Here you go my fans, the finished chapter. Although I'm a little worried about the "Fourth-wall" and the newly made "Sixth-Wall" that I recently created. So for those who don't have a clue what the "Sixth-wall" is, here is a small explanation: The "Sixth-Wall" is when a character in the story, suddenly pulls out a highly powered weapon that is completely impossible to carry without being seen. Now only certain characters can do this, and I'm going to get a lot of flames for this; but I decided to give it a shot. If no one likes it then I'll make sure that the said characters will have a limit, like "Once a day" or something.
And if it's really successful. Then you may see more of it. That is all from me.
Humanity's Finest
Chapter 11
Dempsey ducked the moment the dragon leapt at him. It wasn't fair in his case; that Samantha was actually watching over him of all people. Then again with every thing that had happened he wasn't sure if he should be surprised or freaked out about it. But then stranger things have happened, fighting an enemy that shouldn't even exist was one of those things, him being the oldest human alive (apart from Samantha) and surrounded by dragons and other creatures that resembled animals from his time also went into that category. He grabbed the dragons tail and with all his strength he turned and threw the zombified dragon into a few trees, he looked at his own hands in astonishment at this action.
"Guess I still need to get use to this..." Dempsey thought with a smirk, he immeditally looked up when the dragon roared at him from above. His smirk instantly turned into a scowl as he flexed his arms when the dragon flew down to him at full speed.
"C'mon freaksack. I got a whole can of kickin' ass for ya'!" Dempsey baited, the dragon snarled as a jet of fire was unleashed at him again, only this time, Dempsey didn't bother evading it. Dempsey held his ground as he heard the dragon fly towards him at full speed. Before the dragon collieded with Dempsey, the marine bent his knees so they could absorb most of the impact.
When the dragon finally crashed into Dempsey the marine grunted in surprise when his feet were dragging across the ground, with his feet slowly digging into the dirt. It quickly began a standstill, with neither side willing to give way, and knowing that it wouldn't be able to push Dempsey any further the dragon dropped its feet to the ground.
"Heh. Changing you're plans, eh?" Dempsey self-righteously smirked. He forced the dragon to adapt and now that it's feet were on the ground he can now use it to his advantage.
Putting everything he had behind his arms Dempsey slowly began to over turn the dragon. Getting a loud howl from the zombie in responce, once the zombified dragon was completely turned on it's side, Dempsey quickly released the dragon and with speed that he knew he didn't possess not long ago he was able to get into postion and kick the dragon in the stomach. Which sent the undead creature through some already burnt trees.
Dempsey laughed in triumph at the display, seeing the dragon 'crash and burn', figuratively speaking.
"AH-HA! Can't keep a marine down!" The soldier taunted, gaining a death glare from the zombie. He didn't care though. He was strong enough to handle himself, but he can't let his cockyness get to his head. Otherwise, he would get severally owned afterwards.
And getting owned by a zombified dragon would be a total blow to his badass reputation. And that was something he couldn't allow to happen. If Richtofen or Nikolai get wind of this he'll never hear the end of it!
Speaking of a certain Nazi, he was peaking over a corner to get a better view at the targets. They were apes and there were many of them. Not a many as he expected but the numbers he saw before his eyes were still a lot.
"Ok, I see about twenty or thirty of ze fifthy monkeys." Richtofen adjusted his cap, and looked at Nikolai and Takeo. "Should ve go in zhere now and take our chances? Or should ve vait or ze Americans to come?"
Takeo being an open minded and patent man was the first to speak. "I say that we attack. The Americans honour is nothing compared to mine!" Well, he sort of was. Mostly.
"I think we should attack as well. Those fucking monkeys are disgusting." Nikolai said with his voice full of venom. Nikolai really really hated monkeys with a passion. You could say if he saw one, he'd rather shoot it in the face with a shotgun than let it touch him. And the fact that they were soooo close to a large group of them not twenty yards away didn't really help.
"Carm yourserf Russian." Takeo scowled. "These beasts sharr ferr our might soon enough."
Takeo's speech proved to be true, except they would attack a lot sooner than they expected. First: a group of five apes jumped from buildings in a hurry; with terrified expressions on their face. Second: they heard gunfire that came from a Thompson, Browning and B.A.R. And third: Polonsky who held the Browning suddenly jumped on top of a rock and began firing wildly at the apes while Miller and Roebuck took a knee in front and fired into them.
