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Chapter 15 – The Rise of Valhalla Part 2: Siege Invasion
We return to Temple Fortress Alpha Mission Control where the surviving control officer and Masahiko Hiden stared in shock at the screen, watching as the mysterious invasion fleet known as Valhalla approached the planet and released their dropships.
"Come in! Mission Control come in!" their shock was put to a stop when someone on the comms was calling.
The surviving officer who had short light brown hair, fair skin, slim build and brown eyes immediately pressed a few buttons activating the comm channels and the monitor screen changed viewing a man in his early 50s with graying short black hair, a short boxed beard, slightly pale skin, average build and dark eyes. He's clad in a dark gray and cyan skinsuit under the Vanguard Paladin Class armor but with the silver accents replaced with gold with his head currently exposed. This is Gunter Averet, one of the four grandmasters of Temple Fortress Alpha.
"Grandmaster Averet!" exclaimed the officer before he grunted in pain due to an injury to his arm which finally got to him after the adrenaline from his encounter with the dead soldier in disguise disappeared.
"Control! What's the situation? A lot of explosions have occurred and the base is now in chaos!" said Grand Master Averet.
"Ugh... Grandmaster Averet, we've been infiltrated!" exclaimed the officer much to the grand master's shock "Someone managed to sneak into the base and reached control, sabotaging our base's most crucial areas!" he said "They killed most of us but I managed to survive thanks to him" he said gesturing to Masahiko who approached the screen.
"My name is Masahiko Hiden, I'm a member of the Dimension Guardian Force, my team and I were summoned to escort a prisoner transport when this happened" he told him "The sabatour managed to hack into the system and deactivated the base's cloaking shield and signal jammer and not only that, they implanted a virus preventing us from accessing the system again to reactivate the shield and cloak and now Temple Fortress Alpha has been exposed and an invasion fleet of ships from an army of unknown origin is coming to the base and it looks like a full-scale assault" he informed him shocking Gunter even further.
"An invasion?!" exclaimed Gunter in shock and alarm.
"There's an even bigger problem, our automated defenses are down and our heavy weapons depot has been destroyed and what's worst of all, our long range dimension communications array have been destroyed as well! So we can't call for any assistance from other celestial temples or even the Celestial Nexus Patrol Alliance!" said the control officer.
Gunter's heart dropped upon hearing that, they were practically all on their own dealing with an invasion fleet of an unknown army that outnumbers them and probably have more firepower as well.
"Grandmaster Averet, with no way of getting outside help, all we can do now is evacuate" suggested Masahiko.
"I don't think that's possible, even with all the transports we have, we can't fit in everyone in the base due to so many people including the trainees in the temple and the scans also detect space fighter planes accompanying the enemy transports, so our shuttles and transports can't outrun them!" said the control officer.
"Then we'll just have to buy everyone enough time to evacuate, we need every available combat able personnel to mobilize while evacuating everyone else at the base!" he said.
"Grandmaster, what are your orders?" asked the control officer turning to Gunter on the screen.
Gunter thought for a few moments before taking a huge breath and exhaled before turning to the officer "How long until the unknown army arrives?" he questioned.
The officer quickly pressed a few buttons and the monitor viewed how fast the fleet was approaching "According to the speed the dropships are going, I estimate that they'll arrive in about... ten minutes!" he exclaimed.
Gunter clicked his tongue before saying "Do we still have any defenses we could use against them?" he asked.
The control officer immediately got to work in search of any available defenses remaining "We only have the cannon towers surrounding the temple for anti-air defense but they can only be used manually but we also have a fleet of Nova Corps Star Blasters along with some UNSC F-41 Broadsword Space Fighters and AV-49 Wasp Aircrafts docked in hangars 3 and 4 and as well as the airfield" he informed him.
"What about transports?" asked Gunter.
The control officer searched "We have a number of UNSC Pelicans, Condors and Paladin Shuttles located in the underground hangars where the tunnels that lead somewhere far from the temple fortress are located, all are capable of dimension travelling, thankfully the tunnels that lead to the underground hatch of the hangars are safely intact and there's a Pelican and Condor docked in hangar 4 but all the other large transport ships in hangars 1, 2, 5 and 6 have all been destroyed thanks to the explosion and even with the underground tunnels that'll take everyone to safety, there's still not enough transports to evacuate all the students, trainees and none combatants" he informed.
"My team has a ship on hangar 7 and one of my teammates can summon a bullet train capable of travelling to other dimensions, it can carry enough people to transport" explained Masahiko.
The control officer typed on the computer to check "He's right sir, there's a ship that could fit a few people" he confirmed "And there also happens to be another large ship also in hangar 7" he added.
"That must belong to one of the other teams supposedly assigned in the escort mission" assumed Masahiko "Perhaps if we talk to the owners of that ship, we can fit in a few people inside" he said.
Gunter hummed in thought before nodding "Alright, activate the alarms and order an evacuation of the base, all none combat personnel will evacuate to the underground hangars while the students and trainees along with some instructors will go to hangar 7 and I also want a defensive perimeter set up in the skies, I'll inform the other grand masters and as well as the high priests of the situation" he ordered.
"Yes Grandmaster!" replied the officer "Once you've finished on your end, get out of there and evacuate, once the army comes and attacks, we'll buy enough time for everyone to escape" said Gunter before ending the transmission.
Masahiko let out a sigh before turning to the officer who was preparing to activate the alarms.
"Pardon me but I didn't quite catch your name" he told the control officer.
"It's Lucas" spoke the officer without looking "Friends sometimes call me Lucky" he said.
"Hmm... I can see why" commented Masahiko causing Lucky to sigh "It's times like this that I don't like this nickname" said Lucky thinking about his friends that were killed.
"Okay then, Lucky..." said Masahiko "Once you're done alerting everyone, get ready to move" he said while pulling out a device that looked like the Forceriser but it had a different color scheme. Replacing the black, yellow and silver were silver, red and dark gray. This was the Cycloneriser.
Lucky paused in his tracks upon hearing that "Hmm... what do you mean?" he asked.
Masahiko responded by strapping on his driver to his waist.
CYCLONERISER!
The device announced before Masahiko took out a Zetsumerise key with a black and greenish blue color scheme with the name "Rocking Hopper" and the type being "Zetsumetsu" below it. This was the Rocking Hopper Zetsumerise Key.
"Things are gonna get ugly when that army hits, I'm gonna get the both of us out of here and rejoin the others" he said as he thrusts his zetsumerise key upwards to his left and activated it.
KAMEN RIDER!
9 minutes and 30 seconds to arrival of Valhalla invasion force...
Temple Fortress Alpha was in chaos, everyone was either scared, confused or in a panic after the sudden chain of explosions. A few minutes after, an alarm was heard all around the base alerting everyone.
"Attention! To all personnel, the temple fortress has been compromised! Repeat! The temple fortress has been compromised!" announced the voice of Lucky through the speakers alarming everyone.
"An invading hostile fleet of unknown origin is approaching! Attack imminent! All combat ready personnel are to proceed to battle stations! Repeat! All combat ready personnel, Imminent attack approaching! Proceed to battle stations!" he announced "To all noncombat personnel and trainees, an evacuation order has been issued! Please proceed to underground hangar bays and hangar 7 and await further instructions! Repeat! All noncombat personnel are to proceed to underground hangars and trainees are to proceed to hangar 7 and await further instructions!" he announced.
And with that, each combat ready individual from the UNSC, Nova Corps, Celestial Paladins and Celestial Priests hurriedly ran to their assigned battle stations while those not suited for combat or inexperienced in combat proceeded to the underground hangar bays for evacuation and the same went for the trainees and students who went to hangar 7.
9 minutes to arrival of Valhalla invasion force...
"Did you hear that Liam? They said we're under attack!" said Dimension Guardian Force member Lennox "Len" Cunningham as he and fellow Dimension Guardian Liam Elliot were running through one of the halls of the temple fortress.
"I heard it loud and clear Len" replied Liam "We better head back to the others and fast!" he said as the two ran as fast as they could back to their teammates while passing several personnel.
Inside an armory, Paladin Troopers quickly armed themselves, grabbing what look like futuristic crossbows, long bows and what seems to be futuristic looking M1 Garand Rifles from weapon racks.
"Hurry it up ladies! This ain't a drill! Arm yourselves and head for your assigned stations with your assigned units and squads! Let's GO! GO! GO! GO! GOOOO!" shouted out a Paladin Troop Leader as a number of Paladin Troopers got themselves armed and ready and scrambled to their assigned stations with their squads.
Inside a barracks, UNSC marines quickly put on their combat uniforms as fast as they could while arming themselves with various UNSC issued firearms from pistols to battle rifles to assault rifles.
"Move it! Move it! Get your asses out of your bunks and get to your stations! MOVE!" shouted a UNSC marine sergeant as the Marines finished arming themselves and joined their Celestial Paladin allies.
8 minutes to arrival of Valhalla invasion force...
In another hallway, we see the group composed of Captain Richard Griffin, Kite and Evelyn "Evie" Lancaster, Chief Petty Officer Daisy-023, Koto Kobayashi and Drew Osborn running passed several personnel as they too were on their way to regroup with the others.
"How could this happen...?" uttered out Richard in disbelief.
"It's probably due to an act of sabotage" said Daisy wording out her opinion "We must've been infiltrated without even knowing it" she said while putting on her helmet as it let out a *HSSSSSS!* sealing it tight.
"How can that happen? I thought this base was undetectable?" said Koto.
"Yeah, well not every secret facility's perfect Koto" said Drew "So there's bound to be a time when this base will get an opening for infiltrators at some point" he said.
"That doesn't matter now" said Richard putting on his helmet as the visor went down obscuring his eyes "What matters right now is regrouping back with your team and get out of here while the rest of the garrison buy us time to escape" he said as the group continued to run down the halls hoping they'll be able to reach their friends in time.
Meanwhile, six different squads of paladin troopers, each squad accompanied by two celestial priests one of the magus class and one of the sage class rode six different elevators that led to six towers that were mounted with huge long giant cannons as the elevators took them to one tower each.
Upon reaching a tower, the magus priest used their powers to open the doors that led to the rooms of the towers as each squad entered.
Each room was wide and had a mix of ancient looking and futuristic looking control panels placed around and at the center was what looked like a platform with a pedestal that had an orb attached o it.
The paladin troopers manned the control panels while the two priests went to the platform. they focused their powers onto the orb before it glowed a cyan light and it trailed down the pedestal and to the platform and separated into streams of light which trailed through the floor and towards the panels activating them with a hum.
"Tower 1 activated, now calibrating position" said a paladin troop captain as the cannon tower positioned itself to another direction while the cannon pointed skywards towards the direction of the incoming invading force.
"Tower 2 activated, now calibrating position"
"Tower 3 activated, now calibrating position"
"Tower 4 activated, now calibrating position"
"Tower 5 activated, now calibrating position"
"Tower 6 activated, now calibrating position"
Each paladin troop leader announced their assigned tower's activation as each tower positioned themselves to the first tower's position as they waited on standby for the imminent attack.
"All Nova Pilots! All UNSC Pilots! Report to launch deck and prepare to deploy for imminent attack! Repeat! All pilots! Report to launch deck and prepare for deployment!" announced Lucky's voice as a number of Nova Corps pilots and UNSC pilots entered the airfield and quickly ran to a number of aerial vehicles docked in the airfield.
The Nova Pilots were clad in the same uniforms as a Nova Corpsman while the UNSC pilots were clad in a dark green and gray tight fit jumpsuits, support straps, a belt with two pouches on either side of the hips, knee pads, shoulder pads, light gray gloves, brown boots and a white pilot helmet with a gray build in respirator, hints of black and brown at the top and golden visor.
"Let's GO! GO! GO! Get to your planes people! We don't got all day!" shouted a pilot squadron leader as the Nova pilots ran over and mounted onto Star Blasters while the UNSC pilots mounted onto either F-41 Broadsword Space Fighters or AV-49 Wasp Aircrafts as they started up their aerial vehicles.
At hangars 3 and 4, more Nova Pilots and UNSC pilots ran and mounted onto their own space fighter vehicles as other lead pilots were barking orders to their fellow squadmates.
After some engineers and maintenance crews helped out in getting the pilots on board their fighters and refueled said fighters' tanks, they left the area while some guided the pilots to take off as all the aerial and space vehicles rose from the ground up or flew out the hangars and off to the skies.
Meanwhile at the top of the walls surrounding the fortress while the cannon towers were being activated, a number of Celestial Paladins composed of Troopers and Interceptors and as well as Celestial Priests composed of mostly Magus quickly marched and lined up at the top of the walls while taking up positions.
Among them were two individuals leading the groups.
The first one was a woman in her late 20s with long brown hair held in a long braid that's hanging on the left side of her shoulder, fair skin, well developed hour glass figure, curvy bust and almond brown eyes. She's clad in a dark gray and cyan skin suit under Celestial Paladin armor with the armor color being white and gold depicting her status as a grandmaster and it was of the Interceptor Paladin variant composed of light armor suited for mobility which includes a chestplate, shoulder pauldrons, elbow couters with wing-like fins on them, bracers, dark gray gloves, greaves, armored boots, a white utility belt with a dark gray and blue accented short waist cape, a white and blue accented hooded cloak, a gauntlet mounted communicator device on her left bracer, two t-shaped cylinders magnetically strapped vertically on the back of her belt with one of them being short and a short baton strapped on her back. She also has cyan sigils of the Celestial Council located on a circular clip that holds her cloak and on the buckle of her belt. This is Mariun Kahler, one of the four grandmasters of Temple Fortress Alpha and the youngest grandmaster among the four.
The second was a middle aged male in his late 50s with short brown graying hair, fair skin, slim build, a short beard and mustache and gray eyes. He's clad in celestial priest garb of the Magus class composed of white and cyan hooded mage robes with hints of gold depicting his status as a high priest, a gray and white cloak, white boots, a gray belt around his waist with a t-shaped cylinder strapped to the left side, cyan sigils of the Celestial Council located at the back of his cloak and his belt's buckle, a communication device on his left wrist and held on his right hand was a brown wooden staff with a bluish diamond shaped jewel at the top. This is Paul Anders, one of the four high priests of Temple Fortress Alpha.
"Defensive positions! At the ready!" commanded Mariun as the Paladin Troopers, Interceptors and Magus Priests took their positions at the wall, some troopers even brought out portable turrets which resemble futuristic M134 miniguns.
Paul who had his hood up let out a sigh "I can't believe we let our guard down and let a single person infiltrate our facility and sabotage our fortress' defense systems..." he said.
Mariun let out a sigh of her own "No point in dwelling on what's already happened Father Anders" she told the Magus high priest "All we can do now is wait for the enemy to show up and hold them off as long as we can until everyone else escapes safely" she told him.
Paul nodded in agreement "May the Celestial powers guide us" he said while looking towards the horizon as he and grand master Kahler waited for their approaching enemy as Star Blasters and UNSC fighter planes flew passed the walls and took to the skies.
7 minutes to arrival of Valhalla invasion force...
Up in the skies, the space fighters soared high up from the temple fortress getting into formation when they received a transmission.
