Chapter 9:
Somewhere in another city on the world was nearly two hundred Star Cerberus soldiers and over ten tanks rapidly firing at a concrete defense that was starting to crumble down.
Behind it was civilians with guns but in fear knowing they'd meet their end.
Coming nearby was Cyclonian and NOD forces alongside a few Alliance soldiers and rogue criminals taking down some of the enemy soldiers from the side to draw their attention away.
The civilians saw this in shock seeing former enemies helping the Alliance.
One child ran out in fear and a Star Cerberus soldier saw him and took aim and shot toward him.
One Cyclonian fighter ran to the boy taking the hit for him and the civilians seeing this yelled and charged from around the wall running at the enemy and shooting at them.
Soon the civilians and civilians on other parts of the world began to fight back with the Alliance and showing they are tired of being controlled.
Back at that battle the civilians charged taking down soldier after soldier fighting alongside the Alliance and their new friends. Children running with their parents holding kolto and medi-gel packs even one child throwing a pack at one NOD soldier who quickly grabbed it and used it on his arm to heal up quickly and shot three enemy soldiers in a row with the gun in that hand with a grin on his face nodding at the kid.
"You're so cool!" The kid shouted
Instantly two Alliance Mako tanks roll in firing at the tanks and running over enemy forces.
That section in the world took back their city immediately.
Meanwhile, Desolate and her clan along with some of the Momochi clan ran through the streets and into the shield while some stayed back to take down reinforcements coming from the south.
As Desolate ran she noticed Mangle nearby with Zarbon fighting off a Star Cerberus tank and destroying it. Desolate ran toward Mangle and Zarbon.
"Mangle, everything okay here?" Desolate asked.
"Fuck yeah!" Mangle said sitting down on the rubble.
"I need a break for a moment." Mangle said.
"Want me to go on ahead?" Zarbon asked her.
"Yeah please do, go with that group and I'll be ahead soon." Mangle said.
Right as Zarbon disappeared with the others a rocket came down right in front of Mangle and Desolate knocking them back and into a building that was nearly ready to collapse.
Walking out from a building tearing it down was a large Star Cerberus spider walker.
"Oh shit!" Mangle said getting up slowly only to be shot at by its rapid-fire bullets.
Mangle crawled on her hands and feet running behind some concrete rubble laying on the ground to avoid the fire.
Desolate held her hand out using her ice power to spike and freeze into the gun barrel which exploded itself from the rapid-fire inside.
The spider walker quickly launched itself and landed down right on Desolate.
Mangle soon got a good shot from behind the spider walker and fired two of her grenades from her small grenade launcher right into the back of its vent first destroying its vent armor and then destroying its inside wires completely and making the walker's top explode with the gunner inside dead.
Mangle tried to lift the spider walker off of Desolate and using her robotics she quickly pushed it up enough and slipped her shoe off to use her toes to clutch Desolates shirt and yanking her out from under it slowly and once she got out Mangle let out a sigh of relief dropping the walker back down.
Desolate coughed up some blood laying on the ground looking at the smoke-filled sky from battle.
"Are you okay!?" Mangle said grabbing her medi-gel and smearing some of it on Desolates legs having to cut some of the leggings off to get it on successfully.
"Mangle..." Desolate said.
"Don't give me that shit dude, you're going to live." Mangle said and pulled out a medpac stim and stabbed it into Desolates leg.
Desolate looked at Mangle and looked back up to the sky.
"Your showing compassion." Desolate said.
"Dude I'm not that heartless." Mangle said frowning at her.
"Mangle. I can't feel my legs at least for now. You need to hurry with the others." Desolate said.
"Don't fucking start that heroic talk please." Mangle said to her.
Suddenly Desolate began to cry and she was crying blood and Mangle seen that she had more damage than she thought, but Mangle noticed her crying and wondered why.
"Uhm... is it painful?" Mangle asked trying to apply medi-gel on her head and opened Desolates mouth making her drink some medi-gel.
Desolate drank some and when she got done her hand went up and patted Mangle's cheek.
Mangle went silent looking at Desolate confused.
"Mangle. I and your father had Tsubaki, you know your half-sister." Desolate started until Mangle cut her off.
"Yeah, no shit she came from your pussy. So?" Mangle asked.
