Chapter 8:
Two enemy starfighters in the sky began to gain up on one Azure Kingdom starfighter but only to be destroyed by five Cyclonian starfighters and they flew with the Azure Kingdom starfighter to take down more incoming enemy starfighters.
Below them was a huge firefight in a crop field near Rome with smoke and flames scattered everywhere.
Coming in from the sky was Hutt shuttles unloading cartel fighters with their own tricky weaponry that was electric or cryo ammo. They quickly loaded their clips and began to fire at the enemy forces.
Beside them from their shuttles was Turian cartel members and Killik forces from their homeworld advancing and taking down the enemies to regain more ground for the Alliance.
Emilou and Cyan with their soldiers approached the shield and walked right through it.
"Psh how fucking useless. Only keeps out the heavy armor." Emilou said spitting on the ground.
Cyan kept quiet and her eyes corner.
"Duck." Her only words were and soon she and Emilou ducked low only to hear a sniper bullet zoom passed them and hit two of their soldiers in a line.
Then another shot was heard killing another soldier and then one more killing the last soldier in their group.
Emilou and Cyan stood there looking around and suddenly both of them sensed the incoming shot and ducked again.
"Over there." Cyan said after hearing where the shots came from.
Emilou used her flash step ability quickly appearing behind the sniper and right as she was about to kill him he back flipped over her and tried to stab her with a knife.
Cyan however flash stepped as well and grabbed the mans hand that held the knife and pushed it away.
Suddenly the man uncorked a vial of toxins and leaped out of the bushes. The man revealed to be Pendrak.
Cyan and Emilou flash stepped away from the toxins and coughed hard and looked at him.
Pendrak stood there grinning at them having vials of toxins around his two long belts over his shoulders.
His sniper rifle holstered to his back holster and his arms crossed with one vial in his left hand twirling it slowly.
"Wheres Serenity, I don't want you two." Pendrak said grunting.
"Wheres your sense you piece of shit." Emilou replied before jumping right at Pendrak with her leg extended sending a full blow kick into his face.
Pendrak quickly unhooked his vials of toxin and threw them at both the girls and they both leaped away quickly from them and put their arms over their faces.
"This is going to be difficult." Cyan replied.
Pendrak quickly unslung his Sniper Rifle aiming it at Cyan letting out a shot making a bullet hit her right through her shoulder making her fall back.
Emilou not hesitating leaped at Pendrak and opened her mouth creating a beam and at point-blank range shot a Cero, an energy blast from her own power right through his chest out his spine making him cough up blood.
Pendrak fell back in shock not seeing that coming and fell onto the ground and was still alive but barely.
"I... I won't die to the likes of you..." Pendrak remarked and weakly unhooked his vial of anthrax on his chest and before he could barely manage to throw it at her it slipped from his hand and the liquid went right into his face and killed him instead.
Emilou quickly ran over to Cyan taking some Omni-gel out to cover her wound.
"You're still bleeding. He hit an artery." Emilou said worriedly.
"Go." Cyan said frowning at her.
"Fuck that! I'll call in a medical team." Emilou said getting on her holocom contacting a med unit.
"Shit no ones picking up..." Emilou said frowning.
Suddenly they heard the bushes moving and Emilou got ready to fight until seeing it was her sister Mawile and her team.
"Shit!" Mawile said seeing Cyan bleeding out.
A medic in Mawiles team ran to Cyan to treat her quickly.
"We ran into a pathetic weak idiot." Emilou said thumbing back to Pendraks body.
They both looked at the shield and back to each other.
"We may not have much time left." Mawile said and thought to herself seeing how far they were.
"I think we should fast run to it ourselves. Don't you think?" Mawile asked.
"We can hold here mam." An Eleven soldier suggested.
"Alright, but retreat if you are overrun." Mawile said to them. "We can handle them if they follow us."
"Yes, mam." The Eleven replied.
Blair who was in Mawiles group stepped up.
"I will go with you two." She said.
They looked at her and nodded.
"We could use extra powers I guess." Emilou shrugged looking back at Mawile and all three nodded and ran toward the shield beam.
Meanwhile, up in space, Maya controlling the Flagship kept tearing down Cerberus battleships heading right toward the Olympus Mons.
Hux noticing this looked at his crew giving them the look to fire at the Flagship.
The Olympus Mons began to move to aim its super weapon at the Gorgon Flagship.
Maya noticing this began to think while humming a tune to herself and opens up the holo-com to contact Mienshao but she didn't pick up but instead Deidara who was flying the Normandy.
