Chapter 13: One Last Stand Part 2
Wuya gazed out to the city which surrounded her palace, glaring at anything that she saw. She was standing by the railing of a balcony, watching for anything suspicious. Greed was sitting at a stone table near by sipping wine from a goblet. "Something's going to happen today." The Sin of Lust growled. She could smell it in the air. An unmistakable odor hung in the air throughout Beijing… the odor of rebellion. "Something big."
"Why do you worry?" Greed asked. "We have nearly unlimited magical powers. Rebellions have been staged on all of us except for Pride and, oddly enough, Envy. But none have been successful in any way. We are invincible."
Wuya shook her head and sat down across the table from Greed, taking a sip of wine from her own goblet. "I don't question that, Greed." She insisted. "Indeed, we are invincible and, with a few exceptions, immortal. I just have the strangest feeling that… the end is coming soon."
"There are less than six months before the year is up." Greed explained. "On the last day of the year, Pride will destroy the world and remake it in his own image, making us gods. It's as simple as that."
Wuya sighed and took another drink. "Those monks are still alive. I've dealt with them enough to know that they'll figure out our plans eventually, then they'll find a way to stop it and they'll keep trying until they succeed or they all die. Those annoying monks are… resourceful to put it lightly."
"So give them what they wish." Greed said. "If they wish to fight until they die then allow them too. We can make sure that they die and then there will be nothing standing in our way." Wuya glared at her, but eventually sighed and nodded. "You over think things. Getting rid of your rivals is as simply as…" one of her swords magically appeared in her hand, giving away the message.
Wuya wanted to say something back, but before she could one of her golem guards shot out of the wall and kneeled to her. "Lady Lust, I bring disturbing news." it said. "Multiple groups of civilians have been spotted heading for Beijing coming from all surrounding roads."
"What are the numbers?" Wuya demanded.
"Uncertain. But there are at least a dozen per group. They do not appear to be armed, but a mass migration to a single city is most unusual."
"Indeed." Wuya stood and looked out to the city again, contemplating what her next move should be. "Send guards to every way in or out of the city. I don't want anyone carrying so much as a pocket knife in my city. If they resist… bring every one of them to me… dead or alive."
LATER
Wuya waited for her guards to return with prisoners, but they hadn't yet. Greed, Gluttony, Sloth, and Wrath were standing behind her; Wrath was twitching in anticipation for anything to happen that might cause a battle to break out. All five of them could feel it now, there was something brewing the city. What exactly it was they couldn't say, but they knew it was going to be big.
Gluttony suddenly looked to his left and picked up his club, pointing it in the same direction. The other four present Sins looked to where he was pointing and, sure enough, they witnessed the beginning of the battle that would change their fate.
Out of nowhere an explosion took out a chunk of the wall that surrounded Wuya's palace. The thundering bang and fiery cloud was quickly followed by the sound of engines roaring and six motorcycles decorated to look like snakes came shooting through the hole in the wall.
PALACE GROUNDS
Jessie shouted in victory and punched the air as she did a wheelie on her bike. She then grabbed a ruby skull from her pocket and shouted, "Skulls of Mento!" The Skull then began speaking to her.
"Now?" the Skull asked in Panda Bubba's voice.
"Infiltration complete!" Jessie announced. "Me and the Vipers are gunna raise some hell for a while, so you and the army get here fast!"
"Right." Panda Bubba agreed. "Over and out."
Jessie shoved the skull back into her pocket and shouted to the five bikers behind her. "You girls ready to kick some ass Texas style?" Four of the five cheered and started swinging chains above their heads, but the last rode up to her to speak as the other four split from them to cause some mayhem.
"Remember, we're just a distraction until everyone else gets here." Kimiko advised to Jessie. "There's a very real possibility that a lot of us could die today, so be careful."
"Sorry, Kim. But careful isn't in my job description!" with that Jessie pulled a chair from seemingly nowhere, gave off one last "WOOHOO!" and rode off, crashing through a row of potted plants.