Desolate rolled her eyes and continued.
"A month after I and him needed money to get out of Alaska on Earth." Desolate said.
When Desolate said that, Mangle's expression changed into seriousness.
"He donated a sperm and I donated blood. We had enough to head to Dromund Kaas where he used to work. We learned that a scientist took those two items and well, Mangle... Mangle, I am your mother." Desolate finally admitted looking at Mangle with worry.
Mangle was silent, dead silent. Mangle's mind was racing and didn't know what to say.
Desolate was a bit worried if Mangle might kill her or go on a rampage but her hand kept on Mangle's cheek.
The two of them looked at one another for a whole minute and Mangle suddenly shed a tear and then more tears came, the drops falling on Desolate.
"All my life I see my sisters except Serenity talk about their moms, always about their moms! I could never talk about a mom because I never had one but a machine with fox DNA! Your the woman who's blood was used to complete it!?" Mangle shouted with her lip quivering.
"I am sorry." Desolate said shutting her eyes tightly for what was going to come.
Suddenly Mangle hugged her crying- for the first time, Mangle was crying harder than she did when Prompto asked her to marry him. Mangle held Desolate tightly crying on her shoulder.
Desolate held her tightly placing her head on Mangle's head patting her back.
"I finally have a mom!" Mangle cried out.
Desolate gripped her frowning.
"I didn't want you to know because if my clan knew who knows what they would have done. I was thinking about you." Desolate said.
"I'm just glad you told me." Mangle replied sniffing.
Zarbon was nearby who heard it all to check up on the explosion he heard from the spider walker and nodded.
Zarbon then acted as if he just found them running in.
"Mangle! Desolate! Are you two okay?" Zarbon asked.
Mangle quickly changed her expression.
"Yeah! She's hurt! Zarbon can you please take her to the nearest medical team please!" Mangle asked.
"I will radio them as I carry her." Zarbon said picking up Desolate.
Desolate looked at Mangle with a nod and Zarbon quickly ran carrying Desolate while talking on his earpiece for help.
Mangle stood there and wiped her eyes.
"I finally can say I have a mom..." Mangle said to herself and gave a genuine smile.
"Mangle?" Umbreon asked walking in with Neopolitan.
"Ah! Uh! Where did you two come from!?" Mangle asked jumping up.
"We just got here from that destroyed building working our way to the main generator. - what do you mean about a mom?" Umbreon asked confused.
Mangle looked down and then back up with a smile.
"I'll tell ya later dude. For now, how about we go kill some small pricks." Mangle said walking ahead of them.
Umbreon and Neopolitan looked at one another with shrugs and followed Mangle.
Serenity and her team made it to the entrance only to see Qrow and Fern slicing at the generator destroying it and soon the shield disappeared.
"Good work!" Serenity yelled at them.
More of the girls came out of the streets and buildings approaching and they looked at the final wall between them and the gateway location.
"Let's give them hell." Mangle said.
They approached the wall and Serenity held her hand out summoning her rinnegan and sent an almighty push right into the main doors blasting the metal open and they all walked through with their forces following.
Right as they went through to their greeting a quarter of a mile away was Star Cerberus soldiers with their Atlas' and hover tanks as well as a few prototypes. With them was over hundreds of the cybernetic clones of Serenity.
Kai Leng was in front holding his sword.
Qrow looked at them and looked back at the girls with a grin.
"I'm sure we can handle this." Qrow said to them.
McGregar and Luki stood there behind them with a few of their men and in the back was the Momochi with their summoned wolves looking on.
The Illusive Man suddenly appeared to them but standing from the opening of the Star Cerberus helio watching them.
"Your bravery to come here is astonishing! But I have something to do!" The Illusive Man said to them.
Soon there were a lot more soldiers of Star Cerberus appearing along with other helio's flying over above them. Their army tripled what they had.
Luki just smirked holding his sword tightly.
"I like a challenge." Luki said.
Qrow looked at the Illusive Man with a frown.
"This can end with your surrender." Qrow said.
The Illusive Man in a quick instant took out his plasma pistol and held it up and shot it without looking through the scope and directly hitting Qrow right in the forehead.
Every girl and their allies stood there in shock.
The Illusive Man just smirked and walked back into the helio and it flew back toward the gateway which began to light up from behind the army glowing and beginning to open.
