Shego, wait"
"No Dr. D you're not coming, it's too risky for you" She said turning towards the blue skinned man.
He frowned slightly, but inside he knew she was right, she usually was. Instead of complaining he tossed her the M-79 he'd been carrying around and the belt with 3 grenade rounds on it.
"I figure you'd have more of a use for it that me"
"Keep the plane ready for us" She said before she turned back.
That was when the explosion rocked the terminal, enveloping the area in which they left in a massive fireball. Everyone stopped in mute shock of what they just witnessed, and none of them notice Apotheosis tilt his head to the side while his Rocket launcher remained on his shoulder.
"You will die Vin, just like the others…"
Blah, blah, blah, he never knows when to shut the fuck up…
Vin struggled to bring his right arm up to his throat, as it was incredibly painful to move after his smashing visit with the glass window of the terminal, but he was able to bring it up around the edges of Will's hand.
Will was still rambling on about how he'd been a failure of a leader, and how'd they will all die, Vin wasn't really paying attention, he was more focused on trying to not get choked to death by this stuck up prick that listen to his every word. It soon became apparent that Will was on a rant, never actually tightening his grip on Vin's throat any more than it already was. This allowed Vin to loosen Will's top fingers from his throat, allowing some much needed air in, and buying him time to think.
While he was initially going to kill Will, his strategy of fighting him to death was not the way to do it, his current situation and health were proof of that. But how to kill someone who is practically immortal is not something you do a trial and error test to see what would work, especially if said person has you by the throat.
Vin felt the grip around his throat tighten slightly; he surmised that Will was finishing his long rant, which really wasn't more than a minute long. To Vin it was a much needed eternity of allowing him to think of a way to get out of this mess.
His left hand was still wrapped around the grip of the AR-15, although he couldn't really use it, as it was empty…at least the magazine was.
The light bulb went off in his head, although it wasn't something he wanted to do. Chances of him surviving the new plan were slim at best, but slim was damn better than hanging here till dead, that and he was getting near the verge of blacking out from lack of oxygen, so it was now or never.
With the last of his strength he pulled the AR-15 up as fast as he could, the muzzle smacked Will right in the cheek, cutting him from his right cheek into his eye and eyebrow. It caught Will off guard and caused him to momentarily loosen his grip on his neck, giving him another ounce of strength to force the barrel into Will's forehead.
Will blinked off the initial surprise of having the gun dig into his face, and quickly tightened his grip on Vin's neck, not enough to kill him just yet, but enough to warrant the gun to stop moving.
Will looked back in Vin's eyes, while he was struggling for every breath, he had no outward showing of fear or terror of what will happen to him, instead he still had the same determined look on his face from when he left Will for dead.
That was when Will looked up to where the barrel of the AR-15 was digging into his forehead.
He groaned, rolling his eyes at Vin's futile attempt to scare him.
"Please, I'm not stupid Vin; did you actually plan on shooting me with a bullet from an empty weapon?" Will started chuckling at the absurdity of his attempt.
"Who…said….it was….a bullet…" Vin hissed through his teeth.
Will's eyes turned back to him, seeing Vin's brow turned down into a scowl. Then he looked back at the assault rife, wondering what exactly Vin was talking about when he realized what was pointing at his face.
While the barrel of the assault rifle was pointed at his head, Will was staring right into the barrel of the Grenade Launcher attached to the bottom of the barrel, with Vin's finger on the trigger.
Will's grip relaxed, although he still held Vin by the throat it wasn't choking him. He felt sweat start to drip off his forehead, curling around the muzzle of the barrel still pressed against his forehead. He knew Wesker said that bullets didn't really effect him now unless he was hit in the head, but he never mentioned what would result in a grenade to the head, and he honestly did not want to find out.
"See you in hell Will" Vin hissed.
Will made one last attempt to crush Vin's throat before he fired the round into his head.
Vin's finger squeezed the trigger, and the flash of light coming out of the barrel was the last thing Will ever saw.
The explosion was much more powerful than Vin expected, but then again he was never right next to a grenade round when it detonated. While the whole thing happened in seconds, it seemed like hours to Vin as it all went in slow motion.
He felt Will's hand tighten around his throat, attempting to end him before he could fire; only Vin fired first. With the explosion occurring practically at the end of the barrel, Vin only had a few seconds to see Will's head shatter like a ripe melon being hit by a hammer before the force of the blast sent him flying backwards into the Glass wall that he had already smashed into.