Nikolai peaked from under Richtofen who looked down at Nikolai in a very awkward way. Takeo grimace at the scene and pinched the bridge of his nose in disbelief. Was he and Richtofen the only ones who find the position Nikolai was in rather, gay?
"Can we kill now?" Nikolai asked oblivious to their staring.
"Ja! Ja! Ve kill now!" Richtofen had said those words the very second Nikolai asked. Who sighed in relief when Nikolai readied his AK and bolted away from his group. He stopped, took a knee and raised his assault rifle and pulled the trigger. The assault rifle bucked as the familar flash of light emerged from the muzzle of his weapon; lighting up his face, yelling as the apes fell to the ground in a hail of bullets. His bullets.
Both Takeo and Richtofen stared at each other for a short moment, before they donned their weapons and rushed into the open to join Nikolai. The apes were completely caught off guard when Nikolai, Takeo and Richtofen joined the firefight; since they were so caught up with trying to reach the marines they were completely oblivous to the other three who had flanked them completely. When the apes realised they were caught in a pincer move, they were nearly wiped out.
Roebuck calmly moved towards a distracted ape, flipped his B.A.R and slammed the butt into the back of the ape head. The ape fell to the ground screaming out in surprise, Roebuck then bashed his rifle into the apes head again, silencing it, and flipped his weapon so the barrel was facing the right direction and fired at the rest of the apes.
Polonsky stopped firing so he could reload, but not before grabbing a pineapple grenade removing the pin and throwing the small yet deadly explosive at the apes. Then he put his full attention on his currently empty Light-machine gun, carefully opening the top of the weapon and placed a large chain of .50 caliber bullets inside. He sealed the weapon and pulled the bolt on the right side of the machine gun and went back into "Killing mode". Miller cursed when one ape had thrown a hand made bomb at him, and without hesitation he ran towards the explosive, lifted it with his left hand and threw it back to its sender with a strained grunt. He quickly balanced his Thompson with both hands and took aim at the explosive, and fired three short bursts at it. One of the bullets had managed to hit home, and the bomb went off almost instantly, the shrapnel had shredded anything that was close by.
Miller had to admit, he was impressed, crude but effective.
A few minutes later the three marines had regrouped with Nikolai and Takeo and Richtofen. Richtofen was distracting himself by admiring the dismembered corpses, intestines, severed limbs and bloodsplatter that surrounded them.
"Oh zhis is soooo beautiful!" Nikolai shuddered unconsciously at the way Richtofen spoke. It sounded as if the Nazi was aroused. Actually, Richtofen found anything that involved killing sexually arousing. And that itself was creepy.
Polonsky went on one knee branshed his knife and slapped the ape across the face, to wake it up. The ape snapped it's eyes open and immeditally tried to escape, it failed. Polonsky grabbed the primate by the neck and smashed its head against the floor holding his combat knife against it's throat. Roebuck scowled at the ape when it glanced at him, and when it looked at Miller the marine grunted in disgust and aimed his Submachine gun at its temple threateningly.
"Alright you fucking peice of shit." Polonsky pressed his knife into the apes throat, getting a deep inhalation out of the animal. "We are going to ask you questions. You are going to answer them, understand?"
The ape didn't answer and Polonsky punched it in the face. "DO. YOU. UNDER-STAND!" He was yelling right in its face now. His white teeth fully bared and his eyes wide like a mad man. The ape didn't answer, but it nodded, Polonsky seemed to calm down and pulled the ape into a sitting position.
"Ok, here how its going to be..." Polonsky stared the monkey in the eyes. "I want to know whose currently in charge here." Polonsky wasn't being cheerful or sarcastic anymore. He was being completely serious, Richtofen noticed his change almost instantly; and he was reminded of Dempsey. Hell. Polonsky looked exactily like Dempsey. Even if there was an age difference between the two, with different voices, different attitudes and personalities. They could easily pass as one another.
"You cannot vin Demphsey. Give up." Samantha taunted.
"You don't know me at all little girl. I NEVER surrender!" Dempsey ducked as the zombie dragon leapt at him.
"You should, it vill make things easer on you." The dragon landed on a boulder, jumped and turned, glaring at the human.
"Easier on me? You sicked a zombified dragon on me! How is that 'easier' on me?" The dragon growled with menicing intent in its glowing eyes. Dempsey jumped aside when the dragon unleashed a hail of fire.