Serenity stared and suddenly her Kagune ripped out from her tailbone and without thinking she ran and soon her sisters ran with her following with their allies right at the Star Cerberus forces. All the girls growled like animals in anger as they ran.
Maychiro herself knelt down holding Qrow in tears.
Urashiki watching this from a distance frowned and walked toward the gateway with Matagi following him after looking from her scope at what happened.
The Momochi clan soon got onto their wolves and ran along side the Gorgons and allied forces.
Roland and his two guards ran quickly and he summoned his ice trident into his hand.
Serenity suddenly leaped into the air with her lightsabers both activated and sent out an X slash at the first soldier in front cutting him up and began to swirl her blades taking down one soldier after the other.
The other girls and forces got along with her and got into close combat while some of their allies shot from a distance.
Serenity held both her hands out while holding her lightsabers and sent a powerful turbulence power into the bodies of a few soldiers exploding them inside their armor.
Tomoko used her nightmare ability across the battlefield targeting the minds of the enemy soldiers to make them feel uneasy to possibly help their forces just a bit.
Suddenly Kai Leng swung his blade at Tomoko making her loose concentration.
Tomoko kept evading his swings until he kicked her square in the face and nearly cut her arm off but only slicing a few inches in making her yell out.
Near her was Vulpix facing off against a big soldier who kicked her onto the ground stomping on her face laughing.
Fern noticing this in anger ran right at the soldier and covering his fist with lightning sent a powerful shock punch into the soldier instantly killing him.
Fern helped Vulpix up who nodded and quickly ran using her flame power to scorch the large atlas'.
Tomoko quickly pulled out a small dagger she carried for extra defense and tried her best to keep blocking each swing of Kai Leng's blade.
"You will die like a worm!" Kai Leng said to her.
Suddenly Tomoko's eyes flashed and sent a nightmare into his mind making him loose complete concentration for only a moment but that moment Tomoko took advantage of.
Tomoko stabbed her dagger right into his body and pushed it right inside of him making him stunned and blood pouring from his mouth.
"How did..." Kai Leng began to say.
"That's for my Mother and Grandpa you son of a bitch!" Tomoko yelled and yanked the dagger out letting Kai Leng drop to his knee's and then backward onto the ground.
Tomoko had a relief of finally avenging their deaths and quickly ran to fight a few more Star Cerberus soldiers next to her.
James and Kaiden gave support fire getting up in close range along side Serenity as she sliced down enemies in front of her.
Two Star Cerberus helio's came right toward the group until two rockets from incoming NOD helio's came in destroying them and flew overhead firing rockets at more Star Cerberus helio's but only for the NOD ones to explode from enemy starfighters swooping down at them.
Mangle looked up and aimed her cannons and began to rapid fire at the starfighters making them blow up in mid-air.
"Get that little freak!" One Star Cerberus phantom yelled running at Mangle with her blade out.
Mangle and the phantom began to fight at close combat giving Mangle no advantage at all.
Suddenly the phantom got blasted by Wrex with his projectile shotgun.
"You okay kid!" Wrex asked while shooting another enemy coming at him.
Mangle and Wrex both began to shoot at enemies back to back.
"Never better!" Mangle laughed and Wrex as well laughed.
"I always wanted to fight an army!" Wrex yelled.
"I always wanted to become a therapist!" Mangle shouted.
"Really?" Ken'shiro said who was next to them sniping down incoming reinforcements from the east.
"No!" Mangle yelled laughing.
Nearby Umbreon and Milque shot at incoming reinforcements from the west.
Umbreon then used her dark shade ability and sent a wall of pitch darkness at a few atlas walkers making them completely shut down and the gunners inside trapped.
"I see Serenity gone ahead." Milque said looking to the side.
Umbreon looked and noticed Serenity got away from the fight and headed alone toward the gateway.
"That idiot going on without us!" Umbreon growled and quickly dropped down from the rocks and ran quickly.
Ken'shiro noticed Umbreon running and quickly took off with her knowing where she was going.
"You need help with this!" Ken'shiro yelled following her.
Serenity stopped running looking back at the two of them.
"Go back." Serenity ordered and got slapped across the face by Umbreon.
