Disclaim: I don't own Elsword nor its character as well as Valkyria Chronicles' characters, except my OC. I'm just an author who loves playing game and release my imagination.
Main Character:
Elsword – Rune Master
Mio – Narrator
Elsword(DK) – Knight Emperor
Lu(DK) - Timoria
Rossetta Anatasia (Rossa) – Shocktrooper
Chapter 9: Resolution.
Elsword – G36C – White Python – Prototype Sword – Flashbang – Grenade
Rossa – AN 94 with Red Dot Sight and Grenade Launcher(3 Rounds) – Seven Five – Flashbang – Grenade
"I understand that we have to use Hind which is only used for battle only."
"E heh heh heh…"
"But Why Do We Have To Do This?!"
"Lower your tone, Rossa. We are using radio contact. I don't want to get deafened by your loud voice."
With the sight right now, it's not called a genius move. The helicopter was flying after the enemy helo which kidnapped Shiro. The helo was fighter type with two-man driver with specific role for arm and driving, well armed with missiles, twin miniguns. Mio and the owner of said helo took in charge of controlling helo. Each helo was allowed to carry one main missile that had more power than normal one.
But where's Elsword?
"How's thing down there, Elsword?"
"Better than ever!"
The scene was not recommended for those with faint heart. Elsword was grabbing the large missile in the sight on hanging in the air. Not only that, Rossa was hugging him tightly with fear overwhelming her. Rossa never felt this scare in her life, to join in his madness idea.
This would make a certain Nasod Dynamo proud(?).
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Rossa asked again with a bit of doubt in her mind.
"As long as we don't get blown up by their helo, we're good."
That got her fear up again. She gripped on Elsword tighter for save her life that the man just chuckled, though this brought unpleasant thing to Mio.
"Target in sight."
The driver detected the kidnapping helo. He pushed his own to the max limit to catch up with it and lauched smaller missiles at it. They didn't hit directly but right in front of the hello 100 meters in order to delay the target down. The explosion knocked its balance off as they expected. They advanced forward.
Only to be stopped by gunfires.
"What?!"
"Damn, hang on!"
Multiple shots came from above the sky. The driver forced helo to dodge as much as he could from those shots. Rossa yelped in surprise while Elsword gripped tightly on large missile to avoid falling. He can see a sight of gunship raining bullets down, blowing up terrain below. A cold sweat rolled on his forehead, feared by the power of gunship.
The moment it stopped, they had to speed up again.
But it's too late. The enemy helo almost reached the gunship and was planning to enter the rear.
"Mio, fire the main missile!"
"But… what if-" / "Do it! We will be alright!"
Mio hesitated, unsure if it's the right thing to knew Elsword had many crazy ideas, but this was beyond her knowledge. Riding missile to approach helo would defy any logical explanation if he made it. Yet, time didn't allow them to think other way.
She launched the main missile away.
"Here we go!"
Elsword and Rossa began chasing after Gunship with missile, his arm guided it away the bullets the gunship began spinning its gatling gun, shaking up their view. Rossa gripped his body tightly by heavy shake. Elsword managed to avoid and approached the helo which was about to enter gunship from the rear. They spotted a few crew members on the ship shot them when they were so close to the rear as the ramp was closing.
Rossa shot them back with her handgun to make window for Elsword. The missile went straight to the flap as Elsword released his hand, slipped past the small gap before the flap completely close. The main missile still went ahead and caused massive explosion above left wing, destroying one of the two engines. The whole gunship was shaking by it that the crew inside was losing balance. Elsword took this chance and took out his White Python to shot them down.
The ship was then slowly regained its balance. Rossa detached Elsword and took cover behind cargo while Elsword did the same. Taking one of the dead bodies' gun., he and Rossa killed any remained crews.
"Phew… We made it…" Elsword sighed. Rossa was still shaking after the drive she went with him and swore she wouldn't go again.
"HQ to Elrios! Do you copy?"
Their comm received signal from Welkin and Rossa responded "Elrios here, we enter enemy's gunship and in pursuit to rescue the Queen."
