Chapter 7:
In space two more Star Cerberus ships explode nearby the Olympus Mons and Hux quickly walked to the intercom typing on it seeing a hologram of the Illusive Man.
"Sir we are holding strong but the Alliance and their new annoying friends are beginning to push forward." Hux said.
"I guess its time we show them their place. The gateway is unearthed and our scientists are rushing to figure out how to activate it and I won't have these people stop our plans. Destroy their main command ship. Now." The Illusive Man told him.
Hux nodded to the crew who heard it and began to charge the ship's superweapon.
Hackett noticed from his bridge on the Olympus Mons and its weapon charging.
"All ships brace yourselves!" Hackett shouted into the com.
"Fire at their command ship!" Hux yelled.
The beam burst from the weapon and hit right through Hackett's flagship vaporizing him and his entire crew.
Every other captain and pilot who seen it was in a horrifying shock.
"T-they destroyed our main commander..." One pilot said in his intercom.
"What do we do!" Another pilot shouted.
"You keep fucking fighting mate!" Ringo shouted into his holocom from his flagship.
"We all stick together and keep attacking! We need to figure out how to destroy the shields off that monster of a ship!" Ringo said glaring at the Olympus Mons trying to think on how to disable that ship.
Serenity ground side heard beeping on her earpiece and clicked on it.
"Yes?" Serenity said.
"Serenity. This is Admiral Anderson. I got word that Hackett is dead." Anderson said.
Serenity paused and so did her group hearing what she did in their earpieces and took a moment of silence.
"I pray he found peace." Serenity replied after a moment.
"Serenity. There is no one in command but Ringo from the Cyclonian Empire is assuming role and doing a good damn job of it too. He said just recently to have all forces in and outside of Rome to head in and that NOD is sending their hover tanks and juggernaut walkers. You let them push forward through the main streets and you guys head around the other way to the gateway. Just be careful." Anderson said to her.
"I will." Serenity replied and then the earpiece shut off.
Serenity beckoned to her crew.
"Okay, half of you go through the empty buildings and work your way stealthily toward the gateway. We will go through the streets to draw attention to us." Serenity said to the group.
Serenity then looked at her sister. "Mismagius." She said.
"I'm not leaving your side." Her sister replied.
"Too bad. You're leading the group through the buildings." Serenity growled.
Mismagius stared at Serenity for a few seconds before turning her head and walking toward the buildings beckoning Ken'shiro's group to follow.
Sam looked at Serenity.
"Do I go with them or you?" She asked.
"Me." Serenity told her.
Mismagius looked back at Serenity and both sisters gave each other a nod before she walked into one of the buildings.
Haurchefant looked down at Serenity.
"Do not worry miss Serenity I have your back." Haurchefant assured her giving her a smile.
Serenity looked up at him and gave a faint smile back and then walked in the street pulling out both her blaster pistols and shot at a nearby Star Cerberus soldier running toward them only to get headshotted but behind him was five more soldiers taking cover and firing at Serenity's group.
One Krogan in Serenity's group threw a grenade into the air above them that exploded only to send down smaller grenades that blew the five soldiers up and their cover.
Serenity's group advanced forward quickly this time running and shooting any enemy they saw.
Hux stood there on the bridge of the Olympus Mons with a grin on his face as their ship kept firing its beam after fifteen minutes of recharge to fire yet again on another vessel.
"Sir? What about the secret army we got in this ship?" One of the crew members asked Hux.
"Once the Alliance is finished we will send the clones out to kill whatever is left. Test them out on other planets." Hux said with a chuckle in his throat.
He looked at the security camera nearby at the clones of Serenity working in all parts of the ship but he only had seventy-five percent of the total of clones that they made.
Back down planet side was Noctis and his friends walking slowly behind rubble and glancing over it to see the only POV camp near Rome and at the prisoner's being beaten or pushed around by Star Cerberus personnel.
"Those bastards." Gladio said growling.
"I think its time we break them out, don't you?" Noctis said.
All four of them immediately got out of hiding using their own abilities to take down the two soldiers that weren't armed.
"Ignis! Prisoners!" Noctis yelled.
Ignis ran toward a few prisoners and using his daggers to slice their chains off swiftly.
"Luckily these chains are just standard and not coated with energy!" Ignis replied.