The force of the blast, and Vin's previous impact shattered the glass, sending him right through it. He didn't know what was worse, hitting the glass, or the 25 foot fall into the concrete of the tarmac he was now looking at.
He hit the ground hard, bouncing on initial impact and then rolling/sliding another fifteen feet or so before he came to a stop on his back, looking up at the now burning terminal where he just left. Debris also started raining down around him, large pieces of glass, burnt and charred airport seats, and amazingly the sniper rifle clattered to the ground ten feet behind him.
"Ohhhh…shiiiittttt" He wailed as he tried to get up.
It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out he was in pain, that and the piece of shrapnel sticking out of his lower left chest was a dead give away.
Somehow he was able to pull the piece out of his side without screaming in agony, but from what he could feel the shrapnel was the least of his worries. From the explosion, and the fall he was able to roughly determine that some more, if not all of his ribs were cracked, his right leg was in fairly bad shape but it wasn't broken, his right arm was basically dead weight now, the result of being dislocated and then relocated as well as probably being dislocated and/or shattered after the fall. If he was able to survive getting out of this town he was in for a very long recovery period.
Groaning in pain he was able to force himself to sit up, allowing him to feel the other extremities that were on the injured/broken list of his, including his right collarbone.
He was amazed that he was able to move at all. He looked at the assault rifle; the blast didn't fare very well on the gun as the grenade launcher was practically destroyed, although by some miracle the barrel appeared to be fine. He slowly got to his feet, using the rifle as a crutch to keep himself from falling.
He looked back towards the runway, expecting to see them all waiting in a jet, only he saw a good deal of them fighting with the Apotheosis creature instead.
"Ah, Fuck" He groaned, wincing at the pain it caused him to talk.
He noticed his Springfield resting a few feet away from him, and the baggage car a few feet from that.
He hobbled over to the rifle, groaning in pain again as he reached down to grab it before he leaned against the baggage car. He strained to pull one of his last magazines out of his belt and slide it into the assault rifle, and then he slid in behind the wheel of the baggage cart.
"I'm getting too old for this shit" He grumbled before he hit the gas pedal, taking off in the general direction of the group.
Kim stared at the explosion in shock, for all she knew that blast killed both Will and Vin. And she knew exactly who caused it (Or so she thought).
She was staring at the back of Apotheosis, its rocket launcher sitting on its shoulder, facing the now burning terminal.
"Vin…" she whispered before she squeezed the trigger.
The clatter of gunfire, as well as the rounds impacting its back now captured Apotheosis's attention as it started turning back towards the source of the shooting.
While its initial mission was to eliminate all Global Justice agents, it was also supposed to eliminate any threats it ran into along the way, including one of Umbrella's own creations if necessary.
What was attacking it now was labeled as a hostile, as were the five coming up behind it.
Apotheosis growled as the others opened fire on it, the rounds impacting all over its form and bouncing off the rocket launcher.
Within the seconds after they opened fire Apotheosis found the perfect spot to aim which would take them all out and pointed the device over at them.
"..Justice…" It growled before it fired its weapon.
Instead of firing like a rocket launcher should, the launcher exploded, splitting the tube in several places and rendering it useless. The destruction of the launcher surprised Apotheosis more than actually wound it, granted it was a good hit, and would take some of the fight out of him, but he was still up and able to wreak havoc on all the hostiles.
It dropped the damaged weapon on the ground and scanned the group, finding the one who held a device the creature surmised caused its weapon to blow up like it did, it would make that one the priority, as it was the biggest threat.
It roared in anger before it broke out into a full speed run at them.
"Look out!" Chris shouted as Apotheosis charged right at them, they barely scattered out of the way before it drove right through were they were standing before it slid to a halt.
"Come on you oversized jackass, we're right here!" Shego shouted as she opened up with the Thompson, allowing the M79 to hang around her shoulder.
Everyone opened up on Apotheosis now as it slowly turned back towards them. It lashed out with its massive right hand, attempting to smash the closest person to it, which happened to be Kim. Only Kim was too quick for it and cart wheeled out of the way just as its fist struck the ground.
Apotheosis then struck out against the next nearest person, which was Ron. Ron was able to get out of the way just like Kim did, only his was far less graceful and ended up putting him face first into the concrete.
The others continued their assault on the creature, pumping round after round into it in hopes of knocking it down, but it wasn't even phasing it. It slammed its right fist into a nearby Jet, buckling and peeling the aluminum of the wing before it grabbed the end of the wing. With one good pull it ripped the wing off from where it struck the wing, spilling Jet fuel onto the tarmac.
