Chapter 13
Massacre
Adir noticed I had passed out thus coming to life. Reaching out and grabbing me then using his boosters to blast off from the ground. Opening up his cockpit he put me inside then rushed out of there. Setting himself on autopilot and headed back to the base. Everybody at the rebel base prepped themselves and radioed the rest of the forces to gear up and head towards the base. It seems they may have something up their sleeves. What could it be?
"Krystal please don't hurt Shawn. Bring him back alive." Akane pleaded
"This is war I can't Guarantee anything but I will try." Krystal replied
"Now take these coordinates and go to them. Wait for me there." Krystal ordered as Akane nodded. Grabbing the piece of paper she ran to one of the vehicles and headed out entering the coordinates into the navigation system that was on the vehicle. While I was at the rebel base quite few hours had passed and the Adair was moving a lot slower than usual so many hours had passed.
Back at the base everybody was busy doing their normal routine. Amarante had been asking around wondering where I had gone but nobody could give her an answer. Frustrated she kept on searching around. The one man she wasn't able to find was the general. The general had been out of sight since I had left. Hidden in a spot where no one would be able to find him.
Dominic and Anemone were taking a pleasant walk with Anemone holding Gulliver. It was a nice sunny day. Layla was also walking with them. Layla enjoyed being in her human form opposed to being in the LFO form.
"It's nice to see you three doing so well." Layla said happily with a smile. Both of the two love birds blushed a bit and smiled.
"Yes, its pleasant here and everybody is very nice." Anemone replied with happiness as Dominic nodded.
"I'm sure these days will continue." Dominic added with a smile as they headed to Bldg 30 to say hello to the other coralians.
Matthieu and Hilda as usual were listening to records and sorting things.
"Honey what do you think about this?" Matthieu asked as she put the head phones on
"Oooo! This is good. Put it into this pile." Hilda said as she went back to sorting
"Where do you think Shawn went?" Matthieu asked
"I don't know but I have a bad feeling. I hope this is nothing." Hilda said worriedly
"It's probably nothing. You always over worry." Matthieu said smiling as he got a smack from Hilda
"Very funny." Hilda replied shaking her head
Holland, Talho and Dewey Jr were all enjoying their time on the bridge of the GekkoGo. Talho was watching Dewey Jr while Holland performed some maintenance on the Gekko Go. Dewey Jr was enjoying his LFO miniature toy he got from his dad. Both of the parents smiled at their son.
"Hey, Holland after this war is over we should all live in country. It'd be good for everybody." Talho suggested.
"Everybody, meaning?" He replied
"The Gekko Go Crew. We all pitch in and then live as one big happy family." Talho replied as she watched her son.
"Hmm, that might not be bad. I'll talk with everybody and see what they think." Holland replied
"Good to hear. I wonder where Shawn is." Talho said as her normal expression turned to worry
"I'm sure he's fine. He's a lot tougher. He can take care of himself." Holland stated
"I see somebody's grown to like him." Talho replied teasing Holland a bit. Holland just scoffed a bit then back to working. Talho giggled a bit but still remained worried
Renton, Eureka and the kids were all playing in the field enjoying their time together. The little ones were wrestling with each other while Maurice was taking pictures of the surroundings. Maurice thought he saw something in the distance. He moved his camera lens in that direction and zoomed in. He saw Adair incoming fast, too fast.
"Everybody Run!" Maurice yelled catching the attention of everybody and the people outside the base while some inside. Maurice ran towards his brother and sister. Grabbed them and almost dragged them out of the way. They were all confused until they looked where Maurice was looking then realized what was going on. They both bolted up and began running out of the way. People began grabbing binoculars and looking in the direction. They saw how banged up the LFO looked and realized it was Shawn's LFO.
"MEDIC CREW! Outside on the double. Adair is going to crash." The general said over the intercom as he booked outside as fast as possible. Many other people were alrdy outside on the edge waiting for adair to crash land. Adair reached the edge of the landing strip then hit the sand hard then rolled onto the landing strip. Certain parts were flying places. Eureka stared on for a few seconds then immediantly began running as everybody else followed. Adair finally came to stop as the cockpit opened up Shawn fell out and hit the ground hard. He laid there not moving one bit. The general then the medic crew reached him first. I opened up my eyes and mustered the last bit of strength.