"Yeah, dude?" Deidara asked.
"Ah hello! Sister around?" Maya asked.
"I think she is letting me fly this time. Whats up?" Deidara asked her.
"The big bad ship is ready to shoot me down. I think we need to take care of that monster." Maya said.
"Its shields are too strong and we are trying to figure out what to do." Deidara said and thought. "You should abandon ship." Deidara suggested.
Maya kept quiet until laughing nervously.
"I wouldn't want to do that... This is our flagship." She said.
"Yo like what if she shot all those big old nukes at it?" Lamar suggested behind Deidara.
Maya hearing that began to grin.
"I guess its time to disable those shields!" She said happily.
The Olympus Mons soon got in range and began to charge its main super weapon.
"Fire when ready." Hux said grinning.
"Sir her missile doors are opening!" One Star Cerberus crew member said.
"What!?" Hux remarked in shock.
Soon they saw one hundred nukes head right toward the Olympus Mons.
"Fire at them before they reach us!" Hux yelled running to a terminal.
"Too late!" One crew member shouted as their targeting systems were on other ships.
Hux quickly pressed a button on his wrist communicator which developed a shield bubble around himself and he crouched low to the floor.
A few seconds later the missiles hit different places of the Olympus Mons all around it. The shockwave knocked some of its guarding frigates away and some into one another.
The Olympus Mons still was in orbit but its shields completely gone with some burn marks over its metal.
Hux rose up from the floor seeing how his bridge crew was dead either knocked into the ceiling or into the electrical consoles that shocked them to death.
Hux quickly left the bridge seeing how the glass was cracking and got out just in time before it shattered and ripped the bridge section into pieces.
Hux walked quickly out of the elevator typing on it to lock up the bridge access and then walked to the second control station in the Olympus Mons.
As he walked the clones of Serenity was stationed and on standby. He walked to the main console typing on it and activating the clones. Over a million in the ship that would be ready to deploy on planets to maintain security. He had them replace the dead crew members and operate the ship for him seeing how everyone died but him from the shockwave rumbling the ship like a powerful earthquake.
Shockingly to everyone else the ship was still intact and still operational. But without shields.
"Dude, that things a beast." Deidara remarked.
Maya, however, looked at what she did and seeing the weak points left over.
"The bridge is gone, easy with just glass but the entire ship is covered in strong heavy metal of some sort." Maya said to Deidara through the communications.
"Fire more missiles then?" Deidara said.
"Okay give me a moment I'm going to control the-." Maya said to him and stopped.
Suddenly Maya saw the glow from the super weapon and her eyes widen and quickly ran fast to the nearest escape pod on the bridge.
Deidara seeing how communications ended was confused and noticed the Olympus Mons ready to fire.
"Oh no..." Deidara said.
Jacob typed on the console. "Get out of there!" Jacob yelled to the bridge of the Gorgon Flagship.
The beam fired right at the flagship and vaporized it.
"Maya!" Jacob yelled.
Mienshao seeing this quickly ran to the Normandy cargo bay and ordered personnel to leave as she was going to open the space door and leave in a shuttle in hopes Maya somehow survived.
"Wait escape pod is seen heading toward the planet! She made it!" Deidara said with a sigh of relief.
Then he noticed Mienshao leave in a shuttle.
"Should have waited." Deidara remarked and looked back behind him.
"Alright crew! I guess I'm in charge now." Deidara said and flew the Normandy quickly through enemy starfighters shooting at them with their allies.
"We need all ships to head to the Olympus Mons to try to take it down! Anyway, we can!" Deidara shouted into the intercoms to all their allies.
Mienshao noticed the escape pod from their flagship heading down planet side and she followed quickly only to be shot at from a nearby Star Cerberus frigate and getting her engine blown off and zooming down toward the planet along side the escape pod.
Soon right as they entered the sky and heading toward the ground her shuttle was controlled by Maya and so was the escape pod with her technology control and landed them both safely near the shield over the gateway area of Rome.
Mienshao opened the shuttle door and walked out rubbing her head and seen Maya climbing out of the pod.
"I loved that ship." Maya remarked and pouted.
"Heh, we'll buy another one." Mienshao said giving her sister a hug.
"Hey!" Kisame yelled walking toward them with Itachi.
"Why are you two here aren't you suppose to be up in the fight above?" Itachi asked.
"Lost our ship." Maya said and began to hum another tune.