"This is Temple Fortress Alpha Mission Control" spoke the voice of Lucky "All Squadron Leaders report in!" he said.
"Mission Control, this is Delta Leader standing by..." spoke a UNSC pilot from within an F-41 Broadsword.
"This is Alpha Leader standing by..." spoke another UNSC pilot from within a AV-49 Wasp.
"This is Bravo Leader standing by..." spoke another UNSC pilot.
"This is Nova Leader standing by..." spoke a Nova pilot from within a Star Blaster.
"All Squadrons, your task is to form a perimeterblockade and hold off an incoming invasion force approaching the fortress for as long as you can until all have evacuated the Temple Fortress" said Lucky "Once all in the fortress have been evacuated, make your escape off the planet" he said.
"Copy that Mission control" said Delta leader as the squadrons proceeded with their task.
6 minutes to arrival of Valhalla invasion force...
The Lancaster twins and their group continued to run through the halls passing more personnel until they finally reunited with the other group composed of Seitaro Kawakami, Neotaros AKA Teddy and Wade Chapman and with them were Celestial paladin trooper Gideon Rowlands, Nova Corpsman Tazer Ral and Rhoss Drevirn and UNSC ODSTs Tyler Kirby and Doran Dunn AKA Slammer.
"Guys!" exclaimed Drew.
"We heard the announcement and went looking for you guys as fast as we could" explained Seitaro.
"Hey guys!" called out another voice.
Everyone turned to the the source of the voice and saw Len and Liam run towards the group, the former calling out to them "Len! Liam!" said Drew glad to see two of his remaining team before taking notice of one more person missing "Where's Mr. Hiden?" he asked.
"We thought he made it back with you guys?" said Liam.
As if on cue, a ringing sound was heard coming from Liam's left pocket on his pants. he reached into it and pulled out what looked like a gold and black flip phone with a silver antenna on the right side and a gold chip with a gold omega symbol with a red circle at the center. This was the SB-0000P Orga Phone.
He flipped it open and clicked the answer button while putting it on speaker mode "Masa is that you?" said Liam as everyone listened.
"Yeah, it is Liam" responded the voice of Masahiko "We've got a huge problem on our hands as you could already tell by what's going on" he said.
"Yeah, we heard that the base got compromised and that we're now under attack" spoke out Koto to the Orga Phone.
"It's all true Koto, I bumped into some suspicious person earlier when I was with Liam and Len and I decided to follow him quietly and without being noticed and it turned out that he was some spy working for some organization known as Valhalla, he went to the temple fortress' mission control room, killed all but one of the personnel, I managed to subdue him but I was already too late, he sabotaged the whole base's auto defense systems and shields making the place vulnerable to invasion, he killed himself before I could question him any further" he explained.
"By the Celestial Gods... that's not good" said Captain Griffin with a frown behind his helmet.
"Grandmaster Averet ordered an immediate evacuation of all noncombat personnel and as well as the Celestial Paladins and Priests in training while the rest of those who're combat able are tasked with holding off the enemy while everyone else escape" explained Masahiko "There are some transports at the underground hangar but there aren't enough to transport everyone so I proposed that we have the trainees go to Hangar 7 and have some of them board our ship" he said "I even proposed of having them board the New DenLiner" he added.
Seitaro nodded "You got it, I'll summon the New DenLiner once Teddy and I head back to the hangar" he told Masahiko through the Orga Phone "In fact, we'll head over there right now!" he declared.
"Alright then, go right ahead Seitaro" responded Masahiko as Seitaro and Teddy nodded to each other before running down the halls towards hangar 7 "Meet you there guys!" called out Seitaro as everyone waved at Seitaro.
"Careful out there you two!" called out Drew.
"We will!" called back Seitaro as the group wished them luck before returning their attention back to Masahiko on the line.
"We also saw that there's a huge ship in the hangar beside our own, I think it belongs to one of the other teams assigned to our supposed prisoner transport mission" said Masahiko getting the Lancaster twins' attention "That would be our ship the Grand Birth" spoke Kite "I'm Kite Lancaster, Space Sheriff Sharivan, my sister Evie and I are from the Galactic Union Police" he said.
"I see, then-" "Say no more" said Evie interrupting Masahiko "We'll gladly help with evacuating the trainees" she said "We have enough room to fit in a portion of the trainees and apprentices" she said.
"Hmm..." hummed Masahiko in acknowledgement.
"Mind if I cut in?" spoke Tazer "What about our prisoners? I know we should evacuate but transporting our prisoners still takes top priority considering that we were given specific orders to transport them away from this place even before it was under attack" he said "Problem is Taze is that according to one of the troops we passed by, the transport ship assigned for transporting our prisoners blew up in hangar 5" pointed out Rhoss.
"The Grand Birth also has a built in brig for transporting prisoners, we'll keep them contained in there" said Evie.
"So long as the brig can hold the prisoners, then that'll do just fine for now" spoke Slammer.
"Alright then, guess we have our tasks" spoke Masahiko "One group heads back to hangar 7 to assist in evacuating the celestial paladins and priests in training while the other group heads for the temple fortress' brig and secure the prisoners and take them back to the transport" he said.
"Rhoss and I will head for the brig and secure the prisoner" spoke Tazer "We'll take the prisoners and meet you guys at the hangar" he said.
"We'll go with you considering that the rest of both our teams are there as well, getting ready to secure the prisoners" said Kirby.
"I'll come as well" added Daisy.
"Guess that means we're all set then" spoke Masahiko "Good luck to all of you" he said.
"And to you as well Masa, we'll see you back at the hangar" said Len before Masahiko hung up.
"Alright then" said Tazer as he along with Rhoss and the two ODSTs put on their helmets with the former two's visors polarizing "Let's go!" he declared as the group split up into two groups to their assigned tasks.
3 minutes to arrival of Valhalla invasion force...
In another area of the temple fortress, we see Alison "Ali" Richfield and Dorothy Rowlands running through a hallway with the former pulling the latter along by hand.
"I still can't believe this! An attack!? All of a sudden!?" exclaimed Ali in frustration as the alarm sirens blared.
"How could this happen? Isn't this temple fortress supposed to be undetectable and well protected?" said Dorothy warily and afraid.
"I don't know Dory" replied Ali "All that matters right now is that we get to safety!" she said as Dorothy nodded while her best friend continued to guide her to safety.
The two priest apprentices continued to run until they ended up at the end of the hallway. It was there they ran into a couple of other priest apprentices who were their classmates and some squire paladins.
Among the squire paladins was a young teenage boy about 17 years old with short spiky dirty blonde hair, fair skin, slim build and green eyes. He's clad in the squire paladin uniform composed of a white and cyan shirt, gray trousers with a belt, black fingerless gloves, black training boots and silver training armor composed of a cuirass with a cyan sigil of the Celestial Council on it, silver shoulder pauldrons, silver elbow armor, silver bracers, and silver greaves. In addition, he wore a cyan short sleeve tunic-like hooded vest over his shirt with the shoulder pauldrons on the shoulders, a T-shaped cylinder strapped on the left side of his belt and worn on his head was a futuristic looking white, silver and cyan outlined kettle helmet. This is Fredrick "Fred" Reeve, a 3rd year squire paladin.
"Ali! Dorothy!" exclaimed one of Ali and Dorothy's classmates upon seeing them.
"We heard the announcement, is it true? Is the temple fortress compromised and we're now under attack?" asked squire paladin in worry.
Before Ali could answer "Students!" exclaimed a voice and the group turned to see Amelia Calliwell and Godfrey McGrath running towards them with a few more squires and apprentices.
"Sister Amelia!" exclaimed Dorothy in relief glad to see that her teacher's alright.
"Instructor McGrath! What's happening? How are we under attack all of a sudden? We heard that we're supposed to evacuate?" questioned Fred.
"We'll explain on the way Reeve" said Godfrey who wore a white and silver helmet resembling a Synbios Lawbringer helmet with a retractable blue vision visor and a pair of wing-like fins on either side of the helmet "For now, follow us to Hangar 7" he told them "We'll await further instructions when we get there" added Amelia.
"Yes sir!/Right!" said the squires and apprentices before following their instructors to Hangar 7 of the temple fortress.
At the same time…
We go to the underground hangar bays where several transports sat. These transports were composed of UNSC Pelicans, Condors and futuristic looking shuttles resembling Zakuul Dropships from Star Wars The Old Republic but with a white and cyan color scheme with the symbol of the Celestial Council located on wither side of the doors called Paladin Shuttles and it is here were the noncombat personnel of Temple Fortress Alpha gathered as they all formed into groups and got into a transport.
"GO! GO! GO! Get to the transports quickly!" ordered a UNSC Marine as he and his fellow soldiers escorted the people of the temple fortress to the transports and the same went for the Nova Corpsman and Paladin Troopers assigned to protect those of the fortress.
As each transport was boarded, they deployed and flew towards a very long tunnel that'll led them to the exit.
Somewhere in the desert, a distance away from the temple fortress, a portion of ground split open revealing a hidden hatch and flying out of said hatch were a number of flight transport vehicles as they all took to the skies and further away from the fortress.
"This is Evac Squad 1, we are out of the pit and are now in open airspace!" reported a pilot in one of the Condors.
"Copy that pilot" said the voice of Lucky "You are now clear for dimension transport" he said.
"Copy that mission control" said the pilot as he pressed a button on his controls and a blue portal opened in front of him and flew through it, the other pilots followed suit and had their transports open dimension portals of their own and went through each individual one before each portal disappear.
"To all Evac Squads, these are my final instructions to you, once you've left the pit and have entered open airspace, immediately activate your dimension portal generators and get to safety, is that understood?" said Lucky.
"Understood mission control" responded the pilots who were either in the middle of exiting the tunnels, deploying or awaiting for their passengers to board.
"This is Temple Fortress Alpha Mission Control signing out" spoke Lucky's voice before falling silent.
Meanwhile…
The sound of an ID scanning was being heard followed by a series of clicks and loud cranking as the doors to the temple fortress' vault opened and in came grand master Averet who had a white and gold accented helmet resembling a Fendrel Warden helmet from For Honor with a retractable blue vision visor and a pair of wing-like fins on either side of the helmet held under his and a gauntlet mounted communicator device on his left gauntlet. He also had a t-shaped cylinder magnetically strapped on the left side of his belt and a futuristic rifle magnetically strapped on the right side of his back.
Following him inside were five individuals.
The first individual was an elderly male in his mid 60s with long gray hair held in a ponytail, fair slightly wrinkled skin, well developed muscular build, a beard and mustache and brown eyes. He's clad in a dark gray and cyan skinsuit under the Defender Paladin Class armor but with the silver accents replaced with gold depicting his status as a grand master, a gauntlet mounted communicator device on his right gauntlet, a round buckler-like device with the sigil of the Celestial Council on it attached to the left gauntlet, two short staves magnetically strapped on the right side of his back and held under his right hand is a white and gold accented helmet that resembles an Angelet Lawbringer helmet from For Honor with retractable blue vision visors and a pair of wing-like fins on either side of the helmet. This is Arnaldus Reinfred, one of the four grand masters of Temple Fortress Alpha and the lead grand master of the four.
The second individual was another elderly male the same age as Arnaldus with short gray hair, fair slightly wrinkled skin, well developed build, a short boxed beard, a vertical scar from above his left eyebrow down past his eye until above his lip, a single gray eye on his right and a robotic eye on his left with a glowing cyan optic. He's clad in a dark gray and cyan skinsuit under Celestial Paladin armor of the Vanguard class with the silver accents replaced with gold depicting his status as a grand master, a gauntlet mounted communicator device on his left gauntlet, two pistols holstered on either side of his utility belt, a short staff magnetically strapped to the right side of his back and held under his right hand is a white and gold accented helmet that resembles a Saerus Warden helmet with a retractable blue vision visor and a pair of wing-like fins on either side of the helmet. This is Rowan Geronimus, one of the four grand masters of Temple Fortress Alpha.
The third individual was an elderly man in his early 70s with short neck length gray hair, fair wrinkled skin, slim build, a short beard and mustache and blue eyes. He's clad in white and cyan celestial priest garb of the Magus class composed of white and cyan hooded mage robes with hints of gold depicting his status as a high priest, white boots, a gray belt around his waist cyan sigils of the Celestial Council located at the middle of the chest area of his robe and his belt's buckle, a communication device on his left wrist, a cyan jeweled amulet around his neck and held on his right hand is a long wooden staff with a triangular shaped blue jewel at the top surrounded by thin wooden branches shaped into a cone. This is Cassius Reginus, one of the four high priests of Temple Fortress Alpha and the lead high priest among the four.
The fourth individual was a woman in her late 40s with long dark brown hair held in a high-ponytail, fair skin, slim build, medium bust and amber eyes. She's clad in white and cyan celestial priest garb of the Mystic class composed of a white shirt under gray and cyan Jedi-like robes that reaches up to her thighs, light gray trousers, a utility belt around her waist, white light armor with gold accents depicting her status as a high priestess composed of white and gold shoulder pauldrons, white and gold chestplate, white and gold bracers, a pair of gray fingerless gloves, a pair of white and gold accented knee length armored boots, a t-shaped cylinder strapped on the left side of her belt, a white hooded cape, cyan sigils of the Celestial Council located on top of her bracers and the buckle of her belt and worn on her head is a gold circlet with wing-like fins on either side of the circlet and a cyan jewel at the forehead area. This is Aurelia Serrana, one of the high priests of Temple Fortress Alpha.
And the fifth and last individual was a man in his mid 50s with short neat black hair, light skin, average build, a full beard and black eyes. he's clad in white and cyan celestial priest garb of the Mystic class composed of a white shirt under light brown and cyan Jedi-like robes that reaches up to his thighs, light gray trousers, a utility belt around his waist, white light armor with gold accents depicting his status as a high priest composed of white and gold shoulder pauldrons, white and gold chestplate, white and gold bracers, a pair of gray gloves, a pair of white and gold accented knee length armored boots, a t-shaped cylinder strapped on the left side of his belt, a white hooded cape, cyan sigils of the Celestial Council located on top of her bracers and the buckle of his belt and held under his right hand is a white and gold accented helmet resembling an Entertainer Alternate Gryphon Helmet from For Honor with wing-like fins on either side of the helmet and at the forehead area is a cyan jewel. This is Godwin Ballard, one of the four high priests of Temple Fortress Alpha
Accompanying them were a number of Celestial Paladins composed of Troopers, Vanguards Defenders and Interceptors and as well as a number of Celestial Priests composed of Holy Warriors, Magus and Mystics.
"Take all the artifacts you can and transport them out of the vault!" commanded Arnaldus relaying orders to the paladins and priests.
"Yes Grand Master!" said the Paladins and Priests as they separated throughout the vault and grabbed whatever they could from the smallest of jewelry to the biggest of weapons.
"Do you believe we'll be able to transport all these artifacts in time?" asked Rowan watching the paladins and priests remove various artifacts from their pedestals.
"No..." uttered out Godwin as Rowan turned to him "I don't believe we'll be able to transport all of them in time considering how much is stored here" reasoned the Mystic high priest.
