Chapter 12:
Everyone was in shock to hear Ardyn's last name and so many of them wanted to ask so many questions.
Urashiki even seemed shocked and Matagi gave a glance to the side at Ardyn.
Colress and the two women kept quiet still staring down at the group.
"G-Gorgon? You're a Gorgon?" Serenity asked bewildered.
"It's been quite some time since I been back to Rome. Oh, how I longed for this moment." He said.
"You were apart of the Cyclonian Empire I thought? Back when Cyclonis ruled?" Garrus asked.
"As I said I had to do many things for my plan to work and sure enough, Serenity is the key." Ardyn said.
"How is our sister the key?" Tomoko asked.
"Miss Serenity's power is what opened this gateway. The closer she got the more it began to grow. Here she is and the gateway is now opened." Ardyn said to them.
"This doesn't make sense..." Serenity said confused. "Give me more than that. tell me more you son of a bitch!" Serenity yelled.
"I am the creator of your entire family..." Ardyn admitted.
Everyone took a step back or leaned back in shock of hearing that.
"No..." Serenity said as her hand went into a fist.
"Search your feelings, you know it to be true." Ardyn said chuckling.
"What is your gain from all this!?" Garrus asked.
"My gain? That is none of your business, but miss Serenity's." Ardyn said as his hand reached to Serenity and then he closed his palm with a grin on his face.
Serenity's eyebrow quirked.
"Then tell me." Serenity said.
"Not infront of everyone here, but I may not want to disclose it. Hehehe... I'm kidding I want to disclose it but just to you." Ardyn laughed.
Colress and everyone else with Ardyn kept quiet watching the exchange of words happening.
"Is it ready?" Ardyn asked Anaconda and Python besides him.
"Why did you do this! For some stupid revenge!" Fern yelled before Python replied to Ardyn's question.
Adam stood beside Serenity staring at Ardyn through his eye mask with a mean look on his lips and indicating the same mean look inside his mask with his eyes and eyebrows.
"Why me..." Serenity asked him calmly trying to figure it all out.
"I influenced you in your mind to lead you to what you were meant to be. Powerful. With your help, you alone powered the portal with your mere presence. Your psychic abilities can manipulate the Sharingan and Rinnegan to your will without too much stress. Even though they were implanted to you, your psychic abilities grown with your training and adventures. That psychic power eases the control of your abilities and increases their speed either doubled or tripled than what they were. Your Kagune abilities as well indeed increased in power. A shame you never trained that without knowing you had it till the near end of this venture." Ardyn told her.
"You used me." Serenity asked him but knew the answer was possibly a yes.
"I used you to make you stronger. I know though you would never join me when you should." Ardyn told her.
"Join you!?" Serenity asked shocked. "Like hell!"
"See?" Ardyn replied.
"Why would I join you!" Serenity asked him.
"It's ready." Python said cutting in between their conversation.
Before Ardyn replied, the portal to the Cosmic Divine Crystalline began to disappear but reappear at the same time in the sky above them all and below it was the fade of a diagram symbol.
Anaconda and Pythons hands went up to the sky chanting as the diagram began to glow dark red. The diagram had ancient writing around the circle it produced with a triangle forming in the center with a small hole. The gateway to the Cosmic Divine Crystalline above it suddenly began to swirl.
Ardyn and the others began to hover into the air and stop.
Suddenly the wind picked up rapidly and the earth began to quake slowly.
"We resurrect, Echidna Gorgon!" Anaconda and Python both yelled.
The sky immediately turned dark as the moon became instantly a dark red color.
Everyone in the space in their ships looked at this in shock.
"Have all ships pull away! Immediately!" Ringo shouted as the ships began to move away from Earth and shuttles on Earth hurried to leave. Everyone didn't know what was going on.
Suddenly small portals sparked the sky and zapped an odd aura behind Ardyn and his group, the aura suddenly began to take shape.
First it was an aura cloud behind them form and then suddenly an aura of a boney skeleton hand came out first with its fingers spread and the rest of the arm came out and bent to the side as another aura of a hand came from the other side but spun in a 360 spin turning short and back to large. The aura began to take more shape as a skeletal head appeared in mid-air above it, the aura skull without its jaw bone rose up.
