Chapter 12:
Citadel DLC Crossover Special pt2
A few hours went by and soon the party was really kicking it up. Mangle was showing her engagement ring to some of her sisters and Prompto with some of the men who was giving him advice.
"This is a man emergency! We need to toughen him up for marriage!" Wrex shouted.
"Hey! I just got engaged, at least give me a moment to relieve myself of the nervousness I experienced before asking her." Prompto said to the guys.
Serenity was sitting on the couch and on each side of her was Kylo and Kaiden, on the other couch to the side was Umbreon and Espeon.
"So! You two guys have a thing for Serenity right?" Umbreon asked the two men smirking.
"Uh!" Kaiden said seemingly nervous.
"She and I fought against one another when I worked with the Illusive Man. I, I mean I didn't feel anything more than rivals turned into good friends." Kylo said looking away.
"Sure..." Umbreon said winking.
"I think Serenity would look nice with two men!" Espeon said clapping her hands.
"Don't, Don't ever say it like that please." Serenity said hiding her face.
"Don't worry, its just friendship and professionalism." Kaiden said.
"You know does anyone want a drink? Any food? I think we need more drinks and food." Kylo said standing up and walked to the kitchen quickly.
Kaiden as well got up laughing nervously and walked to the corner of the building looking down shaking his head.
"I think you scared the men away." Umbreon said looking at Espeon.
"Sorry... I didn't mean too! Oh! I saw on a holo that if someone flashes there boobs at men that they will get happy!" Espeon said starting to get up only to be dragged back down by Umbreon.
"No." Umbreon said shaking her head.
"What were you watching to know that?" Serenity asked blinking.
"Something called Pornhub. I thought it was a hub for something called porn." Espeon said to them.
"Ahahahaha!" James laughed walking by hearing it.
"See! He's happy just by the mention of it!" Espeon said smiling brightly, naive as ever.
"So how's Sam?" Serenity asked Umbreon to quickly change the subject.
"She's good. She's at the alliance fleet waiting for me. I know she is going to help out in the war. I wish she wouldn't do that but I can't argue it with her. When I met her, I thought all humans were disgusting and evil. Then she and I connected and now I realize, not all humans are evil. This blood in us makes us feel this rage... yet love can over come it." Umbreon said to Serenity who gave it some thought.
"I wished all species could get along." Espeon told them looking down showing a bit of sadness.
"Humans, we were born to kill humans. To hate them. But yet for some reason, I can't. I... I know mom didn't like me or my sisters and hurt me the most. But doesn't mean all humans are like that. I just hope one day we can all live in peace. That we all don't have to fight and we can love each other." Espeon said to them.
Serenity and Umbreon remained silent as well as James who was behind them and Kaiden who was listening in turning his head.
James quickly broke the sadness patting Espeons shoulder. "Say! Want to see how many push-ups I can do? Place bets, everyone! How many you think I can do!" James yelled for people to start making bids on him.
Serenity noticed Froslass who was a bit timid sitting beside Wrex who was talking to Jacob and Hidan.
"Hey. I heard you took on an enemy all by yourself. That's awesome!" Serenity said looking down at her.
"Hm? Oh yeah..." Froslass said looking down.
"Whats wrong?" Serenity asked.
"Taking a life didn't feel good. Reminded me of when dad lost his. I thought of him when I fought, dad kept me going to fight on. I will protect my sisters and our friends here. I will try to be brave." Froslass said as the men stopped talking looking at her.
"Bravery! You got to keep your confidence kid!" Jacob said nodding at her.
"Hah! From what I heard she shredded that guy good. Time we put her against a hundred star Cerberus soldiers and let her kill rinse repeat!" Wrex said laughing giving Froslass a shove with his shoulder.
Froslass just sighed as she was shoved to the side blinking a few times.
"I'll leave you guys to it." Serenity said laughing and walked off.
"Why hello there!" A tall man with horns on his head, his hair dark violet with a big smile on his face with purple lipstick. He was an enemy in the past that worked with Master Cyclonis.
"Holy shit! Caesar Clown!?" Serenity said a bit startled.
"Relax! I am apart of you guys now, relax! I am helping the alliance with research and scientific improvements. Do not worry, I am one of you guys now. Just don't get in my way with my experiments and when I fight those bastards that are trying to control life! No one takes my life, or my beautiful experiments." Caesar said and laughed at the end walking off.
Serenity just huffed rubbing her face. "Glad to see an enemy now friend. Then again, I hope there isn't' any friendly fire." Serenity said to herself.
Serenity walked by Maychiro who was talking to Milque and both of them gave Serenity a nod as she passed by. She walked to the bathroom and noticed Kisame crying into the toilet.