"REBELS COMING! RUN!" I yelled then coughed up blood and fell unconscious again. It took a moment for everybody to register. Then it clicked. The general radioed everybody to prep for battle. Everybody began pulling their LFO's out and getting them read y to go. The Gekko Go was out of the hanger within 15 minutes. All the pilots were prepped and inside their LFO's. I was brought into the medic center as they all started to tend to my wounds. I had tons of scraps and cuts. A good sized bruised on the back of my head with it bleeding slightly. After bandaging me up they got machines hooked up to me to monitor my status. Amarante moments later burst in and was asking the doctors is he going to be okay.
"He should be but we need to run more tests. Go sit over there." The doctor ordered as they continued tests. They noticed I was paler than usual. As they didn't know how much blood I had lost they wanted to add in more but didn't know my blood type. They quickly pulled a blood sample and figured out my blood type and noticed it was the same type as Amarante.
"Amarante, blood transfusion now, get on the table now." The doctor ordered as she did as she was told. They setup the machine and got blood going into me. A good 10 minutes later they noticed a little color coming back to my pale skin. Just then they heard an alarm sound. It was informing everybody they had company. You could hear LFO's taking off one after another and the Gekko go took flight too.
"Amarante stay here another 20 minutes to finish the transfusion then they'll need your help. I want you to protect this area." One of the doctors stated as she nodded. They all pulled guns and rifles they set a few next to Amarante. One doctor stayed behind while the others rushed through the building making sure everything was secured. You could hear gun firing going off from ground troops and LFO's as well. You could hear things from all sides of the base. Another 20 minutes had passed and the doctor walked over to Amarante and removed the needle. He patched up her arm. Amarante gave me a kiss then ran out of the room with her guns. She had her rifle aimed and ready to fire at anybody that entered her area. The doctor walked out of the door and pressed a few buttons on the keyboard as a blast door came down and covered the entrance into the clinic where I was. The doctor pulled a gun and began searching the area as well while I rested. Except with my senses I could tell what was going on. I never was fully unconscious during the entire procedure that went on. I could feel my body slowly healing itself.
Outside it was chaos. Gunfire whizzing past people, enemies and allies alike. Holland, Talho, Matthieu, Hilda, Anemone, Renton and Eureka were all piloting something taking out rebel forces. There was rebel forces coming in from all sides of the base causing everybody to split up to fend them off. Between all bullets whizzing between enemies and allies on each side was injuring or killing somebody. But the rebels just kept coming. Holland was having trouble dealing with these new LFO's the rebel had. More LFO's were incoming to the base. It seemed the LFO's were stalling for time.
"Talho, they're stalling for time. Look for something out of the ordinary!" Holland ordered
"Roger." Talho replied as the Gekko Go began scanning the area to find something out of the ordinary.
Matthieu and Hilda were both fighting together watching each others back. They managed to shoot one of the LFO's down but one of the better ones took its place. Which both Matthieu and Hilda were having some trouble with it. Anemone and Eureka weren't having much problems with any of the LFO's. They all fight better than the new LFO's that been coming in. Taking LFO's out like they were nothing. The numbers on the ground were slowly dwindling and the allies were slowly being pushed back.
Back in the clinic, I was still resting and could feel something bad coming.
'You want me to deal with this?' Alucard asked
'You know what's coming?' I replied
'No but if you're getting this feeling then it aint good; hurry up and decide.' Alucard persisted as I thought about it for a moment and decided it was a good idea.
'Do it.' I said
My wings began turning black and where the colored veins were turned red. My nails extended out and my eyes changed to a black color. I opened my eyes as I hopped up out of the clinics bed. Alucard walked over to the blast door. Not liking this Alucard looked up and noticed he could get out that way. Alucard jumped up hard and let loose an orb putting a hole in the roof as he jumped out. This caught everybody's attention. When Alucard landed on the roof there was a rebel within mere feet of him holding a rifle. Alucard quickly reacted sprinting forward at the rebel and slashing up the front of the guy within a matter of seconds. He stood there frozen as slashs began forming all up his body and his face. He dropped the rifle and screamed out in pain as blood began running down his body and dripping on the ground. The few rebels that were staring at me from a distance began backing away. Alucard looked over and smiled. They began running back into the forest. Jumping off the one story building at the moment Alucard touched the ground he became a blur and ended up next to the two guys. Using his claws and the speed he sliced through the middle part of them and their arms and hands. The guns dropped a moment later as they both screamed then collapsed. A pile of intestines and guts spilled out around Alucard with the rebels on the ground went into shock. Scanning the area alucard noticed he gained the attention of many people. Allies and rebels alike except the people in LFO's in the air.
"So who's next?" Alucard said in a dark tone as he scanned the area. Everybody backed up from Alucard.
"Don't move you freak or I kill your girl." One of the rebels said as he came around the corner holding Amarante hostage with a gun pointed at her head.
