Chapter V:
That dark blue-haired girl was no longer the same girl I had known and endured, as well as her other two sisters, for a long time. She had changed. He knew it. This person he was fighting with was a true monster, she had no scruples and no passion. Nor could the same be said of her heart and soul, for a blanket of darkness enveloped her until it clouded her reason, the very sight that could save her from misfortune, was her only "way" of which she was transiting at the moment. Double D saw her charge towards him, when he stepped in and prevented her from firing at Eila and Sanya, thwarting her assassination plan and thus showing her true nature.
The black capped boy remained in his position, still, his body was ready. He had her in his sights and when she jumped at him, he defended himself and traced an upward arc, close to Marie's chest, whose long-sleeved shirt was cut by the blow he received. The air itself seemed to be sharp and when he turned, it touched her affected part, a few small lines of blood gushing but nothing more than that. She cocked her head to one side and gave him a mocking look. The intellectual was still standing and with his sword at the ready.
- I warned you, I gave you several chances but you are stubborn... no! On the contrary, you're a capricious girl who thinks she can have me as an object. What power gives you to decide something like that!
- You should know by now, it's so simple!.- The girl said with an air of disdain.
- Yes, how? Go ahead, explain it to me.- Challenged the intellectual and the dark blue hair swallowed saliva before having an answer, even if it was a simple one. From there, the young man looked to the side.- I was already afraid: You don't have it. You never had it, not even with Lee and May. You only see us as objects. If I were in your place, would you want me to treat you the same way they treated us? Huh?! Answer me, Marie!.- The boy ordered her, but that seemed to make her even angrier.
He had hit her with the plain truth. The girl's insides seemed to be on fire. She was a rage against herself, against the "Witches" who had taken her boyfriend from her and she noticed tears running down her eyes until she formed a sinister smile. Double D could feel it but it was all so fast. The rival lunged and attacked with a severity never seen before, directing all her attacks against him, who was trying to defend himself as best he could but the speed of his opponent was terrifying.
- You should have been with me, as well as your other two friends but we were unjustly rejected! Now that the "Kanker Legacy" is spreading throughout the World, I no longer care if I have to treat you like a King, because you won't be one, but you will become a personal slave. You won't even be able to blink without my orders and if you try to escape, I will torture you in the worst way! No, better yet, I will destroy your mind when I have captured those two damned "Witches" and from there you will see that, whatever is to come, will be only the beginning! They will demand, even on their knees, that I give them a quick death but it won't be like that! Do you know how they used to kill Witches in the Middle Ages?! By burning them at the stake...yes, they burn...- Marie didn't have time to finish her sentence. Double D charged at her in a violent way. Her eyes, opening as if they were plates, could not describe what she had awakened.
Attacking left and right with his sword and "Magic", the black-capped boy destroyed every minion of hers and from there, he focused that gaze of hers, blinded by anger, tears and disappointment, mainly. What she had said had been the most inhuman and impossible thing to imagine. Her heart seemed to break as she thought of still humanity inside the dark blue peli. At one point, he attacked Marie from one of the flanks and from there caused a series of cuts that went from the face to the abdomen, being, this time, quite serious and the blood falling against the floor, intermingling with the mud. She grabbed that area and tried to be pitiful but the young man was not going to fall into her trap.
- I tried, by all means, to find your humanity inside you, I would have even given my life to prove it! But I was wrong, you and your other two sisters are the worst. You are genocidal, monsters, you have no soul.- He pointed his sword at Marie, and for the first time she felt a deep terror in her heart as she looked up and saw that the boy's eyes were wet with tears of anger and disappointment.- You have done irreparable damage to these people, you have killed innocent families!.
- That's war, should I...?.- She asked but ended up getting a slap in the face from Double D.
- First of all, I'm going to hate what I did against you and second of all, that doesn't give you the power to go killing every innocent person that comes your way. Humans deserve to live!.
In the midst of the fierce counter-offensive they were conducting against Marie Kanker's "Shadow Neuroi", Sanya picked up a radio signal on her equipment, so she set out to establish communication with the recent sender.
- "Eila, Sanya, do you read me? Over," the young man spoke from the other side of the battle front.
- This is Sanya. Do you copy, Double D, what's going on?" the albino asked.
