Chapter 10:
Serenity and her group seen the gateway in the distance and it was beginning to slowly open but only an inch every minute
"There it is!" James yelled.
Suddenly right as they went a bit further over the hill they seen an entire army of clones of Serenity. This time ones that had more cybernetics than the others they faced.
"Oh shit!" Serenity said in shock.
Suddenly Serenity's entire body was covered in a blue aura and she was teleported against her.
"Serenity!" Tomoko shouted and the group looked at the hundreds of clones slowly walking toward them growling.
Colress was in a floating machine of some sort above the gateway typing on his console having the gateway open up.
Ken'shiro sent a snipe at him but there was an invisible shield that took the blunt.
"Guess we have to do this the hard way." Taliyo said to the group.
All of them didn't know what to do without Serenity's command but got ready to defend themselves.
Suddenly a chunk of electrical rock slammed into one clone ripping its head right off.
The group looked to the side only to see Okami using her element power lifting rocks and shocking them with lightning and sending them at the clones.
Then they saw Candle dash at some clones and spun upside down sending dragon breath from her mouth at one clone and a surge of power with her feet kicking two clones making them rip into shreds and she skidded landing on her feet pulling her small katana out slashing at one clone behind her.
Umi-Taka laughed loudly jumping from mid-air sending a powerful slam into the ground with her large carving blade sword, Kubikiribōchō.
Everyone else was shocked to see them. The lost daughters of Drayconivous, a major enemy to them that worked for the Illusive Man now fighting against him.
"Don't stand there! Attack!" Candle shouted.
Candle looked in fact better than she did, something happened during those three disappearing from their loss of battle and betrayal they received from the Illusive Man.
"You heard them!" Tomoko yelled taking command.
"Attack!" Tomoko shouted.
Everyone else began to fight the clones.
"Good thing Serenity isn't seeing us kill clones of her! Heh probably make her know how much we want to get her!" Mangle said laughing to Mawile who just rolled her eyes.
Meanwhile, up in space, the Olympus Mons was taking down one ship after the other with its defense turrets.
Ringo watched on and thought to himself on what to do.
"Ringo!" Deidara shouted on the intercom.
"Go ahead." Ringo replied.
"I got a stupid idea, but we need to somehow immobilize that thing. And I think I got an idea of how." Deidara said.
Before Ringo could ask what the intercom cut off.
Deidara noticed the Olympus Mons nearly done charging its super weapon again.
Deidara sighed and pushed the button to the speakers on the Normandy.
"I want everyone to the escape pods, I am going to fly into the superweapon before it fires and let it blow us up inside of its main firing mechanism." Deidara said.
Lamar and Jacob looked at him in shock.
"You can't be serious!" Jacob said.
"I am." Deidara said giving him a mean look.
"Get your ass to the escape pod." Deidara ordered.
Jacob looked at Deidara and then to Lamar who gave him a shrug.
Suddenly Jacob knocked Deidara out with a punch to the side of the head.
"Not to day buddy." Jacob said.
"All crew members do not evacuate!" Jacob said on the com.
Jacob soon walked fast to the escape pod bay and type on the console of one of the pods to set a projector.
Ryuken walked up to him with a frown.
"You can't do this." Ryuken said.
"Watch me. Tell Serenity that is has been an honor to serve." Jacob said and fired a stun round into Ryuken knocking him back onto the floor.
Jacob entered the escape pod and launched it immediately out into space.
The pod with its new projector took toward the Olympus Mons.
Hux looked at the monitor that the Olympus Mons was ready to fire and gave the orders to the clones to proceed.
The super weapon aimed at Ringo's flagship.
Ringo noticing this looked at him grew with a grin.
"I guess it's our time huh? Sorry, we don't get time to crack open a beer." Ringo laughed.
Soon the crew of Ringo's began to laugh and stop with a sigh.
"For the Cyclonian Empire." Ringo said to himself.
Suddenly they noticed on the scanner of Jacobs pod heading toward the Olympus Mons.
Jacob inside the pod typed on the console to take it manually toward the ships super weapon right toward its barrel.