"You sure you want to do that?" Alucard asked as a moment later he blurred then appeared next to the rebel as the gun fired it slightly grazed Amarante then the bullet shot off into the distance. The gun then fell down to the ground as did the rebel's hand. It took him a few seconds to notice this and then screamed out in pain letting Amarante go. She quickly ran away from the rebel. Alucard quickly took his claws and shredded the rebels hands, arms and legs. Leaving deep marks in each part.
"Die in pain." Alucard stated as he punched the guy hard and the man slammed against the building . Alucard walked over to the gun and picked it up. He tossed it over to Amarante.
"Don't get caught." Alucard said as he took off again. Alucard began running then took off into the air going far above everything else and using the sun as cover. He flipped around and began falling towards one of the LFO's. The person inside the LFO's noticed something falling.
"Now! Lauch it at me." The rebel stated as moments later Alucard landed on the LFO's pulling the latch that opens up the cockpit. Alucard hopped inside and sliced the rebels throat. A missle was then launched straight at Alucard at close range. He managed to jump off the LFO's in time but the explosion caught his back and seered his wings. He began falling as he tried using his wings he noticed they weren't catching trapar. Alucard for once in his life began worried he was actually going to die. He began looking around frantically trying to figure out how to save himself. Noticing there was no way he fanned himself out to slow the fall and began yelling for help. The ground got closer and closer then as he was about to hit it the Nirvash caught him then skidded to a halt on the ground.
"You idiot what were you trying to do?" Eureka yelled over mic
"Help you what else." Alucard replied
"Stay on the ground and help the troops here." Eureka ordered as all the LFO's quickly retreated and the rebels on the ground were already gone.
"EUREKA GRAB WHOEVER YOU CAN AND GET OUT OF HERE!" Alucard yelled then hopped off and began running to his LFO's
"AMARANTE MY LFO NOW!" Alucard yelled as he began running over to Adair followed by Amarante. He quickly opened up the cockpit and climbed in followed by Amarante.
"Come on Adair I know you got more left in you then that!" Alucard stated as he started up Adair and managed to get him up and moving.
"Shawn whats wrong?" Amarante asked scared
"Later!" Alucard replied back and got Adair up in the air and started going towards the forested area behind the base and continued that way as everybody followed Adair. Moments later a missle landed smack in the middle of the base and a huge explosion happened. Everybody in the vicinity was vaporized instantly. All of the Coralians had gotten out as they were linked to Alucard. People on the base, many of them died and all the other machinery down there was gone. A shock wave shot through the air and ground turning up dirt and trees and throwing them into the air. Many other people were thrown with it on the ground. Everybody had passed Adair so the shockwave hit him first throwing him further out at tremendous speeds and landing hard onto the ground as everything went black. The weaker shockwave hit the other LFO's and Gekko Go. It was nothing they couldn't handle. Everybody landed down after the shock wave had passed and looked back. They noticed a good size crater where the base used to be.
"NOOOOOO!" Eureka yelled falling to her knees in tears. Everybody else looked back disbelieving what they were seeing.
"Where's Shawn!" Holland yelled snapping everybody out of their trance.
"He got hit with the stronger shock wave back there and went down." Talho said sounding horrified.
"Renton, Anemone, Matthieu with me now!" Holland stated as they all hopped back into their LFO's and went scouring their all the devastation. There were human bodies all over the place laying limp and not moving. Renton Went further up and had Nirvash begin scanning the area. He found Adair moments later crashed a bit off in the distance.
"FOLLOW ME!" Renton said over the mic and rushed over to Adair. When he got there most of the mechanical armor had been shredded off except the cockpit. Everybody landed quickly and rushed over to Adair as the cockpit itself opened up then the remaining lights within the cockpit went off. They all climbed into the cockpit pulling out Amarante and Shawn.
"Good he's back to normal. Renton use the Nirvash and take them back to the Gekko Go. Matthieu, Anemone, Matthieu help me get Adair back to the Gekko Go. Now!" Holland Ordered as they got Amarante and Shawn into Renton's cockpit. Renton took off back to the Gekko Go while the others picked up some of the armor and the Adair and brought him back to the Gekko Go. When they landed Mischa was already waiting for them. The moment Renton landed the crew rushed up to the cockpit to get Amarante and Shawn out and into sick bay. Mischa followed suit. They laid Shawn and Amarante down on the sick bay beds. Mischa began working and asked help from Talho as well. Both of them began checking vital signs of both of them then hooked them both up to machines. Amarante vitals were stable but Shawn's were up and down. Mischa didn't know exactly what to do with Shawn's vitals so she began checking his body for any injuries, broken bones or open wounds. There was a wound on the back of his head and he had minor cuts and bruises all over his body. There wasn't a lot of blood but a little was flowing down the back of his head. She began parting shawn's hair and found the small open wound.
