Chapter 49

Adam and his group are getting ready to leave and have to do it in a hurry. They are at the Land of Exiles where the falcon and hornet are at while making sure they got everything they need to for the travel to wherever the other people of Remnant are. The Albain Brothers check the machines to make sure that they are fully functional. Dr. Watts see if he can pack-up any medicines and some of his custom made surgical tools for any emergencies. Hazel is trying to make sense of some of the controls of the hornet before trying to fly it. Tock and Adam return to the desert where they are at.

"Are you sure about this?" Tock asks Adam.

"Not entirely." Adam responds. "But we have to leave. Salem is becoming more and more of a monster by the day and the actions of her Uruks..." Adam places his hand on his left eye, "Let's just say they remind me of a horrible memory." He then removes his hand and looks at Tock. "Anyway, what kind of treasure did you get?"

"Not much considering the small amount of time I was allowed." She then pulls three treasures out of her inventory. "I got this weird twin statues of some wizards made of azurite, some ornate cameo with some bearded man on it, and this hammer. A pretty fancy one at that." Tock holds up a very special hammer of elven origin that originally belonged to Celebrimbor.

"Keep them on you just in case."

"Gotcha'." Tock then puts the items away in her inventory in her implant.

"WE'RE ALL SET TO GO!" Fennec yells out.

"GOOD!" Adam yells back. "WE'LL BE THERE IN A SEC!"

"THIEEEEVVEEEESS!" says a voice saying from a dune close by.

Everyone looked at the direction of the yell northwest and see Gollum with Tyrian and a few troops by them.

"THEY STEALS THE BRIGHT LORD'S TREASURE FOR THE DARK MISTRESS! TRICKSY, FALSE, LIARS!"

"Looks like Gnarl is right." Tyrian says followed by some evil chuckles. "And I get to have fun!" Tyrian then charges at them with forty warriors right behind him.

"Everyone go, now!" Adam ordered as he looks at the forces approaching him and ready to draw out his blade.

Tock ran off to join up with the others as they prepare for take-off. Hazel pilots the hornet with Tock getting on the left side. Dr. Watts pilots the falcon as the Albain brothers use the turrets with the right being a machine gun while the left turret is more of some sort of grenade launcher. Both of them take-off into the air as Adam uses his moonslice semblance to slice through some of the incoming warriors in half as Tyrian manage to jump up to avoid. However, the falcon started to stall. Tyrian uses his armored plated scorpion stinger on him but Adam manage to parry it to avoid being poison. The Albain Brothers use the turrets to fire some of the incoming hostiles but like eight dozen more started to appear on their flank. Hazel uses the machine guns and rocket launchers on the hornet to provide covering fire while Tock fires arrows with her bow.

The fight between Adam and Tyrian continues as Adam stays on the defensive as he blocks all of Tyrian's stings. But thanks to all those blows he keeps on receiving, Adam can use his semblance once again. He uses it but Tyrian is a bit more prepared as he smiles like the madman does as he avoids Adam's assault. As Tyrian dodges by jumping, he hits Adam's shoulder yet only taken off a piece of his armor. But Tyrian does a low sweep kick that causes Adam to become off balance.

"Gottcha!" Tyrian sounds excited as he delivers a blow with his weapons.

But Adam uses his shotgun to fire at Tyrian's weapons along with blocking the stinger with his sword.

"You gotta give Gnarl credit!" Adam smirks. "He did a great job on remaking my Wilt and Blush!"

Tyrian starts to get angry, "You made our Goddess mad!" Then gives his signature manical smile, "But once I make her happy, she will make me her second! Or better yet, her lover!"

"Man you're a freak!" He takes aim yet Tyrian's reflexes are much quicker as Adam fires.

The falcon is up in the air again as Dr. Watts notices more warriors being led by Nonan coming straight for them.

He smiles and says through the speaker, "This is Dr. Watts! By my order, you will stop!"

Nonan and some of the thralls stop what they were doing and listens to the doctor.

One of the Uruks of the Feral Tribe stop and looks at Nonan, "Hey mate! What is wrong with you?!"

"Attack the Uruks!"

Nonan raises his sword and decapitates the Uruk right in front of him as the other thralls fight against some of the Uruks and some of the beast they got. The battle between Adam and Tyrian continues with neither one giving an inch as they keep on fighting on the hot sand with Adam tossing some at Tyrian to blind him but Tyrian tries to throw sand as well.

Hazel pilots the hornet close to Adam with Tock yelling, "GET ON! HURRY!"

Adam takes the chance to jump on but Tyrian manage to scratch his leg with his stinger.

"Gah!" Adam went as he hangs on to his life. "He got me in the leg!"

Everyone takes off as the fight below continues with the Uruks taking on the brainwashed thralls Dr. Watts experimented on. Gollum screams at the traitors as they throw their crystal balls at him. One of them landed on Gollum's mouth while the other smacked him on the head that causes him to get knocked out. They fly high in the air as Adam takes some sort of anti-venom to cure his poison. Then they flew to the direction where the Albain Brothers and Perry once visited. Tyrian looks at the two fleeing air crafts with the look of anger on his face. He clenches his fist and grits his teeth at the situation he is in right before he panics about telling the bad news to Salem. However, he then realizes that the stinger of his tail is chopped off. He screams as he realizes that his tail got chopped.

