Welcome to the last part of An Unstoppable Enemy, everybody!
I enjoyed doing these 4 part chapters as I wanted to showcase just how outmatched Night Raid was as well as show off just how technologically superior the Ultrabots are. Get ready for the big surprise at the end!
Also, Happy Belated New Year!
Review Time!
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Junior VB: But will it be enough to defeat them? Glad you understand Tatsumi's plight.
King of Fans: Whoa now! Extor still has to help them!
Guest #1: Calm down, you'll see.
EyeCU: We'll see soon enough…
Arkham Knight: Exactly. Humans were never meant to play God yet we still keep attempting it.
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Guest #2: That would be an interesting idea for a continuation, but one I won't use.
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NRG: Year, a better alternative that to what originally happened to her.
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Guest #3: Sucks, don't it?
Vitork: I may do a story about him sometime in the future.
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Chapter 12
An Unstoppable Enemy (Part 4)
"This isn't happening fast enough! GET THEM OUT OF THERE!"
-President Whitmore, Independence Day
KYOROCH
Najenda dodged to the left just in time to avoid the wave of ice spikes erupting from the ground. She opened fire with her wrist mounted HMG at #17 but the large caliber bullets harmlessly bounced off its metallic hide. Black Ice rushed towards Najenda, its katars gleaming in the sun as it thrusted the blade at her head! Najenda craned her neck to the right just in time to dodge the blade but it caught her eyepatch and ripped it off; revealing her scarred, permanently shut eyelid after her eye had been punctured by Esdeath.
She followed up with an uppercut with her prosthetic arm but it did no harm to #17 as it speared it's katar straight through it, almost stabbing Najenda in her other eye! It grabbed her by the neck and flung her aside into a lamppost. Black Ice retracted it's katar from its hand and it became incased in ice as it fired a flurry of razor sharp icicles at Najenda! She instantly ran as fast as she could as they tore apart the surroundings in a hail of icy devastation.
Najenda vaulted over some rubble to avoid the incoming icicles and then popped out from behind cover to fire her grapple arm at #17, the prosthetic's hand balled into fist. It hit Black Ice straight in the face but it did no damage and only succeeded in staggering it. Seeing her chance, Najenda reeled the fist back to her and she rushed towards #17 with the hopes of finding a weak spot of some kind that could turn the tides in her favor.
But she suddenly halted in place when she noticed her feet encased in ice! Before she could try to beak herself free, #17 was upon her in an instant and sent a pillar of ice smashing into her chest! It launched her across the streets as Najenda quickly got herself up and opened fire with her HMG while aiming at #17's eyes. But it had no effect just like before as Black Ice continued to advance towards her unabated.
Her HMG finally ran out of ammo, further frustrating her. Najenda ran towards the creature and threw her metal fist straight at it with all her might. She hit it dead on but had no effect as Black Ice grabbed her other arm and twisted it while slicing her leg with its katar! It then smashed its elbow right into her face and then threw her over its shoulder, froze her legs in place again and did a flying dropkick straight into her chest that sent her careening through two buildings! But Black Ice wasn't done yet as it formed a hefty ball of ice in its hands and threw it like a baseball right at Najenda. It hit her right in the side of her head and nearly gave her a concussion.
Najenda's world was spinning right before her eyes as pain coursed through her body. She tried to get up but stumbled back down due to her leg injury and fractured arm. With the side of her head bleeding heavily, she looked up to see #17 slowly walking towards her, tightly gripping its katars. Her heart hammered inside her chest as sweat and blood poured down her face. This wasn't just fear she was experiencing…it was PTSD.
This fight was just like how Esdeath ambushed her and her group when she defected from the Empire many years ago. The experience had cost her an eye and an arm as well as scarring her both mentally and physically. It also gave her an unflinching hatred towards her former comrade turned psychopath.
But it had also left her with nightmares and this fight was like they were literally coming to life to haunt her once again in the worst way possible. Najenda gnashed her teeth together in rage as she felt completely helpless to do anything just like so many years ago. Black Ice stood over her, utterly motionless as the leader of Night Raid trembled in fury.
"You monster….you godless son of a bitch….you and the others are just like Esdeath…" She silently hissed while digging her fingers into the ground. Black Ice continued to look down at her without saying a word. She instantly surged forward with her prosthetic fist reared back and ready to punch it with bone shattering force!
"YOU HAVE NO SOULS!" She roared!