Gladio kept swinging his large claymore into incoming soldiers that ran from the barracks till none was left.
Prompto nearby was shooting the guard towers at the bottom knocking them and the soldiers ontop with them down into their own electric fences.
"Run quickly!" Ignis yelled to the prisoners as he cut them free.
One prisoner was running from a building only to be pierced through his body by kukri knife that was thrown into his back and out his chest and he fell over onto the ground and revealing behind him was the POV manager for the Star Cerberus Empire, Elsa Granhiert.
"You four boys look fun to hang around." Elsa said walking out of the building calmly and grinning at them.
"That's the bitch... she's the warden for all the prison camps on Earth." Noctis said glaring at her holding his sword in hand.
Elsa kept walking toward them slowly with a chuckle.
"I say I have no pleasure in killing women but this one must be put down." Ignis said straightening his glasses.
Elsa opened her hands and two Kukri knives slid down and she gripped them by the handles.
"Come on boys, show me how tough you are." She said laughing.
Noctis and Gladio leaped up first and went to strike their blades at her from an aerial attack form.
Elsa on the other hand gracefully spun and blocked both of their attacks both her blades on each of their weapons blades and seemingly little to no effort of struggling to push against their muscles that were trying to push their blades against hers to knock her's out of her hands.
"Whats wrong boys? Lacking in strength?" She said batting her eyelashes at them with a slight smirk.
Elsa then moved her body back quickly making both Noctis and Gladio fall onto the ground.
Ignis threw an ice spell right at her which did in fact do some damage and she was surprised as her right arm began to bleed.
"Now that's a man." She laughed and suddenly she vanished from their sight only to appear behind Ignis and attempted to swing her blade right at his neck.
Prompto who was looking Ignis' way, quickly shot his pistol toward her knife to knock it away from Ignis.
Ignis turned around immediately with his own daggers out and began to strike at her quickly and she kept blocking his attacks with ease but he noticed it was somewhat slower than before and noticed her arm dripping of blood.
"Noctis!" Ignis shouted.
Noctis suddenly threw his blade toward Elsa and disappeared in a flash and appeared right in front of her grabbing his blade in mid-air after teleporting to it and lunging to stab her.
Esla leaped back quickly away from the strike and suddenly got hit with two more ice bombs which began to freeze a bit of her ankle and she shook her foot quickly where it was now bleeding and glared at Ignis.
"I hate cheaters!" She yelled.
"I hate bitches!" Gladio yelled appearing immediately right behind her swinging his large claymore at her in a slicing wave.
Elsa hearing him quickly leaped without looking and landed on the blade of his claymore and kicked him straight in the face with her pointed heel and leaped off the blade only to strike him right across the chest with one of her knives.
"Agh!" Gladio shouted and without warning, he headbutted her square in the face.
Elsa staggered back coughing out blood as her nose bled out.
"You struck...!" Elsa said in shock.
Suddenly prompto kept shooting at her and she quickly spun her blades rapidly to deflect each bullet but her movements slowed by the attack from Ignis' ice element only made her grow tired and soon she wasn't expecting Ignis to now fire a lightning element straight down onto her feet.
Elsa yelled in pain being electrocuted and then Noctis and Gladio at the same time swung their blades in an X cross motion and sliced her into four pieces.
Her body parts dropped onto the ground in front of them and Gladio just smirked knocking on his wounded chest.
"Looks like I got another scar from another worthless opponent." Gladio laughed patting Noctis' back.
"Heh, at least she's done torturing people." Noctis said.
"We should probably hurry. Prompto how about you run up ahead and check on Mangle okay? We will take our time and look around to see if any prisoners are left locked up in the buildings." Noctis said.
"Right!" Prompto said and ran quickly checking his holo map to Mangle's location.
Gladio looked up into the sky seeing Alliance and former enemy starfighters taking on Star Cerberus starfighters.
Ignis looked up at the sky with him but noticed in the sky was the Olympus Mons.
"I hope they take that monster down." Ignis remarked.
"But maybe not over Earth you know?" Gladio said a bit worried.
Off in a damaged Tokyo was Alliance forces and former enemy forces shooting at Star Cerberus forces near a shipyard and in the sky was one Star Cerberus battleship sending bombardment fire into the city in different places with one cannon firing once a minute.