Kim just rubbed her temples. "What did I get myself into?" she asked herself before doing a back flip off of her bike and summoning her element to engulf her entire body in fire. When she landed on her feet she started throwing fireballs at every balcony she saw, aiming particularly at one where she saw a red glimmer that she knew was Wuya's hair.
For the next fifteen minutes or so the five bikers and Kimiko completely trashed Wuya's court yard, leveling it down to nothing but dirt, muddy grass, and shattered pottery fragments. Surprisingly the only retaliation they'd gotten were a few of Wuya's Golem Guards. This told Kim that Wuya knew what was going on and she was saving the big guns for when the real battle started. And wouldn't you know it, she had perfect timing. At that very second the Sin's of Lust, Wrath, Greed, Sloth, and Gluttony appeared in the court yard along with an army of Wuya's Golem Guards and Sloth's robots and undead roman soldiers. And not two seconds later Panda Bubba and Raphael came marching through the whole in the palace wall, followed by the Heylin Cyclopes, Mala Mala Jong, and an army of nameless soldiers dotted with familiar faces from the temple's resistance branch. Kim let her flame die down and did another back flip through the air as all five of the Black Vipers zoomed over to join the army, landing perfectly at Rai's side with Omi, Mimi, Clay, Saya, Julia, Elena, the others from her resistance outpost, and the many soldiers from other branches of the resistance.
Panda Bubba and Raphael stepped forward, taking only a few steps but still distinguishing themselves as the leaders. Wuya and Wrath followed their example. "Surrender now!" Panda Bubba called. "The liberation of this world is inevitable! Asia will only be the beginning!" His words were met with a chorus of cheering from the army behind.
"We Sin's are all powerful!" Wuya shouted back. "Fight us if you wish, but you will be sacrificing yourselves in vain of a lost cause. We Sins are eternal, and we shall rule this world until it end!"
"So be it." Raphael spat before turning to his army. "Comrades, to war!"
"Take no prisoners!" Wrath shouted to the Sin's army.
The two armies charged and slammed into each other, the two armies mixing together into a mass battle and the sounds of war filled the air.
Nobody noticed a small group of rebels lead by Panda Bubba sneaking off and breaking into the palace.
INSIDE THE PALACE
Panda Bubba, his two goons, Omi, Saya, Jermaine, and Guan quickly made their way through the palace. The plan was working perfectly so far. The battle outside was the perfect distraction, so there were absolutely no guards at all inside the palace. The only way it could possibly have gotten any better would be if there was cake and ice cream waiting for them in Wuya's bedroom, where they were going to plant the bomb.
"Whaddo you think the odds are of cake and ice cream actually being there?" Jermaine joked.
"This is no time to screw around, Jermaine." Omi advised.
"Ya know, you are really getting better at the slang, Omi dawg."
"Thank you."
Panda Bubba came to a sudden stop as the hall split into three directions. He paused and rubbed her chin, trying to remember which direction Wuya's bedroom was. His two goons quickly started arguing, one insisting that it was the left hallway while the other said it was the right. Their arguing quickly annoyed Panda Bubba so he decided to take an alternative route. He pulled on a golden gauntlet and shouted, "Fist of Tebigong!" before punching the wall and reducing it to rubble. "I remember seeing inside this room the last time we were here." Panda Bubba said. "We go right."
"That solves one problem." Saya chuckled.
"But a thousand more lie before us." Guan muttered.
"What is it with you monks and the number one thousand?" Jermaine asked.
"It simply sounds more ominous than most other numbers." Guan explained.
A few minutes later they found themselves running down the hall that clearly lead to Wuya's bedroom, otherwise known as the exact center of the palace. Guan and Jermaine kicked in the doors and they all ran inside, beginning to kick over furniture and throw anything on the floor aside to make room for Jack's bomb. Once the floor was cleared Panda Bubba pulled out a small remote and hit a red button on it.
