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Chapter 7: Ballad of Lost Souls: Fight Against NECRO WEAPON
The Skies darkened as if to herald the coming of this awesome beast, this bringer of destruction, the unholy Frankenstein known as NECRO WEAPON. NECRO WEAPON began circling the underwater facility, roaring loudly signaling to all its anger. The WEAPON began firing blasts of energy into the water, pushing back the torrents, exposing the ocean floor. Alex, Denzel, Lucy, and Cid stood on top platform of the submarine, staring in awe of the massive WEAPON. Meanwhile Vincent and the Shera crew pulled back the airship a safe distance away from NECRO WEAPON. When they were clear, Vincent switched on the radio and zeroed in on the submarine's signal.
"Cid are you there, what's going on? ANSWSER ME!" shouted Vincent in to the radio
The radio crackled to life bringing the four young heroes out of their trance. Jr. jumped back into the sub and went straight for the radio in desperation.
"Mr. Valentine is that you?' asked Jr.
"Yes, What's going on? What is that thing?" questioned Vincent
"We discovered it in the facility, I told you about earlier?" stated Jr.
Denzel jumped into the sub hastily grabbing the radio from Jr. as Jr. grabbed the helm and steered the sub toward the airship away from NECRO WEAPON.
"Vincent, It's Denzel listen that thing is called NECRO WEAPON, It was created by Shinra years ago before they fell. It's made of the other destroyed WEAPONS, I need you to pick us up and ready the ship's weapons for our attack." exclaimed Denzel
"Right I'm on it!" replied Vincent
Vincent ordered the crew to prepare for battle and rescue the sub.
Alex and Lucy stood on top of the sub as they looked on in horror of the massive WEAPON, still circling the waters firing at the ocean floor every once in a while. Alex lowered his head slight as he started to mumble something. Lucy turned to him confused as she placed a hand on his shoulder.
"This is all my fault, I woke that thing up, I opened the door and let it go free." Whispered Alex
"No, It's not your fault you didn't know that the fail safe was going to activate." Stated Lucy
"Regardless, I still feel like this is all because of me." Stated Alex
"Shut Up and stop with the guilt trip." Replied Lucy slightly annoyed
"Fine." Chuckled Alex lightly
The airship circled over the sub as it lowered the crane and brought it into the docking bay. The four heroes rushed toward the cockpit where they were greeted by Vincent finishing up a radio conversation with Reeve.
"I just finished speaking with Reeve and updated him with what we know, he's bringing in some WRO forces and they're going to help us mount an offense by building a mini rail cannon of the beach. They have one in WRO storage and are transporting it to the beach at this moment." Stated Vincent
"Good they can give us cover from a distance, we however need to get closer, ready the weapons." Commanded Denzel
"ARE YOU CRAZY, YOU WANNA GET CLOSER TO THAT THING!" exclaimed Jr.
"We need to if we have any chance to stop it! Denzel, Lucy, Vincent lets head up to the top of the Airship so we can take this thing one on one as soon we get close enough. Cid you stay here and take control of the airship." Exclaimed Alex
"Sure thing I was just gonna ask you if I could do that, but you guys have fun on your little suicide mission." Replied Jr. sarcastically
Alex, Denzel, Vincent and Lucy ran for the top of the airship full speed as Jr. turned the airship toward NECRO WEAPON. Cid readied the weapons as the Shera's massive cannons popped into position and the missile bays opened up. Alex opened the top hatch as he Denzel, Vincent and Lucy crawled to the outside of the Airship and grabbed a hold of the handles placed there, they held their ground as the airship rushed full speed toward the weapon, slicing through the air.
When they were in range Jr. gave the order and fired of the missiles. Dozens of whirling missiles speed toward the WEAPON causing many massive fiery explosions. The WEAPON roared in pain it's anger building, as Jr. gave Order to fire the cannons send two massive beams of energy crashing into the WEAPON. The WEAPON faltered a bit before rising higher into the sky roaring, angrier than ever. The WEAPON turned its head toward the airship firing of its devastating beam attack at the airship. Jr. barely had enough time to swerve the Shera away from the beam. Alex, Denzel, Vincent and Lucy clutched their handles harder as the ship made a sharp turn barely missing the beams full attack.
The WEAPON roared in anger once more as the scales on its body started to shake with fury. Six scales shot off its body at top speed crashing into the Shera. Jr. forced the ship into a sudden stop as the creature began to circle the waters once again. The four heroes rose to their feet as the scales attached to the ship started to shake violently, before bursting open revealing three fierce looking block hound monster's and three fierce looking dragon creatures. Vincent jumped back quickly as one of the hounds came at him, he fired two shots in to the beast's head bringing it to it's knees. Lucy rolled out of the way as one of the dragons swooped down at her, Lucy quickly recovered and opened fire on the dragon finishing it off. Alex tossed his sword into an on coming hound piercing its body pinning it to the ship, Alex then rushed up to his sword then popped out the switch blade sword and sliced on of the dragons in halve. Denzel jumped up and brought down his sword for a crushing blow against one of the dragons ripping it to shreds, as he landed he was attacked from behind by one of the hounds, but faster than anyone could blink Denzel turned around delivering a swift spin kick to the hound's head crushing its skull in killing the beast. The four heroes regained their composure as Jr.'s voice crackled over the intercom system.