"That's why transporting the most important artifacts take top priority" spoke Cassius "So long as those artifacts are kept away from enemy hands, the multiverse will avoid various future troubles" he said.
The other grand masters and high priests present nodded in agreement when they felt a slight tremor causing the whole room to shake.
"What was that?" questioned Aurelia looking skywards in alarm.
"That would be the sound of the enemy's arrival" said Arnaldus turning to Gunter "Gunter, take a couple of squads with you and safeguard the path that leads to the vault!" he told his fellow grand master.
"On it!" nodded Gunter putting on his helmet with the visor lowering itself as it glowed blue. He unslung the rifle from his back revealing to be a futuristic looking M16A1 Assault Rifle before turning to a squad of Paladins "Squads 4 and 6 with me!" he said.
"Yes sir!" saluted the paladins before they followed Gunter out of the vault.
"Aurelia, go with him, he and his men could use the help" said Cassius to the high priestess without sparing a glance at her as Aurelia nodded "Right" she said before turning to a group of priests "Magus Squad 4 and Holy Warrior Squad 2 with me" she instructed.
"Yes high priestess!" responded to two groups as they followed Aurelia out of the vault.
"Grandmaster Reinfred, High Priest Reginus..." spoke a Celestial Priest getting their attention "How are we to transport these artifacts out of the fortress?" he questioned "Considering that there's only one way in and out of the vault and not only that, Grandmaster Averet and High Priestess Serrana are guarding the only path that leads to the vault and it's unlikely that we'll be able to transport the artifacts all the way to the underground hangars" he reasoned.
The celestial priest in question was a young man in his early 20s with short dirty blonde hair, fair skin, slim build and blue eyes. he's clad in Celestial Priest garb of the Holy Warrior class which is a dark gray upper skinsuit under a dark gray and cyan coat with silver chestplate over it, a white Teutonic knight robe, dark gray trousers, white and silver armor composed of white and silver shoulder pauldrons, white and silver gauntlets, white and silver thigh armor, white and silver greaves and armored boots, a gray utility belt strapped around his waist, a t-shaped cylinder magnetically strapped on the left side of his belt, a gauntlet mounted communicator on his left bracer, a white cape on his back, cyan sigils of the celestial council located at the center chest area of his robe and on either sides of his cape and worn on his head was a white and silver accented helmet resembling an Elner Warden helmet from For Honor with blue retractable vision visors and wing-like fins on either side of the helmet. This is Terricus "Terric" Owain.
Cassius didn't reply but calmly walked across the vault until he came to the wall on the other end and simply pressed his hand to it and muttered some words as a magic circle appeared surprising Terric and getting the other paladins and priests' attention, pausing their tasks. The circle continued to glow until a secret door opened revealing a secret tunnel.
Cassius turned to Terric and the others "Use this secret passage way, it'll lead straight to a secret hangar where a special transport awaits, its' coordinates have been set to the Realm of the Celestials,where the artifacts will be kept safe" he explained "Once you're done hauling whatever you can, take this tunnel and head straight to the transport and immediately depart for the assigned coordinates. Is that clear?" he said with a stern gaze.
"Yes High Priest!" responded the other Paladins and Priests as they continued on with their task.
Godwin put on his helmet with a sigh "Let's just pray that we'll be able to transport enough artifacts out of the vault by the time the enemy arrives here" he said as a blue vision visor expanded on his helmet as it glowed.
"I pray for that as well Godwin..." said Rowan putting on his helmet, the visor lowering down.
"We all do Rowan..." said Arnaldus also putting on his helmet.
Cassius could only let out a silent sigh "May the Celestial powers guide us..." he uttered out.
A few moments ago...
"This is Delta Leader to all squadrons, scanners have detected hostiles approaching the proximity of our position" informed Delta Leader as the squadrons of the UNSC and Nova Corps hovered high in the skies in a blockade formation as they waited for the invading fleet to arrive.
"Copy Delta Leader, all squadrons prepare to engage once hostiles near our position" said Bravo Leader as the pilots responded with "Roger!", "Copy!" or "Yes sir!" as they prepared themselves.
In a few seconds, arriving from the skies were numerous black and purple accented transport ships resembling Imperial Transports from Star Wars with the Wheel Cross insignia on the side of the ships. These were Valhalla's transport ships called Truppenlanders. Escorting them were planes resembling retro-futuristic looking WW2 Messerschmitt ME-262 Fighter Jets from Wolfenstien: The New Order but more on the futuristic advanced side with a dark gray and maroon color scheme and black striped accents, enhanced rocket boosters, black insignia of an eagle located on either side of the jet and the Wheel Cross insignia located at the side tip of the tail. These were Valhalla's space fighters called Sternenvögels.
Taking the lead were five Sternenvögels, four at the back and one at the front. Inside the currently leading space fighter was a young man in his mid 20s with short dirty blonde hair, light skin, slim build and gray eyes. he's clad in a futuristic pilot suit composed of a dark gray long sleeve jacket, dark gray pants with a belt, a metal gray and purple accented light armored chestplate, black light armor pauldrons, a dark gray pouch belt, metal gray and purple bracers, black gloves, metal gray greaves, black boots and a black helmet with red visor and a black respirator mask. This is Swen Wernicke AKA Jägerführer, squadron leader of Jagdgeschwader/Jäger Squadron, one of the many fighter squadron's of Valhalla's space navy.
As the invasion forces neared the blockade, Swen contacted his squadmates and fellow squadron leaders "Zeig keine Gnade... (Show no mercy...)" was the squadron leader's command while speaking in German as the clash between Temple Fortress Alpha defense blockade and the Valhalla Invasion Force began.
(Insert Star Wars: The Force Unleashed music - Prologue 2)
"Here they come!"
"Hostile forces inbound! All squadrons engage!"
"Let them have it boys!"
"Take 'em out!"
Various shouts and commands were heard throughout the comms as the UNSC and Nova Corps squadrons engaged the incoming invasion force of Valhalla. The sounds of flying, laser fire and explosions were heard as it became total chaos in the skies.
Explosions and smoke could be seen along with the noise of battle could be heard from a distance as those on standby at the walls of Temple Fortress Alpha watched as their first line of defense engaged the enemy.
Many looked on at the distant battle high in the skies unnerved but they all knew that they had to put their fears aside for they all had a duty and role to uphold, and that was to hold off the enemy once they arrive, so that they could buy time to allow the remainder of the temple fortress' inhabitants to escape.
Soon, the invasion fleet broke out of the blockade leaving a few fighters to deal with the UNSC and Nova Corps squadrons.
"Here they come!" called out grandmaster Kahler as a white and gold accented helmet resembling a Tureis Peacekeeper helmet from For Honor materialized over her head before pulling over her hood "Interceptors! Troopers! Prepare yourselves!" she said while taking out the baton from her back and extended it with a flick of her wrist revealing it to be a futuristic longbow as the Interceptor Paladins took out bows of their own or futuristic crossbows while the Paladin Troopers either took out futuristic M14 Rifles or manned their portable turrets.
"Magus Priests! Ready yourselves!" commanded High Priest Anders as he along with the Magus Priests got their staves, wands and scepters at the ready.
Grandmaster Kahler held up her communicator "Cannon towers, fire upon the invasion fleet once they've reached proximity range!" she said.
"Yes grandmaster!" was the reply of the cannon towers.
"Interceptors! Take your aim!" commanded Kahler as she and the Interceptor Paladins took aim with their bows and crossbows towards the incoming fleet "On our signal!" she said as they waited.
The fleet neared the fortress and as they were nearly upon them… Kahler and Anders called out "FIRE!" and the Interceptors Paladins along with Kahler launched a volley of cyan energy arrows while the Magus Priest and Anders launched magic spells composed of fireballs, light beams, lightning streams, etc and at the same time the cannon towers fired powerful laser blasts as both attacks headed towards the invasion fleet.
"Ankommendes feindliches Feuer! Ausweichmanöver! (Incoming enemy fire! Evasive action!)" a sternenvögel pilot warned as the invasion fleet were now under heavy fire from the Temple Fortress Alpha garrison. Some of the invasion fleet got hit as transports and fighters began to come crashing down to the ground.
"Sturm Vier! Sturm Sechs! Auf mich! Ziele auf die Türme auf der linken Seite! (Storm 4! Storm 6! On me! Aim for the left side towers!)" commanded another sternenvögel pilot as he dove down towards the temple fortress specifically towards the cannon towers.
"Jawohl!" responded two other pilots before they dove down following their leader.
"Sturm Fünf! Sturm Drei! Sturm Zwei! Greife die Türme auf der rechten Seite an! (Storm 5! Storm 3! Storm 2! Engage the right side towers!)" commanded the pilot as other three fighters dove down towards the towers.
"Jawohl Sturmführer! (Roger Storm Leader!)" responded the fighter pilots.
Grandmaster Kahler took notice of the incoming fighters "Suppressive fire!" she commanded as those who were manning the gatling turrets took aim and open fired at the incoming fighters.
The fighters continued to dive towards the fortress while trying to avoid getting hit by the celestial paladins' suppressive fire, not stopping until they reach their target.
"Lass Protonentorpedos auf meinen Befehl los! (Release proton torpedoeson my command!)" said Sturmführer as the fighters took aim while diving closer and doing their best to avoid getting hit.
Once they've gotten close enough... "Eins, zwei, drei! Feuer!" shouted Sturmführer as the six fighters launched missiles made of purple energy towards the towers only for one of the fighters Sturm Drei to get hit, a moment after firing their torpedos.
"Scheisse!" cursed the pilot losing control "Ich bin getroffen! (I'm hit!)" he said before screaming as he came crashing down to the ground in a fiery blaze.
"Scheisse!" cursed Sturmführer "Hochziehen! Hochziehen! (Pull up! pull up!)" he said before he and the remaining fighters pulled up and took up to the skies again.
Despite managing to shoot down one pilot, grandmaster Kahler looked up in alarm at the incoming torpedoes "Get down!" she shouted as she along with high priest Anders and some magus priests and paladins ducked as the torpedoes went straight for the towers hitting them in the process either destroying them or damaging them beyond use. Some of the paladins and priests were sent flying to the floor due to the impact and force of the explosions and the destruction of the six cannon towers caused a chain reaction that spread damage to some areas of the temple fortress.
Meanwhile in one of the hallways of the temple fortress, we see Daisy-023, Slammer, Kirby, Tazer and Rhoss accompanied by four UNSC Marines who're clad in battle attire from Halo 4: Spartan Ops (Halo Infinity), three other ODSTs and six Nova Corps Officers composed of five Corpsman and one Denarian. These were the remainder of Daisy, Slammer and Kirby and Tazer and Rhoss' teams respectively. Both teams were currently escorting the prisoners Scrozzle and Ryjack when the sounds of explosions were heard followed by slight tremors.
"What was that?!" exclaimed one of the marines.
"Seems like our visitors are here" said Tazer with narrowed eyes behind his helmet.
Ryjack who was restrained in a hover chair and was being pushed by one of the Nova Corpsman chuckled "Looks like mah ticket outta this place is here" he commented.
Tazer turned to the alien criminal with a scowl "In your dreams bucko!" he snapped "The only ticket your getting is a one way ticket to prison capeesh!" he said getting on the rhino alien's face.
Ryjack just scoffed "We'll see abou that" he said ticking off Tazer.
"Enough Ral! Let's just get to the hangar as quick as possible!" reasoned Tazer's team leader Denarian Zevor Kreld.
Tazer just clicked his tongue before he and everyone proceeded to continue on their way.
"Hey! Don't be so pushy!" said Scrozzle who was being pushed forward.
"Shut it claw head..." retorted one of the ODSTs lightly hitting Scrozzle on the back with his MA5D Assault Rifle making the poor bot move faster.
In another hallway, the Lancaster twins and their group continued onward when they heard the loud explosion followed by the slight tremor making them stop in their tracks.
"Whoa!" exclaimed Evie who almost lost her balance had it not been for Kite helping her keep balance.
Everyone then heard a cracking sound, causing them to look up, seeing that the ceiling had multiple cracks appear, alarming them.
"Get down!" exclaimed Liam as they all dove out of the way before the ceiling collapsed causing debris to come crashing down the floor, creating a dust cloud.
A few moments passed and the dust began to clear. Evie groaned before letting out a few coughs as she looked up to see the aftermath of the collapse. There was some debris on the floor but most of it was piled up blocking the path they came from. The space forensic scientist looked around and saw Len, Wade, Koto and Gideon slowly recovering from dodging the collapse.
"Are you alright Evie-san?" asked Koto as he went and helped Evie back to her feet.
"I'm fine..." said Evie "But where's...?" she said looking around before noticing that her brother was nowhere to be seen "Kite?" she called out "Kite?!" she called out again in concern "Kite! Where are you?!" she called out worried for her brother's well-being.
"I'm alright Evie!" called out the voice of her brother as Evie looked around listening for the space sheriff's voice "Kite! Where are you!?" she called out.
"I'm at the other side of the debris!" called out Kite who was indeed at the other side of the debris as he along with the other group composed of him, Drew, Liam and Captain Griffin were recovering from the debris crash.
"Is everyone alright over there?" asked Evie "We're alright! most of us managed to avoid the falling debris!" responded Kite much to his sister's relief.
"Hang on! We'll get you out of there!" said Evie.
"There's no time for that!" retorted Kite "You need to get to Hangar 7 and help the students evacuate!" he told her.
"But..." said Evie not wanting to leave her brother.
"Listen to your brother Evie!" spoke out Drew "Helping the temple fortress' trainees evacuate takes top priority!" he said.
"He's right!" said Captain Griffin "Go now, all of you! We'll find another way to the hangar!" he told them.
"But captain...?!" protested Gideon.
"Now Rowlands! That's an order!" shouted captain Griffin "We'll meet you back at the hangar, we promise!" assured Kite.
"Ugh... yous mates better not die on us ya hear?!" said Wade.
"We don't plan to Wade" said Liam "Now go!" he said as Evie's group began to leave.
"Evie-san let's go" said Koto receiving a nod from the space forensic scientist. Evie took one last glance at the blocked hallway before following everyone else towards hangar 7.
"Alright then, let's go everyone!" declared captain Griffin.
"Lead the way" said Drew as the celestial paladin captain led the other group to another route that would lead to hangar 7.
Back outside the fortress, Sturmführer and his squadron flew around the fortress looking over the results of their successful bombardment of the six cannon towers.
"Sturmführer der Bodentruppen, die Verteidigung der Tempelfestung ist geschwächt. Sie können jetzt mit der Landesequenz beginnen. (Storm Leader to ground forces, temple fortress defenses have weakened. You may now commence landing sequence.)" said Sturmführer informing the Truppenlanders.
"Jawohl! Beginn der Landesequenz (Roger! Commencing landing sequence)" said one of the Truppenlander pilots as the dropships landed on the ground, some of them in front of the fortress, others near the eastern and western side of the fortress.