"You okay?" Serenity asked a bit creeped out.
"Rebecca, she she... she only wanted me to feed her and for sex! She didn't care for my heart!" Kisame cried out.
"Yeah, she's a Hutt what do you expect?" Serenity said with a sigh. "Not all Hutts are like that though, I shouldn't say that." Serenity said kneeling down handing him a towel.
"She hurt my heart! I should of never of left Oprah Winfrey's love!" Kisame yelled.
Garrus and Kaiden speaking looked to the side hearing Kisame.
"Maybe keep that to yourself, come on go get yourself a slice of pizza or something." Serenity said walking him out of the bathroom.
"She loved pizza too!" Kisame cried out walking to the kitchen. "But I am hungry..."
Serenity just shook her head smiling. "Big guy, big crier." She said.
"Did he say, Oprah?" Garrus asked.
"That he did." Serenity told him and turned to check on something else in the apartment.
Serenity saw in the back Mangle who was talking to Mismagius and Emilou. Near them was Neopolitan who wasn't even talking as Kylo was trying to talk to her.
"She's mute I think." Serenity said to Kylo.
"Really?" Kylo asked looking back at Neo who actually shrugged.
"I think..." Serenity said again curious.
Neopolitan, however, typed on her datapad and shown Kylo the text on it to communicate with him.
"So Mangle! Out of all of us here, your the only one of us sisters to be engaged first. How does that feel?" Mismagius asked putting a hand on her hip waiting for a response.
"Means I beat all your fucking asses in our record book." Mangle said grinning.
"And she's back to her normal self again." Emilou said smirking.
"Dude I'm never going to change, if I changed then I might as well kill everyone so no one sees my change." Mangle told her.
"Even your own sisters?" Serenity asked smirking at her.
"Okay fine maybe not everyone. But I might kill you Serenity. Killing you could make me the leader." Mangle said grinning back.
"Now that's a fight I'd like to see happen." Mismagius chuckled.
"Another time." Serenity said patting Mangle's head walking off.
"I'll hold you to it!" Mangle shouted.
Serenity noticed a few of their family and allies nearby dancing in the halls to the music playing. In the middle of one hallway was James and Zarbon doing push-ups.
"Who's winning?" Serenity asked leaning against the wall.
"Zarbon is actually." Demencia said grinning at Zarbon's ass licking her lips. "Nice and thick. And most of all fleshy, and juicy of blood." Demencia said drooling.
"Oh hunny, I want even the men to want my juice- oh!" Zarbon yelled and his push-ups speeding up.
"Just curious, who would you not have sex with Zarbon?" Serenity asked.
"I'm curious myself, but for that question that is." Pain said.
"Women." Zarbon said feeling his muscles beginning to weaken.
"They're at above eight hundred push-ups." Demencia said.
"Who else though, what man wouldn't you sleep with." Serenity asked.
Suddenly Zarbon stopped doing push-ups. "I- I can't say! Oh no, it's too much! Oh!" Zarbon said collapsing.
"Haha! I win!" James said standing up with sweat pouring off him.
"So who?" Serenity asked smirking at Zarbon.
Zarbon frowned laying on the floor. He then grunted the answer. "Your Uncle Qrow."
"Hey! Why not our Uncle!?" Sung-sun asked in shock.
Serenity bursted laughing. "Hold on! You wouldn't sleep with our uncle? He's a magnet for so many women. I would think you'd maybe want him in bed."
"That's the problem, he's just too attractive and he thinks he's all that. I can't have sex with someone like that. I have morals." Zarbon said huffing sitting on the floor with his legs crossed.
"Morals? Nice." Serenity said nodding and patted his head walking down the hall.
Serenity noticed Maychiro fixing up some sort of device.
"Whats that?" Serenity asked.
"It's a device to take a full picture photo! It also is linked to filling in other people into a picture, like a photoshop. I got some photo's from the Alliance fleet that may want to be in a full picture with the rest of us." Maychiro said smiling.
"Woah that's a cool type of device. Can we manage to fit everyone into one picture?" Serenity asked.
"Yes. However, it will have to be a big picture when it comes out of course. This device takes it and its sent to be printed at the Alliance." Maychiro told her.
"So those that aren't here at the party, will be photoshopped in that does want into the picture?" Serenity asked her cocking an eyebrow.
"Exactly!" Maychiro said smiling at her.
"What about photoshopping in a picture of... dad?" Serenity asked.
Maychiro looked at her and her smile went down a bit but nodded. "Of course." She said giving her a hug. "We will add in Arur and Law as well. Those that died, but they're going to have a gray shade to let those know that they died." Maychiro told her.
"Okay." Serenity said giving her a hug. "Thank you." She said.
