Chapter 11:
Serenity opened her eyes seeing that she was nearby standing on the top of a roman platform. Infront of her was Adam with his blade out and behind him was the Illusive Man.
"It is time we erase you from existence." The Illusive Man said to Serenity.
Adam held his blade tightly and began to circle Serenity who began to circle him back.
"You can't do this Adam. Please. The Illusive Man is manipulating you just like he did Kylo and Candle." Serenity told him.
Adam kept frowning at her.
"You don't get it, do you? He is the only one to make sure the human race does not hurt my race anymore." Adam said to her.
"Not every human hurt your species. You two share the same planet and I understand humans want to think they are better but not all humans. You just saw the wrong humans, the ones who wish to do harm." Serenity told him.
"Lies... they are all evil." Adam said.
"Adam." Serenity said and suddenly hooked her lightsabers back onto her clips and walked toward him.
Adam looked at her shocked and stood there holding his blade tightly and right as she got up to him his blade touched her neck.
"I need you to listen to what I'm going to say." Serenity told him.
Adam kept quiet and looked at her.
"I can sense your anger, but you got to understand the Illusive Man is thinking only on humanity. Do you honestly think he's going to let near humans be better than just humans? He is going to control the galaxy with the cosmic divine crystalline. I don't understand what it is but what I know is it will control everyone. Including you. Look around you with the chaos. You remember when you were a little boy and your family died to save you? My family died to save us. You aren't alone. We all face evil people but it doesn't mean that race is evil. In the past we thought this as children but as we befriended humans and other aliens that changed our minds. Adam, the Illusive Man is brainwashing you. I beg you to see reason." Serenity told him softly and literally put his blade closer to her neck. "Or kill me now." She told him.
Adams expression changed and his blade shook slightly.
"I... see." Adam said.
Adam lowered his blade and turned facing the Illusive Man who was frowning at the both of them.
"A pity Adam. You were useful." The Illusive Man said and suddenly Adams body twisted and was launched into the air and down, right on top of Serenity.
Suddenly Serenity's body moved on its own and crashed into the nearby stones.
The Illusive Mans eyes glowed and walked toward them.
"The Gateway is soon complete and I will enter it to the realm to control everything." The Illusive Man said to them.
Haurchefant yelled running in and swung his blade toward the Illusive Man who quickly dodged away from the swing.
"Your interrupting us!" The Illusive Man said using his power to launch Haurchefant into the next stone pillar.
Adam and Serenity ran at the Illusive Man while he was concentrated on Haurchefant and swung their weapons at him.
The Illusive Man in a flash right as he looked at them both was under his control.
"I have had enough of this." The Illusive Man said looking at Adams blade and forcefully moving it toward Serenity's neck.
Adam struggled to try to stop and yelling as Serenity tried to move.
Serenity quickly activated her Sharingan and broke from the control and just in a second moved to miss Adams stab.
"What the?" The Illusive Man said confused.
Haurchefant ran and stood beside Serenity and Adam.
"No one uses another. And no one hurts miss Serenity while I'm around." Haurchefant said glaring at the Illusive Man.
The Illusive Man then used his control power around the pillars rocking them and trying to crush them down on the group.
Serenity kept using her Sharingan to keep the Illusive Mans control off her and Haurchefant and Adam.
Adam swung his blade at the Illusive Man after dashing at him and as the Illusive Man quickly evaded, Adam kept swinging in different formations to direct a hit.
The Illusive Man's palms glowed of blue aura and suddenly caught Adams blade and shoved the blade and Adam away.
Haurchefant quickly spun around and sent a powerful blow at the Illusive Man only for him to catch it too and blast Haurchefant back.
The Illusive Man then put his hands together and formed a shield like power around him.
Suddenly a black glob shown in the middle of the platform and coming from it was a perfect clone of Serenity only grey skinned.
"Oh fuck no." Serenity said glaring at it.