Coming out of the ocean was a Cyclonian battle sub that's top doors opened and fired five rockets into the ship above which gained its attention to fire at the sub.
The ground forces seeing this looked at one group that was with them, their former enemies having rocket launchers.
"We see it." One Cyclonian soldier said looking at his men and they began to fire their rockets at the Star Cerberus battleship as the sub did as well and soon the battleship started to fall from the sky toward the ocean nearby.
The men began to cheer on together and the sub dispatched more forces along with Weeqay species to help out.
Two shuttles landed nearby unloading more Weeqay and with them Volus and Vorcha together. One Vorcha had a flame thrower and a grin on his face burning down a bunker with enemies inside using their machine guns at the incoming shuttles.
"Me no like you!" The Vorcha laughed.
Meanwhile, Qrow and his group stumble upon dead Alliance forces and soon got their weapons out looking around.
"I sense something wrong." Fern said frowning looking around.
Suddenly two clones of Serenity and their enhancements appeared.
"What the living fuck...!?" Qrow said in shock.
Maychiro gasped and confused.
"Those fuckers..." Fern growled.
The two clones run at them and Qrow without hesitation slices both of them chopping their heads off before they got too close.
Qrow noticed poisonous acid dripping from their robotic jaws.
Maychiro gripped Qrow's side.
"Please tell me that wasn't really her." Maychiro said horrified.
"No, it wasn't. They are clones." Qrow said frowning looking at the clones kneeling down.
"Mordin what's your analysis?" Qrow asked.
Mordin took a minute to examine one of them and stood back up.
"Sickening disgusting and yet accurate. They are clones yes but enhanced and not even human but more of a creature than anything. Mindless and soulless." Mordin remarked.
Fern stared at the clones gripping his lightsaber hilt tightly.
"Hey." Qrow said to snap Fern out of it.
"I'm glad to see your thinking of our nieces but save that rage for when we find the son of a bitch that was able to clone her. More importantly, how did they clone one of us with our black blood." Qrow said and began to ponder.
"The Illusive Man must be using them for secret purposes. Maybe to scare us." Mordin suggested.
"But two of them killed ten soldiers here. Which means they are dangerous." Qrow said.
"Ah, but when did they get Serenity's blood. Before or after she grew her abilities and powers?" Mordin said to him.
Maychiro and Kylo looked at them as they spoke and looked at one another.
"I know who did this." Kylo told Maychiro.
Qrow turned his head looking at Kylo with the others.
"Who." Maychiro asked.
"His name is Colress. I know the Illusive Man was going to hire him for some secretive scientific work. And I know they must have got the blood before she gained more abilities so we don't need to worry about that." Kylo said.
"Yet we should worry about what they put in the clones other than acid and cybernetic enhancements." Qrow said crossing his arms.
"This disgusts as well. These things look like nightmare fuel Serenities." Kylo said looking at them.
Fern walked pass them toward where they needed to go.
"I'm going to find the asshole and make him pay then." Fern remarked as he kept walking.
Qrow looked at Maychiro and the others who gave a confident nod.
"Let's fuck a Scientist." Qrow said.
"Ahem." Mordin said crossing his arms.
"Uh! Fuck that scientist that is!" Qrow said rubbing the back of his head and quickly taking his flask out taking a long sip from it and once it emptied he went into his bag only to bring out another filled flask.
Meanwhile, half a mile away in the city was a huge battle taking place in the main street between NOD forces with their hover tanks and Star Cerberus and their hover tanks with ground forces firing at one another.
"You got to be kidding me! Everyone is just blasting away!" Lopunny yelled crouched behind one of their tanks.
Suddenly two Mako's come in and begin to fire at the Star Cerberus tanks to lend support.
"Maybe you should do something about it!" Vulpix shouted while crouched with her.
"Fuck it!" Lopunny said leaping into the air and landing right behind enemy lines turning around and stomping on the ground using her earth element to bring out large chunks of the ground knocking up the soldiers and then using those same chunks of ground to smash into them making blood squirt everywhere.
One tank turned to fire at her and she ran quickly to the side from its blasts and leaped onto the tank itself stomping its metal bending it down and leaped away before it exploded.
"Show off..." Vulpix mumbled and kept shooting nearby soldiers.