Instantly a rift appeared in the air, three slashes through space and time, and Katnappe and Nina jumped through. Tubbimura followed after them, walking backwards and bent over as if her were lifting a couch. As it turned out Jack was on the other end lifting up the other side, and this thing was defiantly as big as a couch but it looked nothing like one. It was a long metal cylinder welded onto a steel block that kept it from rolling around. Set into the cylinder were about five glass rings which exposed the inside, intricate circuitry with bolts of purple electricity shooting around. There was also a metal box with a few buttons and a screen set onto the center of it.
The big surprise, however, was Jack's… upgrade. Jack was lifting his end of the bomb with only his right arm… which, if the others remembered correctly, wasn't there the last time they'd seen him. But they could clearly see how it had come back. Jack no long wore his trench coat, now only wearing a black tank top. This revealed Jacks new, cybernetic arm. From his right shoulder down to his finger tips his arm was completely metal, you could actually hear the gears and circuitry working every time it moved.
"All right, we don't have a lot of time so let's get moving. First things first…" Jack set down the bomb and stole the Golden Tiger Claws from Katnappe, then handed them over to Nina. "Nina, I want you to take these and go outside. Help anyone and everyone you can get as far away from this place as possible." Nina started to argue, but Jack cut her off at the last second. "We need to get everyone out of her as fast as possible and the Golden Tiger Claws are the fastest way there is. I need to stay here to make last minute preparations to the bomb and the others are going to stay just in case anyone shows up to stop us. I'm trusting you to do this, all right?"
Nina glared at him for a few seconds but eventually sighed. "All right, honey. Just promise you'll come out of her alive."
Jack smiled, pulled her close with his real arm, and gave her a quick kiss. "Promise." He said after wards. With that Nina took the Tiger Claws and teleported away. After she was gone Jack kneeled in front of the bomb and went to work. "Start praying, boys and girls." He said. "If this doesn't work then we're all dead."
BACK OUTSIDE
The battle raged on, the sounds of steel, bullets, and Shen Gong Wu endlessly going off. Countless golems, robot, undead soldiers, and unnamed rebels had already been taken down, but many more still stood, still battling.
Hamster stood in the middle of a circle of golems, robots, and undead soldiers with his arms folded. All of his enemies seemed confused, as if trying to decide whether or not the rodent was a threat or not. It didn't take long for them to make their decision, however. Out of nowhere Hamster pulled the two halves of the Moby Morph from behind his back and slammed them together.
When he pulled them apart he immediately grew larger, going from a few inches tall to at least six feet tall. Next his pudgy rodent body slimmed down and the fur receded back into his skin. Last his remaining rodent features disappeared, his tiny black nose and bucked teeth changing into a normal human nose and regular sized teen. He was once again in the body that was truly his. Bald head, gray mustache, that wise look that most old people have, and his gray and blue robes. He was himself again.
He was Master Fung.
Jet pulled two pistols from his belt and started firing them at anything not human that came his way. Whether it was point blank range or just good aiming he took down every robot or undead soldier that came his way and a quick blast from the Eye of Dashi took down every golem. When he ran out of magazines for his hand guns he grinned sinisterly, dropped them both and pulled two MP7's from the straps on his back and just went to town. He was kicking ass, helping liberate an entire continent, and having a blast all at the same time.
That is, until she showed up.
The golems, robots, and undead soldiers suddenly stopped coming at him, backing off to make a small clearing and some cleared a path for the Sin that was coming his way. The Sin of Greed lazily strutted towards him, dragging the tips of her two swords across the ground and smiling under her pink veil. She could see the fear in the boy's eyes but knew he was going to fight to the end.
"You seem to be enjoying yourself." Greed said as she entered the clearing and the path closed behind her. "Perhaps slaughtering these minions aren't what you're really seeking…?" she lifted one arm and pointed a sword towards him. "How would you like a real challenge?"
Jet immediately removed the magazines from both of his guns and replaced them with two new ones from his belt. "Bring it." he said smugly. "I'll mow you down like the rest of these guys and you'll just be another notch on my belt."