Upon landing, the Truppenlanders' ramps opened and marching out of it were legions upon legions of soldiers clad in black uniforms similar to German Nazi soldiers from The Man in the High Castle and worn over their uniforms were futuristic armor resembling armor worn by the German soldiers of Wolfenstien: The New Colossus but with a black and dark gray color scheme and neon purple lights composed of shoulder pauldrons, chestplate vest and backpack and in addition, armored bracers, black gloves, thigh and knee armor and armored boots, white sigils of the Wheel Cross located at the shoulder pauldrons chestplate vest and the side of their backpacks, black helmets resembling WW2 M1935 Stahlhelms and a black futuristic gasmasks resembling those worn by NCR Rangers from Fallout with dark red tinted eye visors. They were also equipped with futuristic looking MP40 SMGs and futuristic looking StG 44 Rifles.
(Insert Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Music - Prologue 3)
Upon seeing the troops in front of them and at the east and west walls, grandmaster Kahler's eyes widened in shock before turning to her troops "Paladin Troopers! Get ready!" she commanded as the Paladin troopers pointed their rifles forward and the same went with those stationed at the east and west.
"Magus Priests!" said high priest Anders as the Magus Priests prepared their magic spells.
The army of Valhallan soldiers marched and formed up until they stopped and stared at the temple fortress as they awaited for their command.
From one of the platoon of soldiers walked an officer who was clad in a military uniform composed of a black, purple and dark gray tunic with a belt and silver buckle wrapped around the waist area and a shoulder strap over a white button up shirt with a black necktie, black chestplate vest, black gloves, black trousers, a pair of black boots, a black peaked cap with a silver sigil of a Celtic wheel cross at the center, a black and dark gray accented overcoat with dark red and gray striped armband with a black sigil of a Celtic wheel cross within a purple and black outlined circle on it on the left upper sleeve of the coat and a futuristic gasmask that's the same as the other soldiers.
The officer stared at the temple fortress for a few moments before pointing forward towards the fortress "Soldaten, vorwärts! (Soldiers, onward!)" and upon that command, with a mighty war cry, the soldiers charged forward.
"Open fire!/Fire!" shouted grandmaster Kahler and high priest Anders as the celestial paladins and priests open fired sending a barrage of lasers, spells and laser arrow volleys at the charging army.
Many of the charging soldiers were hit by the projectiles, some were killed on the spot while some were sent flying or were knocked down to the ground but still alive.
"Feuer erwidern! (Return Fire!)" commanded the officer as the soldiers open fired while continuing to charge towards the fortress.
Some of the projectiles the Valhalla soldiers fired managed to hit a few paladins killing them or injuring them and a couple of priests but barriers were suddenly created protecting those on the wall.
The Valhallan officer took notice of the barrier and went for his communicator on his ear "Piloten! Jetzt Luftunterstützung! (Pilots! Aerial support now!)" he commanded.
"Jawohl!" responded the pilots as they dove to the fortress and launched missiles at them. The missiles hit the shields but it didn't seem to do anything making the officer click his tongue in disappointment.
Suddenly...
CRITICAL JUDGEMENT!
A huge violet and black beam of light came rushing towards the fortress wall from out of nowhere shocking those at the wall.
"Brace yourselves!" shouted High Priest Anders as the beam hit the shields. The shields were holding but not for long as the magic circles began to crack before breaking and the beam got through hitting the wall creating a huge explosion sending those stationed sent flying.
The Officer looked on at the explosion with a smirk behind his mask as he put a finger to his communicator "Glad you could make it... herr Gruppenführer" he said speaking in English with a German accent.
"Think nothing of it Kommandant" spoke the voice of the one responsible for sending the green beam "Let us proceed onward comrade" he said "Our objective awaits!" he said.
"Jawohl..." responded the officer now revealed to be a Kommandant with a nod as he continued forward with his troops towards the temple fortress.
Meanwhile, the explosion caused by the beam resulted a portion of the wall to collapse creating an opening, this allowed the soldiers to enter and the blast also disoriented the troops stationed at the east and west walls allowing the Sternenvögel squadrons to execute another aerial assault on the eastern and western walls resulting in the same conclusion as they both leveled down allowing the other soldiers to enter the fortress.
"And so it begins..." said the Kommandant with a grin behind his mask.
A few moments ago...
Meanwhile at hangar 7 we see several groups of squire paladins and priest apprentices accompanied by a small number of Celestial Paladins and Celestial Priests who're either their instructors or escorts standing around in wait when Amelia Calliwell and Godfrey McGrath's group arrived.
"We made it!" exclaimed Fred upon arriving at the hangar.
"Thank goodness..." uttered out Dorothy relieved.
Suddenly, the sound of a loud explosion followed by a short tremor occurred shaking the whole hangar taking everyone present by surprise.
"W-W-W-What was that?!" exclaimed a priest apprentice in panic as some of the other trainees began to become wary.
"Stay calm everyone!" said Godfrey, Amelia and the other instructors attempting to calm down the crowd.
"Hey!" called out a voice getting everyone's attention as they turned to see Solon together with Seitaro and Teddy coming out of the Gaisoul Voyager and walk towards them, Seitaro being the one to call them out "Are all of you the paladin and priest trainees?" Seitaro asked.
Amelia stepped forward "Yes, I am Amelia Calliwell, one of the instructors for the priest apprentices, we've all gathered here to hopefully evacuate Temple Fortress Alpha" she told the dimension guardian.
Seitaro, Teddy and Solon looked towards each other and nodded before turning back to the crowd "Then all of you are in luck, we've received orders from the heads of the temple fortress to evacuate all of you out of here as soon as possible" he said much to the trainees joy and relief.
"We have transports large enough to carry large groups of people, our ship being one of them" explained Solon while gesturing towards the Gaisoul Voyager.
Some of those present looked on perplexed "I don't think that'll be big enough to fit in all of us" spoke out one of the squire paladins.
"That's why there's also our ship the Grand Birth!" called out another voice.
Everyone turned to the source of the voice and saw Evie and her group arrive.
Dorothy's eyes widened while she letting out a quiet gasp upon seeing one of the people in Evie's group of whom she recognized "Gideon!" she cried out.
"Dorothy!" exclaimed the paladin trooper upon seeing the priestess apprentice as the both of them ran straight towards each other before catching each other in a tight embrace.
"Brother!" exclaimed Dorothy holding onto Gideon as if her life depended on it while a couple of tears trailed down her eyes "Thank the celestial gods, you're alright!" she cried out.
"I'm relieved to see you unharmed as well Dorothy..." said Gideon holding his little sister close while consoling her.
Alison smiled glad to see her best friend reunite with her brother before turning to Evie who walked towards the huge ship docked a few meters from the Gaisoul Voyager which was assumed to be the Grand Birth.
Evie took out a tablet from her coat and pressed a few buttons on it before the ramp to the Grand Birth opened. She then turned to the students and their instructors "The Grand Birth is capable of holding a large quantity of passengers and there's enough space for the rest of you" she explained much to everyone's relief.
"Yes, but even so, there's still isn't enough space because the amount of students here is as twice the size of both of your ships combined and not only that, according to the instructors who contacted me, there are still more students still somewhere in the temple fortress who're on their way here" pointed out one of the paladin instructors making the students worry again.
"No need to worry, we've already thought ahead of that" said Seitaro in assurance with Teddy nodding in agreement. The former took out a Rider Pass and just right after holding it out the sound of certain bullet train horn was heard.
The students and instructors looked around in confusion.
"What's that sound?" asked a priest apprentice.
Their answer came when a portal appeared and what came out of it were train tracks that materialized out of nowhere and what came next was a blue and gray bullet train with a red top portion at the front area of the train.
Everyone looked on in awe and surprise as the bullet train stopped next to the Gaisoul Voyager and judging by the number of train cars it had, the train had enough space to house the rest of the remaining students.
Seitaro and Teddy walked to the bullet train before turning to the rest "This is the New Denliner, a bullet train that can travel through time and is also capable of travelling through space and other dimensions" he explained "It has enough space to house everyone else" he said.
Amelia and Godfrey looked on in awe at the New Denliner before snapping out of it, they looked to the other instructors present for a few moments before all of them nodded in silent agreement and turned to the students.
"Everyone! Form up and divide yourselves into three groups!" said Godfrey "Squire paladins and priest apprentices are to be put in the same group according to their year!" said Amelia "First years board the train, second years the violet ship and third years are to board the Grand Birth!" she added.
The students did as were told and proceeded to divide themselves into three groups according to their year as they proceeded to board the three transports, the instructors, Evie and the Dimension Guardian Force making sure they boarded safely.
"Help! Someone please help!" called out a voice as everyone turned to the entrance of the hangar and saw a small number of squire paladins and priest apprentices run towards them in worry and concern and a couple of them were injured.
"What's wrong?" asked Wade who he along with a couple of instructors including Godfrey and Amelia helped the students as Amelia held out her hand making it glow a cyan aura healing some of the injured students.
"There... there was a collapse back at the halls a couple ways near here to the right..." panted a squire paladin "Some of us managed to survive but there are still some still trapped under the rubble including our instructor..." he said "Please help them!" he pleaded.
Godfrey nodded "Understood" he said before handing the injured squire over to Amelia "Take him to the transports, I'll go and rescue the trapped students" he told her.
Amelia nodded "Please hurry and be careful" she said to her fellow instructor.
Godfrey nodded "Right" he said.
"I'll go with you mate!" said Wade getting Godfrey's attention "Who knows whuh bloody trouble you'll find along the way" he said.
"I'll go as well, you could use the back up" added Len.
Godfrey nodded "I appreciate the help" he said.
"I'd like to go as well!" called out Gideon "I want to do my duty as a paladin trooper and do what I can to help!" he declared.
Godfrey thought about it for a moment before nodding "Alright then, all of us should be careful and we'll watch each other's backs" he told him.
"Yes sir!" saluted Gideon.
"Brother..." uttered out Dorothy staring at her brother worriedly.
"Don't worry Dorothy, I'll be quick and I'll come straight back here" he told his sister.
Dorothy continued to worry for Gideon when she felt a hand on her shoulder and turned to see Alison with a serious expression and nodded to her signaling her to trust her brother.
After a couple moments, Dorothy turned back to her brother "Just be careful out there... and promise me you'll come back!" she said.
"I will and I promise that I'll come back safe and sound!" he swore.
Dorothy took a deep breath and exhaled before nodding "May the Celestial Powers guide you brother..." she said and with that, Gideon along with Godfrey and the two Dimension Guardians ran to the hangars entrance to rescue some of those who're still trapped while passing by newly arriving groups of trainees.
Dorothy clasped her hands together in prayer hoping for her brother's safety.
Meanwhile at the northern part of the temple fortress where the northern wall was breached by the mysterious green beam of light, a number of squads composed of paladin troopers, a small number of vanguard paladins and defender paladins, UNSC marines and Nova Corpsman marched towards the breach, leading them were paladin troop leaders, senior vanguard paladins, Nova Corps Denarians and Spartan IVs.
The squads all formed up and took up defensive positions with defender paladins at the front with activated energy shields resembling tower shields while others pointed their firearms at the breach as they waited for the enemy to arrive.
"Here they come!" exclaimed a Spartan IV as the Valhallan soldiers came charging right in "Open fire!" commanded the Spartan as the temple fortress defenders open fired at the incoming soldiers and the enemy soldiers returned fire in turn while taking cover as a fire fight ensued between the two sides.
A number of soldiers from both sides were shot down and fell to the ground limp or just knocked back injured but still able.
The temple fortress garrison side was getting the upper hand when all of a sudden...a number of vines came from out of nowhere taking the garrison by surprise as the vines attacked them sending them flying everywhere.
"What the?!" exclaimed Nova Corps Denarian before a vine smacked him sending him flying to the wall.
The Valhallan soldiers stopped as the vines retracted back to the entrance of the breached wall as their sights followed the vines before they saw the one responsible for the unexpected attack.
(Insert Kamen Rider Amazons OST - Moguraa)
Calmly walking into the fortress and passed some soldiers were two individuals.
The first was a female figure clad in a white, silver and black undersuit with scale-like patterns on the legs and white gloves, violet, red, pink and gold accented fruit themed armor composed of a violet, pink, red and gold accented designed chestplate, purple, pink and gold accented designed shoulder pauldrons with gold bell-like ornaments at the top tip of the shoulders, silver bracers with scale-like patterns, purple cuffs and purple top palm armor, around her waist was a Sengoku Driver with a rider indicator showing a picture of the rider and an open lockseed at the center, purple and gold outlined twin tail waist cape, red knee armor, red and black greaves, black boots and a purple, red and pink helmet with a green jewel at the forehead, pink visor, two bell ornaments at the top side pointed parts of the helmet, white mouth guard and a black and gold belly dancer style veil over it. All in all, the female individual resembled an Arabian Knight. This is Kamen Rider Sylphi, a dark rider and a member of Valhalla.
The second individual was male a couple inches taller than Sylphi who's clad in an undersuit that's various of colored green and black with gray crack-like patterns on the side of the torso, hips and upper arms, armor composed of dark green, metal gray, yellow outlines and black chestplate with black spiked back fins that's curved upwards, dark green, black and yellow shoulder armor, dark green, silver, black and yellow outlined bracers with black spiked finned blades curved upwards at the back side of the bracers, black clawed armored gloves, black and gray metal knee armor, dark green, black, metal gray and yellow outlined greaves with spiked fins curved upwards at the back, dark green, metal gray and black armored boots, an armlet known as the Militant Amazons Register which it a dark green, black and yellow lizard head shaped device with a silver tongue-like flip switch, glowing red eyes when activated and a black strap located on his left upper arm, around his waist was a buckle called the Neo Amazons Driver which is a red and black accented device resembling a reptilian eye with the eye being yellow, a red slot at the bottom left facing slanted upwards to the left with a silver syringe-like device called an Amazons Injector inserted into it and a silver belt strap and worn over his head is a dark green, metal gray and yellow cyborg lizard themed helmet with black wire-like grills over the lower face, a long silver and black tipped anglerfish-like antenna and blue bug eyed visors. This is Kamen Rider Amazon Neo Alpha, another dark rider and another member of Valhalla.
Sylphi and Neo Alpha continued to walk side by side before they stopped in front of the disoriented garrison.
"What the heck... Kamen Riders?" uttered out a UNSC marine.
The garrison didn't have time to process things as Sylphi summoned a weapon from out of purple energy. The weapon was a spear with a black staff, gold bottom part and pointed tip, the spear head resembling some fruit with a red and violet flower-like fruit with a gold spear head and a lower part of the spearhead having black vine-like holdings. This was Sylphi's personal weapon the Hells Cane. She then took hold of the cutting blade on his driver and cut her lockseed twice.
SOIYA! HELLS AU LAIT!
She twirled her Hells Cane twice before stabbing it to the ground as a number of vines popped out of the ground and impaled some of the temple fortress garrison troops, some were killed instantly while others were still alive but heavily injured. The vines then grabbed hold of some of the other garrison troops, specifically the leaders and suspended them in the air before slamming all of them to the ground repeatedly before pinning them to the ground.
"Ugh... how..." uttered a Spartan IV looking up from his restrained position as he saw with his cracked helmet Amazon Neo Alpha slowly approaching the captured garrison troops.