"How's Amarante look?" Mischa asked
"Minor bruises. It seems Shawn protected her really well." Talho said as she looked over at Shawn
"He's grown even more." Mischa said as she too looked over at Shawn
"Mhm." Talho replied as they both continued looking over them throughout the night.
Holland, Matthieu, Hilda, Anemone hopped into the LFO's to head to look for survivors while the others were on foot securing the area in case other rebels tried attacking. After about a good 30 minutes of walking on the ground they secured the area. While the crew in LFO's continued looking in the air for anybody. After about an hour of seeing dead bodies with blood splattered everywhere they decided to turn back. On the way back, they noticed movement on the North East side of them.
"Holland! Movement. North East side of us." Anemone reported
"Good eye Anemone. Go check it out we'll cover you." Holland ordered
Anemone quickly fly over and landed near the movement. Hopping out of her LFO's she ready her gun and slowly walked over there. When she was a few feet away the movement stopped and she could hear hushing voices. They sounded like children.
"It's okay I'm a friend." Anemone spoke softly. There was a pause then she could see movement as they pushed the bushes away. It revealed a small space then about a foot away there's a hatch on the ground.
"Are there more of you?" Anemone asked as the two kids nodded. It was a boy and a girl coralian. They went over and opened the hatch then more children and teenagers popped their heads out then began coming out into the open. There was a total of 30 coralians once they all came out.
"How'd you all find this spot?" Anemone asked as Holland and the other landed next to Anemone's LFO spooking some of the kids. "It's okay their friends." Anemone assured as they all settled down.
"Someone told us in our minds to head this way and showed us a picture of the hatch." One of the girls said
"Do you know who?" Anemone asked
"No, but his voice sounded dark, sad and kind all at once." The girl replied
"It couldn't be." Anemone whispered
"Anemone get all these children back to the Gekko Go. We can fit a few of you at time and come back for more. The Gekko go is straight in that direction about 10 minutes walk from here. Do you think you kids can handle it?" Holland asked all of them nodded.
"We can all walk there. So we can hide if the baddies come again." A little boy said as Holland nodded
"We'll watch you from the air so let's hurry up." Anemone said as she headed back to her LFO and went back into the air. All the kids followed the directions and began walking quickly to where the Gekko Go is. Anemone and Holland stayed behind and followed the kids. Hilda and Matthieu headed back to the Gekko Go to inform everybody of all the kids. The people who went ahead landed back at the Gekko Go informing everybody of who they found. A few minutes later Anemone and Holland along with the kids came into view. Everybody helped the kids onto the Gekko Go and loaded up the LFO's as well. Then took off hoping to gain as much distance as they could from this horrific accident.
On the Gekko Go. They were letting everybody camp out where they could find room. After a few hours things had settled down. The teenagers were still worked up and were comforting each other. One of the girls began leaving the group to see if the person who saved them was on board.
"I'll be right back." the girl said as the other coralian teenagers nodded
The girl casually walked through the Gekko Go. Checking each room. She ran into Talho, Holland, Eureka and Anemone as she was looking around the ship for the man.
"Are you looking for something?" Eureka asked the girl
"Yes, the man who saved us." the girl replied
"It was a woman who found you though." Eureka replied
"No, she didn't save us. We had somebody talk to us in our minds." The girl replied then it clicked in Eureka's mind.
"Follow me." Eureka replied as the other's were a bit clueless until they realized where they were headed. They arrived at the infirmery. The girl nodded and thanked Eureka then proceeded inside to see me out cold with bandages wrapped around my head. Amarante was next to me still passed out too. The girl walked up to me and placed a flower on my chest.
"Thank You." The girl said as she touched my hand then turned around and exited the room with a smile on her face. Moments later I slowly opened my eyes and surveyed my surroundings noticing there was a flower on my chest. Mischa picked up the increase in my heat beat from the monitor. She turned around and walked over to me.
"Where am I?" I asked
"You're on the Gekko Go. Stay down for a bit." Mischa said as I nodded as I noticed a small flower on my chest.
"Who put the flower on me?" I asked
"One of the girls you saved." Mischa replied after that I relaxed
I looked over at Amarante and noticed a small bruise on her face but nothing else really serious.
"She's fine. You protected her when you crashed." Mischa stated as she went back to doing her work and flagged the other 4 to come in.