"Copy. Reinforcement will come and support you. Do whatever you can to save her. Without her, the whole Gaia will fall."
"Moving out!"
Elsword and Rossa went to check their uniforms to learn which organization was working. Rossa saw wolf sign on their shoulder and regconized.
"They are…"
"Werewolves, they are mercernary group. Paying a good fortune and they will work for you with their lives."
"It seems like our mission won't be easy."
"Have you ever heard 'The only easy day was yesterday'? we took harder and harder missions since you came and were barely alive after accomplishment. So i don't think it's easy to us when you're around."
Elsword just chuckled.
They both advanced forward, banging through the doors and shot down any hostile they found. Elsword couldn't stop grunting about how big this gunship, like a whole flying fortress. Rossa just giggled at him like he's acting as a child. They made up to the upper floor and were stopped as he saw sight of two robots storming forward and broke door frame down.
One of the went to front line and slammed a large metal shield on the floor that played as defender and other installed a machine gun on both shoulders. They watched as both of them reformed into one body before it fully released load of bullets on them. Elsword and Rossa dodged behind covers, yet its bullets easily penetrated. Elsword pushed Rossa down to avoid getting hit.
"Kyaa!"
"Kuh!"
However, he took a hit on his shoulder. It pierced a small of his flesh out and splashed blood everywhere. Rossa was shocked as some of his blood cover her face. Her iris were vibrating at his wound with fear, too much blood leaking out.
"Don't look, Rossa."
He took off his glove and covered his wound to stop it from blood lost. He sweated a lot, trying to bear the pain it caused him and immediately used his Power of El to heal the wound. Rossa wanted to heal him, yet she realized his body couldn't accept Ragnite healling and waited while on guard. It somehow stopped shooting and went on tracking mode. She saw the red laser that was find the targets.
"Ah! Damn it!"
She heard Elsword cursed and turned around to see him having difficult time to bandange his wounded shoulder. She dropped her gun down and helped him with it. Her body froze at the horrified wound he had and quickly bandaged it, which was wet with his blood. Normally, a man would passed out from this would or died due to blood lost so that made it a critical condition. Elsword only made it stop bleeding but the wound was still opened. She used every bandage to cover up as much as she could.
"I don't think our weapon could make a punch on it. We need something heavier."
"Your sword."
"Yes, but that teme(bastard) nailed me first. My left arm was out for a while." Elsword said and pulled his White Python out "I think this baby can do the job."
Rossa forgot he carried inhuman strength to hold the heavy weapon with one arm. She picked her AN94 up and heard his plan.
A moment after, that robot stilled tracked Elsword and Rossa in order to stall them for reinforcement. It detected metal sound below and quickly tracked it, to find a rollong nade. It went defense mode to protect against the high explosion. Swift shadows from the red flame came out, crossing path. That robot quickly changed back. Elsword shot Python along with Rossa launched a HE grenade on both guns, taking its offensive weapon.
Without sentry guns, the robot dismantled its shield into smaller panel attached to many arms from both side. Elsword found that it rearmed itself with close range weapons, quickly withdrew his word. With one arm, he held handle while letting the tip of his sword on the floor. He could swing his massive sword as long as he still had strength.
"Rossa, cover me."
"Haii!"
The now offensive robot swung left arms and clashed with Elsword's sword. Its arms knocked back by sword's weight. Elsword followed its momentum and made a second slash with fiere burning flame made from the engine and cut down its arms. The moment it lost a few arms, he restrainted his body from being move by his sword.
That left him vulnerable to it.
Rossa shot her weapon to distract it again and a direct HE bullet on its arms when it attempted to hit Elsword. The explosion was enough to push its arms away from Elsword. He didn't overlook any chance he had and made a upper slash, knocked it backward and made another slash that caused flame bursted up from the floor. The slash heated the metal on its head up to the point it had a large cut.
"How do you like my Ascend Flame Strike?!"
He swung his sword behind to create a nearly 45 degree platform as he called.
"Now, Rossa!"