"You better brace your selves guys I just got word from the WRO we got back up coming." Shouted Jr.
The four heroes braced themselves as the Shera made yet another sharp turn away from the WEAPON. Meanwhile on the beach the WRO had finally step up their temporary mini rail cannon that was air lifted in. The troops carefully aimed the cannon and powered it up to full, when the time came the acting WRO commander ordered for it to be fired. The cannon shot out a powerful blast greater than the Shera's, it whirled through the air passing the Shera with much concussive force, colliding with the WEAPON forcing it to cry out in great pain. The soldiers started a massive cheer of victory as the WEAPON began to falter once more. Suddenly the cheers stopped as the WEAPON roared angrier than ever, everyone stared in disbelief as all the thousands of scales started to violently shake all over the WEAPON's body firing them straight at the beach. The scales whirled past the Shera nearly colliding with it if it wasn't for Jr.'s fast movements of the airship.
"You guys go a head I'll take the scales!" commanded Vincent as he let go of his handle falling toward the open waters
Vincent suddenly roared in anger as he transformed into the demon chaos and sliced through the air toward the speeding scales. Vincent aimed the Death Penalty as he blew away a great portion of the scales, however he was to late as a thousand more of the scales crashed into the beach, colliding with the rail cannon causing it to explode. The WRO troops backed away from the oncoming scales as they crashed into the ground full force. Suddenly the hounds and dragons burst free from the scales and started their vicious attack on the troops. Vincent dropped from the sky and transformed back into himself as he was attacked by numerous hounds all at once. Boldly he fought them of with melee attacks, causing them to back off into his line of fire. The hounds started to swarm Vincent and almost over powered him when suddenly an armored WRO van crashed into the hounds, killing a few and backing off the rest from Vincent.
The door of the van shot open as John Valentine leaped out slicing for hounds into pieces with his katana. Vincent side stepped one of the hounds then let out a volley of gunshots bringing down four more hounds. Father and son circled around each other as they proceed to exterminate the rest of the hounds in the area. When they hand time for a breather they turned to each other with a smirk.
"Your getting senile old man." Chuckled John
"Shows what you know." Smirked Vincent
"Reeve filled me in on the situation, where's Lucy?" questioned John
"She's on the Shera Mark 5, with Alex and Denzel." Replied Vincent
"I hope to god the don't screw up." Exclaimed John
"Worry about yourself son, we need to clear out these pests before we help them." Stated Vincent
"Good I knew I could count on you." Stated Reeve as he stepped out of the van
"Reeve radio the troops Cloud and Tifa are on their way, help them along we're gonna need them." Exclaimed John as he and his father rushed off toward the attacking creatures.
Back on the Shera Jr. tried to get the cannons back online but unfourntantly they were damaged by the WEAPON's attack.
"We got no weapons left, what are we gonna do?" asked Jr. desperately
"Bring us in closer, we'll take from there!" commanded Denzel
"You ready for a Strife brother double team Omnislash version 5!" smirked Alex to his brother
"Anytime!" replied Denzel enthusiastically
"Lucy back us up!" shouted Alex
"Right." She replied
Alex and Denzel started to glow as the ship neared the WEAPON, when they where close enough Alex and Denzel leaped into the air speeding toward the WEAPON. Lucy let out a volley of gun shouts opening up a clear path for Alex and Denzel. Alex opened the First Tsurugi letting all of the swords fly toward the WEAPON. Sudden the brothers unleashed hell as they zipped around the WEAPON hitting it with a series of devastating limit break attacks. The WEAPON screamed in agony as the brothers tore away at its flesh, as they finished all the swords drove them selves into the WEAPON's body as the brothers delivered their finishing blow, landing on the WEAPON.
The WEAPON roared in pain as it began to fall toward the water, suddenly the mako points on its body started to glow brightly as the creature roared with life once again. Alex and Denzel stumbled a bit in shock, Alex tried to grab on to one of his swords, but lost his footing as he fell from the WEAPON, Denzel tried to hold on but fell off too as the beast shifted to rise higher into the sky. Lucy gasped in horror as the brothers plummeted toward a watery death. The rage and desperation started to rise with in her as she leaped from the Shera toward her friends, suddenly she was engulfed in flames as she transformed into a female version of Chaos. Lucy rushed toward Alex and Denzel saving them right before they hit the water. Lucy Soared into the sky carrying her friends into safety.