"Hmph..." scoffed Neo Alpha before pushing the injector on his driver and materializing on his right arm was an arm mounted weapon composed of a chainsaw blade attached to a trigger mechanism handle with a miniature sized minigun on top. This was his personal weapon called the Neo Alpha Sweeper.
The restrained Spartan's eyes widened before Neo Alpha swung his weapon sidewards unleashing a barrage of bullets and upon hitting the fruits that were attached to the vines created an explosive chain reaction engulfing the restrained garrison soldiers and their leaders in a fiery explosion killing them much to the remaining garrison soldiers' shock.
This allowed the Valhallan soldiers to retaliate as they fired their weapons at the remaining garrison in the area, some didn't have time to dodge or come out of their shock as they were all shot dead.
Sylphi and Neo Alpha continued to watch their soldiers' progress, nodding towards each other before proceeding forward as more Valhallan soldiers entered.
At the eastern wall, another portion of the garrison were in a similar situation as well, they were engaged in a fire fight against another platoon of Valhallan soldiers attempting to enter the temple fortress.
GIANT NOW~!
When suddenly, four golden magic circles, ones that take the appearance of a squared circle in diamond formation with smaller diamonds with sun sigils on the tips of the diamond and the diamond rotating around the circle with intricate designs appeared in front of six Valhalla soldiers and when the magic circles passed through them, they became giants much to the temple fortress garrison's shock before the giant soldiers swung their weapons like clubs at the stunned garrison sending some flying.
The one responsible for the spell was an individual standing at the entrance of the breach with his arm stretched out. The individual was a tall male clad in a gold skin suit with black at the center of the torso, black and gold accented pointed shoulder pauldrons with black rune linings, black and gold accented collar armor, silver sash strips on either sides of the top torso with rings attached to them, two black and gold accented side capes on either side of his back, black and gold outlines armored wrist cuffs, black gloves with black armor on top of the palms, around his waist was a driver known as a Sorcerer's Belt which is a black belt with a bulky buckle device that's black and silver with two switches on either side and at the center is a black and red outlined hand symbol which is of the right hand, two black and gold outlined side waist capes on either side of the belt with black and gold outlined straps over the capes looking akin to a Roman Gladiator skirt, silver knee armor, silver greaves, black and gold outlined ankle cuffs, black and gold accented boots with black and one silver triangle spike each in the middle of either boots, a gold and black helmet with the top part resembling a sorcerer's hat with a gold design similar to a devious smile and two gold and black runes horns on either side of the hat, a black diamond shaped jewel at the forehead area, black visor that resembles an onyx stone with a gold section resembling a mustache at the face area of the helmet and worn on his middle fingers were two rings, one resembling his helmet on his left middle finger and one gold ring with a black onyx stone on his right middle finger. All in all, this individual looks akin to a classic sorcerer. This is Kamen Rider Sorcerer, another dark rider and a member of Valhalla.
Standing next to him was some kind of humanoid figure. It was a tall male figure with a gray body wearing white and gold accented regal looking armor composed of a chestplate with a gray and gold accented collar, bracers, upper arm armor, gold asymmetrically designed shoulder pauldrons, top palm armor, a silver belt with buckle with some shining orb in the middle of it, thigh armor, knee armor, gold wing designed greaves, gray and gold accented feet, a black and gold asymmetrically designed head with an asymmetrically designed mask, a gold short cape with a reddish interior and held on his hands is a black and gold accented cane. This is the Utopia Dopant, another member of Valhalla.
The Utopia Dopant held up his cane as large rubble from around the area floated upwards, he then waved his cane forward hurling the rubble projectiles at the garrison crushing some of them or heavily injuring them.
The giant soldiers soon shrunk back to normal allowing Sorcerer to flip the switch of his belt twice as his belt played a tune.
LUPACHI MAGIC TOUCH GO! LUPACHI MAGIC TOUCH GO!
The belt chanted in song before Sorcerer put his ringed hand over it as the belt's hand sigil also known as the Hand Author glowed a bright spectrum light.
YES! VANISH... STR~IKE! UNDERSTAND?
Sorcerer held up his right hand as a small gold magic circle appeared before it turned into an orb of golden energy and enlarged into the size of a boulder, about twice the size of an average human. He hurled it at the remaining garrison troops.
"Look out- AAAAAHHHHHH!" a Nova Corpsman tried to warn the rest of the garrison but it was too late as the orb engulfed them all in a huge explosion killing a large sum of them while heavily injuring the rest.
"Hmph..." scoffed Sorcerer as he and Utopia Dopant stared at the remaining garrison troops' pitiful state "Kill zem all..." said the latter as the Valhallan soldiers open fired at the defenseless troops disposing of them all.
More Valhallan soldiers entered the breach as they inspected the area. Some soldiers checked for any stragglers left that'll attempt to escape while some were tending to their fellow comrades of any injuries.
Sorcerer and Utopia Dopant were inspecting the architecture of the area when a soldier approached them "Herr Oberführer! Herr Oberst Gruppenführer! Ze area eez secured!" reported the soldier with a salute addressing them by their respective ranks.
"Very good Sturmman, report to the others to proceed forward" said Sorcerer.
"Jawohl!" saluted the soldier before leaving.
"Ze objective eez somewhere deeper inside ze fortress" said Utopia Dopant to Sorcerer.
"Then, let us proceed" replied Sorcerer as the two walked forward with other Valhallan soldiers following behind them.
At the western gate, yet another firefight was happening between another group of temple fortress alpha's garrison and more groups of Valhallan soldiers.
"You'll never take this fortress alive fools! YEEEEEHAAAWWW!" exclaimed an energetic UNSC marine.
"Take this seriously private!" shouted a UNSC marine captain.
"I am takin this seriously cap!" replied the marine with a casual smile "No need ta be so- DOOF!" he said before he was shot by a stray blast.
"Dang it!" swore the marine captain as he, his men and the others continued to return fire.
URAWAZA!
Suddenly, the sound of some kind of beeping was heard confusing some of those who heard it.
"What's that?" wondered a Nova Corpsman.
GACHAN! KNOCK OUT CRITICAL SMASH!
Before the garrison troops could even process the sound, a figure jumped out of nowhere and landed on the ground punching it creating a shockwave sending those who were near the figure's vicinity flying.
The figure slowly stood up and revealed itself. It was a male individual clad in a black skin suit with gray stripe patterns at the lower torso and thighs under black, dark gray and metal gray armor composed of torso armor with a collar and has a color scheme of black on the right side, dark gray on the left side, metal gray in the middle and at the chest area is what looks like a yellow life bar gauge that you usually see in videogames with a red and blue background and next to the life gauge are two white circles containing black silhouetted pictures of an axe and gun respectively and a metal gray circular shaped armor looking akin to some turning knob at the back, triangular shaped shoulder armor, a black and metal gray outlined with black spiral line patterns on the right shoulder and a dark gray and metal gray outlined with black spiral line patterns on the left shoulder, gray metal and black spiral patterned armlets on the upper arm, metal gray elbow armor, metal gray bracers with metal gray cuffs, metal gray top palm armor with metal gray straps around the under palms, black tattered waist capes around his waist, metal gray thigh braces and knee armor, metal gray greaves, dark gray and metal gray shoes with dark gray upside down triangle sigils at the ankle armor, a black and dark gray helmet that looks like a videogame character with black and dark gray spiky hair that's swept to the left, two dark gray jewels on his forehead, a one rectangular shaped with pointed ends and one upside down triangle shaped, metal gray lower face guard resembling a gasmask and a metal gray stylish shaped mask visor frame with cartoonish eyes, one red one at the right and one blue one at the left and around his waist with a black belt was a neon green and silver buckle-like device known as the Gamer Driver, it has two slots on the left side, a pink and black lever which is currently opened on the right side revealing the words "Gamer Driver" in yellow capital letters with game-like designs framing it at the back of the cover of the lever and a screen at the center. Currenlty, there was a black item plugged to both slots with the screen showing a picture of a figure in black, white and gray. Attached to the left side of the belt was a neon green and silver device with a slot, pink comic-like designs on the side, a silver button in front of the slot and at the bottom were what looked like two orange holders, this was called the Kimewaza Slot Holder. All in all, this individual resembles a Chinese Soldier. This was Kamen Rider Another Para-DX or better known as Kamen Rider Dark Para-DX, another dark rider and member of Valhalla. Held on his right hand was a device resembling some silver and cyan game console with a red A button on the left side, a cyan B button on the right side, a left side diagonal slot at the top with a button on the side of the slot, two cyan tubes resembling laser barrels at the left side and a silver, black and cyan chainsaw on the right, a black screen at the center and finally attached to the bottom of the right side of it was a silver detachable grip. This was a weapon known as the Gashacon Bugvisor Zwei, currently in its' chainsaw mode.
Seeing Dark Para-DX appear out of nowhere shocked the temple fortress alpha garrison platoons but it didn't last long as a couple of Spartan IVs charged at him.
Dark Para-DX merely just scoffed before casually walking towards them as he sidestepped the first Spartan before swinging his Bugvisor at the second Spartan while said weapon started crackling with red, blue, cyan and violet sparks. Upon hitting the Spartan with his weapon, the word "HIT!" in yellow, red and black outlined videogame style capital letters appeared with violet hit effects while managing to penetrate his shield and damage his armor, knocking him down to the ground.
GACHAN!
Dark Para-DX switched his weapon to beam gun mode and fired a couple of violet blue laser beams at the other Spartan, knocking him down to the ground, the "HIT!" with hit effects appearing every time he was shot.
"Futile..." uttered out Dark Para-DX before taking notice of four more Spartans plus a couple of Defender Paladins charging at him. He just scoffed before swinging his Bugvisor Zwei sideways while simultaneously firing six laser shots, knocking down the Spartans to the ground while killing the two Paladins in the process.
He was about to move forward when he felt a hand grab him on the ankle, he looked down to see the first Spartan he knocked down, his visor was cracked and he was desperately trying to stop him.
Dark Para-DX just scoffed before pulling his leg out of the Spartan's grasp and kicked him to the side causing a part of his visor to break "Pathetic..." uttered out Para-DX with a bored tone before shooting the Spartan with his Bugvisor killing him.
The second Spartan saw this and was enraged upon seeing his fellow Spartan get killed. He quickly stood up and pulled out his combat knife but before he could get a chance to sneak up on Dark Para-DX, a hand grabbed his shoulder forcing him to turn to whoever grabbed him only for something to strike him across his chest causing him to stagger back.
The one responsible was a male clad in a black skinsuit under pure black armor composed of black torso armor with a collar, black jagged looking shoulder armor, black upper arm armor, black diamond shaped elbow armor, black bracers, black gloves with black top palm armor, black hip armor, black thigh armor, black diamond shaped knee armor, black greaves, black boots, a black sharp and menacing looking helmet with two fins on either sides, insect-like mandible designs on the jaw area and black eye visors shaped like the front portion of tanks with them pointed upwards in slanted positions, both facing either direction on either visor and strapped around his waist was a Build Driver with two black Fullbottles and attached to the driver at the top right side was a red, white and silver device with some kind of meter and a blue button Known as the Hazard Trigger. This was Kamen Rider Metal Build, another member of Valhalla and a dark rider.
A few moments ago, Metal Build sneaked up on the Spartan before attacking him with a Drill Crusher that he held on his right hand. He then swung his weapon at the disoriented Spartan a couple more times before he had the chance to recover, causing the Spartan to drop his weapon and fall down to the ground.
Metal Build casually walked over to the Spartan who's unable to move. He tilted his head to the side staring at the injured supersoldier who stared back before Metal Build pulled the trigger of his Drill Crusher making the drill spin and with swift motion, he stabbed the Spartan on the chest killing him.
Dark Para-DX stared at Metal Build who pulled out his Drill Crusher which now had a few bits of blood on it. The two stared at one another in silence before taking notice of more of the Temple Fortress Garrison attempting to charge at them with weapons in hand.
The two dark riders just looked on amused and prepared their attacks, Dark Para-DX closing the lever of his driver while Metal Build pressed the button on the Hazard Trigger before cranking the handle of his driver as the Vortex Charger located below the Hazard Trigger began to glow and change into various colors.
GACHON! URUWAZA!
MAX HAZARD ON! GATA GATA GOTTON! ZUTTAN ZUTAN! GATA GATA GOTTON! ZUTTAN ZUTAN! READY GO~!
Dark Para-DX opened the lever of his driver while Metal Build stopped cranking his driver as a unique powering up sound was heard from his Driver. Purple puzzle pieces made of energy along with violet flames gathered around Dark Para-DX while getting into a ready combat stance with his right leg wreathed in violet and black videogame style energy while Metal Build also got into a ready combat stance as bright violet swirling energy gathered around his right foot.
GACHAN! PERFECT KNOCKOUT CRITICAL BOMBER!
HAZARD FINISH!
Dark Para-DX' eyes briefly glowed before performing a jumping roundhouse kick, sending a fireball at the enemy while Metal Build performed a roundhouse kick motion while simultaneously creating black tank tracks heading straight for his targets.
Both attacks hit the garrison troops, engulfing them in a fiery explosion and grinding into them like a chainsaw while also engulfing them in an explosion in the process respectively causing all of them to scream, killing them as a result.
Soon, there were only few garrison troops left in the area as the Valhallan soldiers took quick work of them.
More Valhallan soldiers began to enter the breach as the platoon was securing the area.
Metal Build and Dark Para-DX were giving orders to some troops when an officer walked over to them accompanied by six Valhallan Soldiers who all had some wrist watch-like devices on their left wrists.
"Herr Obersturmbannführer! Herr Gruppenführer!" called out the officer getting the two dark riders' attention as the officer stopped right in front of them and gave them a salute.
The officer was a young man in his early 20s with short combed spiky blonde hair, fair skin, slim and athletic build and brown eyes. He's clad in a Valhallan military uniform composed of a black, purple and dark gray tunic with a belt and silver buckle wrapped around the waist area and a shoulder strap over a white button up shirt with a black necktie, black gloves, black trousers, a pair of black boots, a black peaked cap with a silver sigil of a Celtic wheel cross at the center, a Mauser C96 Pistol holstered on the right side of his belt and a black and dark gray accented overcoat with dark red and gray striped armband with a black sigil of a Celtic wheel cross within a purple and black outlined circle on it on the left upper sleeve of the coat. This is Josef Kästner also known as Holzer, an officer of Valhalla.
"Ah, Obersturmführer Kästner" greeted Metal Build.
"What news do you bring?" questioned Dark Para-DX.
"Sir, all forces have successfully entered the fortress and are in the process of taking over all sectors of the fortress as we speak" said Holzer.
"Very good Oberstrumführer" nodded Dark Para-DX "Let us ensure that the plan proceeds as followed" he said.
"There's also another thing herr Gruppenführer" said Holzer getting Dark Para-DX' attention "It seems that our ally is signaling us and he's currently at this location" he said showing a 3D hologram of the temple fortress' interior and in one of the hallways was a blinking dot accompanied by other smaller dots.
"Hmm... it seems that our freund's asking for help" said Dark Para-DX putting a hand on his helmeted chin in thought before turning to Metal Build "Obersturmbannführer, proceed with the operation" he said before walking towards another direction "I shall catch up with you and the others shortly" he told him "Kästner, you and your men, follow me" he said.