She took his grenade out and pulled the pin with her mouth as she stepped on his sword. Flying over the beast, she tossed it in the gasp and landed behind it. An explosion occurred inside it which was compressed by its metal body, flame bursted out from the cut. The main core was destroyed.
"Robot's history."
Elsword put his sword back before he whined by the pain on his left shoulder.
"Elsword?"
"I'm fine. This is nothing."
They both continued using the tracker he had. They were so close right now. They couldn't wait just because Elsword was wounded. They entered the same way that robot came from and banged in the command room.
Dark Knight went past one of the few scientists as their shift was done. He approached a room which the Nasod Queen was resting. He used master card and entered without any witnesses. There, laying on the mechanic chair was the silver haired Queen. Her hands clasped and resting on her chest as if she was praying in her peaceful sleep.
They were one step closer to release true power of Former Valkyria.
Elsword(DK) silently walked to the console and inserted red vial which was extracted from her partnet. He believed this is the last key to stop what Empire was doing. He inserted vial in Analyst Resolve in order to convert blood into detail code. Line of binary codes came out rapidly which defined Elsword Sieghart of Velder Knight. The moment it's done its jobs. He rejected USB and inputted the contained into another computer to transfer data into her.
It take some time to complete yet he was a little impatient to those machine.
Lately, his action toward Former Valkyria had been quite… revealing. Malgane started to suspect him and Lu. It's only a matter of time until he called out his guards to arrest him.
Progress: 50%
Time till reinforcement: 5 minutes…
Command room was in chaos. Soldiers were on their defense and covering behind what they believed could protect them. They were afraid of one target.
Bam!
The door blasted, knocked the metal piece away. They fired immediately at smoke covering the entrance. They kept firing and firing till their last bullet came out. They took a look at the entrance, to find it nothing but holes made from bullets. They approached slowly to find intruders.
Cling!
They couldn't make a step closer to it as they found a flashbang bounching right on frame then.
Pooof!
"Gah!"
They couldn't hear, nor see anything. Their visions was pure white and ears hearing long high pitch. The targets entered and put them down to their eternal sleep with a bullet between their head.
"Where's that bastard?!"
Rossa looked around to find the Queen and kidnapper. Aside the bodies of dead Werewolves, no sight of them.
"They are on the run."
Elsword held tracker on his hand and să the signal was moving fast. Rossa followed his direction and soon found the familiar piece of clothes that was torn on the entrance, piece of white dress.
"Let's move."
Elsword rushed quickly, ignoring Rossa's shout of warning. He engaged remain of defending guards who was shot down easily. The reinforced gate was shut down and then got torn down by Elsword's sword covered in fire. There, he found kidnapper and hostage. He frowned deeper as he saw that the kidnapper is no other than someone detested him from the ball.
"What kind of Bloody hell is this? Kidnapping Queen Gaia was a fatal mistake, now you believe you can escape by hiring Werewolves to protect your ass?"
"Shut up! She's being soft! I will not allow a Queen acting like this! Begging an outsider for help?! She's just making Gaia feel weaker!"
"Enough of this, Bloody. Gaia is in need of strength. She doesn't want to let her men die on a war they can't fight!"
"Can't fight? Gaia's army never failed any war under my command! If they have mission, they will complete it with their lives!"
"You don't care their lives? Their families?! A commander must ensure their lives and victories, not pushing them to their death!"
"Elsword, it's useless." Rossa stopped Elsword "He has made his decision, we can't stop him anymore."
The knight cursed. His hand still pointed Blue Rose at Bloody. He only had exactly 2 bullets and Bloody had his M7 at Shiro's head. A wrong move and he would lose Shiro, yet, more delay and we can't go back anymore. He decided to make a move. He stared at her blue eyes, giving a nod that she would be alright. All he needed, was her faith.
Shiro could only nod.
"Stop what you're doing! Or else-"
Bang!
A shot came out from Elsword's gun. Bloody was so shocked by his bold for shooting at him. As he attempted to kill hostage.
He felt Shiro was falling.
"What?"