"Lucy I so love you right now!" exclaimed Alex
"Let's see how you feel afterwards." Joked Lucy
"Bring us in close we'll take care of the WEAPON you destroy those mako, nodes!" Shouted Denzel
"All right!" exclaimed Lucy
Lucy dived toward the WEAPON dropping off the brothers on its back as she barrel rolled away. Alex gathered his swords as Denzel got a hold of his weapon. Lucy Fired a hot at the mako node on its right leg, the beast shook in pain as the node exploded spewing forth mako, suddenly the WEAPON shook violently nearly throwing off the brothers. Thousands of spiked tentacles suddenly sprang up from the WEAPON, it took all of the brothers might to stay on the WEAPON and fend off its attack at the same time. Lucy desperately tried to swoop in and helped, but the WEAPON's attacks became increasingly violent keeping her at distance.
Meanwhile on the beach Vincent and John were surrounded by hounds and dragons. They were heavily out numbered, when suddenly a Shadow Fox van pulled up, its back doors opened as Tifa and Cloud rushed out ready for battle, a gun turret popped out of the back of the van with a pregnant Marlene at the Helm it opened fire obliterating 20 hounds with a flurry of gunshots. Cloud raised up his sword slicing enemies down left and right as Tifa came in with a rush of punches an kicks cracking the monster's skulls in with tremendous force. When the area was clear Cloud and Tifa approached Vincent and John.
"WOW, Marlene I didn't know you had it in you?" exclaimed a perplexed John
"Don't piss me off John where's my husband?" commanded Marlene
"As far as I know on that thing." Squeaked John as he pointed at NECRO WEAPON
"MY SONS!" exclaimed Tifa
"MY HUSBAND!" exclaimed Marlene
John got on his phone as Marlene fainted causing Tifa to rush over to her and comfort her, John dialed in his sister's number. As Lucy tried to avoid the WEAPON's attacks, she heard her phone ring and backed away as she answered it angrily.
"WHO THE HELL IS THIS AND WHY ARE YOU CALLING AT A TIME LIKE THIS!" exclaimed Lucy
"Nice way to treat your brother." Replied John sarcastically
"Listen Lucy I need a ride." Asked John
"And what makes you think I can do that right now!"
"I know your demon right now I can feel you from all the way over here I can help you distract that thing long enough for Alex and Denzel to work their magic."
"I don't have much energy left in me!"
"Don't worry about it, just get me there!"
Lucy shot through the air at mach speed toward the beach where she landed in a tremendous thud. John ran up to his sister who quickly grabbed a hold of him then shot back toward NECRO WEAPON. Meanwhile, Reeve and the WRO were surrounded by hounds and dragons. Another van pulled up and out popped Rufus' Turks. The Turks rushed toward the beasts, they brought out their sonic batons. They looked like police night sticks, but when spun create discharges of sound energy. The Turks made quick work of the remaining creatures. When the area was clear Rufus slowly stepped out accompanied by Shelke and Red 13. Cloud ran past the Turks and pointed his sword at Rufus' throat, it was then he noticed that he was surrounded by the Turks all pointing their weapons at his head.
'What are you doing here Rufus." Demanded Cloud
"Cloud stop!" shouted Red
"Why, he started this. It's all his doing I know it." Snarled Cloud as he started to dig the tip of the blade into Rufus' neck
"Red's right stop Cloud, Rufus isn't at fault we brought him here after Reeve told us about the Shinra facility." Stated Shelke
Cloud lowered his weapon as the Turks took a step back, Rufus began to chuckle a bit as he made his way toward Reeve.
"What do you want?" questioned Reeve
"Only to clean up past mistakes." Replied Rufus
"What makes you think we can trust you?" asked Vincent
"Please have some faith in me, all of you. I have some important information. This was indeed a Shinra project, however it was started years ago by my father when the first WEAPON appeared, It was independently running of Shinra projects, a side venture really. Unfortunately shortly before the fall of Shinra the project was shut down due to the death of the scientists' deaths." Stated Rufus
"And how did they die Rufus?" questioned Cloud
"How do you think? Any way the beast was finally contained by its control module, which was probably reactivated by the facility's fail safe program." Stated Rufus
"Why is it only circling around the water?" asked Reeve
"Because the control module is still in the facility, its acting on pure instinct." Rufus stated casually
"Is there any way to stop it?" asked Tifa
"It looks like your children are doing a fine job of it." Stated Rufus calmly
Meanwhile Lucy had just reached NECRO WEAPON with John, John jumped from his sister's arms landing on the WEAPON's back. Lucy used the last of her demon strength to return to the Shera where she transformed back to normal and headed for the cockpit. John made his way past the WEAPON's tentacles dodging them at every turn, when John reached Alex and Denzel the three men cleared the area of attacking tentacles, they took a small breather.