"The perfect you. Now I shall show you its might with evolution!" The Illusive Man said.
The clone held its hands out and sent a powerful psychic burst toward both Haurchefant and Adam paralyzing them.
Serenity activated her Sharingan yet again and sent two fireballs from her mouth out at the clone which created a psychic shield to absorb the flames.
The clone then used a string like power that glowed and went straight for Serenity and kept following her as she tried to run from it knowing what it was.
"Shit!" Serenity yelled knowing if it touched her it would drain some of her abilities to give the clone more energy.
Serenity used the force to send a force repulse at the string knocking it away and making it disappear.
She then ran right into the clone which's blades nearly cut Serenity's arm off but luckily Serenity caught one of the blades with the crossguard vent and spun her blade to knock the clones lightsaber out of its hand.
"Too bad your an older model!" Serenity shouted at the clone.
Serenity activated her Sharingan again but this time combining it with her sage mode power coursing energy through her body she went at the clone and tried to stab it multiple times to get a hit.
The clone with its psychic speed kept deflecting the blades as much as possible.
Serenity knew however if this was indeed a full clone it would have one weakness, that it wasn't like her now. She grew stronger and the clone she knew would know that by now.
Serenity quickly deactivated her lightsaber hilts to the clones surprise and reactivated them but this time right through the head of the clone.
"Evolutions a bitch." Serenity said deactivating her lightsaber hilts to look back at the Illusive Man.
Suddenly Serenity was blasted by the Illusive Mans blue aura and he walked toward her with his shield gone.
Before Serenity launched an attack she was paralyzed and couldn't move and tried to activate her Sharingan but nothing was working.
"Sorry Serenity, but I will not let your temper with my plans anymore. You were useful until the end." The Illusive Man said to her.
"And your willing to sacrifice freedom for full control!?" Serenity barked at him.
"Salvation comes at a cost." The Illusive Man told her with a smirk.
"I saw how the former Empire of the Sith began to conquer the galaxy. Then after its defeat, the Republic joins the System Alliance. Then I noticed how war after war came. This is the only way to stop all wars." The Illusive Man told her.
"So your taking salvation? Peoples conscience and making them into drones so they don't fight? That isn't how life works. That in its own sense is a war that lasts for eternity for freedom." Serenity said to him.
The blue aura around the Illusive Man began to surge brighter and his hand aimed at her.
"I will last for Eternity to make sure that all human life will evolve and all life will be controlled so that our race can be supreme and rule to make sure all species stay in line so that no war is ever made again!" He shouted at Serenity.
"Look around you! Not all but most species are here right now helping the humans take back their planet and to stop you from taking control of the Cosmic Divine Crystalline to use it to control all life! They want their freedom! Even our own former enemies are helping with other evil or criminal forces! Every race is tired of being bullied and being controlled. Civilians fighting along side them! Damn it children I bet are looking at our former enemies as hero's now!" Serenity yelled.
"I will be damned if I let you take that from them..." Serenity growled holding her lightsabers tightly glaring at him.
"It must be done Serenity. You never seen what I have seen! You are just a child!" The Illusive Man yelled.
"Why was I so important then." Serenity said to him. "You was afraid of me because of my abilities. I grew and you knew it and you knew I'd be a threat. Well here I am!" Serenity said to him.
"And here you end!" The Illusive Man shouted.
His power surged out of his palm in a crackling blaze nearly like lightning and headed right toward Serenity.
Suddenly Haurchefant jumped right in front of Serenity taking the full blast through his body and fell down in front of her.
Serenity stood up quickly feeling the control effect wear off and activated her Sharingan and in a quick speed dashed at the Illusive Man with her hands gripping her lightsaber hilts and activating them both and swung them in a scissor motion and sliced the Illusive Man in half.
"Gah!" The Illusive Man coughed out and he stood there for a moment until his body split in two and fell over onto the ground.
"You... doomed us..." The Illusive Man sighed out and died immediately.
