Disclaim: I don't own Elsword, not Valkyria except my own OC.
Character:
Elsword - Rune Master.
Mio - Second in Command of Gaia.
Rossa - Shocktrooper
Elsword (Dark Knight) - ?
Kazuki - ?
Eve - ?
Act 3 – Chapter 2: Upside down and Reverse
On the Empire's side, soldiers lined up on the frontier with their guns pointing to defend their base. They're ready to face their nightmare on battlefield. They waited… waited… and waited, yet no sigs of any Gaia soldier approaching. Could they be scared of them? They wait longer and soon noticed their vision was blurred and covered by fogs. Strange… from the heat of battle turned to the breeze of fog.
Eventually, one of them yawned for being bored. They presumed Gaia wouldn't dare to break through the wall.
But they were wrong.
They heard trend rolling from afar and raised their weapons. They're await for them in their line of fire.
"What?!"
Cannon shot from the fogs and hit on wall with high explosion. Chains of rockets and cannon kept shooting it as they heard another explosion. This time, it hit on one of AA guns. They charged in to pierce Gaia forces, only to find them retreating.
They were using Hit and Run tactic. Empire army was chasing after them to eliminate demolition team. Once they were lost within fog, they failed to foresee aircraft heading their wall.
With AA defense weakened, it went past over and met heavy AA resistance from inside. The pilot aljusted auto pilot direct to tower before him before cockpit triggered ejection and threw pilot out watching it crash on tower and explode.
He took off helmet and opened his parachute with the risk of being shot by AA. Spreading his arms wide, he called out Rune Shield protecting against flak and missiles for a short time, yet his parachute was taking fire. Falling fast, he's now within AR and MG as they fired at him.
Cutting his chute which caught fire from flak, his body engurfed in flame and landed on ground, causing magic explosion that erased soldiers in flame and tanks destroyed.
He quickly shot flare on the sky, alarming both sides. To Empire, they pushed every soldier and armor to the position the flare shot out. To Gaia:
"Infiltration Success. Operation: Red Fog Commence."
Weapon: AN 94 – White Python – Fragment – Flashbang – C4
"Our Drones will support you from above."
Mio sent in 4 Quad Drones armed with inciderate ammo. Elsword acknowledged and attacked their base. His first objective was retrieving his sword crashing on the tower. He had managed to activate his sword triggering large explosive that may killed whoever owned this base. But it didn't matter as he would soon make it go down with them.
Quad Drones would deal with infantry while Elsword would deal with armor, as a demolition. Elsword shot down two soldiers standing before a medium tank as it aimed at him. A normal human would be stunned by the sound of tank shot at close range, yet Elsword's not human. He dodged it by jumping over just before it fired and landed on top of it. He grabbed and forced opening entrance. He blocked a knife from a man coming out to kill him. He disarmed his weapon and returned it back, on his neck. Elsword tossed one C4 inside and jumped off of it.
"Party time~"
Click!
By a push on a button, he blew that tank to kingdom come.
Elsword found himself surrounded by more men. At close combat, Elsword wouldn't be about to aim properly.
"Come!"
Elsword dodged and swung his AR, slammed its stock on his neck with a loud bone breaking. Blocking two fist strikes from another with his gun, he thrusted on his gut, forcing the man to bend down in pain before he met an elbow on his face, knocking him out cold, armor or not. He turned around to pass a strike from another one and grabbed his neck. The moment he saw 3 men armed at him. He used the man he was holding as meat shield and protected himself from waves of bullets.
Blood spilling from meat shield as he heard the man screaming for a while until he died. Elsword approached them while firing his weapon against them, thus killing them. No time to rest, Elsword pulled out his White Python and shot on a Light Tank. A powerful shot pierced thin armor and hit on ammunition, thus blowing its head with a smalll Flame Geyser made by ammunition explosion.
With Quad Drones softening up, Elsword charged in the burning tower. Seeing some trying to kill the fire, Elsword rewarded them with a bullet on them, removing them out of misery. Flame didn't affect him as his body adapted to heat and he's a flame user. Once he reached the high floor, Elsword found his burning aircraft made a big hole on tower. Quite destructive it was.
He approached and took the intact sword from it. After he got it, the frame below aircraft broke and let it fall down, crashing on the ground.
"Good to have you back."
Looking outside, Elsword saw that he could see the gate leading to outside base. He switched his sword to Atomic Cannon and loaded an AP mag. Gripping his firmly, cannon began to heat up while engine started working in high capacity. He also casted two Enchant Runes in order to enhance the destruction of it.