Itachi gazed to the shield nearby and Mienshao looked back as well.
"I can't use my power to disable it. It, however, can let ground soldiers in but not machinery. Strange." Itachi said crossing his arms.
"I think we should be extra careful right now okay?" Mienshao said to them.
"I couldn't agree more!" An unknown voice said
Soon the four of them seen a large group of Star Cerberus soldiers and in front of them what seemed like a commander with a grin on his face.
"You won't leave this place alive... For weeks we have been uncovering the truth of the gateway! Soon we shall reign supreme through the entire universe! All species shall bow to the might of our great Empire!" The Star Cerberus man said and they all got their guns and weapons out.
"You wanna take the mouthy one?" Kisame asked Mienshao.
"Yeah, just to shut him up. You guys want to get the dudes around him that can't hold a gun right worth shit?" Mienshao asked.
"Would be honored." Itachi replied.
"May I eat one!" Maya asked jumping up and down.
"Heh, by all means, ladies first." Kisame said grinning pulling his large sword out.
Up at the north part of Rome Hutetsuu clan members and Crimson kingdom forces kept shooting and slicing down enemies that was coming toward them.
"Keep them away! We must hold this road!" One Crimson Kingdom soldier yelled to the others.
Soon five Wookie soldiers ran out from a building helping to defeat enemy forces.
NOD helio's came in landing and unloaded only a few soldiers from each of them.
"What's the situation here?" A Twi'lek species asked crouched low behind a man made barrier.
"We have to keep the enemy from coming in this way! This road is the closest road to the portal!" The Crimson soldier replied shouting as the gunfire was ringing their ears.
"Alright we will try to call in atleast a few tanks." The Twi'lek said getting on his intercom placed in his ear.
Qrows group nearly made it to the shield only to see a large wall around it and the gateway.
"Fuck, nothings ever easy." Fern said sighing.
"Kylo how about you try to climb one section and we will hit the main entrance to draw out the guards to us." Qrow suggested.
Kylo nodded gripping his lightsaber hilt and running toward the far section of the wall while Qrow and the others went toward the entrance.
Right as they get to the entrance Qrow looked around and no one was firing at them.
The doors instead opened and Maychiro rolled her eyes.
"This is the most obvious trap I have ever seen." Maychiro commented crossing her arms.
Suddenly a glowing red energy of a fishing hook hit Maychiro's chest and yanking out a glow of purple from her own energy.
The hook spun up into the air and retracted by to the glowing rod that Urashiki was holding.
He was standing on one of the Star Cerberus without towers and leaped down in front of the entrance to the shield and beside him jumping down was Scarlet.
Urashiki gripped the purple energy and stuffed it into a gourd strapped to his back.
Qrow and the others got into their battle stances.
"What did you do!" Maychiro asked.
"Heh, just took a bit of your power is all! You should learn about sharing!" Urashiki yelled down to her laughing.
Qrow suddenly zoomed out with his speed and swung his blade which was in broadsword form right at Urashiki who blocked it easily with his glowing energy fishing rod.
"Chakra infused buddy. Good luck trying to break it." Urashiki said to Qrow and lifted his foot to kick him straight in the gut and away from him.
Qrow skidded back and kept on attacking swinging his blade to try to cut Urashiki but Urashiki kept blocking it easily.
Scarlet approached Maychiro with a grin on her face and Maychiro as well gave her back a grin.
Both women leaped at one another and began to swing fists at each other but Maychiro seemingly having the upper hand making Scarlet frown and grunt to each hit laid on her.
Fern and Mordin stood there and looked at one another and Mordin pulled his SMG out and aimed it at Scarlet waiting to get a clean shot while Fern ran to help his brother only to be blasted by a powerful beam of energy from Urashiki's palm knocking Fern right into the tower that Urashiki jumped from and knocking the tower down to the ground behind Fern.
Mordin surprised began to shoot toward Urashiki instead only for Urashiki to leap away quickly from the shots.
Maychiro was suddenly sliced by a sickle right across her stomach.
Scarlet having chained sickles spun them around grinning at Maychiro.
"Playing dirty huh?" Maychiro said and smirked and summoned into her hand a battle hammer with an ax end on the other end of the pole.
Soon both girls began to clash with their weapons but Maychiro noticed there was a drug on the blades of her sickle and feeling dizzy as she fought and tried to keep focus.
Mordin noticing Maychiro's stance quickly got out his vaccine gun and shot toward her.