Black Ice stabbed her arm with both of its katars, stopping the blow dead in its tracks.
"THAT IS WHY WE FEEL NO FEAR."
Ice began to encase her whole arm and #17 retracted its blades and smashed her prosthetic, shattering it and scattered bits and pieces of frozen metal across the ground! It froze Najenda's hands to the wall of a nearby building and then ran both of its katars straight through her collarbones!
SKLUTCH
"GYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!" She screamed! Black Ice then brought its face straight up to hers.
"ESDEATH WISHES SHE WAS INCAPABLE OF FEELING FEAR."
Susanoo whipped his head over to the source of the screaming. His master was in danger! His first instinct was to go help her immediately but then he was painfully reminded how his opponents weren't going to let him.
BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA
FOOOM FOOOM FOOOM FOOOM
KOOOMPH KOOOMPH KOOOMPH
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
A volley of bullets, rockets, grenades and mortars ripped apart the streets and buildings of Kyoroch, courtesy of Scorched Earth and Artillery Barrage. Susanoo dodged out of the way just in time as another large section of the city had been reduced to rubble. The Humanoid Teigu was currently in his Trump Card form: Magatama Manifestation. No longer dressed in his white robes, he now wore tattered black pants and his blue hair was now completely white. His body was considerably muscular with a circular disk-like object floated behind him and wielded a long, transparent sword known as Ame no Murakumo.
But the transformation did little to improve his odds. The disk had been split in half, his horns had been snapped off, Murakumo was cracked in half and there were multiple bullet holes and gashes all over his body, his blood flowing from the wounds and giving him an almost dead appearance. Susanoo knew that the situation was now untenable. His regeneration could barely keep up and had slowed down due to his tremendous injuries and his main form of defense, Yata no Kagami, had been rendered effectively useless now that it was in half. Despite the fact that it could reflect any projectile thrown at it, the sheer power and velocity that the bullets and explosives were launched from their weapons made it impossible for Yata no Kagami to offer any kind of protection as it ripped through the mirror with no resistance whatsoever.
Another problem was his primary offensive weapon was broken like a twig. What were these things made out of? Murakumo could cut through virtually anything but no matter how hard he tried; Susanoo just couldn't cut through them! He had even tried attacking while Yasakani no Magamata was active but even the boost in speed and strength wasn't enough!
But the biggest concern was his master. In the earlier stages of the fight, she activated his Trump Card for the first time in a while but she knew what she was sacrificing when she used it: her life force. But as the battle went on and when they weren't gaining any ground, Najenda used his Trump Card a second time. It gave him a tremendous boost in overall power but it also drastically, and dangerously, reduced Najenda's overall lifespan. He prayed that she wouldn't be forced to use it a third time as while it might enable him to defeat these things; it would also mean further reducing her lifespan or worse, kill her. He couldn't bear to lose another master again or go back to dormancy.
There was no way he was going to let that happen again. There had to be some way to beat these things! He heard the sound of #6 nearing his position and he ducked out of sight. He t began to carefully run through the tight corners of the buildings so that he could escape without #6 seeing him. It was too bad that Scorched Earth could track his footprints.
BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA
The roar of its dual miniguns turned buildings into Swiss cheese as Susanoo ran for dear life! Scorched earth continued to hover in the air with its helicopter function as it precisely tracked the humanoid Teigu's movements with its advanced targeting optics. Susanoo finally exited into a street and fled the incoming hail of bullets but they finally caught up to him and perforated his body and legs, his regenerative powers barely had enough time to prevent his legs from literally being sawed off.
He tumbled through the streets until he finally smashed into a building and Scorched Earth fired two rockets at it, blowing it into pieces. Susanoo instantly burst forth from the rubble and quickly made his escape only to have #16 round the corner of a nearby house and launch a volley of shrapnel grenades at him while firing its wrist mounted shotgun!
FWOOMP FWOOMP FWOOMP
PAKOOM PAKOOM PAKOOM PAKOOM
Susanoo quickly formed Yata no Kagami in front of him as the torrent of shrapnel filled grenade and shotgun shells neared him. The mirror was instantly torn to shreds and Susanoo had to shield himself with his arms as they tore up his body. But Susanoo continued to push forward and thrusted the end of his broken yet still sharp blade at #16. Artillery Barrage dodged out of the way and fired a grenade at Susanoo but the humanoid Teigu blocked it with Murakumo and prepared to attack. But then he began to hear a sizzling sound coming from his sword. He looked down and saw to his horror that a sticky green substance was melting his blade straight down to the hilt!