Serenity deactivated her lightsabers and her and Adam who got free from the control ran over to Haurchefant.
Serenity got onto her knee's and placed Haurchefants head on her lap. Blood was coming from his mouth down his chin to his neck and he gave her a smile.
"You're safe." He said weakly.
A big hole was through his body.
"I can try to heal you. I just need to focus." Serenity said trying to create her healing powers.
Haurchefants hand slowly went up and dropped.
"It isn't your fault." He told her.
Serenity began to tear up looking down at him.
Adam knelt down beside Serenity looking at Haurchefant and kept quite.
"Come now." Haurchefant said to Serenity.
Serenity looked down at him as he smiled at her.
"You look best with a smile..." Haurchefant said to her.
Serenity tearfully gave him her smile with her lip quivering.
Haurchefant's eyes slowly closed and he passed away on her lap.
Serenity cried and immediately placed her face onto Adams' shoulder and Adam for a moment didn't know what to do until finally putting his arms around her holding her.
Back up in space, the remaining alliance fleets began to move about in a defense stance incase any reinforcements come.
"It looks like we won the battle." Ringo said to his crew.
"Sir, the Alliance wishes to speak with you when this is all over." One of his crew members said.
"Very well. I guess now we are allies to them, it makes sense!" Ringo encouraged his crew and sent a transmission to his fleet and to the NOD fleet.
The Hutt fleet of Rebecca's left along with a few other civilian fleets now seeing that they stabilized Earth.
"Sir we are getting some strange reading coming from Rome." One of Ringo's men said.
"Probably the war." Ringo suggested.
"No sir its some odd energy reading. I wonder if the gateway is open?" The man said a bit confused.
"Impossible, if it was opened or even opening the reading wouldn't be that big." Ringo said and took a look at the screen on the console with a frown.
"No mistake about it sir. There is a large energy reading and growing in Rome. Something or someone is giving it off." The crew member said.
Ringo quickly got onto the intercom.
"I want all ground forces to head to the nearest shuttle and leave Earth. We are going to regroup and go back down to Rome." Ringo said to all forces.
"Sir if this energy keeps growing it might damage anyone from that radius. But sir if this is the gateway, then why is it giving out such energy?" The crew member asked.
"That's what's bothering me." Ringo said.
McGregar heard the message and waved at his people to follow him to the nearest shuttle.
"What's going on?" Luki asked him walking beside him with their forces following.
"Ringo said to head to space. Something isn't right." McGregar said.
"I sense something strange myself... I wonder if the Gorgons and their forces heard the message." Luki said to himself wondering.
They quickly ran with their forces and Roland and Suzuki headed to them.
They saw different factions of shuttles land and opening for their forces to head on in.
Roland smashed his fists together with a grin. "I guess us four leaders did well together. I am sorry I misjudged your strength, Momochi." Roland said looking at Suzuki.
"You're the big guy with the strength. I actually looked up to you and your superiority." Suzuki said with a grin.
"Let us boast later." Luki said to them and they all nodded in agreement.
"Wheres my daughter?" Roland asked looking around.
"She was with Serenity's group I think." Luki said to him.
Roland had a worry on his face but Suzuki clapped her hands together to make him snap out of the worry.
"She's strong like you. I bet she's protecting them and taking most of the kills from them." Suzuki assured him.
"We owe Serenity a big deal for letting us see eye to eye. I guess we should join the Alliance as legitimate allies." McGregar said to them.
"So we shall!" Roland yelled holding his fist up.
Meanwhile, Colress soon got the machine to work and the gateway was completely opened.
Colress' device he was sitting in hovered into the sky away from the group and he frowned looking at his device.
"Why is it moving on its own?" Colress asked himself.
He then saw Ardyn approaching with a grin on his face.
"What's going on?" Colress asked him.
"A shift in power my dear boy..." Ardyn said with a grin looking at the Alliance forces below them.