"Hey who guys doing!" shouted John
"We've been better." Replied Alex
"What are you doing here John?" asked Denzel
"Couldn't let you guys have all the fun." Replied John
"We'll there's plenty fun for everybody, come on!" exclaimed Alex.
The tentacles started to re grow as more scales appeared summoning more hounds and dragons. Lucy ran into the cockpit straight toward Cid.
"Cid are there any more weapons on this airship?" asked Lucy desperately
"No, there's only one working turret on this bird the rest are broken, I was……supposed ta fix em taday." Exclaimed Cid
Lucy glared slightly at Cid before rushing down to the Turrets, she activated the gun and positioned herself as Cid flew the Shera in close preparing for its attack. Lucy opened fire on the mako nodes as John, Alex and Denzel continued their assault on NECRO WEAPON. The WEAPON cried out in pain as the team of heroes started to bring them down. Lucy was about to blast away the last of the mako nodes when a group of tentacles started to obstruct her gun fire. Lucy ordered Cid to move in closer, but as the Shera did one of the tentacles reached out and grabbed a hold of the turret ripping it from the ship. Lucy grabbed onto the Shera barely holding on as the Shera buckled slightly flinging her off, Alex saw Lucy fall desperately he ran toward her. He leaped into the air bouncing off one of the tentacles, suddenly it grabbed his leg pulling him down when Lucy let out a volley of gun fire blasting the tentacle off, she recovered in midair grabbing a hold of Alex and safely landing them on the WEAPON.
"Thanks for the help." Smirked Alex
"Any time." Smiled Lucy
One of the hounds jumped at Lucy, but Alex sliced it to shreds with a few swift movements of his sword.
"Now we're even." They smiled at each other as Alex cleared a path for Lucy to destroy the final node with a shot from her gun.
The WEAPON cried out in pain as it started to buck wildly, Denzel gave the signal to begin their final attack.
"You picked the wrong day to start this shit in my neighborhood!" shouted Alex as he began to glow
"This is the worst day ever!" growled John as he too started to glow
Alex raced toward the head of NECRO WEAPON for his limit break when one of the tentacles tripped him stopping his attack. John jumped into the air as his katana started to glow dark purple he brought it down upon the WEAPON's neck for his limit break Night shade strike. At the same time Denzel performed his Omnislash reigning down furry upon the WEAPON. The WEAPON cried out in pain as it started to fall from the sky a rotting pile of flesh toward the crowded beach.
"We have to get off this thing right away!" shouted John
The heroes quickly leaped off the WEAPON in to the air. As the began to plummet toward the water, the Shera swooped in capturing them on the top of the ship. The creature finally crashed landed on the beach with tremendous force. As it laid there slowly withering away, it breathed its final breathe before falling to pieces. The Shera made its way over to the beach where it carefully landed away from the fallen WEAPON.
"That thing better be dead, because I ain't going through this crap again." Shout out Jr. sarcastically
Alex gave Jr. a dirty look as everyone pilled out of the ship. Reeve inspected the WEAPON, as he walked over to Rufus angrily.
"I want to know everything you do this instant!" commanded Reeve
"Don't worry Reeve after all these years, you know all I want to do is put past sins behind me. Listen I'll take carry of the clean up and call the WRO's financial debt to me off. A new day is dawn Reeve, a brand new era that you fought so hard to creature. The last of our past sins are finally dead, we can now finally move on." Stated Rufus comfortably
Reeve sighed as he stormed off in the opposite direction from Rufus as an angry Alex ran up to Reeve.
"That's it! Your just gonna let him go, you know he had something to do with this!" shouted Alex
"We have no proof of anything, besides I'm not gonna leave Rufus completely alone I'll send some troops to help his team out and keep an eye on him." Replied Reeve
"So what are we going to do now." Asked John
"Now that the WRO is free we need to plan our next step, Rufus was right about one thing a new day is dawning." Replied Reeve
Meanwhile Rufus overlooked the rotting corpse of the WEAPON as one of his Turks Michael approached him.
"Sir we have a problem, some of the WRO troops are sticking around to help us out." Stated Michael
"No matter we have nothing to hide as far as they know, you know what to look for so retrieve it quickly and lets get out of here. Here's the back up control module, use it with your scanner to locate your objective faster." Replied Rufus as he handed the module to the Turk
Michael quickly ran back down to the WEAPON as Rufus once again turned his attention to the fallen creature.
"NECRO WEAPON, so that was your power. Other than the complete lack of brain power you didn't disappoint. You made the perfect prototype!." Said Rufus as he smiled sinisterly
Rufus then reached into his pocket and pulled out a small device with a red button on it. When he pressed the button a massive explosion occurred in the water where the facility was, signaling its destruction. Rufus placed the remote back in his pocket as he entered the van once more, grinning the same sinister smile.
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