"Here I am you son of a bitch!" Jacob yelled.
"Fire!" Hux yelled not seeing the scanner of the pod coming into the barrel.
The Olympus Mons fired its beam and right as the pod went into its main barrel the beam hit it inside and caused a chain reaction inside the barrel blowing it up and making the ships hull in the front explode.
Hux held onto the metal pipes to stop from shaking with the ship.
"No!" Hux yelled.
Suddenly Hux in anger yelled at the clones to open all turrets.
Soon the Olympus Mons began to open missile bay doors and laser doors and having large turrets on the sides come out and on the top and bottom. The entire ship was now ready to fire.
"Heh, you didn't see this did you..." Hux said with a nose bleed from the impact earlier and a grin on his face.
Hux looked at all the monitors at all ships as the Olympus Mons aimed at nearly all of the Alliance fleet.
"Sir!" An Azure Kingdom captain said from his ship to Ringo's.
"I see." Ringo said.
"No sir I mean we have ships coming in from hyperspeed!" The captain said worriedly.
Ringo frowned looking at the scanner. "Oh no."
Suddenly they seen civilian ships and other planets militia and their ships warp out of hyperspeed along side the Alliance fleet.
Hux looked at this and began to frown at how many ships were coming in.
The clones kept typing on the consoles waiting for firing orders.
"Heh... I think its time we double broad side that monster." Ringo said with a grin.
"For the Alliance." Ringo huffed.
Soon the entire fleets moved in along side the two hundred civilian battle cruisers and frigates going into a pattern of a double broadside.
Hux looked at them coming in and pushed the intercom button.
"Fire when-" Hux began to say only to see that the monitors fuzzed and the entire ship had a restart protocol.
"What the!?" Hux said in shock. "The systems are restarting why!" Hux yelled.
"Don't you just hate hackers?" Weaviles voice said.
Hux looked at the monitor to his left and seeing Weaviles face on it with a grin.
Weavile was inside of a building in Rome which had communications and tech support to the Olympus Mons.
"The thing with your ship wirelessly to receive data from Earth on the battle here is it can work both ways. I sent a little virus to you. Took an hour to download and an hour to send but hey, the wait was worth it." Weavile said with a shrug and her tongue sticking out to the side.
Hux began to shout at the monitor cursing her until she turned the hologram off.
"Meh, boring conversation anyway." Weavile said getting up and walking out of the building. As she walked away she pushed a button on a device she held and the entire building exploded.
Back in space Hux looked at the monitors than to the clones.
"Reboot the systems now!" He yelled.
"All ships! Fire!" Ringo yelled.
Space around that area was covered in many colors of laser fire from all factions firing at the sides of the Olympus Mons taking down its turrets and its heavy armor making hull breaches everywhere. A double broadside tactic.
Hux felt the rumble of the Olympus Mons taking fire and his eye twitched in shock looking at the monitors.
The ship was fired upon from both sides making rapid explosions everywhere as it couldn't even fire back with its two thousand main heavy turrets and missile launchers.
The fleets on each side kept going passed it while sending their firepower at the Olympus Mons.
Hux inside couldn't believe what he was seeing. He checked the interior camera's only to see mostly static one second each after the other.
The clones of Serenity screamed and tried to run from the hull breaches and explosions only to meet certain death. Some clones had holes through their bodies from the rapid fire and tried to keep walking only to be blown up by an explosion that either hit them or near them.
The lasers began to touch one another as it went through the large hull breaches shredding the ship like it was paper.
The civilian fleet from other planets seemed to have had enough of Star Cerberus Empire and decided to finally help the Alliance and sending a lot of firepower in anger for the loss of their families and other planets to this monster of a ship.
Hux quickly put on a space mask as there was a hull breach now in his section of the ship.
He seen the monitors rip to shreds and he walked away from them and looked at the clones around him being ripped to shreds and some of the ship falling on top of them.
Near him more of the Serenity clones get evaporated by the laser fire breaching in, one of the ceiling bracers fell down onto a screaming clone crushing its head in and that bracer would be destroyed with the body by laser fire working its way through.