Everyone began to get scared watching this unfold. Espeon held Umbreon showing fear as well as Froslass hiding behind Ken'shiro who stood in front of her ready to fight what was coming.
The skull spun and looked at the group and behind it was an aura of a ribcage and a tail begin to form with feet going down toward the group. The legs bone but the aura began to shape them showing muscle tissue over the aura bones. The head leaned forward going ghostly through Ardyn and his group right in front of Serenity and her friends and family and suddenly its eye sockets beamed red forming eyes. The skull spun and immediately gained a jawbone with sharp ridged teeth forming.
Suddenly they heard the cries of ghosts behind them. The ghosts of deceased fallen comrades and their own sisters and uncle's spirits screaming being forcefully dragged into the aura cloud fueling the resurrection process.
Tomoko's hand immediately gripped Gladio's who gripped it back giving a mean look at Ardyn to what was going on.
Kylo took a step in front of Zinnia in a protective stance.
Adam kept Serenity back as Serenity wanted to go at Ardyn while this was going on.
Deceased children were seen next even ones that didn't die in the war and taken from their resting place forcefully and they could hear the cries of the children going right into the aura.
Suddenly the aura's ribcage spun while collecting the spirits and stopped and took form with the rest of the skeleton to gain muscle tissue and soon it took form in the skull.
There was sparks appearing in the sky around the skeleton that seemed to push in energy for it to reform. The wind picked up ashes and dust blowing through the aura of its power.
The diagram in the sky suddenly was fading but gave out demonic power into the aura as if it was taking energy from hell itself to push into this aura that was reforming Echidna.
The aura produced a binding of some robe to cover Echidna's body and soon the skull took the form of flesh and finally showed Echidna Gorgon in front of them all.
Her giant tail whipped with a scorpion stinger at the end and her back produced spider-like legs. Her jaw pushed to the side and spurting out was a long snake-like tongue that then retracted back in her mouth with her jaw going back into place. Her glowing snake-like eyes stared down at Serenity and her friends and the aura cloud disappeared into Echidna.
Anaconda and Python through what was going on was chanting while all of this was taken in effect and spoke at the same time. "Dusk till Dawn no matter where, she shall be ressurected to spread despair! Darkness hear our cry to bring back she who cannot die! Have her bring death to all to those that do not belong! The one who shall see all life come to an end for all life never obeyed her command! Have all begone, bring back, Echidna Gorgon!"
She was fully resurrected...
Echidna was a giant standing at 40 meters tall more larger than when she was alive due to the power of her essence remaining dormant for twenty years after she was slain by Drayconivous and Serenity's mother on Naboo.
"I live, I breathe again! I rise, I will rise to bleach the sky and still the water!" Echidna echoed through the land. Her voice dark, cracky and echoing of the souls inside of her and you could feel the chills down your spine just hearing her, and her mere presence was too much for one to handle.
The girls never met her or knew anything about her and looked at her in shock and felt the darkness from her which was enormous and they knew she was sending fear power into them to make them shake.
Espeon was in awe.
"That's the monster in my nightmare!" Espeon shouted seeing Echidna.
Everyone looked at her and looked forward.
Echidna's red glowing iris' looked at Espeon with pure hatred.
"No one is ever really gone." Echidna said to the mimic of the words spoken to Espeon in her nightmare making Espeon hide behind Umbreon in fear as Umbreon held her tightly giving a mean look at Echidna.
"So this is what my family became, traitors? You help these disgusting aliens now!? This is quite pathetic indeed!" Echidna laughed and looked down at Anaconda and Python.
"You two are good girls." Echidna praised to them.
"Anything for you mother." Both said together.
She then looked at Ardyn with a smirk.
"I sense they are with you so I shall be too. I hope you can accomplish what I couldn't." Echidna said to Ardyn.
Ardyn gave her a nod and looked down at Serenity.
"Echidna, show them your power and bring this planet to its end." Ardyn said with an evil grin on his face and his hands outstretched laughing manically.