At that moment a NOD helicopter flew overhead and dropped a bomb down on the enemies clearing it almost completely and the remaining forces having to run away in retreat heading back toward the gateway.
"This is starting to get-" Lopunny began until seeing a shield ray nearby head up into the sky and surface like a bubble around where they were heading too.
"You mother fucker!" Lopunny shouted.
Vulpix quickly got on the intercom to report it.
One of their hover tanks tried to get in but failed but two soldiers walked through it and shrugged at Lopunny and Vulpix walking back out.
"It's a shield that keeps tech out and lets organics in. Nice..." Vulpix said shaking her head.
"We can bring out weapons with us so not all tech." Lopunny remarked and walked inside with their ground troops following and the tanks heading back to help where ever they could.
Serenity hearing of this in her earpiece frowned looking from her cover to see the shield herself.
"Fuck." Serenity said to herself and looked to Haurchefant.
"Miss Serenity the enemy is retreating into the shield." Haurchefant said looking through binoculars.
"You know what this means." Serenity said.
"Uhm that we need to walk further?" Haurchefant answered blinking.
"Means the enemy is scared and needing to cheat with a shield." Serenity said standing up from cover and running toward the shield with her group following.
Suddenly jumping from a building was a clone of Serenity and lunged at Serenity who was caught off guard and suddenly activating her rinnegan to send a powerful blast of gravity right into the clone shattering its cybernetics and shutting it down completely.
Serenity de-summoned her rinnegan and ran over to the clone in shock.
"What in the hell..." Haurchefant said looking down at it with the others.
Serenity's eye twitched.
"So now they cloned me! Now I'm getting even angrier than I was! And look at me down there I look terrible!" Serenity said trying to lighten the mood a bit. But she saw she failed and sighed as everyone was focused on it and not paying attention to what she said.
"Yo freaks!" Mangle yelled walking up snapping them out of it.
"Mangle they made clones of me!" Serenity said to her.
"Yeah I know we killed about fifty of them. First thought it was you until I seen it was better looking than you are." Mangle said and grinned.
Serenity slowly aimed her pistol at Mangle glaring at her.
"Do it bitch." Mangle said with a grin.
Zarbon walked in carrying one of Mangle's bombs.
"What the hell is he doing!?" Sam asked seeing the bomb.
"Oh, hunny I'm carrying this for Mangle. She wants to use it to blow up the shield generator." Zarbon said.
"Yeah, we are going to use that to take down this shield. Bad guys ain't playing fair so we won't either." Mangle said literally patting the bomb hard.
Everyone stiffened even Zarbon when she did it.
"Please don't do that!" Serenity screamed.
Mangle gave it one more slap and Serenity nearly went to grab her sister until they heard a large explosion in the sky seeing one of their alliance battleships drop from space and crashing far off in the distance.
"We should hurry." Serenity remarked and everyone nodded in agreement.
"Serenity!" Wrex yelled running in with his Krogan team.
"Wrex!" Serenity yelled seeing him.
"We just got deployed here. I wanted my team to fight with yours, heh give you guys some back bone!" Wrex said pounding his fists together and bringing up his krogan shotgun.
"I'll take all the help I can get." Serenity said nodding to him.
Everyone then walked toward the shield and went through it but suddenly they felt a bit shakey.
"They are using some neuron like component within the shield to keep us a bit shakey. It should wear off the longer we are in here." Wrex said.
Mangle, however, was the only one not wiggling due to her being half robotic.
"Haha!" Mangle yelled in happiness making everyone even Zarbon glare at her.
"Can we kill her and make it like it was the bad guy who did it?" Wrex asked.
"Sadly we need her because of the bomb and she knows the wires to it." Serenity sighed.
"Okay so battle plan?" Wrex asked.
"I was thinking we will sneak through this area quietly and try to reach the gateway that way. We don't get much time I don't think so we just got to be very quiet and watch where we step if we trigger a trap." Serenity said.
Suddenly Serenity looked around.
"Where did Mangle go?" Serenity asked
They then heard Mangle shouting and looked at her shooting a flare into the air. "Come get some mother fuckers!" Mangle shouted and suddenly alarms were going off.
Serenity and the others sighed and ran to help in the incoming battle they were trying to avoid.