Maychiro patted her head. "No problem at all." She said smiling at her.
Suddenly they heard a drum being beat and Serenity looked toward the living room at Mangle who was banging a drum.
"Where did we get this?" Serenity asked looking at the instruments.
"I rented them. Come on! We should totally sing!" Mangle said.
"Hell yeah!" Umbreon said picking up a guitar playing on it rocking out.
"I wouldn't mind hearing you girls sing." Garrus said raising his drink. "All in favor!?"
Almost everyone said yes.
Serenity looked at her sisters and smiled. "Last time we singed was a long time ago. Guess we got to put on a show for everyone huh?"
"Fuck yeah!" Mangle said.
"I wouldn't mind trying." Froslass said looking at a kloo picking it up.
Serenity took ahold of a microphone spinning it in her right hand and placing it down on the floating mic holder and each of her sisters grabbed an instrument tuning it.
"Want to sing that song we used to sing to ourselves?" Mismagius asked.
"That classic one? Sure!" Tomoko said on the piano waiting.
"You know which one we are all thinking of right?" Serenity asked looking at her sisters.
"Fuck yeah that one!" Emilou said smirking clapping at them. "Sing it!" Emilou shouted at them as she and Sung-sun stayed with the crowd.
"That's the one we sing then, everyone knows the lyrics and the beat?" Mienshao asked looking around.
"Heh! This is going to be good." Wrex said chuckling.
"I'm recording this for sure!" Kaiden said holding a holo device up to record.
"We all do it seems." Lopunny said waiting for a moment of her sisters to object to it.
"Okay, let's do this. Count to three." Mismagius said and nodded to Serenity as they counted to three.
- I believed love would save me!
But in the end the pain that cut so deeply is!
Breaking me, taking everything!
I only wish it would turn into love! Ahh!
Cut me down! - End my misery!
Because I loathe the joy I'm feeling!
Lie to me like it's meant to be!
Cause I don't care, it's all the same to me!
Let all the beauty fade and melt away! Ahh!
You say it's fine when it's shattering!
This time it ends so unexpectedly!
I was misled so many times !
I'll carry on with nothing to believe in!
Every time I take another breath!
Feelings inside me won't stop wavering Ahh!
Hide it all like nothing happened here!
I will let go of the hands I've learned to hate! Ahh!
The shadows within will never let you flee
This is reality...
What does it mean to have freedom!
Every single feeling, every moment!
All that I felt, longing and agony!
Pleading in desperation it could be love!
Throw me away, I don't get to feel!
Schadenfreude for you!
Is there no passion left!?
All of this drama seems so dead to me.!
Discord is all that's left to see…! -
((Song is Asphyxia. Covers belong to their owners; AmaLee, DimaLancaster and Studio Yuraki.))
After the song, Maychiro called for everyone into the main room. "Where ready! The camera is photoshopped ready for those that aren't here that wanted to be apart of the picture, in the back will be those who have died that are in the gray shade. For memories of course." Maychiro told them.
"Sounds honorable." James said getting into position with everyone else.
"Come on everyone! Mangle come sit with me with Prompto with you!" Serenity yelled to her waving her over.
Serenity sat on the couch in the middle, Mangle to her left and Tomoko to her right. Beside Mangle was Prompto and beside Tomoko was Gladious. Everyone else was standing behind the couch in rows. Behind Serenity was James standing in a salute with Kylo and Kaiden on each side of him. Everyone else stood in rows looking at Maychiro with the floating camera droid.
"Commencing in ten seconds." The droid announced.
Maychiro quickly ran into the crowd standing where Qrow's photoshop would be at besides him with a smile on her face. "Everyone says Serenity!"
"Serenity!" Everyone shouted.
And then the picture was taken.
The next day at Morning, everyone was together walking toward the hanger that the Normandy was docked in. Waiting for them was lieutenant Grenn with two of his guards beside him.
"Our fleet is prepared to go with you to the Alliance fleet. We will merge and await further orders." Grenn said.
"You're coming with us?" Serenity asked.
"Of course, I don't want to miss what will make history. You will need all the help you can get." Grenn told her.
Grenn and his guards walked off. "See you there!" Grenn shouted as he walked away.
Everyone got to the hanger walking to the Normandy entrance. Serenity stopped Mangle and Tomoko looking at them.
"Tomoko, Mangle. I need you two to be second and third commanders when this fight happens. If something was to happen to me." Serenity told them.
"Dude don't talk sentimental, that's what happens in the movies. Don't do that." Mangle said shaking her head.
"Why me?" Tomoko asked.
"Because I know you got the power to be near my level, come on nightmare powers? I don't get that or dark abilities as you do. Your mom would want it too." Serenity said giving her a pat on the shoulder.