Back down below, Salem is in her private as she tries to use her crystal ball again.

"Come on..." She seems to be getting frustrated at trying to see at something.

BICORN: Initiating countermeasures.

Salem does her best at scrying to get a glimpse of something. "Show me who brought us here on this planet! SHOW ME!"

The crystal ball shines brightly as she tries to scry on the people that brought them to this new world which she sees as an enemy.

BICORN: WARNING! Countermeasures failing. Holding at 92%.

Salem does her best, or damnest, to try to see what is in her crystal ball yet all that she sees is brightly colored nebulae and bright lights as she clutches the crystal ball device.

"Dammit! SHOW ME!" She focuses all her magical energy into the crystal device and sees the ring-shape object once again.

BICORN: Initializing auxiliary back-up. Holding at 89%. Dropping down to 85%.

Salem then finally sees the ring-shape structure. Nay, a ring-shaped world. The vision backs-up and shows the entire solar system, including the planet she is on. Correction, she can see the planet that everyone is one along with a few orbital structures that are slightly different from the ring world. Then the device explodes with some of the glass shards piercing through Salem. The device falls down and shatters into a multitude of pieces. As for Salem, since she is immortal, she can regenerate as the glass shards fall from her body and her wounds healed up.

"Now I see." Salem says to herself. "But how do I get to such a place far in the stars. Back on Remnant, we never had the capabilities of traveling among the stars. And any attempts that Atlas made by using Dust as a fuel source met with disastrous results." She ponders for a bit to try to figure out on how to solve the problem. "Maybe there is something on this planet that may have a few space crafts." She then looks down at her crystal device, "But without my device, how can I know? Maybe I should send some scouts to find some."

Gnarl comes in, "Excuse me, Dark Mistress, but we have a situation."

Salem looks at Gnarl, "What is it?"

"It appears that Adam and his group have betray us. Tyrian was sent out along with Gollum to bring them in for treason. Unfortunately, Tyrian lost the stinger of his tail and they got away. Including Hazel, Dr. Watts, the Albain Brothers, and Tock."

"Doesn't matter now." Salem gets up from her seat. "We have some more lands to conquer and some technology that we need to get. Particularly ones that can take us to other planets."

"I do know of one." Gnarl says. "There is a place called, the REPCONN Test Site in the Mojave Wasteland I believe it is called. Although the place is under the control of another faction of humans called, Caesar's Legion. And what should we do with Tyrian and his failure?"

"Get him a new tail and have him travel to the Mojave Wasteland. He will redeem himself by finding the craft we need."

"As you wish, Mistress." Gnarl leaves the room.

Salem sits back down, "With the new technology, maybe I can use it to track down Ozpin...then finish him once and for all."

User 456: Ah shit! We were found out! We need to initiate the purge program. What are your orders?

ADMIN:

User 456: Um... Admin? Hello?

ADMIN:

User 456: Okay...? BICORN, should we initiate the purge program?

BICORN:

User 456: BICORN?

BICORN: *Systems Disconnected*

User 897: Some of the systems are down. BICORN's anti-scrying systems are overloaded along with communications. We can only communicate at our local bases.

User 456: How long will that take?

User 897: About a month or two depending on how significant is the damage.

User 456: What about teleportation?

User 671: All local teleportation systems are down on Halo. I just received a report on some of the tech guys that the matrix just exploded underground. We're cut off for the time being.

User 908: Transportation?

User 799: We can use the ships but the hangar doors are in emergency lock-down.

User 456: Looks like we may have to do some walking unless we have some hovercraft that is available.

User 908: We do, but I just got word that some of the other bases are down.

User 897: How can a single system bring us down? Shouldn't we have back-ups or something?

User 908: We...lack certain funds and the original back-ups are insufficient.

User 671: Money is always the enemy in this part of the galaxy.

User 897: Yeah, no joke. And I was planning on having a house on this Halo but the pay here is bad.

User 456: Whatever happen to the good old days?

Back on the planet at the Remnant Encampment, General Ironwood is going over some of the paperwork in his office in the vault.

But then Tucker showed up, "Um, Irondude?"

"What is it?" Ironwood put his papers down, "And it's Ironwood."

"The teleporters aren't working for some reason. We try turning them on, rebooting them, shake them up a little, beating them, but nothing."

"Now that's odd."

"Yeah, no joke. But it's not just ours. Some of the guys back at the valley say that the teleporters aren't working either."

"What is going on?" Ironwood says to himself while looking away from Tucker.

"Dude, if you've seen the shit I've seen, that question is considered dumb."

"Just go."

"You're the boss." and Tucker leaves.

AN: Now for some stuff.

iceshadows: Thank you for bringing up Megas XLR. I did watch it during my middle school years and forgotten about it. I forgot how funny it can be at times. Things at work have been pretty stressful lately and I needed that. Thank you!

Mr. Albert: 0_o Okay...not gonna judge. I mean, hey it's your thing and I'm not gonna judge you for it. You are you.

Guest: After watching it, I did notice some improvement yet still have a long way to go until things are smoothed out. The whole drop in frame rate in order for the characters to stand out from the backgrounds is stupid.

See you guys in two weeks!