- I have captured Marie Kanker. For now, where I am, everything is quiet, but this is only an ephemeral, temporary peace. I need you to come to me to take her as a prisoner.- Was the answer she gave to both of them.
- What's wrong, is it Double D?.- Eila approached her friend. She nodded her head.
- Yes, he says he captured Marie Kanker, one of the three sisters responsible for all this," she told her about the news and then put her headphones back in her ears, "Eila has just arrived. We'll be right there. Stay there and if anything happens, hold on, we'll help you.
- "Copy that, Sanya. You guys be careful too. To the north and west things are very tense with the Shadow Neuroi. It's a tremendous fight".- She advised and informed them respectively.
- Don't worry, we'll be right there. Over and out.- Finished the girl from Orussia, who put her headphones away and from there went to her friend.- We have been lucky, with Marie's capture will allow us to catch the other two crazy sisters and thus put an end to the "Legacy of Dr. Reginald Kanker".- Said the silver hair but noticed something on the albino's face.- Sanya, are you okay?.- She asked the other one's doubts.
- I want to do Justice for Orussia, but I don't want those wretches to walk this World again. I don't want to be a bird of ill omen but we should move right now and arrest her.- She asked and the other noticed that the girl's words were true, since it could be a trick that Marie had up her sleeve and wanted to use against her.
Right in that very spot where they were fighting, Kevin, Nazz, Johnny and Mio could be seen destroying every enemy that stood in their way. For some reason, the "Shadow Neuroi" were giving a very flaccid resistance. They almost didn't fight and with that you could see that they were retreating, giving up the ground, something that didn't please the blonde cheerleader, who was holding her katana in her hand.
- I don't like it.- She said with a serious tone.- There is something strange about this retreat. All of a sudden they stopped being hostile and are leaving, why?.- Kevin stood next to her but shook his head, as did Johnny and Mio.
- Whatever it is, something must have inconvenienced them and they are going to solve it, but even so, this "Temporary Peace" has its hours counted.- Warned Major Sakamoto, who approached her.- And when the "deadline" is over, we will have to be ready.- She then turned to the others.- Listen, be careful, don't let them close in on you. Attack with all your might.
- Yes, Major Sakamoto!.- Kevin and Johnny obeyed the order given by the black hair of the Fuso Empire.
Nazz felt the terrain that was covered by snow and the burned remains of the "Shadow Neuroi". The air was a mixture of fire and electronic components that burned like hell, while the war machines that had been brought with them were in the flames.
- We must follow them.- The blonde pointed to the front.
- What? But Nazz, we don't know what could happen to us out there.- Johnny tried to convince her, but Kevin stepped forward.
- She's right, Johnny. If those bastards are getting ready to take us by surprise, then it's better to play the same "game".- The redhead joined the girl's cause.
That could be true or not. They had to throw the dice and see what result they would get. To do so, they began a fierce charge against the enemy ranks, destroying a good part of Marie's army, while they advanced towards where Marie and Double D were.
The dark blue hair felt that her strength was leaving her, her wound seemed to be getting infected by the bacteria in the surroundings but, seeing that Double D placed his sword on her, he knelt down and took a first aid kit. Starting with a bandage soaked in alcohol, he placed it on the area affected by the arc he traced with that white weapon.
- What are you going to do, you bastard?! Stay away!.
- Stay still, if I don't treat your wound, it will get more and more infected until it can cause a septicemia or something worse!
- Not in a million years.- She refused to accept his help but felt that two people were blocking her way. He turned, abruptly, and there he found Eila and Sanya facing each other.- She swallowed saliva and felt that the little strength he had left in his body was collapsing in the fact that he had been, for a long time, provoking both "Witches" and now he had them there, in front of him.- No...No...No...No, no, stay back.- Ordered the Kanker girl.
- Marie Kanker, one of Dr. Reginald's granddaughters, you are under arrest for crimes against humanity, including charges of genocide, mass murder of civilians, enslavement and forced displacement of populations. You have the right to remain silent, anything you say will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney and in the event that you cannot hire one, the State will assign one for your defense?.- The silver-haired woman began to read her rights to the girl, who looked down, feeling "ashamed" but, for some reason, showed a sinister smile on her face.
What they did not know was that the rival had pressed a button on a strange "wristwatch" and it began to emit an emergency signal that traveled through the area until it disappeared in the vicinity of the frozen borderlands.