Taking advantage of its distracted prey, Artillery Barrage ducked down and aimed its back mounted mortar at him. The shell hit him dead on and the force of the explosion sent a charred Susanoo spiraling through the air! Scorched Earth made a beeline towards him and fired its rockets at him, this time they were on target. They slammed into Susanoo and sent him throttling to the ground were they finally exploded on impact. Susanoo instantly emerged from the smoke cloud and ran for his life like a bat out of hell. It was official: there was absolutely no way they could win at this rate. He and everyone else had to escape.
Scorched Earth hovered in the sky as it locked on to Susanoo and fired a barrage of missiles at him from the pods on its shoulders. Susanoo made a hard right to avoid the missiles but was shocked to see that they were following him! He kept making sudden turns in the hopes to lose the projectiles but he never noticed Artillery Barrage emerge from the roof of a house and launch a grenade at him! He jumped over the grenade and continued to run…but never new that it was a stun grenade with a large area of effect.
BOOM
Tiny adhesive balls spread outward from the small explosion and attached themselves to Susanoo. They stabbed tiny little barbs into his skin and began to tighten his muscles to the point where he froze in place in sheer, excruciating agony. Unable to move, the heat seeking missiles slammed into Susanoo and the humanoid Teigu was engulfed in a massive, fiery explosion that sent him smashing through several buildings.
Susanoo could barely get up as he began to vomit blood. He looked down at his core and saw that it was cracked in some places. This was a clear sign that he was close to death and his healing abilities had now slowed down to a snail's pace. He fought through the pain and tried to get up, intent on finding his master and friends. The dust that was kicked up from the ruined buildings began to clear and he saw something that made him gasp.
"MASTER!" He shouted out as he scrambled to the prone form of Najenda! The leader of Night Raid was covered in bloody lacerations and ice burns, as well as lost her prosthetic arm. She was barely conscious. Susanoo carefully scooped her up in his arms and ran through the derelict city.
"Master, speak to me! Please!" Susanoo pleaded.
Najenda opened her only eye. "Su…sanoo…?"
"Try not to speak. Just hold on, I'm getting you and everyone else away from these demons as far away as possible."
"No…we have to stop them!"
"Master, we cannot win!"
"Then let me use your Trump Card again! You'll be able to-"
"NAJENDA! This battle is folly! We must retreat!" Susanoo shouted, stunning Najenda. Susanoo had never disobeyed her orders and this surprised her immensely. Then again, he did have a point: this was now a suicide mission.
SHHRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNK
A wall of ice instantly shot up in front of them, blocking off their retreat. #17 seemingly emerged from the ice in front of them as #6 and #16 came up from behind. The two of them were now surrounded and completely helpless.
"THERE IS NO ESCAPE."
"THERE IS NO HOPE."
"THERE IS NO MERCY."
DAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKA
Within a decorative courtyard, a badly wounded Mine tightly depressed the trigger of her Teigu as hard as she could. Yellow colored blasts of spirit energy erupted from Pumpkin as she wildly sprayed the area where her adversaries were, creating a cloud of smoke while decimating numerous buildings. She continued to open fire upon the metal monstrosities; her calm and tactical personality had now been replaced by complete panic.
"WHY WON'T YOU DIE!?" she screamed!
Her answer came in the form of several bladed chakrams bursting forth from the smoke, all of them aimed right at her! She held up Pumpkin while switching to its sword-like long barrel configuration to block them. It was successful in protecting her but the blades got a few nicks in along her leg, arms and waist. She cried out in pain as the chakrams turned around and came straight at her once again! Mine ducked to avoid them but then saw #12 barreling through the smoke with its mace held high above its head! Mine jumped out of the way as the mace slammed into the ground but then it charged at her with its tower shield held up.
She sidestepped out of the way just in time as #12 thundered straight through a wall. Mine began to charge Pumpkin; spirit energy beginning to surround the blade. She rushed inside through the hole and swung Pumpkin across its unprotected backside, the enhanced blade cleaving through the walls and the building itself like a hot knife through butter.
But #12 was unharmed! Mine's eyes widened in confusion and utter shock. Pumpkin's power became stronger the more emotion she felt and how much danger she was in but it still wasn't enough to cut through them! Why wasn't it working?!