"Jawohl!" saluted Holzer and his men as they followed him.
"Where will you be going if I may ask?" questioned Metal Build.
"Oh... I'll be meeting up with our collaborator" replied Dark Para-DX stopping in front of a control panel with a screen "After all... he's the only one who can lead us to our objective faster" he said before holding out his free hand to the console while Holzer and his men activated their wrist watches and in just a few seconds, Dark Para-DX and his group turned into orange pixels and vanished into the screen.
"Ah... I see..." nodded Metal Build despite his fellow dark rider already gone before leading his troops into the temple fortress.
Grandmaster Kahler groaned when she heard a feint voice calling out to her through the ringing in her ears, she slowly opened her eyes before hissing at the bright light that greeted her. When her vision cleared, she was met with High Priest Anders who was slightly looking worse for wear from the impact of the huge laser they took.
"Thank the celestial gods you're alright" said Anders helping Kahler up "What happened?" asked Kahler while taking notice of the lack of her helmet.
"We took a huge hit from an unexpected attack but it was a good thing I cast a small barrier protecting the both of us before it broke through the shield" he said "Sadly, everyone else here wasn't so lucky and the wall was breached" he added.
Kahler looked around and saw several bodies of paladins and priests lying on the floor making her grimace, she even took notice of the large gap on the wall indicating the breach.
Kahler let out a sigh before turning to Anders "We gotta get out of here" she said while pulling over her hood.
Anders nodded before his eyes widened "Mariun, look out!" he shouted before pushing the Interceptor Paladin Grandmaster to the side and took out his t-shaped cylinder and activated it revealing a silver bladed arming sword with the blade edges glowing with blue energy. He raised it up in time to block a strike from a black colored blade.
Kahler rolled back to her feet "Paul!" she exclaimed turning to the high priest only to gasp in shock.
Currently in a sword lock with the high priest was a male armored figure. The armor the figure wore was was black with hints of dark red and faded gold, resembling that of a dark knight. He also had a black cape with two metal pointed tips on either ends, a black and dark red metal high collar, double spiked boots, clawed metal gauntlets and his helmet resembled that of a fierce looking wolf with gnashed teeth and dark purple eyes. He had a black, dark red and faded gold intricately shaped shield on his left forearm and the sword held on his right hand which was currently locked with high priest Anders' sword was black and faded gold with a tri pronged tip on it. This menacing looking dark knight was Zex the Dark Knight.
High Priest Anders and Zex continued to lock blades before the latter casually broke the lock like it was nothing and swung his blade at him.
Anders tried to retaliate as much as he could, parrying a couple of strikes before Zex disarmed him of his sword, he tried blocking his next strike with his staff but Zex cut through it like butter and he received a slash diagonally across his torso.
"Paul!" exclaimed Kahler as Anders fell backwards with a shocked expression on his face before hitting the ground with a *THUD!* while the former looked on with a shocked expression.
Zex scoffed before swinging his sword flicking the blood off of his blade. He then heard heavy breathing and turned to see Kahler with her eyes shadowed behind her hood and she was seething in silent rage before lifting her head up revealing enraged eyes and let out a loud roar and charged at Zex. She took out her two t-shaped cylinders and activated them revealing to be an arming sword and dagger, both being silver bladed with the edges glowing with blue energy, the former held on her right hand and the latter held on her left. Kahler swung her blades at Zex, only for the dark knight to block them with his shield.
"Ah... so a little Fräulein has decided to challenge me?" mused the dark knight speaking in a deep and metallic voice behind his helmet before pushing Kahler back.
Kahler glared at Zex weapons at the ready "Wonder if you'll pose more of a challenge for me instead of that ragged priest?" said the latter raising up his sword at the ready.
The interceptor paladin grandmaster sneered at that "Let's find out then!" she challenged before the two clashed with one another.
With the prisoner escort group, they continued to take Ryjack and Scrozzle to Hangar 7, but when they arrived in front of a hallway that led to three paths, they heard the sound of gunfire from a distance both from behind them and ahead of them in two of the three hallways.
"That doesn't sound good" said Tazer with a frown.
"Looks like the enemy's gotten through our defenses faster than we thought" Denarian Kreld grimaced.
"We'll need to get to the hangar quickly!" said Spartan Daisy "Quick! This way!" she said directing towards the hallway with no sound of gunfire.
"Yes chief!" nodded the ODST captain of the UNSC's side Sergeant Angelo Garcia "You heard them men! Vamanos!" he shouted in Spanish at the last part as the prisoner escort group ran down the hallway.
They continued to run down the halls but when they were passing a nearby control panel, all of a sudden, orange pixels shot out of the panel's screen and tackled one of the unsuspecting UNSC marines and slammed their head to the wall creating a huge crack killing him instantly upon impact.
"Hutch!" exclaimed one of the other marines who was behind Hutch in shock. This caused the rest of the escort group to stop and look behind them and saw the culprit who killed Hutch.
(Insert The Covenant Soundtrack Title 2 – The Death and Resurrection Show)
It was none other than Kamen Rider Dark Para-DX who had his hand against the dead marine's head which stuck to the wall.
"Holy crap!" exclaimed Slammer in shock.
"Shit! A dark rider!" swore Tazer pointing his nova machine gun at Dark Para-DX.
"You bastard!" shouted the marine taking out his combat knife and attempted to lunge at the dark rider and stab him.
"Diggs! Hold it!" called out Sergeant Garcia.
But it was too late, because just when Diggs was just inches away from stabbing the dark rider, Dark Para-DX dropped Hutch and swung his Bugvisor Zwei in chainsaw mode at Diggs immediately penetrating through his armor sending him flying and slamming into the wall killing him.
"Oh my!" exclaimed Scrozzle in fear and shock.
"Let's get out of here!" exclaimed Kirby but just when the group turned around, the other control panel ahead of them and the one Dark Para-DX came out of shot out more orange pixels and materialized into Holzer and his men, the former with three of his men on the front while the other three at the back with Dark Para-DX "I think not..." said Holzer as he and his men pointed their futuristic MP40 SMGs at them.
"Take cover!" exclaimed Sergeant Garcia as four of the Nova Corpsman activated energy shields on their forearms and blocked the Valhallan soldiers' projectiles on both sides as the group got to cover on separate sides of the hall.
Scrozzle was dragged along with one group which included Slammer, Tazer and Denarian Kreld while Ryjack who was still restrained to his chair was with the other group composed of Daisy, Kirby, Rhoss and Sergeant Garcia. While the group separated into two and got to cover, they returned fire at the Valhallan soldiers but unfortunately, while they managed to shoot down two enemy soldiers, one from each side, they lost four of their own; two Nova Corpsman who were two of the four generating their shields, one UNSC Marine and one ODST leaving only fourteen of them left including their prisoners.
Holzer and his men went to cover as well as a small fire fight between both sides occurred.
"Ugh... this is just loco!" exclaimed Sergeant Garcia peaking out from cover and firing a short burst from his MA5D Assault Rifle before returning to cover, then a Nova Corpsman went out of cover to take a shot at the enemy only to be shot down instead "Ugh! Mierda!" swore the ODST sergeant upon losing another of their team.
While both sides were engaged in their fire fight, Dark Para-DX was just standing there in the middle of the hallway watching the fight in amusement with his arms crossed while casually dodging a few stray shots that headed his way by either leaning his head to the side or just side stepped.
"Her Gruppenführer! vill you not help?!" called out one of the Valhallan soldiers before his fellow comrade pulled him to cover "Get back you fool!" he chastised.
"Nein..." responded Dark Para-DX shaking his head "I'm sure all of you can handle this" he said casually surprising the Valhallan soldiers minus Holzer.
"If herr Gruppenführer's confident zat ve can take care of zis, zen let us push through!" exclaimed another Valhallan soldier receiving a shout of "Jawohl!" from the other troops minus Holzer who just groaned in annoyance at his men's overconfidence as they continued to shoot their weapons at the prisoner escort group.
"Ugh! This is getting us nowhere!" shouted Tazer in frustration.
"Well, you got any other ideas huh?" retorted Slammer who's as much frustrated as Tazer.
"AAAAHHHH! I DON'T WANNA DIIIIEEEEE!" shouted Scrozzle cowering in his spot.
"SHUT UP!" shouted Slammer and Tazer in annoyance making Scrozzle cower in fear.
"Would the two just stop fighting each other and fight the enemy!?" chastised Sergeant Garcia.
While the two ODSTs and Nova Corpsman argued, Daisy stayed quiet the whole time while looking around the hallway as if she was planning something. She took a deep breath and exhaled before holstering her rifle and then cracked her knuckles and as well as her neck twice, and before anyone knew it, she activated her thruster pack and took off to the air taking everyone off-guard.
"What the?!" exclaimed Tazer and Slammer in shock.
"Was?! (What?!)" exclaimed the Valhallan soldiers including Holzer in shock.
"Huh?" uttered Ryjack in confusion.
"Hmm?" hummed Dark Para-DX raising an eyebrow while looking towards the Spartan II.
Daisy used her thruster packs to rise up high enough to a good enough height before jetting towards Holzer's group and slammed her fist to the ground creating a shockwave sending Holzer and two of his men flying, knocking them out.
She turned to her team "The path's all clear! Go!" she shouted.
"Right! Let's go!" said Sergeant Garcia as the group gathered together while the remaining three Nova Corpsman including Denarian Kreld activated their energy shields and covered for everyone's escape.
"Hmph... futile..." said Dark Para-DX as he proceeded to stop them but just when he took just a couple of steps forward, he saw Spartan Daisy jump over the shield barrier using her thruster pack and thrust her left gauntlet forward launching her arm mounted grapple AKA the Grappleshot as it wrapped around the dark rider's left arm much to his surprise.
"What?!" he exclaimed in surprise as the Spartan II attempted to pull her grapple taking him toward her, only for the dark rider to pull back causing Daisy to get to him instead as she attempted to throw a punch at Dark Para-DX only for him to dodge instead.
"Chief!" exclaimed Slammer, Kirby, Sergeant Garcia, the marine and the other ODST.
"Go! I'll keep them occupied while you escape!" called out Daisy as she and the dark rider wrestled with one another.
"Alright, let's go! Andale! Andale!" shouted Garcia.
Slammer, Kirby, Tazer and Rhoss were a bit hesitant at first but uderstood as they proceeded to take their prisoners with them and go while the remaining Nova Corpsman continued to block the other two Valhallan soldiers' bullet projectiles.
But just when Tazer and Rhoss proceeded to push Ryjack in his hover chair forward, Holzer sat up with a groan, managing to recover from Daisy's surprise attack and took notice of the Nova Corpsman attempting to escape with the alien prisoner. He narrowed his eyes before he went for his watch on his left wrist, pressed a few buttons and just like that, disappeared into orange pixels before reappearing behind the two Nova Corpsman "I'm not letting you get away!" he said as he grabbed the two by their shoulders.
"What the- OOF!" exclaimed Tazer who was pulled away before he was met with a punch dazing him. Holzer punched Rhoss next before kicking the both of them away from him and Ryjack as the two Nova Corpsman groaned.
"Tazer! Rhoss!" exclaimed Slammer.
"Hmph! took you mates long enough!" said Ryjack as Holzer touched the chair, an orange pixelated aura glowing in his hand and as if by magic, the chair powered down with a hum, lowering the alien criminal to the floor.
Using his strength, Ryjack broke off from his restraints and stood up "Ah~! Feels good ta stretch ma limbs after sittin in tha chair fer a long while" said the rhino alien criminal stretching his arms and doing a bit of bends and turning his head with a crack.
"Ryjack's free! get 'em!" shouted Slammer charging forward.
"Slammer! ¡Espera!" called out Sergeant Garcia running after him while telling him to wait.
"Heh..." scoffed Ryjack as the horn on his forehead glowed with yellow energy and electricity before firing a beam of lightning.
"Get down!" exclaimed Sergeant Garcia tackling Slammer to the ground causing the beam to miss them.
"Get down!" exclaimed Kirby, rolling out of the way but unfortunately, the ODST who was next to him couldn't move on time and was hit by the yellow beam sending him flying.
"Yipes!" exclaimed Scrozzle as he ducked, dodging Ryjack's beam causing it to hit the UNSC Marine instead as he too was sent flying.
"Patch! Hamilton!" exclaimed Garcia upon seeing his men get hit.
"Heh..." smirked Ryjack before firing another beam at the currently occupied Nova Corpsmen and Denarian.
"Sir! look out!" exclaimed a Corspman who noticed the attack and tackled Denarian Kreld to the ground just in time to avoid the blast but the other two Corpsmen were unlucky as they screamed in pain before collapsing on the floor.
"Men!" exclaimed Denarian Kreld checking on one of his men and noticed that they were groaning in great pain and not only that, they were glowing with yellow flowing energy cracks in part of their bodies.
"Heh... I just blasted your men with mah Horn Shock, they're now infected with a deadly poison" Ryjack explained "They'll be history unless ya find an antidote... that is... if you can get outta 'ere alive" he said deviously.
Sergeant Garcia started muttering curses in Spanish in frustration at the predicament they're in.
"UGH!" screamed a voice as the remainder of the prisoner escort team turned to see much to their shock Spartan Daisy get sent flying hitting the floor before skidding back until she came to a halt with a painful groan.
"Chief!" exclaimed Kirby and Garcia as the two along with Slammer checked on the injured Spartan. Daisy's armor was breached, revealing a diagonal slash mark on her chest from above the left front side down to the bottom just below her right breast and there was a crack on her helmet's visor on the right side and a hole on the left side revealing her left eye.
Sergeant Garcia checked on her before sighing in relief after hearing a slight groan from her "She's still alive but she needs medical attention quick!" he said.
"I'm afraid, tha's not gonna happen mate..." declared Ryjack getting their attention "'cause you're not gettin outta here alive" he declared as the remaining Valhalla soldiers pointed their weapons at them.
Suddenly, the infected UNSC Marine, Hamilton pulled out a flash bang grenade while the infected ODST, Patch took out a smoke grenade, tossed them into the air and fired a bullet using their M6H2 Magnum Pistols detonating them, stunning the Valhallan Soldiers and Dark Para-DX and covering the room with smoke as a result.
"AAHHH! MY EYES!" Screamed Scrozzle holding his eyes in pain.
"Sir... get out of here..." uttered out Hamilton as he along with Patch struggled to get up "We'll stay and distract them... while you escape!" he said.
"We'll stay here as well..." said the infected Nova Corpsman as he along with the other Corpsman got up and activated their shields blocking the incoming bullet fire from the confused Valhallan soldiers.
"What?! No way in hell we're leavin ya Hamilton!" protested Slammer.
"I'm with Slam here!" agreed Tazer "No way, we'd leave you in the mercy of these punks!" he said.
"Hold it you two!" said Denarian Kreld as he and the other Corpsman got up "Be real for a moment, all of us will end up dead here if we all attempt to escape" he reasoned.
"Si, and besides, all of us can't carry everyone who's nearly incapacitated, especially Chief since her armor weighs more" said Sergeant Garcia referring to Daisy.