Their other sisters walked too them.
"We are family, we are sisters. Remember what dad said to us?" Serenity asked them.
"We are like a pack of wolves." Mangle said nodding slowly thinking of their dad.
"We are like wolves, like velociraptors, we are a pack, we are hunters. We hunt together and we fight together. We are family most importantly of all." Serenity said to them.
"Then let's kick ass and hunt our prey." Lopunny said raising her fist.
"Let's do it for dad!" Emilou shouted.
"Let's also do it for everyone else too. If that's okay." Froslass said softly.
"Let's go!" James said clapping to them.
Serenity beckoned them and they all entered the Normandy together. Ready to head to the Alliance Fleet and begin their greatest mission.
Serenity suddenly felt her belt. "Oh shoot! I will be right back! Just a moment I left it at customs!" Serenity shouted.
"Hurry up!" James yelled.
Serenity quickly ran with her power with great speed passing people who were astonished by her speed. She made it to the customs grabbing her father's old lightsaber.
"Sorry, I'd be so dishonored to have forgotten this." Serenity said huffing to catch her breath.
Serenity walked out of customs heading back to the hanger but suddenly noticed Adam within the crowd heading to a private hanger. She then saw a human boy running toward Adam and Serenity gripped her lightsaber hilt walking toward Adam in hopes he didn't kill the boy.
She suddenly saw Adam look at the boy kneeling down and walking him looking around, and suddenly seeing that he found the boy's parents handing him to them. But he gave a remark to them to watch their kid and walked away.
Serenity is a bit confused about that walked toward him but noticed him answering a holo-call.
"I'm on my way." Adam said into it.
"Oleg failed it seems, head back. We know the Alliance is going to plan something big. And Adam, I hope you do not fail me like Oleg." The Illusive Man said on the other end.
Adam shut the holo-com off and before he walked into the private hanger he stopped and turned his head looking directly at Serenity through his eye mask.
Serenity looked right back at him. Both of them just staring at one another.
Suddenly the crowd thickened and Adam was gone.
Serenity kept standing there thinking on what she saw. She walked over to the people in question.
"Excuse me, that man that handed you your child. Did he say anything to you?" Serenity asked.
"That man killed my fellow employee's planet side, and almost killed me. When my sons ran to my side with my wife, he hesitated and let me go. He then found my son lost in the crowd and gave him back to me and told me to not lose him. A strange man he is." The man told Serenity.
"He kills but yet something changed in him. Maybe our kids." The woman said to Serenity who listened and felt something a bit for Adam.
"Maybe his hatred for humans and what I said, or something else maybe influencing him... It isn't too late for him." Serenity said.
"Mam?" The man asked confused at her words.
"Nothing, I must go, thank you for your time." Serenity said and ran off to the hanger that the Normandy was at.
Serenity got into the Normandy and whistled to Mangle who was at the cockpit with Deidara as the co-pilot. Prompto sitting behind her typing on a console.
"We are good to go." Deidara said.
The Normandy lifted up and backed out of the hanger and flew into space and entered hyperspeed.
Meanwhile, at Earth, The Illusive Man was overseeing preparations of his soldiers and, the secret project. Clones of Serenity, enhanced with cybernetics looking quite, scary.
Kai Leng stood behind him with Ardyn overseeing things.
Ardyn had a smirk on his face standing in the shadows and his yellow eyes slowly show a bit of glow but vanish as the Illusive Man turned around to face them.
"Adam is on his way back. I will have Hux lead the forces. Once the Alliance comes here, we will trap them." The Illusive Man said to them.
"If I may be so bold to suggest something?" Ardyn said walking out of the shadows toward the Illusive Man.
"Suggest it." The Illusive Man encouraged.
"How about we test these clones not just on the Alliance soldiers but on the Gorgons. Let them see in fear what we created. An army of their own sister and with black blood." Ardyn said to him. "Unleash them and let your soldiers take it easy on the battlefield."
The Illusive Man looked at him for a moment thinking. "I will mix them together. Perhaps these clones are ready. I was going to use them after we win, but perhaps this will be better." He said.
Both him and Kai Leng walked off and Ardyn watched them walk away with a grin on his face. "Revenge, I can hardly wait." Ardyn said putting his hat over his head and walking behind them out of the facility they were in.
As Ardyn walked out he saw the fleet in the sky heading into space as well as in the distance more Star Cerberus ships, thousands and possibly into a million of them. Soldiers marching on the destroyed streets of Seattle and Urashiki and Matagi standing nearby observing it as well. Ardyn looked at them then back to the clone army that was marching out with the Star Cerberus Soldiers.
"Let the chess match, begin." Ardyn said with a chuckle in his voice.