Greed giggled. "Cocky… I'll have to fix that."
Jet stood his ground, quickly aimed his MP7's directly at Greed and started firing. Greed just laughed again and started walking towards him. The bullets simply passed through her as if she were a ghost. By the time Jet realized what he'd gotten himself into it was too late.
Rai slashed down another undead soldier with the Sword of the Storms and then stabbed at an oncoming robot. After that he glanced around. That area was starting to thin out and he was sure that the other rebels around could handle what was left. He quickly noticed a very dense cluster of golems, robots, and undead soldiers, all of which were facing the same direction like a bunch of high school kids watching a fight. He ran over to them and started hacking and slashing his way through them. Amazingly they didn't resist. They seemed too interested in whatever they were watching to care that they were being brutally murdered (nice choice of words).
It wasn't until he heard a scream that Rai stopped killing them and started pushing his way through to see what was going on. But when he saw, it was too late. Jet stood motionlessly with a shocked expression on his face, simply staring at the Sin of Greed who was standing close to him and, as far as Rai could tell, grinning under her veil. Rai couldn't believe his eyes…
Greed had stabbed Jet clear through his stomach with the blood drenched blade sticking out of the other end.
Greed laughed and pulled her blade back, taking away Jet's only support and letting him drop to the ground. Rai wanted to run over to him and make sure he was all right, tell him that he'd be fine and he'd see Jess again soon. But Rai knew that it was pointless. Even a blind man could've seen it.
Jet was dead… there was no way to save him.
It was then that Greed noticed him standing at the edge of the circle. "Well, well... come to join you're little friend have you?"
Rai didn't bother answering. All he did was let his anger grow inside until it was ready to burst. He unleashed his rage as the white of his eyes turned black and his irises turned blood red. He roared and tore his shirt off as a black spot appeared on his chest and a pair of black angel wings appeared on his back. With one last roar the hilt of a sword shot out of his chest and he grabbed it and pulled until the entire sword had emerged, black as the night sky with etchings that glowed neon green.
Now the fear could be seen in Greed's eyes… and scared couldn't even begin to describe how she felt.
"DIE!" Rai shouted.
Rai flapped his wings and rose a few feet into the air before gliding over the ground at lightning speed and tackling Greed, knocking her to the ground. Greed quickly vanished and reappeared behind him on her feet with her two swords in hand. Rai swung around and slashed through the air, sending a wave of red energy flying at her. Greed barely managed to block it by crossing her swords in front of her. But thanks to this she wasn't able to avoid Rai when he came flying at her and punched her in the face. Greed couldn't even defend herself, he was so fast. She'd barely fallen backward when Rai was behind her and grabbed her by the arm and threw her into the air. She was quite a few meters above the ground when Rai appeared out of nowhere and kicked her in the side, then he teleported to the other side of her and slashed, cutting clean through her skin and barely missing the vital organs. After that he teleported above her, did a quick flip through the air, and kicked her in the stomach, sending her soaring back down to earth and crashing into the ground. Rai remained in the air and glared at her for a few seconds before teleporting back to the ground.
Rai reappeared at the edge of the small crater that Greed had made. He loomed over her, his blood red eyes piercing her with complete horror. "Please… spare me…" she groaned.
Rai just spat at her and gripped his blade in his hand. He lifted the sword over his head and then flipped it so that the blade was pointing at Greed… then her brought the blade down.
It stabbed into the ground directly next to Greed's head.
"You're not mine to kill." He growled before walking away. He picked up Jet's body and cradled it in his arms before flying off.
(a/n) sorry it took me so long to update this, but I've been busy with school and other stories and Youtube stuff... you get the picture. anyway, just wanted to say that the next chapter will be the end of Part 2 and (just to make you anticipate it even more) I'll be killing someone one off in the next chapter too... I know, the suspence is killing you XD. (ps. if you dont know what MP7's are, they're hand held machine guns).