Blood Knight spun around and swung its mace at Mine but she black flipped out of the way and headed outside where Razor Wind blocked off her escape. The four armed monster threw its chakrams at her and Mine swung Pumpkin again, this time a cohesive beam coming from the barrel as it sliced through the chakrams, #18 and the entire courtyard itself. But #18 and its weapons were undamaged! There wasn't even a scratch on them! The chakrams began to fly around Mine like a swarm of angry bees cutting apart her skin as she tried in vain to bat them away with Pumpkin.
Blood Knight came up from behind her and slammed its tower shield right into her, launching her straight out of the courtyard and into a deserted street. Mine groaned in pain as she creaked her eyes open. Every part of her body hurt so damn much. She was covered in steady bleeding cuts and the blow from earlier fractured a bone or two while her Teigu lay beside her. She looked up at the sun and then her surroundings.
'This reminds me on when…' she thought as unpleasant memories began flooding into her head. Her situation and where she had landed in was just like when she was a little girl living in the Capital a very long time ago. Where she was ruthlessly beaten and tormented by bullies in the streets while bystanders didn't even bother to help her or even so much as give her a sideways glance.
'Every time I was picked on because I was a half-blood foreigner I was left with wounds all over my body and looked up at the sky like this. That's when I understood that nobody would help me. Only I can help myself. And in the future, I can make up for all my misfortunes and change the world into a place where there is no irrational discrimination.' She reminisced.
A surge of furious determination surged through her body as she forced herself up and tightly grabbed Pumpkin, charging it to full power as it began to glow red hot.
'There's no way in hell I'm going to die here!'
Blood Knight and Razor Wind finally arrived at her location and could see her Teigu crackling with spirit energy and getting brighter by the second. They stood where they were, at the far end of the street, not even attempting to stop her.
"IT DIDN'T WORK THE FIRST TIME. IT DIDN'T WORK THE SECOND TIME."
"WHAT MAKES YOU THINK IT WILL WORK A THIRD TIME?"
"Don't underestimate Pumpkin, you metal freaks!" Mine snarled as she took aim, Pumpkin making a dull humming sound that increased it volume. They started to walk towards her at a slow pace while they were in her line of sight.
"BLAST THROUGH! CUT-DOWN SHOT!"
BAAAFWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMM
Mine fired Pumpkin's Trump card directly at the creatures and a massive beam of pure spirit energy, now colored blue, exploded from the barrel; engulfing #18 and #12, as well as half of Kyoroch! The bream disintegrated every building within its path and out into the desert beyond where the very sand was turned into glass.
"GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Mine shouted as she continued to hold down the trigger, the beam beginning to widen and grow in size! Pumpkin began to glow hotter than ever as cracks appeared along the Teigu and her hands burned from the heat. But she didn't care; she wouldn't stop until she knew for sure that those things were dea-
A metal hand suddenly shot out from the beam and grabbed down upon the barrel, crushing it and majority of Pumpkin into pieces as Blood Knight and Razor Wind emerged forth from the beam completely unscathed!
As the beam disappeared, Mine's mouth fell open and gasped in sheer horror. #18 and #12 stood over her imposingly. The sniper shook like a leaf as she tightly kept a firm grip on what was left of Pumpkin while she stared up at the demonic creatures in utter terror.
"TOLD YOU."
THROCK
Blood Knight slammed its mace right into Mine's side, snapping most of her ribs like a twig and dislocating her left arm! The force of the blow flung her into the air and Razor Wind threw two chakrams at her that struck her along the length of her back, leaving two scarlet incisions. Mine finally landed on the ground in unbearable plain as she crawled over to a nearby wall and slumped against it, leaving behind a trail of blood as she did.
She looked ahead and saw the creatures making their way towards her. Blood Knight's tower shield transformed into a 30mm cannon while Razor Wind stepped back to let its comrade deliver the killing blow. Tears began to stream down Mine's eyes as her face contorted into one of utter hopelessness. She couldn't beat them and now just like before…no one was coming to help her.
As #12 took aim at her, Mine closed her eyes as an image of all her smiling friends flashed through her mind. "Why are you all coming into my head? You're all just a bunch of misfits…" She sadly whispered to herself.
KAPOOOOOM
The round tore straight through the wall and the resulting explosion annihilated a good portion of Kyoroch! Mine slowly opened her eyes to see that she was still alive and that someone was carrying her bridal style. It was Tatsumi! He had managed to get her out of the way just in time!