"The Gate is made with reinforced steel. No tank can get past of it, even the one can pierce thick layer of heavy tank with AP. Elsword's sword may do the trick since it does a powerful shot and a combination of his Enchant Rune and AP shot. Though it will leave your cannon in static state for recovery, it didn't change that sword mode can kill them. The only way we can do it is from inside as the layer from that side is vulnerable than outside."
"That's where we will take advantage of environment. Mist will cover us while approaching and Elsword will infiltrate their base. A demolition team will draw their attention while we take out AA defense from wall, giving Elsword high chance of survival. Once you're inside, I will send in drones to provide overwatch and deal with infantry so don't lose it, because you will be on your own."
"We will know when the gate is bursted."
Elsword smirked. Mio's plan always came with success.
"Atomic Burst Stream!"
A piercing sound of cannon shot out red hot AP bullet clashing with Enchant Runes which was shattered after, enhancing AP with flame hot. The shot emitted unbearable heat, even Elsword hardly stood for it, went over a poor tank on its way that part of steel was melting down. AP crashed on reinforced steel gate. High pitch of clashing could be heard from inside and outside.
Elsword watched as the entrance began to bend, opening a small hole, and then blasted it opened completely as both doors melted into liquid state, making a big hole on it.
"We got your signal, Elsword. Men! Onward!"
Elsword could heard loud scream of "Oorah!" outside. A horde of soldiers and tanks broke in base and dealt with the remaining Empire Army. With that, his operation has completed and was about to return to base. Someone appeared before him.
Elsword froze and saw a figure before him. Instead of a cloaked figure, no mystery.
Standing before him was a Velder Knight in his full armor and sigil of Velder on his shoulder. He could see his face looked like a copy of him, except his hairstyle was like when he was young, not messy and long like his. Additionally, his hair's silver, not red like his, and he could sense his aura was different, far away from the trait of his family. He wielded a light small sword on his waist with the same design belong to Velder.
If he could blunt out, he could say that man was a complete opposite of him, a devil side.
"Well done in taking that gate out. Outstanding performance, Elsword."
"I don't take compliment from an enemy."
Elsword stepped back with his sword back to its original mode. He entered his defense stance while watching for Elsword(DK)'s movement.
"Really… What's your planning? Are you really Empire's ally? Or you make yourself a two-side spy?"
Elsword(DK) shrugged.
"Who knows. I never truly stay in one place. The Empire shares the common in wiping Gaia off the map so I lend him my intelligence of Nasod in order to help it achieve what it wants, but at the same time I have different task so let just say… We use each other for our own goals." Elsword(DK) glared at his copy and smirked "And I have a plan for you, Elsword Sieghart of Red Magician."
"Wha- Kuh!"
Something hit him on his neck sharp. His body began to lose strength as he took object out to find out it's an injection. He stared at Elsword(DK) with shock written on his face. He tried to lift his sword, but his strength was lowered to the point it's the same as a normal human's strength. He dropped it down and aimed his AN94 at Elsword(DK), only to find him before.
He swifted his sword and cut AR into two pieces and kicked Elsword on his gut. Elsword crashed on wall with brutal force and pain he never thought he would feel it again. His vital sign began to alarm Mio in critical condition.
"Elsword! What's happening?!" Mio called but she received no response. Her drones were close to Elsword's last location which was on the crash side of tower and transmitted a double Elsword standing before a fallen Red Magician.
She couldn't be wrong. She, like Elsword, didn't expect a Velder knight appeared, yet he's not. The vital sign alarmed her of critical condition and hurriedly called for any unit nearby.
"All Stations, this is HQ! VIP is in critical condition! I repeat! Red Magician is in danger! Any Available Unit Nearby!?"
Elsword got up from a heavy impact caused by Dark Knight. He caught a glimpse of his armor turned dark blue and the sigil was lost and replaced with another sigl that he's familiar with.
"Damn… it… What the hell did you do… teme…"
Elsword(DK) approached again and pointed his sword at him. He noticed his left crimson eye began to change its color.
"The key to eliminate the last trace of Valkyria of Blue Flame." Elsword(DK) announced "The last key to remove the imbalance of the creature."
With that, Elsword was out cold.
"All Stations! This is HQ! VIP is in critical condition! I repeat! Red Magician is in danger! Any Available Unit Nearby?!"
"HQ, this is Elrios! We're approaching the building!"
"Elsword needs help! You have to find him!"
"Copy! Yui, Miru! Take point!"
Rossa ordered. She and her team approached a burning building where Elsword was. It's a mess, a result from a reckless plan made by Mio and Elsword. Pieces of aircraft scattered were all remained. Whoever drove this would have been dead beyond recognition aside Elsword.
