Chapter 9:
Qrow and his group made it into one of the hangers killing off incoming Star Cerberus soldiers coming at them from their own shuttle.
Zarbon shot two of them and jumped on ones face with his crotch on its helmet. "That's it bitch." Zarbon said.
"Get off him." Qrow yelled shoving Zarbon off and lifting the soldier up and then kicking him knocking him out.
"Tie that one up." Qrow said to Zarbon who did so.
Qrow then looked at one dead soldiers holocom that was still on and seeing different parts of the northern station where shuttles were landing in.
"We got to go to these places." Qrow told them.
"On it!" Hatenko said nodding.
"Mangle, go into that Cerberus shuttle. I need you to try to at least shut down the main ship okay?" Qrow asked Mangle who sighed.
"Dude that's boring." Mangle told him.
"Just do it Mangle!" Qrow yelled.
"Fine!" Mangle yelled back and walked into the Cerberus shuttle and controlled it and zoomed out of the hanger heading toward the fleet battle.
"Oh man, this is going to get crazy." Mangle said as Citadel Security starfighters went after her thinking she was an enemy.
"Oh shit!" Mangle yelled and kept flying as fast as she could looking at the starships. "Which one which one!" Mangle said in panic and noticed one Star Cerberus starship of a different design from the others in the middle of the battle. "That looks like it!" Mangle said to herself and zoomed right at it with Citadel Security starfighters still on pursuit at her.
Mangle then heard one of the engines being blown off and kept going straight at the Star Cerberus flagship. "Almost there!" Mangle shouted.
Mangle flew the shuttle right into the hanger of the Star Cerberus flagship and the two starfighters fly in but crash into the brackets above the hanger.
Star Cerberus soldiers in the hanger ran toward the crashed hanger that Mangle was in, without any weapons thinking she was one of them. "Uh oh." she said seeing them coming toward her.
Mangle looked in the shuttle and found in the back a spare armoring of the enemies. "Here we go!" She said quickly putting it all on.
The shuttle door opened and Mangle was fully clothed as the enemy.
"Soldier! Where is your squad." One of the Star Cerberus personnel asked.
"Dead sir. Dead yes dead." Mangle said trying to sound like a man.
The man just blinked looking at her and then thumbed behind himself. "Get yourself checked at the medical brig. We will clean up here." He told her.
"Yes, sir!" Mangle said in a salute and walked off toward where the man said and when she was in the clear she quickly looked around running through the halls and found a technician.
"Where is the bridge." She asked.
"Where it always is, just take the elevator." The technician said sighing bored of his job.
Mangle quickly ran down the hallway and soon had to walk passing two Cerberus soldiers that were patrolling and then ran quickly into the elevator pushing what seemed on the screen as the bridge part of the ship. "Oh boy here we go." Mangle said to herself as the elevator doors shut.
Serenity opened the base's entrance near the Anit-aircraft cannon. She looked back at the dragons. "Guard." She commanded and walked inside the base turning on her lightsaber to see through the dark.
Kisame and Pain were still fighting Ryu and Kiyoko. Kiyoko, however, got herself hit right in the gut by Pains foot knocked back a few ways.
Ryu swung his blade at Kisame's head but Kisame ducked and lifted his sword up and knocked right into Ryu's body knocking Ryu into the ceiling dropping his blade.
Kisame stepped on Ryu's sword keeping him from taking it and putting his sword behind Ryu's head. "Enough." Kisame said.
Ryu was about ready to create a water type jutsu but Kisame knowing it was coming slammed his big sword right into Ryu's back stunning him for the time being.
Kiyoko put her hands together and then created a powerful wind gust in the room. The gust of wind began to push everyone even Ryu into a spin.
Pain held his hand out but noticed a device near Kiyoko and instead fired an almighty push at it and making it explode next to Kiyoko making her having to stop her power and being knocked over by the blast.
Pain leaped toward her and put his receiver rod up to her head.
Serenity ran in. "I heard commotion this way." Serenity said looking at Pain and Kisame.
"We got two members." Kisame said as Ryu began to wake up and frown at Kisame.
Kisame looked at Ryu and sighed. "Look, I don't know much about my dads past okay? But if what you say is true, my father is a good man. Perhaps after having me, he didn't want to live that life no more." Kisame told him making Ryu listen to reason.
"Why did you leave the Momochi clan." Pain asked Kiyoko.
Kiyoko didn't say anything but huff.
"Kiyoko tell them." Ryu said to her.
"I left because my mother in front of our clan told me off because I couldn't summon a wolf. So she humiliated me and I ran away." Kiyoko said to them.
Serenity looked at the two and sighed. "Let them go." Serenity told Pain and Kisame.
"Are you nuts?" Pain said to her.
"You heard me." Serenity said glaring at him.
Pain moved away from Kiyoko as Kisame did the same for Ryu.
Both Ryu and Kiyoko stood up looking at Serenity.
"Before you go. What is going on. I need to know why the hell your organization wants to resurrect Darth Malgus." Serenity asked crossing her arms.
"You know him?" Kiyoko asked.
"I heard of him but he died years ago when I was a child from what I know." Serenity said.
"Our leader believes that resurrecting Darth Malgus, we could be able to defeat our foes and create a better galaxy." Ryu said to them.
"Our leader thinks this, however, me and Ryu actually have an odd feeling that this won't be enough. Yet we have so many holocrons that we know we could empower Darth Malgus." Kiyoko said.
"Sounds strange but I know nothing of the force." Kisame said looking toward Serenity. "Guess we need to find the leader."