Did Elsword shoot at her?
"Now, Rossa!"
The girl dropped his gun and dashed forward, hooked his arm with gun backward and knocked him down. Elsword came after and held Shiro before she dropped down. Rossa took her own handgun and pointed at Bloody's forehead, used her own body to pin him down.
"Made a move and you're dead meat."
"… I'm already a dead meat now."
Self-Destruction Initiating, 1 minute left.
The whole base was on full alert. Bloody had set the self-destruction in case his plan failed.
"I will take all of you down."
"Tsk!"
Rossa swung her gun and knocked him out cold.
"Let's go, we can't stay here!" Rossa helped Shiro up and made their way to the emergency exit. However, luck was on their side as the door was shut tight.
Elsword used his last bullet in Blue Rose and shot it open. The door let loose and hit one of the wings, forcing the plane losing balance and knocked both Rossa and Shiro off the plane and falling down.
"Kyaaa!"
"Oh man, troublesome women. Making this injured man have difficult time." Elsword sighed and put one parachute on Bloody and kicked him out before he picked two and jumped along. He kept diving down to decrease wind resistance and got close to the girls.
"Use this."
Rossa took one and put it on, opened it as soon as she's done. Elsword put on and held Shiro.
"Shiro, pull it open!"
"Haii!"
She obeyed and did as he told. She quickly held him tight as she felt the decendence fell slowly. Elsword sighed in relief that the operation went smoothly, though he needed a good medical check on his injured shoulder. He began to lose his arm's feeling as well as his consciousness. He faintly heard Shiro calling his name right before everything went dark.
Reinforcement had come and picked both rescue team and hostage as well as arrested the traitor who was found afterward in a forest. It took a team half hour to take him out as he was being surrounded by wild animal, for some reason, which showed fury to him.
A medical team was dispatched to save Elsword upon returning and was sent to hospital. What Welkin concerned that they had little knowledge of El user body so he sent Mio to aid them. Rossa stayed outside surgery room while waiting, leading to 6 hours later. The doubled door opened and Mio stepped out.
"How's Elsword?"
"He's good now. His left shoulder surely scared me at first, but I managed to heal it out."
Rossa sighed in relief.
"Though I can't let him go off for a fight. He needs two weeks to fully recover his wound." Mio sighed "I have to make sure he won't pick a gun or sword."
"We will."
"Let's go home."
Even they said that, Elsword still picked his sword and joined Gaia with his right arm. Right now he was seen on the Hall where the meeting with the Queen Gaia was occuring. A promotion was given to Rossa who made great contribution to rescue operation. Elsword was also given promotion to Lieutenant and specially assigned a team from Prime Army. However, he refused and wanted to stay as Sergent.
"I just want to stay on battlefield rather than in office."
In the end, she accepted his proposal.
The party went afterward, as usual. Elsword stayed on one place while enjoy a sweet glass of Rum. His moment was cut short when Elsword saw Gau approached Elsword.
"Elsword-san, the Queen wishes to speak with you."
"Heh? Now?"
Elsword raised eye-brows in curiosity and followed Gau. In a moment, he saw Shiro standing outside balcony, staring at night sky. Elsword opened the door and entered, alarmed Shiro of his presense. She turned around, making her dressing slowly float lightly around her. At this rate, he would easily mistake her of Eve. His body relieved from all pain at this sight.
That would be a 'fatal' mistake to him.
He walked close to Shiro and she did the same to Elsword. He gave her his hand and she let him hold hers.
"You look so lonely out here. Shall we dance?"
"Gladly."
Shiro walked close and pressed her body on him, wrapped her arms around his neck and slowly followed Elsword's steps. Dancing along with Elsword, she could let her body relax from any fear she had in her mind. She had a better look of his crimson eyes staring at her along with his smile. It could make her melt into him.
Shiro was thinking of something that could award her hero. What else she could give him to show her grace to him?
Elsword danced along with Shiro for a while. He could see her eyes were trembling for a short time, like she was in fear of something. Shortly after that, they changed to determination.