He saw how the Empire fell and his work destroyed leaving him speechless and his mind racing only to come to the conclusion that it was over.
The lasers finally hit the main reactors of the Olympus Mons sending a powerful ten-mile radius explosion which consumed Hux's body and vaporizing him and what was left of the now skinny burned up Olympus Mons exploded and disintegrated from its embers and its pieces fell toward Earth only to be burned in the atmosphere. The end of the Olympus Mons and General Hux.
The remaining Star Cerberus space forces stopped firing and then their turrets aimed at the civilian ships.
"Sir?" One of Ringo's crew members said.
"They knew what they got themselves into when they took innocent lives. Fire!" Ringo shouted.
Before the Star Cerberus ships opened fire at the civilian ships they were bombarded by incoming laser fire from the Alliance and Civilian ships.
The space battle would be soon over now that the Star Cerberus ships didn't have their powerful machine to protect them and only a hundred of the Star Cerberus battleships remained.
Weavile looked at the sky watching the Olympus Mons fall apart and she smirked.
Weavile began to walk toward where the gateway was but noticed nearby was Anaconda and Python chanting some odd words and in horror she saw Medusa's neck slit and her blood used to make a diagram.
Weavile looked at this and before she wanted to kill those two she knew she'd be outnumbered not knowing what powers they could have.
Weavile quickly ran toward the gateway to warn her family.
"This is getting bad..." Weavile said to herself.
"Weavile!" Zarbon shouted running to her.
"Zarbon, Medusa is dead." Weavile said.
"I seen what happened, those bitches killed her after knocking her out. They mentioned resurrecting someone but I forgot what the name was." Zarbon said holding his fist tightly frowning.
"We need to warn the others to come on." Weavile said and both ran together toward the gateway.
Meanwhile, the group was taking down one clone after another.
Kylo and Candle both fought together slicing down clones that leaped at them.
"You look better than you did." Kylo remarked.
As they fought Candle began to tell him what happened as if the clones were no challenge at all.
"I and my two sisters after the fight ran off and we hid on Earth. Then when Star Cerberus invaded we secretly helped the resistance around Seatle until we heard that they found the gateway here. We traveled here and as we traveled we met a human body, lost his family to the invasion. That boy sort of changed our outlook. Heh, he gave me a proper name. He called me Zinnia, like the flower." Candle-Zinnia said.
"So your name's Zinnia? I like it." Kylo said as he stabbed one clothe through its eye ripping his lightsaber out of the eye and clashing down at another clones head.
"I read your dossier of what happened to you." Kylo began to say.
Zinnia frowned and was nearly caught off guard until Kylo sliced the clone down before it latched its jaws at Zinnia.
"I'm sorry it happened to you." Kylo told her.
Both Kylo and Zinnia looked at one another.
"Don't worry about it." Zinnia said looking away.
Kylo looked at her and sighed seeing how no other clone was at them for the time being.
"I changed and I am glad you did too. Now we need to destroy the man who lied to us for his own personal gain." Kylo told her.
"Exactly." Zinnia said.
Zinnia and Kylo then were engaged yet again by more clones and fought with one another.
"So you think I look good?" Zinnia asked with a smirk on her face.
"Uh! Well, I mean then you did before of course!" Kylo said.
"I can sense you were checking me out." Zinnia laughed making Kylo speechless.
Near them was James and Milque shooting down incoming clones in a row.
"Good thing these things don't get guns on them." James said.
"Don't jinx us." Milque replied.
Kisame swung his large blade knocking and killing three clones at once. Then he saw Umi-taka swipe in a 360 spin cutting down ten clones around her and she gave a grin and wink at Kisame.
"Show off!" Kisame yelled glaring at her.
Umi-Taka gave him the middle finger and went back to slicing down enemies laughing manically.
"Wow, you like killing more than I do!" Mangle replied.
"Fuck yeah!" Umi-taka said and crouched sliding the legs of one clone and Mangle leaping ontop of Umi-taka's back firing at the clones upper body and leaped off Umi-taka after that duo attack.