Echidna rose her hand up to the sky seeing the dark red moon and laughed using her powerful force ability with her own psychic power to focus on the moon and easily began to make it leave its orbit and bringing it down toward earth.
As she did the moon began to crumble and pieces of it were forced down to the planet like asteroids hurling through the atmosphere. Some burned up but most of them went through the sky down into the ground and oceans.
"Stop this!" Froslass screamed in tears.
The moon began to forcefully come down.
Echidna stopped her power seeing that it was going to be accomplished.
"If you excuse me my dear Serenity I have a universe to end." Ardyn chuckled and soon all of them hovered into the portal above in the sky and was sucked right in to be teleported to the Cosmic Divine Crystalline.
"We got to do something!" Kaiden shouted seeing the moon coming straight toward Earth on a collision course.
Serenity looked at the Normandy behind them then at the portal.
"We give chase!" Serenity yelled.
"Are you mad!?" Mienshao shouted at her.
Wrex, however, began to run to the Normandy.
"Krogan first!" Wrex laughed.
Serenity watched him go then to everyone else. "He has the right idea." Serenity said and ran to the Normandy.
Everyone got on board and at the cockpit was Deidara and Lamar.
"Dude what the fuck was all that about!?" Lamar shouted.
"Explain later!" Mangle said jumping into the main cockpit seat and typed on the console.
Deidara as well typed on his console getting the engines primed immediately.
"Hurry up!" Serenity yelled seeing the moon nearly at Earth.
The Normandy lifted up and flew quickly to the portal and went right into it being absorbed inside.
"This is going to get crazy as fuck." Mangle said to them.
Up in space, the fleets watched as the moon collided into Earth and Earth itself immediately went into a wildfire spreading across the planet and the planet began to crack and explode all over and break apart from the core which also exploded.
The fleets were a safe distance away seeing Earth and the moon explode into debris of asteroids.
Ringo looked at it and fell to his knee's not knowing what to think.
"Our scanners showed that the Normandy disappeared before the moon hit... sir, I think they went into the Cosmic Divine Crystalline portal." One of his crew members said.
Ringo kept silent for a moment before standing back up and pushing a button to activate the main intercom to all the other fleets.
"A moment of silence for those who didn't make it off the planet please." Ringo said sadly.
Everyone in the fleets remained silent and in tears and shock at what they saw.
After a moment Ringo then spoke again.
"All fleets we will go to the Alliance base over Palaven and discuss what we do next. We need to hope that Serenity and her friends stop the enemy before they can destroy the life we all know and cherish. I want everyone to go to their families and loved ones. The war is over, but the battle has yet to have a decision of choice... we wait now for either our lives saved or our lives gone. I will be damned if we let this hurt us and worry us. Everyone has a smile on your face and let us spend our last moments in happiness. If Serenity does accomplish saving our way of life then we shall still be thankful. Dismissed." Ringo said.
Serenity woke up laying on the floor of the Normandy. Her head a bit dizzy and she crawled unable to feel any energy in her legs but soon gained energy to only get to her knee's looking around.
Serenity noticed nearly everyone unconscious but Froslass was awake and crawling to Serenity giving her a hug with tears.
Serenity patted her back softly.
"It's okay." Serenity assured her.
Serenity looked at the cockpit and that the automatic blast shield at the windows covered the view.
Deidara was aching slowly moving in his chair.
"Everyone okay?" He asked.
Serenity nearby spoke.
"I and Froslass are awake. We are just a bit dizzy is all." She said rubbing her head.
Garrus walking normally approached them and knelt to Serenity.
"Get up when you feel like you can. I am checking around the ship but I do not see anyone dead yet." Garrus said.
"Good." Serenity replied and got up slowly with Garrus to help her.
"Froslass stay near Deidara." Serenity said as Froslass slowly crawled to Deidara who at the same time got off his chair to sit on the floor to await her to come to him. Mangle in the main seat was still unconscious.
Serenity wondered why Froslass' black blood eyes were activated as well.
"Are you going to deactivate your black blood eyes?" Garrus asked.
"Mine too?" Serenity said and tried. "There?"
"They are still showing." Garrus said.