She may have answer for her role.
"On battlefield, death is something they can't avoid. They don't know when they will get killed, maybe tomorrow, maybe after that day, we can't tell. As Queen of Gaia, I won't allow any men to sacrifice their lives. We will find another way to win our battle without great loss, for the safety of my people. So Elsword, will you help me?"
At the last dance, Elsword had his face close to her, so close that she could feel his breath on her nose. She was holding her breath, waiting for his answer.
"…. Then feel free to command me on the front line whenever you feel danger."
Her eyes slowly beamed with happiness.
"I guess… I should reward you."
"Reward- Ughm!"
Elsword was caught off guard as Shiro claimed his lips. A shock look appeared on Elsword's face as she slid her tongue inside his mouth, allowing her to taste him. Once she's satisfied, she broke her kiss and attempted to push him back before she went back inside while the man was still confused by her bold him.
A small laugh escaped his mouth and left the balcony to meet up with Mio and Rossa.
At midnight, when the party was over, Elsword and the girls were before the entrance. They were about to leave back to their base. Shiro personally came and said goodbye to Team Elrios and made a wink to her hero, who was sweating by the glares from Mio and Rossa.
The last day of preparation had come. The HQ was in chaos by every soldier running and carrying cargoes to transport vehicles. Ammo, Weapons, all would be delivered to the battlefield.
Inside HQ, Elsword along with Team Elrios gathered in tactic room and planned their moves against Empire. What concerned them was that they had Envy of Valkyria. High chance she will join in the battle. Plus, Empire had the large number of armored tanks. If they're rolling out, it would be an intense fight. Rossa along with remain team Elrios will be positioned on second defense line should they break down front line.
Elsword couldn't ignore the low chance that they can modify Eve thanks to certain Dark Knight he met. If what he feared was right, He had to face against his own mate.
If Eve was not on the battlefield, they still had chance to rescue her before they can corrupt her. Mio had her plan to rescue Eve, but it will be postponed after taking advatage of the fight. Once they were done, Elsword returned to mechanic factory to check his sword one last time. With Isara's help, he believed his sword was ready to destroy any tank he found.
As the time passed to night, Elsword returned his home, body covered in sweat. He decided to take a shower. After a few minutes, he didn't notice the bathroom door was slided open and then he felt something soft on his back. He looked back to find his narrator, Mio, join in. if he felt right,
She's complately naked.
"Need someone wash your back?"
He smiled and nodded. She giggled and rubbed her slender fingers on his back. As she washed his back, she found him thinking deeply. She knew he was thinking of Eve. He was longing for this to rescue her. Not only him, but she wanted to save Eve too. He forgot about her.
She wrapped her arms on his neck, making Elsword look at her.
"We will save her, and end this war."
"I know, it's just… I miss her a lot."
"You miss her? Or you miss getting slapped by her?"
In return, Elsword flicked her forehead.
"Ow!"
"I'm not into that. Yes, I miss that too, but without her, my life is lame."
"You make it sound like you love her a lot." Mio teased.
"… I do, Mio. I do."
"Then why didn't you take her with you 4 years ago?"
"… what should I say… it's for her good. Whenever I still went with her, her purpose slipped away by second. Like, she didn't revive her race and lived just for me. I did the best by leaving her at Altera to let her know why she's there. It hurt to do it, but I had no choice, for her good."
Mio hugged him closer, letting his head between her breasts.
"You made a right choice. We owe you."
"You owe nothing from me." He chuckled "I do what I have to, as a Knight."
"Come on, let's get out here, or you want a round with me before leaving?"
Elsword stared at her with eye-brows moving up a bit.
"Why do I have a feeling you are here just for 'that'?"
She kissed his cheek as an answer.
Yuu: Well, that's all for now. It will be the last chapter of Act 2. I will begin planning Act 3 since it needs much much logic (except Elsword).
Elsword (DK): Try not to get lost off the track. You may easily get that mistake.
Yuu: I will try, as long as it doesn't involve you and your mate. Anyway, Read n Review, please OwO/