Slammer and Tazer either growled or clicked their tongue in frustration upon realizing that they were right "Fine then, let's get outta here" said the former.
"Alright then!" said Sergeant Garcia before turning to his infected men "Give them hell you two!" he said as he helped Slammer get Daisy to her feet with her arms around their shoulders.
"It's been an honor serving you Sarge" said Patch holding up his M20 SMG.
"I'll make sure Nova Prime knows about your sacrifices and I'll tell your families you've done Nova Corps proud!" said Denarian Kreld.
"Thank you sir..." responded one of the infected Nova Corpsman.
"Let's go! Go! Go! Andale! Andale! Andale!" shouted Sergeant Garcia as he and Slammer carried the Spartan II to safety, Kirby, Denarian Kreld, Tazer, Rhoss and the last able Nova Corpsman following behind while the remainder of the group stayed, buying time for them to escape.
At the same time, the UNSC/Nova Corps group were escaping, Dark Para-DX growled in annoyance at the distraction as he swung his weapon sidewards blowing away the smoke revealing the infected soldiers were the only ones present while the rest escaped.
He scoffed before pressing the "A" button on his Bugvisor Zwei.
KIMEWAZA! CRITICAL SACRIFICE!
Dark Para-DX' Bugvisor Zwei's chainsaw became wreathed in violet and black videogame style energy, the dark rider's eyes briefly glowed before he swung his weapon sidewards creating a large circular violet and black energy sawblade as he hurled it at the Nova Corpsmen's shields.
It only took a couple of seconds before the sawblade cut through the shield and hit the Nova Corpsmen along with Hamilton and Patch, engulfing them in an explosion making them scream in pain.
When the explosion cleared, they were now on the floor continuing to writhe in pain from Ryjack's poison.
Holzer walked over to Hamilton and kicked his weapon away as he loomed over the the Marine's pitiful state.
"Hmph...!" he scoffed before taking out a futuristic Mauser 96 Pistol, pointing it the marine "Auf Wiedersehen..." he said before shooting him on the head, killing him in the process and his men did the same disposing of the other three soldiers.
"Heh..." chuckled Ryjack amused before turning to Dark Para-DX "Glad to know tha you got mah message mate" he said.
"Let's skip the pleasantries and get straight to the point mercenary..." said Dark Para-DX impatiently while approaching the rhino alien "The location of this temple fortress' vault..." he said "Do you have it?" he questioned.
"With pleasure sir" said Ryjack happily as he took out what looked like a disk in his right hand that was hidden in his person before activating it showing a hologram of a map of the interior of Temple Fortress Alpha albeit incomplete "During my infiltration to lure in those pest allowing your mole ta enter, I mapped out the location of the entrance of thuh Vault and this is where you mates can find it" he said handing over the coordinates.
Dark Para-DX took the disk from Ryjack and lined it up with a copy of his holo-map of the interior of the whole temple fortress revealing where they needed to go. He nodded in acknowledgement "Vielen Dank, sir Ryjack, your services have been appreciated" he said.
"So long as I get me payment, we can call this even" said Ryjack.
"Do not fret, you will get your payment once this is over" replied Dark Para-DX.
"And I look forward to continue doing business with you" said Ryjack.
Meanwhile Scrozzle who was cowering in the corner tried to sneak away when he heard the sound of a gun being primed at him and he turned to see none other than Holzer in front of him with his gun pointed at the robot "Well, well, well... a little maus, trying to scurry away" mused Holzer.
"EEEK!" screamed Scozzle in fright, falling to his bottom "No! P-p-please! Sp-spare me!" he pleaded getting on his knees.
"Oh... spare you?" Holzer mused, raising an eyebrow.
"Y-y-yes! Please, I'll do anything! I can help you with whatever it is you're doing or even with whatever plans you have in the future, just please don't kill me!" begged the poor robot.
"Anything you say?" questioned Holzer before turning to one of his soldiers "You! Search for any data on him!" he commanded.
"Jawohl!" saluted the soldier before running to a nearby control panel. After a couple of minutes, the soldier returned with a holo-screen activated on his watch "Sir, here's the data" he said as Holzer skimmed through Scrozzle's profile.
"Hmm... interesting" he said before turning to the cowering robot "Perhaps you could prove yourself useful to our organization" he said before firing a laser at Scrozzle's handcuffs setting him free "Consider yourself lucky... Scrozzle was it?" he said "Starting today... you're one of us" he said much to Scrozzle's relief.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!" said Scrozzle in gratitude, grovelling over Holzer who just took a couple steps back "You won't regret this! I'm very good at what I do when it comes to my field of work and I can even learn a few things that could help with improving my talents!" he proclaimed.
"We'll see about that..." spoke Dark Para-DX as he and Ryjack approached Scrozzle and Holzer, the former looking at Scrozzle's data "Just remember... you work under us now, specifically my division" he said "And that makes me, your superior and you are to address me as either "Herr Gruppenführer", "Sir" or "Lord", is that understood?" he said.
"Yes my lord!" responded Scrozzle in a blink of an eye.
"Good..." said Dark Para-DX before glancing back at his holo-screen "Now then..." he said "Can you tell me more about this... Morph-X that you and your old group once used?" he questioned "It could prove useful in our endeavors in the future" he said.
"With pleasure sir..." said Scrozzle eagerly.
Meanwhile in another hallway, the group composed of Kite, Drew, Liam and Captain Griffin were attempting to get to Hangar 7 using an alternate route when they found themselves surrounded by Valhallan soldiers.
"Great... we just had to run into these guys..." uttered Liam in annoyance as he and the rest were currently back to back.
From the crowd of soldiers walked out an officer "vell, vell... vhat do ve have here?" he said.
The officer was a young man in his mid-30s with short dark brown hair, fair skin, average build, a chin strap style beard and blue eyes. He's clad in a Valhallan military uniform composed of a black, purple and dark gray tunic with a belt and silver buckle wrapped around the waist area and a shoulder strap over a white button up shirt with a black necktie, black chestplate vest, black gloves, black trousers, a pair of black boots, a black peaked cap with a silver sigil of a Celtic wheel cross at the center, a Walther P38 Pistol holstered on the right side of his belt, a broad-bladed rapier sheathed on the left side of his belt, a black and dark gray accented overcoat with dark red and gray striped armband with a black sigil of a Celtic wheel cross within a purple and black outlined circle on it on the left upper sleeve of the coat and a pair of red tinted aviator sunglasses over his eyes. This is Klaus Höffner, the commanding officer of the soldiers.
"Eet zeemz, ve've got ourzelvez zome ztrayz in here" said Höffner with a grin.
"Shall ve take zem in Kommandant?" questioned one of his men raising up his futuristic StG 44 Rifles.
"Nien..." responded Höffner shaking his head "Kill zem, ve have no need for prisoners" he declared as his men pointed their weapons at them.
Kite narrowed his eyes "You're underestimating us y'know" he said.
"Oh really?" mused Höffner "Zen vhat does zat make you?" he questioned.
"Heh... how about we show you!" said Drew as he and Liam took out some items from their person.
Drew took out the sword he had sheathed on his back. The sword had a purple and white accented single edged blade with a white serrated back blade, a black handle with a red trigger and in between was a purple and silver tyrannosaurus head with black eyes and a black grip with red trigger at the back. This weapon was the...
GAI-SOUL~ KEN!
Aside from the Gaisoul Ken, Drew took out an item that looked like some kind of key that resembles a dinosaur head with a black and purple color scheme with a red eye. This was a RyuSoul called the GaiSoul.
And Liam took out what looked like a belt. The belt was black and gold with what looked like a sword handle strapped on the right side of the belt and the buckle had a slot on the right side where the Orga Phone could be inserted. This was the SB-000B Orga Driver, also known as the Belt of the Emperor.
Höffner raised an eyebrow "Vhat?" he said.
"Ah, I see..." said Captain Griffin in understanding further confusing the enemy.
Laim strapped on his belt while Drew pressed a button on his GaiSoul unfolding it as it now took the appearance of a black and purple knight with a silver sword and purple and black shield.
Liam took out his Orga Phone, flipped it open and input the code "0-0-0" before pressing "Enter".
STANDING BY!
Announced the phone in a deep automated voice, letting out a pulsing sound as Liam flipped the phone closed before holding it up to his left while Drew crossed his hands in front of him with Gaisoul Ken and GaiSoul in hand and Kite did a number of three posses; the first one having his hands crossed in front of him, the second having his left arm pointed forward while his right arm was held back and the third pose being his right arm pointed forward to his left and his right arm held up, both hands held in fists.
And with that, the trio went through difference sequences of transformations.
"Henshin!" said Liam inserting the Orga Phone onto his belt's slot before folding it sidewards locking it in place.
COMPLETE!
Announced the belt before it released golden photon streams surrounding Liam in a certain pattern before he was engulfed in a bright golden light. When it dissipated, it revealed Liam's new form. He was clad in a black skin suit with two gold stripes located on the top of his neck that lead to his arms, one gold stripe going to either arm and two gold stripes on his legs, black gold and silver bulky chestplate with a red jewel at the chest area, black gold and red jeweled bulky shoulder pauldrons, silver bracer cuffs on his forearms, silver knee armor, silver cuff greaves, black and silver armored boots, black gloves with black metal finger armor, two black and gold accented short twin capes on his back, a black and gold accented twintailed cape around his waist with gold patterns on the side and the gap making the twintails shaped like the omega symbol, silver knee armor, silver greave cuffs, black and silver armored boots with hints of gold on it and worn on his head was a black and gold accented helmet with two black and gold accented top plumes, silver mouth guard and a red visor with a pattern of the omega symbol framing the visor. Liam had become... Kamen Rider Orga.
"Gaisoul Change!" said Drew as he opened the jaw of the Tyranosaurus head as it let out a dinosaur jaw opening sound before inserting the GaiSoul into its' mouth.
GAI-SOUL~ CHANGE!
Announced the weapon as jungle-esque music played and Drew closed the jaw of his weapon as the eyes of the head briefly glowed red before armor appeared from below the floor before attaching onto him completing his transformation as the sound of a guitar riff was played. In Drew's place was a figure clad in a black spandex over silver and purple full-body knight style armored themed after dinosaurs. The armor was composed of a silver and purple bulky chestplate with a purple thunderbolt-like sigil at the chest area and silver collar, silver shoulder armor with purple and silver intricate shaped shoulder pauldrons, silver jagged upper arm armor, silver jagged bracers, black gloves with silver top palm armor, silver and purple accented scale shaped tasset, silver and purple jagged thigh armor, silver and purple jagged greaves, silver and purple jagged armored boots and worn on his head was a purple and silver dinosaur themed helmet with a full-face black visor with silver grills and a green jewel on the forehead. Drew had become... Gaisorg. Held on his right hand was the Gaisoul Ken while held on his left hand was an intricate shaped silver and purple shield with hints of gold and a green jewel at the center. This was the Gaisorg Shield.
"Sekisha!" said Kite before swinging his arms around before doing a pose of his left arm pointed forward with his hand spread out and his right arm held back into a fist before raising his arms up before lowering them again getting into a final stance with his arms raised into a combat stance as orange particles started surrounding him engulfing him in a bright orange light and white sparkles. When it dissipated, it revealed Kit in his new form. He was now clad it a black spandex under red and silver metal plate armor composed of red torso armor with a line of different colors at the middle and a green square at the top, silver lower armor at the abdomen, red, yellow and green lower armor over his waist and below, silver shoulder armor that leads down to his forearms, red upper arm armor, silver elbow armor, red armor bracers, silver cuffs, black gloves with silver metal armor around the hands, red thigh armor, silver knee armor on the , red greaves, silver cuff armor on his ankles, red metal armored boots, a silver holster with a pistol strapped on his right side and worn on his head was a red, silver and black space helmet with a black vision visor, silver and black intricately shaped mouthguard, silver ear-like parts on the sides of his helmet with retracted antennae. All in all, Kite's new form would mistaken him for some retro sci-fi robot. Kite had become... Uuchu Keiji (Space Sheriff) Sharivan.
Seeing the three transform in front of the soldiers and commanding officer shocked them.
"Vhat?!" exclaimed a Valhallan soldier.
"Did zey just transform?!" exclaimed another soldier.
"Just who are zey?!" exclaimed a third.
As if on cue, the rider, ranger and space sheriff introduced themselves.
"Kamen Rider... Orga" said Orga raising his arms up.
"The Knight of Resilience...!" announced Gaisorg pointing his Gaisoul Ken forward before flipping it in the air and catching it "Gaisorg!" he announced swinging his sword to the side.
"Uuchu Keiji..." said Sharivan doing a couple of snappy poses "Sharivan!" he announced going into one last pose.
While all the soldiers were stunned with shock, Höffner merely hummed intrigued "Oh... interesting" he said with a grin.
Captain Griffin stood alongside the four warriors as he took out his halberd and activated it "Let's see if you can deal with us now?" he said swinging his halberd before getting into a combat stance.
(Insert Red vs Blue OST - Terrify! by Jeff Williams feat. Sandy Casey)
"Heh..." mused Höffner before pointing forward "Get zem!" he commanded and the soldiers charged at the four warriors and attacked while the warriors charged at them and clashed.
Orga dodged a few strikes from some soldiers before retaliating with punches of his own but the strength of his punches sent some of the soldiers flying, he followed with a couple of kicks towards more incoming soldiers before taking out his Orga Phone from his belt, he flipped it open and tilted the top part to the left turning it into a gun, he input the code "1-0-6" before pressing "Enter".
BURST MODE!
Announced the phone before Orga open fired sending short burst of gold lasers at a couple of soldiers who attempted to charge at him killing them on the spot. Orga dodged a swing from another soldier's rifle before kicking him away, he turned to his right, pointing his phone gun forward, shooting another soldier knocking him to the ground. Another soldier attempted to charge at him again with a bayonet fixed on his rifle only for Orga to use his Orga Phone to block the bayonet and pushed it away allowing him to punch the soldier flying "You don't mess with Orga..." uttered out Orga.
Gaisorg swung his Gaisoul Ken at three soldiers before following up with a couple of shield bashes at three more. he turned around to block a barrage of lasers from a charging soldier who was shouting out in German. When the soldier came close, Gaisorg switched his sword to a backhanded grip before throwing a punch at the soldier's gasmasked face damaging the mask and possibly breaking his face from inside while simultaneously sending the soldier flying. He flipped his Gaisoul Ken back to its' original grip before hurling his shield at the soldiers Captain America Style hitting any soldier that comes it's way. While the Gaisorg Shield boomeranged through soldiers, Gaisorg opened the jaws of his saber and took out another RyuSoul, this one being silver, white and gold and a red eye and it resembles a head of a Rauisuchus. This was the TsuyoSoul AKA the Power Soul. He flipped it open turning it into a silver knight with a black and white shield and a gold arm holding a golden jagged sword before inserting it into the Gaisoul Ken.
TSUYOSOUL!
Announced the Gaisoul Ken before Gaisorg chomped the head closed, a purple light briefly glowing in between the teeth.
ANCIENT BREAK EDGE! ORA! ORA! ORA!
