A/N: Here we are the first official battle between Tarot and The Illuminati I'll try to separate each of the fights into their own chapters just to try and keep things organized.

Chapter 9: Wall Battle Part I

Great Wall of China

November 3rd 20XX

12:39 PM

"Nothing yet ma'am." One of the Illuminati scouts shouted towards Homare who stood in front of a "captured" member of Tarot titled Tower. The man had black hair with streaks of green and wore a grunge coat with a decal of a broken tower on the back along with torn up jeans and a pair of dark brown tennis shoes that had been completely worn out.

"How confident are you that your commander will come to save you?" Tower chuckled at the Illuminati member's curiosity.

"Oh hell yes! He never leaves a man behind, especially if they're a P.O.W. One thing I'm surprised about is why is the captain of Phosphorus out on the field instead of protecting her commander?" Tower raised an eyebrow at Homare in suspicion and the Adeptus Major simply scoffed at him.

She knew that she wasn't supposed to be on this job. Everyone knew that. The only reason why is that the person who would've been assigned this job was… busy… now. Also, someone needed to watch a pink-haired punk to make sure that he didn't touch Michael's subject for his 'experiment'.

"I've gotta hand it to ya." Speak of the devil. Shima, along with Izumo, was just returning from scouting his area of the wall (either that or he was just coming to talk to the 'hostage') "Betraying your own employer just for a small amount of money. I mean it wasn't even a million." Shima started to laugh "Oh my god, it's hilarious what people can do for money."

"I have my motives, and you all have yours." In truth, Tower hated everyone in Tarot. When Joseph came to him to become a part of Tarot, he only agreed due to the amount he was being paid, but when he met various other members he quickly felt that the paycheck wasn't worth it.

Homare checked the watch on her wrist. Tower's boss still hasn't arrived and she began to tap her foot in impatience "We don't have time for this." Homare turned around to look at the traitor. "If I find out that you've been pulling out leg the entire time; then I will-" Suddenly she was cut off by the yells of one of her men getting shot to death by what seemed to be a machine gun. She looked towards the direction of the bullets and saw a military helicopter flying towards their location.

"See, what did I tell ya?" Tower's mouth had grown a shit-eating grin that seemed to just piss off the Adeptus Major even more.

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"Direct Hit!" Joseph exclaimed as the Illuminati member fell on the ground dead. He then turned away from the cockpit glass towards the group to address their plan of attack.

"Alright, listen up! This is both Fool and Moon's first real fight with the Illuminati, so we need to be careful." He started "Judgement and Magician, you two will take care of Pink-hair. Fool and Moon, you two go after your friend. The one in the mask. Empress and I will head straight through them to get to Tower."

Everyone nodded in confirmation however Rin's hands were starting to get sweaty. He didn't think he could try to harm Izumo, even if she was brainwashed by the enemy. He then took the Kurikara out of the bag and put the sheath in one of his belt holders so that he had easy access to it.

Rin then looked at the others. Judgment had just lighted a cigarette and let out a puff of smoke. Magician had a metal brace around each of his arms so that he had quick access to his ability. Nemu didn't seem to prepare at all, it's like he wasn't even worried. Empress had just finished a cup of tea and had wiped her lips with a napkin

As the helicopter got closer to the wall, the group stood in front of the door prepared to jump off it. "Alright, everyone. Let's go!" Joseph shouted as the helicopter's door opened revealing The Great Wall's walkway and at the end was a bunch of Illuminati soldiers.

Joseph was the first one to jump off. Followed by Judgment then Magician, Empress, Nemu, and Rin.

"Well, well, well, about time you guys showed up!" Tower yelled at them.

Joseph simply sighed and then walked forward in front of the group to address their adversaries. "Listen up! I think you have something of my subordinate's" He pointed to Izumo. "Just let her go, and we won't have to kill anyone else." This apparently triggered both Shima and Izumo to attack Joseph. The Illuminati's spy raised his K'rik up swung it down onto his head.

Clang!

The swing was quickly blocked by Magician who had made an improvisational shield with one of his bracers. This had slightly stunned Shima causing him to recoil and Judgment jumped over Magician and to fire a purple barrage of lasers to cause him to retreat.

Judgment and Shima stood about a meter away from each other. Shima changed his grip on his weapon and began to make stabbing motions at Judgment which were countered by him either dodging slightly or pushing it out of the way. Shima then went for an overhead swing and hit Judgment so hard that you could see a little bit of blood left on the K'rik. This caused Judgment to stagger a bit as Shima went for a sideways swing to break his ribs.

As Shima made the swing he noticed that something was wrong. His K'rik was… bending? He then looked behind him to see Magician holding the end of the K'rik steady with one hand. "Hey next time you go up against us, use a wooden staff instead of a metal one." He said as Judgment regained his bearings. Magician then released his grip on the staff as it stretched around Shima, Judgment ducked as it passed by him, and hit himself in the head with it.

"BOOYA!" Magician shouted fist bumping the air as Shima fell on his back in pain from the "self-inflicted" wound on his head. Judgment then looked at Magician and notice a weird black flame on his arm. When Judgment pointed this out to him, Magician began to flail his arm around trying to put out the mysterious fire.

"What the hell is this stuff?!" Magician stared at the fire as it continued to linger on his arm. Shima had begun to chuckle as the black flames began to surround him and began to stand up. Behind him was the image of a huge black monster with the head of an ox and four arms with five razor shop claws on each.

"These two are new faces, I hope they put up a good fight!" The giant demon let out a roar trying to startle Judgment and Magician. Luckily, they weren't fazed by the monster as Judgment gathered energy creating an orb.

"DYNE GRENADE!" He shouted launching it at the demon's face. Said demon then slammed the orb to the ground.

Magician then jumped onto Judgment's shoulders and threw himself onto the demon's ox head. His metal bracers went from his arms to his hands and transformed into gauntlets with nails on the knuckles and started to punch it.

"Eat titanium you Baphomet wannabe!" He shouted just before he was knocked off of his head by one of the demon's arms.

"Pathetic, and here I was hoping for a challenge." The demon bellowed and scoffed at the two.

Shima then let out a large yawn either it was in honesty or just taunting Judgment "Hey Yamantaka, do you think you can take care of these guys by yourself? I'm getting kind of tired."

Judgment then gave a chuckle "You know, if I were you. I wouldn't be so careless around an enemy." He then gave a thumbs up with his arm pointing towards Shima. "After all, they might just be one step ahead of you."

Yamantaka then turned his head to see the same energy orb he slammed to the ground, but now there were dozens of them and they were all attached to his back. Before something could be done about their situation, Judgment lowered his thumb and said "Detonate" causing a large explosion on Yamantaka's back from the Dyne Grenades.

As Yamantaka crumbled to the ground Shima stared in disbelief of what he just saw. "H-how did that happen!?" He exclaimed.

Magician then dropped down next to Judgment to say "While I provided a distraction, Judgment launched a bunch of those orbs in a smaller variant underneath your legs by flicking them with his index finger and thumb."

Judgment then took over and began charging up two beams of energy in his hands. "Once they passed underneath your legs, I redirected them to attach to the demon's back." The two beams were then unleashed attacking Yamantaka's chest causing it to stagger.

Yamantaka then began to cackle as he recovered from the barrage of attacks. "So you're more than just some amateur fighters. I hope you two can keep me entertained." The tip of Shima's K'rik began to emit the black flame transforming it into a spear of some kind. He then got into a battle stance pointing the flaming edge at the ground.

Magician then cracked his knuckles and his neck. "Let's hope your master won't cheese out of this fight now because things are starting to get good!"