Serenity suddenly punched Umbreon in the gut and before the two got into a fist fight Ken'shiro stepped in.
"I am upset with what happened to Uncle Qrow too! But you are being reckless!" Umbreon shouted.
Suddenly the radio chatter in their earpieces turned on and had to focus on an update from command.
"Yes?" Serenity asked.
"This is commander Ringo! We lost contact with Malgus' group and we fear they got bombarded from the battlecruiser that is over their location." Ringo said to them.
"Damn... and we only got to know him for a short while." Ken'shiro said.
"Uncle Qrow died." Serenity said.
"I am truly sorry to hear that. We will mourn him after this okay? For now, I need you girls focused aye?" Ringo said to them.
"Commander I will make sure we focus." Umbreon said and turned off the earpiece and then Serenity's quickly.
"You have no right..." Serenity growled.
"You are letting anger cloud your fucking mind!" Umbreon yelled.
Suddenly James ran in with Espeon.
"Please don't yell..." Espeon said tearfully.
"Guy's we are still fighting behind us. We need help we can't just abandon the others." James said looking at Serenity.
Suddenly they all looked back and heard larger explosions and noticed ten Star Cerberus hover tanks coming in with hundreds of more soldiers and two large spider walker prototypes and more clones of Serenity.
Fern looked at this in shock and suddenly he was ganged up by two clones trying to eat him alive.
Froslass watched this while she was standing over Qrow's body crying looking at the horror around her.
"Dad..." Froslass said to herself trying to calm herself down.
She noticed two more of her sisters falling to the ground being eaten alive by the clones and being shot at.
Froslass slowly made a fist crying and looking at everyone she cared for dying around her.
Serenity ran in and noticed Froslass and sensing something was wrong.
Froslass suddenly screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Stop it!" Froslass yelled and punched the ground with her ice powers erupting from her body entering the ground and making a powerful fissure opening the ground and large sharp ice sickles spring out and piercing into tanks and clones and soldiers all alike.
She literally split the ground and erupted this power taking down almost all of the enemy forces. The ice sickles she created sprung out more ice sickles that even shot out and fired at soldiers from a distance.
Her eyes were pitch black and red crimson iris' showing her kagune at last pouring from her back and around her arm and fist.
Every one of their forces left was in shock.
Roland Hutetsuu's mouth was open wide as his clan was ice element users and never seen anything like this.
Serenity and everyone looked around seeing every tank was destroyed and soldier and clone dead.
Froslass ended her power and looked around and wiped her eyes.
Mismagius ran over to her and hugged her as Froslass cried into her shoulder.
"That was... amazing." James said lifting his fist up.
Froslass saw everyone cheering her on.
Serenity ran up and hugged her along with Espeon and Umbreon.
"Dad would be so proud of you!" Espeon cheered clapping and jumping.
"Girls..." Tomoko said softly.
Everyone looked at some of their sisters laying dead and they suddenly became sad looking down.
They noticed Qrow's body and Maychiro still with it.
Her daughters, Demencia and Maya walked over and hugged her tightly.
Everyone began to mourn quickly as the battle wasn't over yet.
Serenity walked over to Qrow's body and knelt down kissing his forehead.
"Thank you, Uncle, for getting us this far in life." She said softly.
James walked back to the group after contacting a medic team to take the bodies.
Medusa was with them and slowly walked over looking at Qrow and Fern gave his mother a hug.
"He did good mom." Fern said.
"Yes, he did." Medusa replied her face buried in Ferns' chest.
Two NOD shuttles come over and land opening up with two men each running and grabbing the bodies to bring them inside.
Last it was Qrow's body they needed.
Maychiro got up and wiped her tears away looking at Serenity.
"I want you to burn the Illusive Man to ashes." Maychiro said.
"We should hurry, we spent too long here." Ken'shiro said looking toward the gateway.
The group quickly organized and ran together toward the gateway.
Medusa stayed behind and watched the shuttles leave with the bodies of her nieces that died in battle and her son.
Medusa began to walk toward the gateway until she was approached by two women, one in a white robe and the other in a black robe.
They slowly took their masks off revealing that they were, in fact, Medusa's older sisters.
"You two are still alive?" Medusa said in shock.
Suddenly both twins rose their hands up and sent an odd dark tendril power right at Medusa knocking her out.