After the fight the clones was all dead and Colress was still in his machine and looking at the group in shock.
"Damn, I thought they'd keep you busy long enough for me, but we are nearly there." Colress said remarking on the portal nearly completed in opening.
Kaiden and James fired at Colress but the invisible shield took the impact of the bolts.
"This shield is unpenetrable. Nothing you can do but wait." Colress said.
The two didn't stop firing and kept reloading making Colress a bit worried wondering if his personal shield would last.
Weavile and Zarbon ran in.
"Weavile good job." Lopunny said waving at her.
"Yay!" Espeon cheered jumping up and down.
"Medusa is dead." Weavile said to them.
"How?" Kaiden asked turning to look back.
"We saw two women in the same outfit but different colors, white and black. They slit her throat and are chanting over her dead body using her blood. We don't understand whats going on." Weavile said to them.
"Where are they?" Milque asked loading his sniper rifle with an incendiary clip.
"They are back that way." Weavile said.
Weavile, Milque, Lopunny, and Luki ran to where Weavile saw them.
When they got there the two of the women were gone but Medusa's body laid there dead.
Lopunny radioed in a medical shuttle.
Milque looked at the blood diagram on the ground around Medusa.
"I have no idea what this is but it can't be good." Milque said.
The shuttle came in and leaving it was Garrus.
"I thought you guys might need some help!" He said helping pick up Medusa's body and placing it in the shuttle and banging on the shuttle door to let the pilot know to leave.
The shuttle hovered and left as the five walked back to the main group.
"Where is Serenity?" Garrus asked.
"Someone teleported her to them." Lopunny said.
"Who would want to do that?" Weavile asked.
"Uh! Hello!? The enemy!" Lopunny yelled.
"Just asking sheesh." Weavile said rolling her eyes.
"We are dealing with a scientist who's shield won't go out. Piece of shit cheater." Luki said.
"We should all attack him together, see if that shield will go out then." Garrus suggested.
"Weavile... Qrow died." Lopunny told her.
Weavile looked down as they walked.
"We will mourn him later, for now, we got a duty to do." Lopunny told her patting her shoulder.
"Yeah I know but it was too soon." Weavile said with a sigh.
As they walked back to the group they seen everyone was shooting at Colress and they noticed his shield was slightly dimming.
"Stop that!" Colress shouted.
"Fuck you." Tomoko said using her dark sphere ability to fire explosive dark elements at the shield.
They soon saw the Normandy fly over head.
"I got an idea..." James said smirking at Colress who gulped.
The Normandy landed right in front of the gateway with its main turrets up close to Colress.
"Turn off the portal." James said.
"If you shoot me then you will never get it closed. I am the only one who knows how it works." Colress remarked glaring at James.
"We will blow that shield and you up then." James shrugged.
"It isn't that easy you fool!" Colress yelled.
As the two argued Kylo and Zinnia looked at them and Zinnia looked at Kylo who looked back at her.
Suddenly Mangle appeared between the two putting her arms around them.
"You two going to get frisky?" Mangle asked.
Kylo literally picked Mangle up by her fox ears and threw her right into the Normandy's loading bay door.
Zinnia and Kylo glared at her.
Prompto walked out of the Normandy helping Mangle up.
"Maybe you shouldn't bother the love birds." Prompto said.
Zinnia began to get a burning rage in her glaring at Prompto was stopped by Kylo before she killed them.
"We need them- for now." Kylo said and both him and Zinnia laughed.
"Look! If you fire at me at this close range to the gateway it will explode and it will take this planet with it! I am not joking!" Colress yelled at James.
"I don't sense no deception from his words." Kylo said walking forward.
"What if the gateway does open? Will this guy's shield be down?" James asked.
Colress glared at James and the others.
"Don't you idiots realize this is the only way for this universe to be right!?" Colress asked them.
"You and the Illusive Man are mad." Vulpix growled.
"I wonder where he is..." Lopunny asked Vulpix.
"I am wondering where our sister is." Vulpix replied.