"Who are you!" James yelled.
"A man of no consequence." Ardyn replied chuckling.
Suddenly Ardyn began to walk in mid-air easily looking down at them amused.
Two plasma bolts went right through Ardyn's body but a dark mist came out from his back.
"Mortal weapons against me do nothing." He said looking down at Milque who shot them.
Soon Serenity and Adam approached from behind and Adam looked at the group which looked at him with their weapons aimed at him.
"No!" Serenity shouted with her hands up.
"Tell that masked freak to get away." Mawile growled.
"He's with us and I will explain later." Serenity said giving a growl back to Mawile.
Adam looked up to see Ardyn and stared at him with a frown.
"Ah, Adam! My boy, it seems you finally joined Serenity!" Ardyn laughed.
"Where is the Illusive Man?" Colress asked Ardyn turning his head looking at him.
"Dead." Ardyn replied.
"How do you know this?" Adam asked.
"Because I sensed it, young man. Miss Serenity gave the death blow. Just as any hero does to any villain." Ardyn said looking at Serenity.
"Your voice..." Serenity started to say.
"Is the voice you heard in your mind yes! I have encouraged you to reach your limits and surpass it. I have guided you all the way to this moment. Miss Serenity, you did me a huge favor. A favor that you never know how much means to me. For that I thank you. It is just a shame that you won't be around much longer." Ardyn said to them.
Fern took a step forward glaring at him.
"And what makes you think that!" Fern yelled.
Suddenly Urashiki and Matagi appeared teleported right to Ardyn's location and both standing in mid-air.
Then the two women in the same outfit but white and black colors appeared on the other side of Ardyn.
"You cunts killed my mother." Fern yelled.
The two women remained silent only to look down at him. A black blood eye in each eye opposite from one another staring down at him.
"You see I have guided miss Serenity here to this very moment. I knew she would kill the Illusive Man. I made a small deal with the people you see around me. The two ladies you see are your great aunts. Fern! Meet your twin aunts you never heard of before!" Ardyn said clapping and laughing.
Fern looked at the two women with disgust.
"You got to be shitting me." Fern said.
"What the fuck is going on here!?" Mangle shouted.
"My dear isn't it obvious? I am here to offer you all the salvation. To stand by my side for a new better place!" Ardyn said to them.
"You're insane!" Maychiro shouted and ran right toward him and leaped into the air to strike him with her weapon.
"Wait!" Serenity shouted as Maychiro jumped.
Ardyn didn't move and a powerful shot was heard blasting Maychiro right through her body and her body rippled and shredded away and fell into pieces on the ground nearby.
Demencia and Maya looked in horror at their mother's death.
James began to shoot at Ardyn only for the bullets to stop and fall to the ground.
Matagi held her large artillery sword and showing she was the one who killed Maychiro.
Matagi stood behind Urashiki by his side looking at the group.
"Matagi! Goddamn it!" Zinnia yelled.
"Matagi the Illusive Man used you..." Okami started.
"She knows he's gone. She's just on a new side." Emilou said.
Demencia held Maya as she cried and gave a mean look to Matagi.
Matagi had an emotionless face expression just staring down at them and not talking.
"I will admit, I didn't like what happened to... my oldest son." Urashiki said to Ardyn about Qrow.
"You sick fuck..." Fern growled.
"Wait... what?" Serenity asked.
"Girls, meet your mother fucking grandpa." Fern said staring at Urashiki.
Urashiki just grinned at Fern.
"I am sorry I haven't been around but I have my reasons. Your family did well without me, sort of. I sure wished I spoke to your mother one last time, but hey all well." Urashiki said and gave a side glance at Anaconda and Python.
The gateway was still open and everyone was silent for just a few moments looking at one another.
"Who are you...?" Serenity asked Ardyn.
"My name is Ardyn Izunia... Gorgon." Ardyn said with a sinister grin on his face looking down at them.