Yui and Miru headed to the next floor where they found a big hole made by Elsword. They could see the base being attacked by Gaia. They turned right and saw Elsword's Atomic Sword there along with the owner himself. He was out cold.
"HQ, request medic to our location immediately! VIP is out cold!"
"Out cold?!"
"Also, we found injection nearby. Sending camera feed."
The camera on Yui's left ear caught the injection with a little blue liquid remained inside. Mio's eyes widen in shock and horror upon seeing it. Not to mention, Elword's body was pale, too pale.
"Damn it! It's Ragnite! He's injected with Ragnite!"
"?!"
"A helicopter will arrive immediately."
Mio bit her fingers as she was thinking many ways to save Elsword. But nothing can change then fact that Ragnite was consuming Elsword's El power right now. If he was affected from the outside, she could help him. But this was injected inside him. He had low chance of survival, or worse, he could die. She didn't want it to happen.
A Helo Transport arrived and landed on ground. Elsword was carried inside with 4 other medics ready to keep Elsword alive as it took off.
"HQ…? We have problem here."
A man on the building saw a sight that more than just a problem. Camera feed sent to HQ to see a huge wave of armored tanks, from light to heavy, approaching to Gaia. Standing on the top of a tank was a woman in blue flame, hand with a sword and a shield on other hand. There's no mistake about it.
They were releasing all they have.
Without any warning, they shot all explosive shot at wall of their base, They didn't care about their own base as long as they can take out Gaia. The wall collaspsed as first batallion charged in, tanks slammed themselves on empty building that it collapsed immediately amd released volley of bullets from machine gun, killing Gaia militia one by one.
Any Gaia tank they found, they overwhelmed it with number and shot it down before it could try and make any shot.
Envy, Valkyrur of Blue Flame, could do worse than her batallion did. Her sword covered in blue flame, pointed it at a batallion behind barricade. The tip was charging an energy ball at high capacity and shot through barricade, piercing and killing anything on her way. Men shattered and disappeared, leaving nothingness remained. She charged in and stabbed a man right on heart, instantly killed him and threw lifeless body to a man about to shoot her.
A sniper team had a better view from a high building, armed with .50cal M107A1 Barrette, an Anti Tank weapon, enough to pierce a light armor. They calculated distance and gravity as well as wind force. Everything's in order, he shot first lead on Envy. The bullet hit on her, though it caused high pitching collision against her blue aura before it's completely stopped and down.
"?!"
They were shocked by how strong she could stop it. They hurriedly moved away from their position after that shot because they were compromised after shot. They went down 3 floor lower and grappled down. The moment they escaped, a blue beam shot from Valkyrur hit where they were sniping before and exploded. They had to cover their eyes from glasses and landed down on ground before they moved to new position.
On their way, they were forced to aim an incoming tank. A light tank shouldn't be a problem to them as their weapon could punch through it. He shot out and pierce light armor and killed Loader. He loaded another bullet while men in tank were panic and shot right on ammunition,destroying the tank.
"All units! Avoid contact with Valkyria! I repeat, avoid contact with Valkyria!"
Everyone was forced to retreat upon hearing Mio's command, yet they couldn't escape the rage of Valkyrur as they were being slaughtered one by one. Demolition team launched every missile against her yet she sliced them in halves and let pieces of them pass by her and explode. Envy continued pursuing them till she found their base, Actual Base.
From there, she faced heavy resistance against her. She could advanced but she would be weak due to using Valkyria to protect her. She had no choice but to fall back.
Yet, someone else delayed her plan.
"?!"
When she's out of defense's range, she was stopped by the former Empire commander. Instead of wearing a blue camouflage uniform, she found him in dark blue coat with hood on his head, hiding his face in shadow. His hand held the same dagger she knew with rune marks carving on both sides of it. Other hand held a pistol, a modified one.
P1911, long barrel extension with mag that carried 12 rounds. The size of the P1911 was much larger than the original one so she expected the bullets wouldn't be small.
"Stop it, Envy. That's enough."
"You have the ball to come back here after you betray both Empire and Gaia." Envy spoke.
"Sacrifice must be made to complete what I desire to do." Kazuki said "And I will make sure it will be done, no matter it costs."
"Then prepare to die for your own causes."
Envy pointed her sword at Kazuki and fired a ray of energy at him. He responded by raising his dagger and reflect it upward to the sky. Despite her face showed no emotion, she was surprised inside. His dagger couldn't be that powerful to block her strike unless he's a Valkyria as well. Her thought soon shattered as Kazuki dashed and slashed her. His dagger pierced through her aura and took away part of her power by absorbing into it.