With a roar it threw the section of wing right at the group, causing them to scatter as it impacted the ground, tearing chunks out of itself as it tumbled. One chunk managed to smack into Ron, knocking him down in close proximity to Apotheosis. The others watched in horror as the creature sent one of it's tentacles out and wrapped it around Ron's body.
"RON, NO!" Kim screamed.
But she was stuck on the other side of the wing, and a good forty feet away from them.
What had happened to her was about to happen to Ron.
Vin painfully lifted his foot off the accelerator of the baggage car when he saw the wing slam into the ground, he was still about fifty yards away from the rest of them but close enough to see what the creature started to do with someone who was down.
Through his blurry, and blood filled vision Vin was able to make out who exactly was in the creatures grasp, seconds before Kim screamed.
"Shit"
The car was still coasting in the group's general vicinity on a relatively straight path towards Apotheosis and Ron.
Looks like its time to be a marksmen again…
It was easier said than done for him now, even though the trajectory was straight on, he still had blurry and obstructed vision, and he really couldn't hold the rifle thanks to his right arms injury. But he wasn't going to let something as minor as those stop him.
He turned the rifle upright from its position on the hood of the open baggage car and leaned down, putting his eye to the scope. He only had one shot, one shot to get it right, otherwise Apotheosis would kill Ron before he was able to load the next round in.
At this point Kim started running towards Apotheosis, probably planning on doing something to those tentacles so they would release Ron, but even with her enhanced speed she wasn't going to make it.
Vin brought the shapes of Apotheosis and Ron into the scopes sights, shapes because he couldn't see them definitely. He lined up the shot best he could, took a deep, painful breath, and squeezed the trigger.
Kim was closing in on Apotheosis; she was roughly twelve feet away from it and Ron when the shot rang out. It reverberated through the emptiness of the airport grounds; just by the sound of the round Kim knew what it was that fired, and who it was behind that rifle.
Just like before the tentacle exploded from the rounds impact, shredding it from Apotheosis and allowing Ron to fall back to the ground. Only Kim was there to catch him instead of letting him hit the ground.
Ron was still conscious, and was wriggling out of the remains of the tentacle that wrapped around him. She stopped behind the back wheels of a parked aircraft while Ron stepped out of the tentacle.
"You ok Ron?"
"I think so; I don't feel any different if that's what you're getting at"
She embraced him in a hug, which he returned, knowing what it must have felt like to have their roles in the Apotheosis scenario switched.
"So, where did that come from?" He asked.
"Heads Up!"
They looked out from behind the wheels just in time to see a speeding baggage car heading right towards Apotheosis; it smashed into its legs and threw the large creature over the top of the car sending him smashing face first into the tarmac. The car turned slightly, heading towards their location before its brakes locked and it skidded to a halt a few feet from the wheels. Behind the wheel was a very bloody, and battered familiar face.
"Vin, you're all right!" Kim shouted with joy.
Vin gripped his left side; he looked down at it to see that section of his shirt soak through with blood.
"More or less" He wheezed, forcing a small smile on his face.
"Dude, are you ok? You don't look to good" Ron asked.
"No good" Rufus mimicked.
"Lets see how good you look after flying back first through an airport window before falling twenty feet to hard concrete" He started coughing at the end of his sentence, small specks of blood came from his mouth as he did so.
"We need to get you and everyone else out of here" Kim said flatly.
"Not until we get rid of tall, dark and ugly over there" Ron motioned to Apotheosis, who was now getting up off his feet.
The others regrouped around them, hoping to see if Ron was ok, and if there was a plan.
Across the tarmac in the private jet hangar the sound of two jet engines starting up was carried across the wind, they had a jet, now they just had to finish the creature or they'd never leave the town alive.
"We're running out of time, we have to take it out now" Carlos breathed, spitting on the ground.
"Anyone have…any ideas" Vin asked, wincing at the increasing pain that coursed through him.
Everyone shook their head, they didn't have a clue.
The turbines across the tarmac powered up, allowing a twenty passenger private jet to emerge from the hangar, it gave Vin an idea, and when he saw Shego with the Grenade launcher it made his idea a good idea.
"I think I have a plan…"
Yes I know, this one is slightly shorter than the previous chapters. Well, this chapter grew from its original concept, thus it didn't leave room for the end half of the fight, or the escape. So it looks like a good 2 chapters left to this story, then a short breather for me (Maybe a day or two, not to mention a short story to fill in that time) then it's on to the sequel.
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