"There's no way…I'm letting anyone die!" He huffed. Tatsumi looked worse for wear. He too was covered in cuts and his forehead was coated in blood as he breathed heavily, ready to collapse at any moment. Mine couldn't stop the tears from dribbling down her face. For the first time in her entire life, someone actually helped her and from certain death no less. The two of them turned their attention to the sound of their foes approaching footsteps just as they rounded the corner of a street.
"Time to go!" Tatsumi said he high-tailed it away from the creatures while still carrying Mine. As much as Mine wanted to protest his decision, (not because of embarrassment) he was right. They needed to retreat along with everyone else.
Blood Knight began to fire a volley of flechettes at them but Tatsumi was able to duck into an alley. Unfortunately he did get hit along his arm and leg. Tatsumi grunted in pain as the flechettes were painfully embedded into his skin.
"Tatsumi! You're hurt!"
"If we stop, we die!"
They exited the alleyway and ran towards the central area of Kyoroch that had a large fountain in the middle. Much like the city, it too had been demolished.
"Where are we going?!" Mine asked as she looked around for any of the creatures that were following them.
"We need to find the others! Once we do, we are getting the hell out of-"
SHUCK
A spear came flying out of nowhere and impaled itself straight into Tatsumi's thigh! He cried out in pain as he and Mine tumbled across the ground. She turned over to Tatsumi who was clutching his rapidly bleeding thigh, the double ended spear still embed deep within. She scrambled over to help him only for the spear to suddenly withdraw itself from Tatsumi and then, as if guided by invisible hands, spun around in a circle and cut open her palm.
She reeled back as she held her bleeding hand and saw the spear fly back down the street where it its owner caught it out of the air. Yari spun its weapon in its hands before walking over to where mine and Tatsumi was, closely joined by Prism.
Mine went white with fear as crawled over to Tatsumi, who drew his sword. They heard more footsteps approaching and they turned to their left to see their previous opponents, #18 and #12, coming towards them. They two of them were now scared out of their minds as four of the unstoppable creatures began to slowly approach them.
SKRASH
Something was thrown through a building near them and landed at their feet. To their surprise and subsequent horror, it was Leone, Akame and Sheele!
Leone was covered in deep cuts while her leg and arm had been broken, her animal ears and tail had been ripped off and her regeneration factor had stopped completely. Sheele was covered in numerous lacerations covering most of her body, her glasses were gone and her left cheek was torn open while the shears of Extase had been destroyed. Akame had dozens of bruises and cuts across her body, her right eye had swollen shut while her broken harm hung lifelessly from her body. Worst of all, half of Murasame had been snapped off!
SMAAAAASSSHHH
Another building crumbled near them as three more figures tumbled before them, this time it was Bulat, Lubbock and Chelsea. Bulat covered in horrible wounds and Incursio had multiple cracks along the blade. He breathed deep, labored breaths as he struggled to get up. Lubbock and Chelsea looks worse for wear as the both of them were covered in burns, bruises and ruptured skin.
THOOOM
Another one fell apart as the final two members of Night Raid were thrown towards their comrades. Susanoo had reverted back to his original form but looked like he had been through hell and back. Najenda was missing her prosthetic arm and eyepatch and was in unbelievable agony as she coughed up blood.
Every member was had been chewed up and spat straight back out. Both figuratively and very literally.
The rest of the creatures eventually emerged from the ruins and began to slowly advance towards the brutalized forms of Night Raid. They all tried their hardest to flee but they were all in no condition to flee or fight back. They could only watch as the demonic killers inched ever so closer over to them.
(Big Hero Six-Baymax, Destroy Him)
It soon began to dawn upon all of them that this was it. This was the end. Even though they knew the risks that came with being an assassin, they did not want to die like this. If they were to die, it would be sacrificing their lives to make the Empire a safer place. Not trying in vain to fight against creatures that were completely impervious to their attacks.
In the end, all of their struggles amounted to nothing. Night Raid couldn't stop them from destroying the Empire or everywhere else, they couldn't avenge all the innocents they had killed and they still didn't know what the hell these things were. As they prepared for their demise, they all had their regrets and last thoughts.
Tatsumi didn't think it would end like this. All he wanted to do was help his village. Now he was going to die without accomplishing anything of real value. He felt so utterly useless and he let everyone down…just like Sayo and Ieyasu.
