Ch. 12 Firebombing

The armored vehicle screeched to a halt. The doors opened and a squad of military men rushed out, holding assult rifles. Then, a big buff looking grey wolf climbed out of the vehicle. His face had many scars on it. His left eye had a patch over it. He looked out into the army of the shadow creatures.

"Sarge, we are ready to carry out your orders!" a soldier said saluting. The wolf took the gun from him and aimed it at the creatures. He fired off the rifle's rounds. Headshots were what he recieved. The front of the creature army vanished into a whisp of smoke.

"First kill goes to big daddy." the wolf said.

"Nice shooting, sir!" another soldier said. The wolf tossed the gun back to the empty handed soldier.

"Have at 'em, ladies!" the wolf said. The men began advancing toward the school, firing at creatures that got close to them. The wolf sat back and watched his men take over. He was proud to have these men fight by him. But just because he was proud of them doesn't mean he had to go soft. He had to keep himself the big man of the group. The men advanced closer to the school.

Everyone watched as the military men got closer.

"We are finally being rescued!" Alan cheered his high voice.

"We did it everybody. We pulled through the entire week of having to take cover. Now, we are finally free of this nightmare." Gumball said doing one of his attention speeches.

"Don't get too hopeful yet." Carrie said hovering over to him. "You know, things can go bad, even if they look good."

"Well, then I guess we are just gonna have to wait out and see." Penny said.

"Are we really being saved, Gumball?" Darwin asked his best friend. Gumball patted his head.

"Yep! That we are." Gumball said. Carrie facepalmed. Nicole and Richard stood together and watched as Gumball and his classmates gathered at the window like a bunch of little children, looking through a candy store window.

"Oh, Richard. Everyone is hoping for the best. We can't lose hope just yet." Nicole said. Richard nodded with a smile.

"Oh, I wouldn't be so sure." the doughnut officer said. They looked at him.

"What do you mean?" Nicole asked. Nicole felt a blow to her arm as a loud sound of a gun echoed through the cafeteria. Richard immediatly took action by tackling the officer. Everyone wathced the two struggle.

"Mom!" Gumball and his siblings cried out. They ran over to her. She held her arm. Blood was beginning to stain her shirt.

"What was that for!" Gumball shouted to the officer. The officer pushed Richard's heavy body with his feet and threw him into the air. He hit the ceiling, fell onto a table and cried out in pain. Everyone was in utter shock of the officer's strength. Gumball realised that it wasn't the officer. In a puff of smoke, there stood Flint.

"Flint?" Gumball stood up and unsheathed his claws. Flint had the look of anger and sadness. He pointed the hand gun at Gumball.

"I'm... sorry, Nicole... but it's orders. If I don't do this... Ayann will suffer..." Flint gloomly said. He bent the hand gun's barrel and pulled out a remote. Nicole stared at him in utter shock. Flint couldn't bare to look at her. He didn't want to see the betrayed expression on her face. Tina roared and ran toward him. Flint looked at her and jumped away from a chomp. Flint landed on the waiting line barrier of the lunch serving area. Tina turned toward him and charged again. Flint's eyes glinted. Tine chomped again, but no one was there. Flint had jumped onto Tina's nose and rolled down her spine. Tine tried to shaked him off, but Flint immediatly threw some sort of powder into Tina's eyes. Tina roared in pain as she tried to shake away the powder in her eyes.

"I'm tired of having to deal with dinos." Flint said. He pressed a button on the remote. "Enjoy the show, folks!" Flint said retaining his usual threatning sadistic puns.

The men advanced through the crowd, shooting down creatures left and right. A normal sized shadow creature slowly walked up to one of the soldiers.

"Hey, check out this waste of ammo." he tuanted. He stopped and looked down at one of the man holes. He saw a yellow transparent gas. "What the..." The creature stood over it and began to shiver. It then went to spazzing. "What the hell is this?" the soldier asked his commrade who shot down another creature.

"What's what?" he turned and saw what he meant. The creature began to mutate. Yellow blobs began appearing on its' body. Its' head grew one and another grew on its' eye. The mouth unhinged and its' tounge began to flail around them.

"Shoot it down!" they bothe took aim and fired. The bullets had no effect. The tounge wrapped around the soldier's neck and picked him up. The soldier kicked madly, trying to break free. The tounge tightened and went through the soldier's neck. The body fell and the head rolled down the creature's tounge into its' mouth. It chomped down with the sound of bone and flesh mushing together. His commrade began to fire at it non stop.

"Bastard!" he shouted. The creature finally noticed him and began to slither up to him. The soldier backed up and continued to fire. "Sarge! We have a problem!" The wolf sargent pulled away from his position and stared at the creature. He realised now, that his men were in danger. Slowly but surly, these things were beginning to mutate.