"You're a hard man to kill." Holland said. Earning a good laugh from me.
"Damn right! I'm king of the world!" I replied between laughs but nobody else really laughed. Once my laughing had subsided I figured I'd ask Holland what all happened.
"So what happened Holland?" I asked seriously as everybody looked at Holland then back at me.
"I still remember up to the explosion and that's it." I stated as I lay there
"Everybody but a good amount of Coralian teenagers made it out. At least those were the ones we could find." Holland stated "Everybody else..." Holland didn't need to finish the sentence for me know what he was going to say. It clicked as to why nobody else laughed at my antics.
"What about the rebels?" I asked
"Can't be found." He replied
"I'll be sure to take revenge on them for what they did." I stated as my calm expression turned into a cold stare at Holland
"Good. Get some rest and we'll talk about what we plan on doing next when you're ready." Holland stated as I nodded. He turned around and left.
"You saved our lives. We can't thank you enough." Eureka said
"I agree." Renton stated as they both gave me a hugged
"Thank You Shawn." Dominique stated as he saluted
"Don't salute me just shake my hand friend." I stated as I reached out and shook his hand just then Amarante finally came too. Noticing I was awake she quickly hugged with tears of joy in her eyes.
"Are you okay?" Amarante asked concerned
"I'm fine, just banged up." I said with a smile, "Glad you're alright." I stated
"Have you heard what happened to the base?" Amarante asked as I nodded
"I'm going to kill all those bastards for what they did. Involving innocent people and coralians was uncalled for." I stated coldly, "Some coralians did survive though." I stated
"Right now there all around the ship resting where they can." Eureka said
"Oh, Eureka do you know the girl who placed the flower on my chest?" I asked
"Yes I brought her here." she replied
"Can you take me to her?" I asked
"Sure, if Mischa is alright with it." Eureka said looking over at Mischa.
"Yes it's fine. Take it easy though." Mischa ordered
"Will do." I replied as Amarante helped me sit up then stand up. I used her and renton as support as I was still a bit week.
"Alright let's go see them." I said as everybody nodded. We walked through the ship running into a few coralians who gave me thanks as we headed to the hanger bay. When we reached there I noticed a lot more coralians had survived then I had expected which was a relief. All the coralians looked up once we reached the floor of the hanger. It took them a second to realize who I was. Eureka pointed out the girl as we walked over there. She was sitting down, eating a piece of bread. She looked to be one of the younger teens of the group.
"Did you give me this flower?" I asked as she nodded
"Thank you." I replied
"No, we should be thanking you." she replied, "You saved us." she added as all the coralians stood and bowed to me in thanks.
"No need for thanks I only did what was right." I replied.
"Don't be modest." She replied as she stood and hugged me then bowed
"What do you plan to do now Shawn?" One of the coralian males asked
"Find you all a safe place to live and then take revenge on the scum that did this to our friends and families." I stated
"If you need any help we're here." the girl said
"Thanks, I'll remember that. So what is your name?" I asked
"Alexandra." She replied
"Pretty name. Well Alexandra and the rest of you. If you ever need anything just ask." I smiled as they all showed tears of joy. We all turned around headed to where Holland was. I figured I should get this outta the way first. We went up to the bridge and found Holland.
"Let's get this start Holland." I said
"Very well." he replied
"What's the plan?" I asked
"I was planning on having the entire military scout for the scumbags then once found the GekkoGo will go and capture or kill them." Holland stated
"Sounds simple. When are we going to ask the military?" I asked
"We're headed there right now. It should take us two days to there and probably another day to get it approved." Holland stated
"Very well. Let's see it done so we all can relax." I stated
"When this is all done I think we all should retire and live in Bellforest as a family." Holland stated
"I agree. I would enjoy that." I stated
"Well, I'm going to go lay back down and rest till we arrive." I said as Holland nodded
I was helped back to the infirmary and laid back down. I fell fast asleep. The next couple of days I spent sleeping, eating and exercising as I knew I'd need my strength. I was visited by most of the coralians and the Gekko Go crew to keep me company so I wasn't bored. Amarante stayed by my side most of the time visiting with me about random things. The two days passed and we arrived at the military base. After landing we immediately got escorted to where the higher officers were. We reached two big doors as they were pushed open it revealed many high ranking officers all staring at us. Here is where we would convince them to get the operation started and avenge our fallen comrades and finish this once and for all!
A/N: Hey guys sorry it took so long to get this out. Busy with irl things. Anyways I'll begin working on the chapter to try and get it out within the next month. ttyl!