"I killed Hayato." Serenity said.
"Hayato? Hayato is just the face of leadership, the real leader is Yoshimitsu." Ryu said to her.
"What a twist." Pain said shrugging.
"Where can we find him?" Serenity asked.
"In the inner sanctum, down that hallway, and to the right. Behind the doors." Ryu said.
"Get out of here." Serenity said pointing to where she came from. "Don't mind the dragons and they will let you pass." She said to them.
Ryu and Kiyoko was a bit shocked to hear that but didn't question it and ran off.
"Why would you let those two go." Pain asked her.
"Because they seem lost and afraid and wanted to join an organization they believed to be justified and then seen how things truly were." Serenity said to him and walked toward the next hall. "Let's go." She said to them both.
Mangle left the elevator walking into the bridge in a normal fashion.
General Oleg was staring out the window with a grin on his face.
"Sir, two more starships are destroyed." One deck officer said to him.
"Good, only twelve more to go and we still have thirty ships remaining and a full squadron of starfighters." he said typing on a hologram. "I am ready to bombard the rest of the south part of the citadel, wipe the southern part out and it will make them think twice before daring to betray us." Oleg said.
General Oleg then turned to look at Mangle. "Yes, soldier?" Oleg asked.
Mangle knew she didn't have many options but to use her secret ability, she didn't have her Gatling cannon but she was able to train herself with Prompto to learn how he did things and yet she advanced it for herself.
Mangle pushed a button on the suit letting the armor fall off and herself jumping out right at Oleg. Right, when she got to him a force field which was around him bounced her off.
"Brave of you. But foolish." Oleg said as the entire bridge officers and technicians aimed blaster pistols at her. At the elevator was twelve soldiers running in aiming their rifles at her with scopes locked on.
Mangle looked around and then to Oleg. She did, however, look above him to some device and then noticing a small aura coming from it going down toward him. Mangle's eyes quickly went back to him. "I'm always foolish dude." Mangle said.
"What did you think would happen here? Some brave effort to stop me?" Oleg asked amused.
"Not stopping you dude. Killing you. There's a difference." Mangle said to annoy him.
"Open fire." Oleg said.
Suddenly blasters were fired and the shots went toward Mangle. However, she herself had her own personal shield but it was dwindling the more the blaster bolts came at her and the shield absorbing the shots. She quickly jumped up and mangling her robotic arms into the air and gripping the device on the ceiling and then ripping it right off shutting down Oleg's shield.
"Damn it!" Oleg shouted. "Kill her!" He yelled.
Once Mangle's shields were disabled she grinned and summoned not one, but two Gatling cannons holding them with a summoning of wires and spine bracers on her body to help her to hold both. She spread her arms outward and spun around shooting up the entire room even against the glass. "Ahhh!" Mangle screamed as soldiers and deck officers were hit multiple times blasting up the computers in the room and everything else.
Everyone fell over dead except for Oleg but his chest bleeding out. He slowly pulled his blaster pistol out of his holster but Mangle simply kicked it out of his hands grinning opening her mouth. "I'm hungry. Help my snack!" She yelled and literally began to eat him alive making him scream in pain.
He finally succumbed to his wounds and she ate some more of him ripping his liver out and eating it last.
Mangle looked up hearing an alarm and looked at the consoles she destroyed, the ship was now failing and the ship was moving to the side and crashing into two other star Cerberus ships exploding them, the flagship's shields were still on but diminishing from two impacts.
"Oh fuck." Mangle said and quickly ran to the elevator. The ship was now loosing power dropping from orbit.
Mangle got out of the elevator into the hanger de-summoning her Gatling cannons and looking around for an escape.
Suddenly she felt rumbling as the Citadel Security starfighters began to bombard the ship now that its shields were gone.
Mangle noticed the hanger that soldiers were running to shuttles. She looked to the side noticing hanger controls and smashed the console making the doors begin to shut. She quickly ran toward a Star Cerberus starfighter and literally grabbed the man going inside and flinging him out.
"Mine bitch!" Mangle yelled and typed on the starfighter console making it activate quickly.
"Oh, man no time!" Mangle shouted and blasted the engines immediately and zoomed right out of the hanger before the doors shut on her.
Mangle flew the starfighter through the battle and just in time as the flagship began to explode and break apart.
Other Star Cerberus ships began to loose their main shielding without the flagship around them and a few more began to explode from bombardment. The remaining fleet quickly turned around and entered hyperspace leaving the battle.
Hatenko was with Qrow gathering up what remained of the Star Cerberus invasion force with Grenn and his team looking out the window at the module they were in.
"I hope your niece is okay." Grenn said.
"I think she did that." Qrow said nodding. "I know she did." He assured them.
"Boss' kids are so great!" Hatenko shouted making Qrow facepalm.
Meanwhile at the Boshoku base. Hidan and Vulpix found a door and opened it only to find themselves outside again.
"You have to be kidding me!" Hidan said with a sigh.
Froslass came from behind them a bit nervous behind Vulpix.
Suddenly all three of them was hit by a strange water power which suddenly turned to ice in front of them and went to wrap around Hidan's neck and throwing him right into the ground and shattering.
Hidan got up frowning and the three of them seen two Boshoku members. Two men. One with a mohawk with a cigarette in his mouth and the other having light violet hair and bright cyan eyes with a headgear that covered most of his head except his face and top of his head. The one with the mohawk's robe was opened exposing his chest but also another robe under it, a civilian robe in fact.
Hidan, Vulpix, and Froslass got into a defensive stance ready for anything.