"Seriously? Who took all my cash?" The dragon gave Dempsey a look that said 'are you completely out of your mind?'. Dempsey however laughed so hard that he had to hold his sides. " Oh man, hey, Author! You gotta get this on the story... Oh wait, you already did!"
"Grrraagh, vould you shut up and DIE already!" Tank shrugged and waved at Samantha dissmissively. "All right. Author! Bring the dragons here already would ya?"
Suddenly five dragons appeared out of nowhere, making Dempsey jump back in surprise. Suddenly a sign stuck to the ground beside Dempsey, who turned and started to read it. "'This is the first AND last time I help you cheat Tank Dempsey! And stop breaking the fourth wall.'" Dempsey blanked. Then growled with irritation. "Dude, I'll break the fourth-wall when I feel like it!"
"Ah! Look everyone, we are in a new location that we suddenly found ourselves in!" Volteer looked around with a rather excited look, but his surroundings were so full of ash and death that his eagerness was diminshed almost instantly. "How, horrible!"
"How on earth did we get here?" Cyril muttered to himself. "Last thing I remember was flying, and the next-"
"You ended up here." Everyone looked at Dempsey who was smiling and waving brightly at them. "Hey guys! Ya' miss me?"
"DEMPSEY!" Volteer was completely ecstatic at seeing Dempsey again. But Terrador noticed something different about him, but Dempsey was fine and so far that was good enough for him.
"Yeah, I'm real happy too see you too. But there is a teeny-tiny situation that has to be dealt with right now."
"What situation?"
Dempsey pointed and the dragons turned their heads. And saw the zombified dragon staring at them with hungry eyes. "THAT situation. Now do what you guys do because I am tired as hell. And I need to rest."
The dragon howled as black lighting dominated the sky. Terrador, Quake, Volteer and Cyril bent down and bared their teeth in retaliation. But dispite all this Dempsey couldn't help himself but smile, the Author had finally come through for him.
"Yep, I'll just keep breaking the 'fourth-wall'... Maybe, I'll break the 'sixth-wall' too while I'm at it." Dempsey mused, as he rubbed his stubble.
"Is it me, or do you feel that somewhere, Dempsey has broken that 'fourth-wall' of his?" Everyone (except for Takeo and Richtofen) just stared at Nikolai, giving him the 'Are you seriously insane' look. Takeo was usually paired with Dempsey when they fought off the undead, and because of this he had to endure a lot of Dempsey's insane rants. Like' talking to no one; and yelling at the sky for more ammo. That sort of stuff.
When he asked Richtofen about Dempsey's sanity in Japan, the Nazi scientist hadn't had the slightist idea what was wrong with him. However, Nikolai was nearby and explained in his own drunken way that "Dempsey merely broke the fourth wall." And then they heard a strange futuristic sound that sounded a lot like music, and then they heard a woman singing to the beat. And this happened in every single place they were stuck at. Takeo and Richtofen merely made a failsafe within their mind to cope with the whole "Breaking the fourth wall" thing. And unfortunitally, they've found themselves doing it.
Only it was on a lower scale. A MUCH lower scale.
"Yes, I fear that Dempsey has broken the fourth warr again." Takeo said neutrally. He wasn't bothered at all with it, not that he cared.
"What the hell are you guys on about?" Polonsky asked with an incredulous look, there were many many things going through his head right now. And most of them were along the lines of "Section 8" the military term for "mentally unfit". And Polonsky never knew how close he was, because them three were more along the line of "Insanity" than "mentally unfit".
"It is too complicated for you too understand comrade." Nikolai replied in a regretful manner patting the Dempsey look alike on the shoulder. "It would mess with brain. Like it did mine..." Polonsky glanced between the three unlikely allies and his own friends with a bewildered look. From the way they were scratching their heads and the looks of pained confusion, they were seriously having a very bad headache.
"It IS messing with my brain!" Polonsky suddenly yelled. "And what the heck is a 'Fourth Wall' anyway!"
"You vill understand once you see Demphsey." Richtofen said matter-of-factly.. "He does it nearly all ze time. And ve have gotten infected vith it, only ve have it on a smaller scale." Richtofen took off his cap and ran a hand through his dark hair.
"Oh for the love of-" Everyone turned their attention on the monkey, who was complaining about their constant chat about nothing. "I have no idea what you creatures are saying - nor do I give a dam - but you lot are driving me up the tree!" Polonsky gave the monkey a questioning look.