Akame was fully prepared to face death due to her grueling upbringing as an assassin. But now she lay completely broken and defeated just like her friends. No one should ever have to die like this; she wasn't even able to liberate the Empire from Honest's stranglehold. If there was any regret she had in her whole life, it was not rescuing her sister sooner.
Leone was both frustrated and saddened. Everything she did was to help her neighborhood and all of the friends she had made there. Now it looked like she was unable to avenge them all. She had always prided herself on being the toughest, most uplifting member of Night Raid and a great source of morale for everyone but all of that mattered to nothing now. Her friends were going to die and there was nothing she could do.
Bulat had completely lost all vestiges of hope. If Incursio's evolved form was unable to destroy these things then what could? Just like with General Liver, he couldn't save him and now he couldn't save his friends either. He also felt like he had failed Tatsumi the most. He was a spitting image of himself and would make a great fighter like he was but now the poor boy was never going to get that chance.
Mine was now silently weeping, unable to stop the steady flow of tears. Her dreams, her ambitions, her friends…she was going to lose all of them. She looked to Tatsumi, the only person she was actually having feelings towards, and knew that she was never going to be able to tell him how she felt about him. It wasn't fair. Damn it all, it just wasn't fair!
Sheele felt the same way as Mine. Night Raid had become her family and a place where someone like her could belong to. But now she was going to lose all of them and she couldn't prevent any of it. She looked towards Tatsumi and sadly accepted that she wouldn't be able to hug him again.
Lubbock tried to crawl over to Najenda but it was no use. He was too weak from his earlier defeat to move. His biggest regret was never professing his affection towards her. He truly did love Najenda but he kept making those perverted advances on the other women. He felt so goddamn stupid. Why did he keep screwing around instead of just telling her?
Chelsea looked at the broken forms of Night Raid. An unbearable sense of heartbreaking sorrow flooded her body. Night Raid had become the closest people she known and enjoyed every moment being with them. Back then, she wasn't really a people person and felt like she could do things better on her own but all of then changed when she joined Night Raid. They were so much like her on a number of levels that she couldn't bear to lose them even though they were putting their very lives on the line. She wished her friends would've escaped long ago and she would stay behind to stall these things but fate had different plans for her. She cursed fate and her inability to protect her friends.
Susanoo struggled to get up but the damage he received to his core made it impossible. He looked to his master and knew that he had not only failed her, but everyone else in Night Raid. Once again, he was going to lose people who valued him as a friend and a human being, not a living weapon. The pain he felt was nothing compared to losing his most cherished comrades and master. He wondered…was there an afterlife for a humanoid Teigu?
Najenda mentally chewed herself out for her lack of foresight. It was a trap the entire time and she idiotically played right into their hands. She should've gone straight to the Revolutionary Army HQ and report the situation before acting on her own. She failed. She failed to save the Empire from corruption and its subsequent destruction, she failed her entire team and had failed to defeat these genocidal monsters. Now there was no way to stop these things from wiping out the Revolutionary Army and killing her friends. It was all her fault.
The creatures had now surrounded them in a semicircle formation as they began to aim their weapons at Night Raid. Some members closed their eyes and prepared for the inevitable while the rest stared them down in silent defiance, not giving them the satisfaction.
They locked on to their prey and prepared to unleash the full might of their weapons upon them-
BZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKK
A massive bolt of lightning shot out of a building behind Night Raid and split into six smaller ones and slammed into the monsters with so much force, it sent them flying!
SHWWWWWAAAAAAAAKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW
A storm of column sized icicles exploded out of the building and struck the other creatures that avoided the previous attack and sent them spiraling through the city as well!
SHOOM SHOOM SHOOM SHOOM SHOOM SHOOM
Numerous spires of ice shot out from the ground and began to surround the monsters as they began to get up.
RRRRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMBBBBBBBBBBBBBBLLLLLLLLLLLL
They looked up to see a dark storm cloud instantly form over them and a gigantic lightning bolt struck the spires! The electricity began to link to the other spires until they all jolted the creatures in a massive electrical explosion that leveled most of Kyoroch!
SHHHAAAAAAAAAAAKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM
Night Raid stared at the sight completely slack jawed until they began to hear footsteps behind them. They snapped their heads around to see two silhouettes through the smoke cloud of the ruined building. When the two figures finally came through the smoke, Night Raid's expressions were one of stunned silence while Tatsumi looked confused.
There, standing before them, were the battered, beaten and bloodied forms…
Of General Budo and General Esdeath.
To be continued…
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