Announced the weapon as Gaisorg got into a stance, steam starting to come out of his armor before he let out a roar releasing a shockwave dissipating the steam while temporarily stunning the soldiers. Gaisorg charged at the soldiers and sent powerful swings from his saber sending soldiers flying here and there, upon striking the last soldier, his Gaisorg Shield came spinning back towards him and without even looking, Gaisorg raised up his left arm and caught it just in time to block a bayonet swing from yet another soldier and Gaisorg easily retaliated with one last swing from his Gaisoul Ken "I... am so... awesome..." said Gaisorg in calm excitement.
With Sharivan, he unbuttoned the strap on the holster on his right waist allowing him to unholster his sidearm.
"Crime Buster!" announced Sharivan firing said sidearm at four soldiers making them stagger back. The Crime Buster was a retro looking sci-fi laser pistol with a dark gray grip, gray body, some futuristic colored spots on the sides and a black barrel.
Sharivan calmly walked forward as he dodged a swing of a bayonet from one of the four soldiers before retaliating by shooting him point blank on the forehead of his helmet killing him, he turned to his left just in time to block a swing from a second soldier and flipped him to the floor while simultaneously shooting him on the head killing him as well. Sharivan then pointed his gun forward shooting the third soldier followed by another shot at the fourth soldier, he turned around to see another soldier trying to get the drop on him by leaping at him only to receive a taste of his crime buster instead causing him to fall to the ground limp, another soldier tried to do the same trick but was met with the same result as Sharivan shot him down.
Two more soldiers charged at Sharivan as the space sheriff dodged a swing from the first one and then blocked a couple of swings from the second one before shooting him with his Crime Buster. The first soldier came back followed by a third soldier as the former kicked Sharivan only to be blocked and then followed up with a couple of swings, Sharivan ducking the fist swing and then blocking the second swing with his left arm. The moment he blocked that swing, Sharivan shot the third soldier on the leg knocking him down, he let go of the first soldier distracting him before backhanding him hard making him spin disoriented before he was met with a shot from Sharivan's Crime Buster as he hit the floor.
With Captain Griffin, he swung his halberd at incoming Valhallan soldiers with expert flourish sending them flying, every soldier that dared come near him would either end up getting hacked, stabbed or even whacked by the flat portion of his halberd "Heh... this is nothing!" boasted Captain Griffin off-handedly as he expertly spun his halberd around striking down enemy after enemy.
After striking another soldier, another one sneaked up on him from behind and used his rifle to put it over him restraining his movements "Ha! Got you now!" said the soldier confidently "Oh really?" said Captain Griffin smugly before he back-headbutted the soldier hard dazing him causing him to loosen his restraint over the celestial paladin, allowing Captain Griffin to escape and smack him twice with his halberd before stabbing said halberd to the floor and used it to fault up briefly and execute a side kick at the soldier's gasmasked face sending him flying. Griffin then took notice of more soldiers surrounding him and just when they charged him at the same time, he got into a stance and his halberd charged up with cyan energy before doing a 360 swing creating a shockwave sending the soldiers flying.
"Never underestimate a Celestial Paladin..." said Captain Griffin doing a cool pose after doing his powerful swing.
Kommandant Höffner hummed as he watched the four heroes fend of his men easily "Impressive..." he said putting a hand on his chin "Zees individuals seem to handle zemselves" he said before letting out a devious grin "But not for long..." he uttered out before removing his sunglasses and put them away "Men! Stand back! I'll deal vith zem personally" he said walking forward, surprising some of his men and even the four heroes.
"Kommandant... are you sure about zis? Can you handle zem on your own?" asked one of his men in concern.
"Ja... I know I can..." said Höffner confidently "Now, retreat!" he ordered.
"Jawohl!" said the remaining soldiers as they retreated while Höffner approached the four.
"Huh? This guy's gonna fight us?" said Orga with a raised eyebrow behind his helmet.
"Heh... easy-peasy" said Gaisorg twirling his Gaisoul Ken before getting into a stance.
Sharivan remained silent and narrowed his eyes, sensing that something was wrong.
Höffner smirked before removing his cap and tossing it to the side. What happened next caught the four warriors off-guard. Off-screen, the Valhallan officer's silhouette started hump forward before starting to move in very uncomfortable positions until it shapeshifted into that of some kind of monster.
"What in the name?! He can turn into that!?" exclaimed Gaisorg witnessing whatever the Valhallan officer turned into.
"That's definitely bad news…" said Captain Griffin warily.
Orga remained silent and narrowed his eyes behind his helmet for some reason.
"Why? What is that?" questioned Sharivan pointing his Crime Buster at the Valhallan officer's obscured monster form.
"Bad news" said Gaisorg simply.
"He, he, heh…" said chuckled Höffner "Not zo confidant now Ja?" he taunted in a deep distorted voice "I can Eezily destroy you all een zeconds!" he declared.
Orga narrowed his eyes "Is that so...?" he said before he unsheathed the handle device on his side. The handle was black and gold with a gold pommel with a red jewel, black and gold accented horseshoe shaped guard, a silver nozel-like part at the top and in between were two gold blades making the handle look like a two pronged dagger. This was Orga's weapon the Sword of Hades, otherwise known as the SB-000S Orga Stranzer.
Orga removed slid off the chip that was on his Orga Phone, the Orga Mission Memory and inserted it on the slot of the Orga Stranzer.
READY!
Announced the Stranzer as a gold photon beam extended from the weapon before it solidified revealing a long two pronged blade with gold edges and a black and red rod-like filler thus turning the Stranzer into longsword mode.
Orga got into a stance with his sword "In that case... let's see what that form of yours is capable of..." he declared.
Höffner chuckled "Gladly..." he said getting into a stance himself with his hands turned claws raised up before charging at the four.
Meanwhile, with the group composed of Godfrey, Gideon, Wade and Len, they were at a hallway a few ways from hangar 7, where they were helping out in clearing debris and rescuing trainees and instructors who were either trapped or injured from the collapsed ceiling and with them were other able trainees and instructors helping them out as they proceeded to rescue trapped or injured people and took them to hangar 7.
"It's alright, you're gonna be okay" assured Godfrey helping a fellow instructor paladin to his feet.
"*Cough!* *cough!*... thank you Godfrey..." said the instructor paladin as he was handed over to other trainees to be taken to hangar 7 to the transports.
The group continued to rescue more trapped and injured but just when they were done getting the last of the trainees and instructors out, they all heard the sound of distant running along with shouting coming from the end of another hallway just a few ways from them.
"What's that?" wondered Wade looking towards the hallway with narrowed eyes.
Running out of the hallways were five trainees composed of two squire paladins and three priest apprentices, all of them were looking worse for wear and two of the priest apprentices were helping the third one run due to being injured.
"Help! Someone help us!" exclaimed one of the two squire paladins as they continued to run towards the rescue group, but before any of the group could react, running out of the hallway the trainees came from were Valhallan soldiers shouting out in German while firing stray shots with their SMGs and Rifles and they were dead-set on killing the poor young trainees as said trainees hit the floor screaming in fear of getting hit.
"Crikey!" exclaimed Wade before he started to run towards the currently helpless trainees "Oi! Cover me! I'll get them outta there!" he shouted.
"You're not going without someone to shield you from incoming shots!" said Godfrey as he activated the gauntlet on his left arm as it lit up before creating a tower shield made of cyan energy "You three! Help me with recovering the trainees, the rest of you, cover us while we retreve the them!" he ordered some instructors and other paladins and priests who nodded as three paladins followed Godfrey and Wade while the rest of the paladin group took out futuristic M14 Rifles while the priest group cast a few spells and gave them cover fire.
"I'll help with cover fire!" said Len as he held up his right hand "Come! Gatack Zecter!" he called out as something came flying in from out of nowhere, zipped passed a few Valhallan soldiers knocking them down and straight towards Len who caught it with his hand.
Said object was a mechanical blue and gold stag beetle with gold legs, silver ovular ring, a black oval with a line and six circle dots, a gold ovular button at the back of the top and two gold thrusters at the rear. This was the Gatack Zecter.
"I'm here Len! Let's do this!" spoke Gatack Zecter "Right!" nodded Len before he moved his blazer a bit revealing a rider belt as he held up the Gatack Zecter to his left and said "Henshin!" before sliding the zecter into the belt.
HENSHIN!
Announced the belt as armor materialized out of hexagons surrounding Len. He was now clad in a black body suit with silver, blue and black bulky upper armor composed of a silver, blue and black chestplate with a tube shaped collar, silver and blue armor at the top sides of the torso armor with two blue and yellow antler-like horns sticking out on either side, blue and silver pauldrons with what looked like two black and silver shoulder mounted double barrel cannons with black circles with a blue stag beetle sigil with the word "ZECT" on them, silver and blue spine bone shaped armored upper arm armor and bracers, silver and blue armored gloves, light armored thighs, knee pads, greaves, black and silver armored shoes and a silver and blue helmet with a black and silver insect-like antenna at the forehead area, red vision visor and silver mouthguard with horizontal line designs. Len had become... Kamen Rider Gatack: Masked Form.
"Eat this!" shouted Gatack as he reared back his arms and unleashed a barrage of bullets at the Valhallan soldiers using his shoulder mounted guns called Gatack Vulcans.
Wade, Godfrey and the three paladins ran as fast as they could to the trapped trainees with the latter four using energy shields to block incoming stray shots that got in their way. Eventually, the group made it to the five trainees.
"Oi! You mates alright?" asked Wade in concern helping them up.
"We're fine but Thomas hurt his leg" said a priestess apprentice gesturing to the other priest apprentice she was helping up.
"Don't worry, we'll get you out of here" assured Godfrey "Let's move it! Go! Go! Go!" he said to the other paladins as the group slowly moved back to the others.
"Easy there now mate" said Wade helping out one of the squire paladins.
The group proceeded to take the trainees to safety, but just when they were almost halfway, a couple of Valhallan soldiers came and brought out a couple of rocket launchers resembling futuristic Fliegerfaust rocket launchers.
Gatack was the first to take notice "Look out! They got rocket launchers!" he warned.
The group looked to where Gatack pointed at, only to see the soldiers fire two rockets at them.
"Aw... Crikey!" shouted Wade as the rockets hit them sending the group flying.
"Guys!" exclaimed Gatack in alarm upon seeing what happened.
Godfrey, the two paladins, the trainees and Wade were sprawled on the floor groaning at the impact of the attack. One of the paladins broke his harm while Godfrey on the other hand got his arm badly burned as he held it while seething in pain.
Wade managed to get up on his knees and shook his head before taking notice of his surroundings. He then took notice of the Valhallan soldiers fire two more rockets at there direction, and without even thinking he ran forward until he was in front of the rockets' line of fire as he reached for his wrist device. Said wrist device had a blue color scheme with with a black and orange stripped part at the left side, a transparent cover with the sigil of a compass with a white circle and a red and black magnetized needle on it. This was the Mercury Morpher.
Wade pressed a button popping the lid open revealing the inside which was a stopwatch device with a blue number calculator at the left with two red buttons, a white and gold ringed part at the right and a blue button at the bottom right.
"Ugh... hey! What do you think you're-?!" exclaimed Godfrey in alarm despite the pain of his burnt arm but it was too late because...
*BOOM!*
"WADE!" exclaimed Gatack in shock.
Meanwhile at the entrance of the hallway that leads to the temple fortress' vault, Grandmaster Averet and High Priestess Serrana together with their paladin and priest squads awaited patiently in formation for the incoming threat that will soon raid the vault.
The sound of marching footsteps were heard as Averet took out his rifle which resembles a futuristic looking M16 Rifle while Serrana took out the t-shaped cylinder and activated it revealing a cyan bladed lightsaber style arming sword.
The marching footsteps became louder and louder until a platoon of Valhallan soldiers came into view. Leading them were Dark Para-DX, Sorcerer, Utopia Dopant, the unknown Kommandant from before and finally, two hooded figures.
"Squads! Defensive positions!" commanded Averet pointing his rifle forward while the other paladins held up their shields at the ready and pointed their rifles forward.
"Steady~!" commanded Serrana going into a battle stance with her saber while the other priests either raised up their magic staffs or palms up readying their spells or raised up their holy weapons at the ready.
The enemy platoon came closer until they were a few feet away from the paladin and priest squads.
"Oh~? And vhat eez zis?" mused Utopia Dopant as he and the Valhallan platoon were getting closer.
"In the name of the Celestial Council, we the celestial paladins and celestial priests forbid you from entering the vault!" declared high priestess Serrana with a determined expression.
"Eez zat so?" said Utopia Dopant before chuckling in amusement "Zen by all means..." he said gesturing his hands up while continuing to walk forward "...Try und stop us" he challenged.
Averet narrowed his eyes before saying upon command "Fire!" and he and the other rifle wielding paladins open fired unleashing a barrage of lasers at the approaching platoon.
BARRIER NOW~!
Only for the barrage to hit a barrier created by Sorcerer.
High Priestess Serrana scowled before pointing her saber forward commanding the Magus Priests to launch their spells only to meet the same result.
The Kommandant Officer scoffed before holding up his hand and all of a sudden, an orb of black, purple and white energy and white lightning materialized on the palm of his hand, he then enlarged it until it was about twice the size of a boulder before hurling it at the squads.
Serrana gasped "BARRIER!" she commanded as the magus priest squad created a large barrier that would protect them. The orb hit the barrier and the priests did their best to hold it until hopefully it dissipates.
"It's working!" exclaimed one holy warrior priest as the orb began to slowly dissipate. High Priestess Serrana smiled slightly gaining a bit of confidence that they could do this but it was short lived when her eyes widened upon sensing something wrong, her eyes widened even further when she turned to her enemy and saw one of the hooded figures hold up their hand as a strange magic circle appeared and a powerful beam of black and red energy shot through the circle and headed towards the slowly dissipating energy orb.
"LOOK OUT!" Serrana warned but it was too late. The blast hit the orb, making it more powerful causing the barrier to crack until it broke, and then...
*BOOOOOOOOOMMM!*
"Oh, dear! It seems that this is even more of a bigger pickle than I thought it would be!" said the voice of Nexus Lupin as he chuckled in amusement "Wonder how this will all end? Will the people of Temple Fortress Alpha escape in time? Will the group of friends reunite? Will everyone ever make it out alive? What is the intention of Valhalla?" he listed off.
"Ehehehe... well... all of you will have to find out... on the final conclusion of this story..." he said deviously.
"Ciao~!"
Author's Notes:
Inspired by XP4Universe and Fir100
And that concludes this chapter. As you can see, here's the introduction to the new villains: a military organization known as Valhalla and as you can see, they're German and judging by their motiffs, they're kinda like space Nazis. They attacked Temple Fortress Alpha and a number of interesting characters both in and good guys and bad guys side have been introduced.
Bet all of you are wondering what they want from Temple Fortress Alpha. If all of you could already take a guess, then good job guessing right, but to those who haven't, well, look forward to finding out on the final chapter of this story, so stay tuned!
And with that, the rewrite of all the chapters I've posted so far are all finished. What follows are all new, so expect new things to happen on the upcoming chapters. I have no posting schedule, so expect a new chapter when you least expect it.
This is XD Warden... warping out.