Maychiro, however, moved her head from an incoming attack and the vaccine missed and instead hit Scarlet straight into the forehead making her lose her focus from the fight and worry of what was in her head.
Maychiro spun around with the hammer end of her pole and smashed right into Scarlets head and into the wall leaving but a gunk of blood and bone marrow.
Maychiro looked back at Mordin with a nod. "Nail and hammer!" Maychiro said waving.
"Nail and hammer? But we are not building anything?" Mordin replied.
"And you ruined it..." Maychiro sighed.
Both of them looked at Fern and Mordin pointed to Qrow for Maychiro and he ran over to help Fern.
Both Maychiro and Qrow did their best to inflict at least a punch or slice at Urashiki but didn't prevail as Urashiki kept blocking their attacks with ease, being a lot faster than them.
Soon Qrow and Maychiro both stopped and took a breath with Urashiki waiting for them.
"So, want to take a fiver?" Urashiki asked grinning.
Qrow glared at him and swung his blade yet again at Urashiki who blocked it easily and then lifted his foot up to block the hammer end of Maychiro's weapon.
Soon Urashiki pushed the hammer away and then swung his foot into Qrows side kicking him to the side.
"Heh that's no way to treat me." Urashiki said to Qrow.
Suddenly a force blast came and hit Urashiki straight into the front of his body making him soar mid-air and crash into the ground nearby.
Urashiki stood up quickly seeing Fern who did it and running toward Urashiki with the others.
Before Urashiki got a chance to attack, Kylo's lightsaber activated next to Urashiki near his shoulder.
Urashiki remained calm and his eyes cornered to Kylo.
"Seems you got me, for now." Urashiki said and suddenly disappeared and reappeared standing in mid air above them.
"Amazing, sky walking ability." Mordin said.
"Shame about Scarlet but nothing can be done there." Urashiki said to them.
"Who the hell are you?" Qrow asked him.
"I was about to say this guy is good. That and something about him too, something of his scent." Fern said to Qrow.
Urashiki knelt down while standing in mid air grinning at them.
"So how is your mother doing." Urashiki said to Qrow and Fern.
"The fuck...?" Qrow said confused.
Urashiki was silent, and was waiting for them to answer him.
"She's alive and kicking you peoples' asses I bet. Why?" Fern asked.
"Just making sure she is safe. It's been quite sometime after all since I saw her. Ah, just like sunshine she is." Urashiki said smirking at them.
"You mother fucker! What is it you want!" Fern yelled.
"Answer us!" Qrow yelled.
"That's no way to speak to your father." Urashiki said blinking a few times acting innocent.
"Don't give us that crap. Answer our question!" Qrow yelled.
"I sort of did." Urashiki said to them.
Suddenly Qrow and Fern both had a confused expression until it suddenly dropped and their faces slowly became concern.
"Who... are you?" Qrow asked a bit calmer.
"I am your father." Urashiki said to them.
"That's not true... that's impossible." Fern growled.
"Smell me then, smell my essence with your power and know for yourselves." Urashiki replied
Qrow and Fern couldn't believe it but he was right.
"No!" Qrow yelled falling to his knee's.
Maychiro and Mordin both didn't know what to say.
"Join me you two. Join me so we can see through this. As father and sons." Urashiki said to them holding his palm out.
"We'll never join you..." Qrow said.
Urashiki shrugged. "Okay."
Suddenly without moving a powerful gust of wind came from the gourd that Urashiki had and like a cyclone took them back a mile along with the wall tearing it down completely. The four of them however survived and Qrow rose his head up only to see Urashiki vanish.
Fern laying on the ground just blinked a few times before speaking in sarcasm. "Guess that's our father grounding us?"
Qrow rose his arm up and landed it down on Ferns face.
Down south inside a museum were a few Eleven forces shooting down some Star Cerberus forces that had snipers in the top part of the building shooting down enemy starfighters with their rockets and or soldiers with their rifles.
They heard a rumble coming toward the wall and moved out of the way seeing an Alliance Mako tank roll in and fire at the Star Cerberus forces leaving the stairway open to advance too.
The Elevens ran toward it followed by a few of their Lalafell allies from their planet that had healing abilities.
Running from behind the Mako was two heavily armed Azure Kingdom warriors leading first with energy shields.
The group got to the top and dispatched the snipers and rocketeers immediately and used the advantage of the high top to take down enemy fighters and forces. Below the Mako stayed in the building giving cover fire for any Star Cerberus soldiers that was trying to retake the Museum.