"I'm just going to tell you lot everything I know, because, you lot are driving me mad and I want you all to be quiet!" The humans looked at each other. "The current leader that is under control of this pathetic village is known as Kong. And He is nearby, just up the street with a small force of bodu gua-" Polonsky decided they had all the information they need, drove his knife into the apes skull. The ape immeditally went into shock upon feeling the cold steel puncture both his skull and brain. Polonsky twisted his knife, getting a sickening 'crack' as the skull was split open.
"Vell, if ve vere allies I vould make you my apprentice for showing such brutality!" Richtofen said admiring Polonsky's bloody handy work.
"Shut up you Kraut bastard." Polonsky grunted in distain as he yanked his knife out of the skull.
An unexpected roar suddenly caught their attention as they quickly stood up and looked in the direction the noise came from. Their jaws dropped when they saw six adult dragons in the sky fighting. Only five of them were ganging up against one. Polonsky parted his mouth to speak but a bright light interupted him.
"Well, I have totally broken the 'fourth wall' again. Thanks Author!" A familar voice yelled proudly.
Polonsky dropped his browning to the ground when the light dimmed. There was Tank Dempsey, with his back facing them, his uniform was completely drenched in water and dirt.
He turned suddenly and his eyes lit up when he saw Takeo, Nikolai and Richtofen. But when he saw the other marines, (including Polonsky, who was shocked out of his mind when he saw a look-alike right in front of him) he frowned in confusion. He raised an eyebrow at them before grabbing the side of his head as he saw flashing images about his past.
Dempsey smacking the butt of his M1 Garand into the neck of an Imperial soldier who was about to attack Roebuck from behind. Then the image flashed to him using the M2 flamethrower on an unsuspecting group of seven Japanese Soldiers, he was laughing as he saw the flame from his flamethrower burn his victims alive, the smell of burning flesh assaulting his nostrils. His entire body shook when he came too, and he found himself on his knees with Roebuck and Miller holding him by the shoulder in concern.
"Are you alright American?" Nikolai asked with concern. It wasn't a secret that Nikolai was the only one in the group (apart from the other Marine Raiders) that liked Dempsey. And even if the said marine didn't have an opinion on the drunk, he still classed him as his friend. "Comrade, are you ok?"
Dempsey grunted as he felt himself getting lifted onto his feet. He looked at both Roebuck and Miller and smiled at them. "Aye, I'm alright thanks for the concern Nikolai. And it's nice too see you guys again."
"Same here Tank." Roebuck replied.
"Yeah, we thought you went missing! Nice stubble by the way, you growing a beard?" Dempsey brought a hand to his chin and slowly began to rub it, feeling the short hair roughly grinding against his skin.
"Yeah, glad you noticed." Dempsey said to Miller. "Could you guys let go of me now? I still have to do one more thing."
The two reluntantly did as Dempsey asked and everyone stared silently as Dempsey walked away and seemingly out of nowhere he pulled out a rocket launcher that had green goggles attacked to it. Everyone stared at Dempsey with their mouths hanging open.
"WHERE THE HELL DID THAT COME FROM!" Polonsky shouted in disbelief.
Dempsey turned and gave them his infamous smile. Takeo rubbed the bridge of his nose. "I feer that another headake is about to come!" Takeo declared.
"Your right Tak, because I just broke the 'Sixth-wall', and I just made that up there now." Dempsey said with that smile still present.
Richtofen right eye twitched and held up his hands and began grunting; imagining that he was choking someone to death. "Demhpsey, have I ever told you how much I HATE YOU!"
Dempsey shrugged and turned his back to them and began to look through the goggles of his rocket launcher. He saw the dragons fighting against each other and smirked, the knowledge of how to use it flooded his mind; and he even knew the name. Valkyrie Rockets, or "VR" for short.
"Your just jealous because I can do these kind of things and you can't. Makes the story much more interesting."
"Or boring!" Richtofen countered.
"Just let me do this one thing alright? That bastard of a zombie dragon has been around for at least three or four chapters already. It's time to move on!"
Polonsky nudged Roebuck in the arm. "What the heck are they talking about?" He whispered. He was looking at Dempsey as if he lost his mind, mainly because he pulled out a gigantic weapon out of nowhere in front of them. And Richtofen because he knew what was going on... Didn't he?
"I have no idea."
Dempsey was calcuating the distance the missile had to travel in his mind, and he also knew how long it could last in the air for. "Fifteen seconds... Yeah, that's more than enough time." Dempsey muttered under his breath.
He steadyed himself, aimed high and pulled the trigger.