"What are you?!"
"I am no Valkyria. My dagger gives me the same power as yours with the help from a friend of mine so I can go head to head with you."
Envy then made a mistake in underestimating him. She withdrew enery covering both sword and shield to avoid being drained by him. Kazuki entered his stance, prepared to fight.
Mio's drones scouted anomalous energy surging from two signatures. One she assumed was Envy, but another one? The source was not from their body, but a weapon.
(A/N: Just a small reminder that if gender has yet to be confirmed, I use they/them/their to call. Undertale ref w )
Both signatures then were moving away from Actual Base. She sighed that whoever interfered helped her a lot in avoiding more casualties than Gaia had now. But the other problem was tank batallion. They were marching non-stop and continuosly fired their cannons at Gaia Actual Base.
With wounded in their base, they couldn't abandon them. As their base slowly apart, they returned fire as much as they could to make their last stand. If they died, they died in honor that they defended Gaia to last breath.
"All Unit, Reinforcement has arrived!"
A new hope lit up when Mio informed them. A small group of Gaia militia arrived with a well known modified tank that neither is Medium Tank nor Heavy Tank. It had a bigger size than Medium Tank with more layers of armor that increase survivability it's rolling right on frontier where Empire's tanks has reached.
"Fire!"
First shot came out and pierced first Heavy Tank through and hit ammunition. Ignoring the explosion, it went for another second target as its main cannon had already aimed at it, thus another kill. Empire Tanks couldn't aim at it as their cannons weren't as fast as that one in circling speed, even with ones that had aimed, AP shot couldn't put a dent on it and caused a ricochet shot away.
Another shot hit another tank in front. It shattered into shards and killed men inside, thus putting it in sitting duck. They grew fear of that tank, especially that design as no one would own that one beside the hero of Gaia who stopped the first war.
They're talking about him and his team.
"Team 7 Reports For Duty!"
Welkin Gunther.
"All Unit, Prime Gaia has arrived. Evacuate all wounded away from battlefield." Welkin ordered and commanded his tank to keep forward with "Elsword's out. We will hold them back till he recovers. Rose, mark the target!"
"Copy."
The head of Shocktrooper aim battalion with a laser mark and tagged it.
"Blackhawk 1-1 and 1-3 receives the target. Morning In The Air!"
Two sonic bombers passed by above the air and dropped down a set of 12 bombs on their way, destroying everything.
"Good hit, good hit."
"HQ, we will return to rearm and reposition."
The moment bombers left, Welkin was being ambushed by two aircrafts raining down the same treat to Gaia, killing most of divisions and tanks. The Empire's Air Defense joined in taking Gaia's down. Two other aircrafts began chasing them down after hearing signal from HQ in urgent.
"Eagle 1-1, 1-2, cut them down!"
"Eagle 1-1, 1-2, solid copy. In pursuit and engaging."
The sky's now filling with multiple explosion caused by missiles and red flares shot out from target to distract them away, but they couldn't escape their fate. One missile from Eagle shot down one aircraft that's enough to soften dead zone. They continued pursuing target down and sued them away from Gaia's airspace and gained domanation.
"Forward!"
A demolition squad led by Head of Lancer carried out their Stringers and continuosly fired on remained tanks and eliminated them out of game. They along with their tank conquered what's left of Empire frontier and ended the first day of war.
Welkin established HQ right on abbandoned base left by Empire. It was still enough to hold out after clearing rocks and boulders and positioned men to guard. Calculation Gaia's loss, they suffered nearly a quarter of their total force by Empire, with most of them injured. He ordered a team to gather up Gaia Soldiers died on battlefield and brought back to Gaia in order to bury them while those unable to fight would be back for treatment.
"Rosie, I need you to establish defense line on the frontline to stop their advance. Largo, put some charges and mines on these places. If they reach our place, blow them up."
"Roger!"
"But still, I never thought you two will return here."
Largo griinned and punched his shoulder "I can't enjoy my own vegetable if I hear Empire is stepping on out soil. Eleanor is currently in charged of managing resource in your HQ so I have to join in."
"My stage in opera was canceled because they decided to use it as an evacuation." Rosie sighed, since she couldn't perform her voice to the viewers because of war "How's Elsword's condition?"
Welkin shook head "No good, the moment the helo arrived, most of Ragnite has taken over his body and leaves him in vulnerable state. Mio is trying her best to remove it. His body's fighting now but I don't know how long, so I have to take his place to defense here until he's good."