"Strange." She said rubbing her eyes.
An hour went by when everyone was fully awake and not dizzy and in the main room of the Normandy.
"Is the ship operational still?" Serenity asked Mangle.
"No, the element zero isn't working. The ship is going through a reboot cycle and it will take time for its systems to be fully restarted." She said.
"Are the doors to leave working?" Serenity asked.
"The cargo bay door has a manual unlock switch that I can pull." James said to them.
"Let's see where we are and work from their." Serenity said to them.
Ken'shiro walked up to them from the elevator.
"Elevator system still works but on back up power. Also, our food and water supply are okay at least for now." He said to them.
"Let's head to the cargo bay. Everyone, weapons ready." She said.
Serenity entered first to make sure it was clear incase any enemies was inside.
Serenity looked nearby in the cargo bay seeing her three blue eyes white dragons in there a bit injured from the impact but awake and alive. Near them was her other beasts that Mawile and Fern both found in different places in Rome knowing they tracked them with their scent. Her Rancor wanted to get up to help it's master.
Serenity gave them a blow kiss. "Rest." She said to them and they did just that.
Everyone later was in the cargo bay together and James looked at everyone before he pulled the handle.
"Do it." Serenity said to him.
James pulled the handle and the cargo bay door began to open beaming on the top a bright white light which suddenly began to show more color than white when the cargo door kept going down.
Mira's biotic power covered her body and was ready for anything. She created a biotic like coating around Serenity for the moment just incase there was an attack.
Soon as the cargo bay door touched the surface of this odd ground they seen out of it an unknown world that they were on.
Everyone walked outside and seen that the planet they were on had a distant bright white sun. The sky was a aura mist of bluish faint misty color. The tree's was different and looked blue and ghostly. There was little to no wind and everything around was silent, as if dead but still there.
The ground was the same shade nearly as the sky as reflecting the color from the sky. The shadows looked like night.
Maya walked over to some bushes and touched them as they moved from her fingers.
"Where are we...?" Umi-taka said a bit creeped out.
"Where ever we are it has two moons it seems." Mawile said pointing at a red moon nearly close to the planet and then behind them to a blue moon which was nearly close to the planet as well.
Serenity touched the ground and using her psychic power tried to sense something about where they were or to at least get an idea but nothing came to mind.
"Espeon may you use your psychic power, tell me if you feel anything." Serenity asked.
Espeon bent down and thought and shook her head. "Nothing." She said.
"Looks like there are mountains that way and one that way." James said pointing to the distances.
Umbreon held Sam and looked around and back to Serenity.
"Is this the Cosmic Divine Crystalline?" Umbreon asked.
"There are thick gases around the sun or star that this sector orbits." Garrus said to them looking at the sky.
"Is it toxic to us?" Serenity asked.
"If it was then we'd be dead don't you think?" Garrus replied.
"This is like something from a dream." Demencia said a bit in awe.
Adam looked around and suddenly heard something nearby.
"Serenity." Adam said.
"I heard it." Serenity replied and both of them held their weapons at the ready.
The group got their weapons ready.
"Oh god, it could be some native or a big beast..." Deidara said a bit worried.
"Just be ready." Sasori said as they stood together with Itachi and Kisame near them with Mawile between the group.
The noise stopped behind thick bushes near them.
Suddenly coming out of the bushes on the other side was a male looking human with crimson red eyes.
Serenity and everyone immediately turned and looked at him. Serenity quickly approached him with Adam following behind her.
The male held his hands up slowly in a surrender stance and looked at the group a bit scared and breathing heavily looking at everyone.
"Oh no." Mordin said.
"Relax doctor just one of him." Maes said.
"Not that..." Mordin began to say.
"Who are you and where are we." Serenity asked him.
Suddenly Serenity sniffed and cocked an eyebrow.
"How come your scent seems familiar to me?" She asked.
The male stood at five foot ten looking down at her with green hair the exact color as her's and his face nearly resembled Drayconivous'. He also looked like the same age as Serenity.
"Because I'm your brother." The male said to her.
Serenity and everyone stared at him in shock and Serenity let out a gasp and the scene ends there.