"Men, fall back!" he shouted. They hurriedly tried to reach them, but two were tackled by one of the creatures and the other was decapitated by its' tounge. He heard the cries of his squad.

"Get over here!" the wolf cried to his only surviving man.

"Get out of here, Sarge!" he cried out.

"That's an order soldier!" he growled.

"I'll hold 'em off, you need to go get back-up!" the soldier said. He kept firing at the unmutated creatures. He was soon overwhlemed by the numbers and was devoured by them.

"Dammit!" the wolf got in the armored vehicle, started it and sped through the army of the creatures, running them over.

Everyone was shocked. They couldn't believe what just happened. Flint dropped the remote from his hand and slumped onto his knees. His expression was sadness. 'Damn you, Tyrone...' A shadow loomed over him. Looking up, he saw Gumball. Gumball punched him hard in the face. Flint fell to the floor. He slowly got up and rubbed his cheek.

"Why...?" Gumball clenched his fist. "We were this close, THIS CLOSE!" Gumball grabbed him by the collar of Flint's shirt. Flint didn't even try to break free. He deserved the punch. He deserved the hate. He had doubted himself.

'Is that all I am? A person with no heart?' Flint pulled away.

"No, you are not." a voice said. Flint turned to look at Gumball. Gumball was in total shock. Flint realissed why he was making the face. Steel stood next to him. Hands in pockets, he walked over to Flint.

"Brother. You do have a heart. Don't say you do. You had no choice but to do this... for Ayann's sake." Steel said softly with a smile. Flint looked at his brother in disbeliefe.

"You are lucky I don't have the Relic. I could lock you up here and now." Flint growled.

"Brother... I truly regret doing that to you." Steel said sadly. "But you had left me no choice. I had to decide for your safty, or the kingdom's. I chose both."

"Both? How?" Flint asked, doubting Steel's desicion. Steel stared him into his eyes. Their gazes met.

"If the guards caught you, they would have excecuted you on the spot. Without my consent. They would have called you a menace in society and then the high court would throw me and our family out into the street's like dogs. So to save both... I sealed you within the Relic. I never told the guards about the sealing. They wrote it off as "Escaped Convict". Don't you see, brother... I care for you more then you think. I not only sealed you from death, I sealed you so you could controle your actions. But I guess I was wrong..." Steel turned on his heels and walked toward Gumball. "Well, back indside I go."

"Wait!" Flint spoke up. Steel didn't turn around, but he stopped to listen. "Why don't you help me take on the one who's behind this plague." Steel now turned to him.

"Who's really behind this?" Steel asked his brother.

"Limbo." Flint said. Steel's expression darkened. "When we were both sealed into the Relic, we were also on the border of Limbo." Flint walked past his brother and Gumball and looked out the window. "If we are to stop this, we are gonna need help." Flint said.

"Well, I know a few who can help us here. Also, I think the scared fellow out there could help us." Steel said walking up next to his brother. Flint looked at his brother.

"Don't think I have forgiven you. I'm doing this for Ayann's safty." Flint growled. Steel chuckled a bit.

"Let me guess... Raptor?" Steel said looking at his brother through the corner of his eye. Flint did a slight nod. "Then we need their help." Steel motioned toward Gumball and his family. Flint nodded in agreement.

"Wait, if they are in this, then I am too." Penny said walking up next to Gumball.

"Same here!" Darwin said saluting.

"I'll be willing to help." Carrie said. "Anyone else?" She looked at the crowd. Everyone murmered. Then Gumball's classmates walked past the crowd.

"We're in." Tobias said. Gumball couldn't help but smile.

"Thank's guys..." Gumball said. Steel walked up to him.

"But before we could take down the boss of the rainbow factory, we are gonna need to help the military wolf out there." Steel said. "I'll help you out."

"I'll work as a double agent for you." Flint said. "I can still do Tyrone's dirty work, but I could also fill you in on the juciy info he has." Flint grinned slyly.

"Then it's settled." Gumball said. "Let's do this!"

Sorry if the ending got a bit cheesy for you, but you know, if you were in a situation to where help has been eleminated and you have no other choice... you have to be hopeful. Also, we now know that Flint isn't all that bad, yet even though his sadistic antics are still with him. But now Steel has shown himself and finally got to apologize to his brother. Even if Flint is still a bit pissed at his brother for sealing him the Relic, they are still brothers. And show that no matter what, even if you did something bad, they would still be there to help. I'm calling it a night and I'm gonna be busy tomorrow. But when I finish the chores tmrw, I'll surly add in two new chapters.

P.S. Sorry if the chapter title didn't match or even mention the firebombing. But you will surly find out next chapter. And no, Firebombing isn't a made up word, it is a military's last chance to stop a plauge. Basically like a tactical nuking of the city.