Somewhere, the metal clash was still continuing with two soldiers fighting with power of Valkyria unleashed. Kazuki shot at her which Envy blocked with her shield and returned fire. Each bullet had a small strange power that's not Valkyria. It's similar to something. Envy ignored that feeling and thrusted her sword forward and managad to scratched his cheek but at the same time Kazuki dodged below her sword and slashed on her waisted that both drained her power and hit her.
Envy jumped back to avoid another slash. His dagger became annoying every slash it did to weaken her. She couldn't use her full power to go agaist him and back to use her own strength.
Both were far away from Gaia or Empire in order to have a fight to resolve themselves. With lots of feeling overwhelming both Envy and Kazuki, they didn't hesitate to hurt their own former comrade. Once the last drop of her power gone, she drop her tools and went for a hand-to-hand combat. Kazuki did the same and crossed his battle with her.
Rain started pouring down and wet both of them, yet it didn't stop them from hitting each other.
They punched, kicked, hooked, headbutted, hurted each other… with so many injures on their bodies. Their strength slowly left them with blood covered their face.
"I still… not yet… not enough… you… bastard…"
Envy gasped between her words. Kazuki didn't say any word and just stood up and approached closer to the point Envy can punch him again.
"Betrayed Empire… Betrayed everyone's hope… Betrayed me!"
She emphasized the last one with more painful voice. Kazuki still did not respond to that and had another punch on his face but then Envy fell on him and knocked both down, her strength weary. Both unable to move… Both stayed like that…
"…For what…?"
"…"
Kazuki pushed her away to one side and got up with cold emotion remained on his face. Flashes of his home destroyed by her and Empire and him greeted by the lies of those taking his home away. He gripped his hand weary with rage that he couldn't express all.
"Vengeance, Vengeance for my home and my people."
"!?"
"I will glady sacrifice anything I hold dear to have it, Envy. I don't mind hearing your anger to the end. But…"
Kazuki grabbed her collar shirt and pulled her up.
"I can't have two emotions collision in my mind. So get up!"
He punched her chest and knocked her back.
"The emotion to love a girl that I have a lust to kill her. What's worse than this?"
He picked his dagger and approached her with a thought of killing her, yet the pain throbbed in his chest. The more he watched helpless Envy staring at him, the more his hand trembled. He cursed himself for letting himself weak to emotion. He raised dagger up and attempted to have her life.
Envy just closed her eyes with a shame that she failed her missions and died by her former comrade, waiting a sharp pain hit her.
But instead.
"Kuh!"
Envy heard hin groan in pain. She opened her eyes to find Kazuki stabbed his own hand in frustration, blood dripping from dagger.
"Damn it, Envy… Your fault…"
He pulled it out and threw it away. He grabbed Envy's hand which startled her why unusual act. He signaled the third party to teleport them back to their hideout.
"We will resolve this in another time. Now you go with me."
Without another word, Envy was gone with him.
Somewhere away from the battlefield, there stood the silver haired woman watching everything filled with smokes and death, her long beautiful hair flowing after wind and touched on her metal wings sparking with blue electric attaching to her back. She gazed her golden emptiness eyes at a specific field that was filled with many craters and a slight trace of Valkyria as well as her weapons were left without their owner.
"She has failed us." Malgane spoke with disappointment "I shouldn't have let her out here too soon, but then again, the wheat off the chaff. She's weak and let emotion clouding her mind, thus useless to us."
Malgane looked at the woman who would be the replacement of fallen Valkyrur. Her power surpassed Envy and emitted large blue radiation. She remained immobile as she's waiting for his command.
"What can you tell about this war?"
"Calculation damage. Gaia lost 15% of man force including wounded and dead while we lost our armor battalion and Valkyria. With Valkyria out of their way, their morale will rise and courage will push them, adding to arrival of Welkin Gunther, the Hero of Gaia. However, they stand no chance against what they will face. The loss of Red Magician will halt their advance for the time being with the help of Dark Knight."
She spoke in cold tone, no trace of emotion remained in her voice. Not even Malgane couldn't resist the shiver crawling his spine. What he noticed the most was the ace of Gaia, Elsword Sieghart, was not in battlefield anymore. It's a good sight for them.
"Let them breath their last breath of life. Their death is inevitable when I am here."
"Very well, do what you have but I want every Gaia dead. Valkyria of Blue Flame."
Yuu: Another new chapter after midterm rush and learning Ielts on second attempt = w = it's time to gather everything out after this chapter.
To Mr.X: You can't expect a lemon scene from any couple you pervert :3 Beside, i didn't plan one for any beside the main couple so sorry to disappoint you.