At a distant point between Suomus and Orussia, everything seemed extremely calm and serene, in spite of the icy weather that still prevailed in those regions. A group of birds flew by and landed on the trees. On the ground, animals such as rabbits, squirrels and other creatures of nature were roaming the area while they found food, but suddenly something began to disturb this striking calm and a mysterious earthquake struck the earth, like a whip against the exposed flesh of a condemned man during the times of the "Modern Age".
- What was that?.- Wondered Lee, as a red flashing light came on the central screen and was located in an unknown position. He calculated its location and fell into astonishment.- It can't be! Marie.- She exclaimed at the decision his sister had made.
- What's wrong? Why are you shouting?.- May asked, appearing behind her after having been operated on for injuries in the Battle of Berlin.- What happened to Marie?
She had no answer, but to pound the table with her fists.
- That idiot: She called the "Sixth Hive", she gave him the answer he was looking for, I'm going to kill her if we lose her because of her, he swore and ordered a ship to be brought to him to go in search of the dark blue hair.
- I'm coming with you.- The blonde joined him.
When they lifted Marie up and handcuffed her, she showed that mocking grimace on her face against them, especially towards Eila, Sanya and Double D. She didn't care about anything she had done nor did she show any regret. She was just there, untouched and fresh, just like a criminal who was released by the corrupt hand of the judges and where she could enjoy greater privileges. He didn't care if he went to jail, there he would continue to rule and anyone who laid a finger on him would pay dearly. Taking advantage of those moments of "distraction", the boy in the black cap managed to bandage his wound and eliminate all traces of infection produced after the fight they had, but he did not take his eyes off him.
- I hope you know very well that he can even ask for the "Death Penalty" against you and your sisters when they are brought to Justice. Do you know the number of dead people all over the world.- Eila asked him but the other one did not show any regret.
- I don't care. They were just numbers, "Witch".- She answered with mockery and that made the other one furious but she restrained herself thanks to Sanya.
- They were not numbers, but people with lives, a Future that was lost thanks to you and your sisters with that desire of conquest.- Double D reproached her, defending her two girlfriends.
- Oh, and what do you know about that?.- Asked Marie.- All of you are a real shame for this world, don't you know that nobody wants this kind of heroes? she pointed to the people in the background.- They and all the others they have been saving are praising you because they are ignorant, they think you are the good guys but you are not. Those I am quoting are phonies who live by putting desires and projects in the weak mind of the people when Science and Technology have taken Humanity towards progress. It was not religion nor love. It was only the progress in the different fields that allowed to dominate Nature and even to replace God by rationalist thought," he pointed out and from there images of diverse events of the Past were seen.- It happened in the Revolutionary France of the XVIII Century when the Royal Family was overthrown.
- Science and Technology have allowed an excellent development and expansion of Man over Nature but it also becomes, as it happened with religion, a tool that, instead of using it as it should, it is used for evil and ignorant purposes such as creating weapons of mass destruction and declaring wars to test all kinds of the mentioned in the battlefields as it happened in the "Vietnam War".- Double D spat at him coldly.- None is free of Sin.
- Hahahahahaha, Science is!.- Exclaimed Marie, laughing with mockery.- What happens is that neither you nor the others can see it!.- She alleged and from there she took several steps backwards. The boy in the black cap went after her.
- Stay where you are, Marie, or we'll shoot.- Nazz warned her.
- Try it. They won't because they need me alive.- The other one mocked and from there she stretched out her arms horizontally, just as the ground creaked and a huge "Hive" emerged from it, which saved her and took her with it into the hive.
- And that?.- May pointed to a mysterious figure looming in the distance. Lee whipped his eyes around and ordered his henchmen to speed up the ship's pace.
- Marie...- The redhead was speechless at what had just happened there.
[The situation has become even more complicated for our heroes with the appearance of the "Sixth Hive" in the borders between Suomus and Orussia together with the arrival of the other two Kanker Sisters.
What will happen? We will see in the next chapter. Remember that this "Arc VI" has only a few chapters left. There will be ten in total and very long, so get ready because, after this one, comes the last one.
I hope you like it, friends. I send greetings and thanks to Matfix, Franco M. Romano and the rest of the followers.
Take care and have a good start of the weekend from me, Comrades].
