Chapter 6: Vengeance

*Back at Night Raid base*

The members of Night Raid were still resting and recuperating after that near fatal encounter with the new unknown enemy. Akame and Susanoo were out hunting for dinner. Lubbock was scouting the forest just in case the new enemy managed to find their location, and he would alert Night Raid as soon as possible. The rest of the team were still resting in their hideout. Tatsumi and Mine managed to recover from their injuries, though now they're heavily bandaged after being shot by one of those troopers. Leone recovered much faster than both of them, where she reverted back to her normal self. Chelsea was taking a bath while Najenda is just simply smoking like most of the time.

Leone then hugged Tatsumi and said "Hey Tatsumi! How are ya doin? You seem to be better." Tatsumi responded back "Yeah I know. Damn those two shots that I took hurt like hell! The hell were those guns?" Mine joined in the conversation "No clue. The shape and molding of those guns were unlike anything I've ever seen before. Plus I can't find any reload mechanism and they seem to fire some hot red light." "And we experienced that first hand." Leone then looked at Najenda, "Hey boss, what about those two soldiers that we managed to capture alive earlier?" she asked. Najenda answered, "I think they should be awake now. Let's go check and get some answers."

Najenda, Tatsumi, Leone and Mine then walked upstairs of the base and into the second floor. There, the two captured soldiers, still wearing their helmets and armor, were tied up to a wooden pole. Najenda then walked up to one of them and then started to knock on top of their helmets to check if they are awake. "U-ugh…ugh.." one of the troopers said as they move their head. "Good you're awake. Now…" Najenda says as she grabs one of the troopers head and smash their heads back at the pole behind them "Talk." One of the troopers managed to speak out "We're not talking to you native scum." Najenda stood and looked at Leone, and gave her a command gesture in a form of a nod. Leone already knew what to do by then and approached to one of the troopers. She then kicked the trooper at the head and placed her foot on his helmet "We ain't gonna ask twice." Then the other trooper finally spoke out, "Ok, ok we'll talk!" The other Stormtrooper looks at him and says "Dammit Gary! What are you doing you traitor!"

Najenda then looks at the trooper who now starts to talk and ask "Alright then, explain yourselves. Who are you? Where did you come from? Why are you wearing that armor? What kind of guns are you holding? And more importantly, who is your leader?" The Stormtrooper then responds "Well that's a very very long story, but I'll try my best to explain as much as I can."

*In the woods in the East*

The Jaegers were patrolling the area where one of the scouts reported these strange white armored foot soldiers. As they were patrolling the area, they could hear a strange sound in the sky. As all of them looked at the sky on where the sound was coming from, the saw three strange flying crafts flying through the air while emitting the strange sound. They were colored black, and where in a strang "H" shape. As they were flying through the sky, Wave said "The hell are those things?!" Everyone was confused considering this is the first time they've ever saw something like these. Esdeath then said "Keep patrolling the area without me. I'll follow where these strange crafts are going." She then changed course and followed the direction on wherever these strange air crafts are going. The Jaegers followed her orders and continued patrolling the area.

As they were doing so Wave asked "Hey guys, do you think this could be from some other country we never heard of? I mean what the hell were those things we saw? I'm sure none of us ever seen these kind of things before." Run then said "Indeed. What we just saw was indeed odd." Then Seryu says "Over there!" pointing in a direction. All of the Jaegers were then looking at the direction to where she was pointing to. There they saw the strange footsoldiers that the scouts saw and sure enough looked exactly how they described them. They saw strange footsoldiers in white armor and were wielding unfamiliar weapons which they could conclude to be guns. Seryu smiled and said "Well then, let's go say hi!"

*Back in Night Raid base*

After the Stormtrooper explained everything in the best of his ability, sure enough, all of them were very confused yet fascinated at the same time. "So let me get this straight." Najenda said, "You guys come from this 'intergalactic empire' that conquers this 'galaxy' and many 'planets' and that you come here to expand your 'intergalactic empire.' Then you all serve for this Emperor and Dark Lord." Tatsumi then stepped in and asked "Well, what's the name of this 'dark lord'? And what does he look like?" The two tied-up Stormtroopers looked at each other, then the other one answers "Darth Vader. His name is Darth Vader, one of the most powerful Sith Lords we have ever seen." Everyone then looked at each other. If what they say about this 'Darth Vader' is true, then he would be a serious problem, seeing how the two Stormtroopers were shivering after they said that name.

Tatsumi then asked "Alright, now what does he look like?" The Stormtrooper then managed to respond "Well, he wears an all-black armor, wears a helmet that covers his face with dead robotic eyes and wears a long black cape. He's also got a control box on his chest which I guees is used to keep himself alive after his many battles. And also, he has a distinct breathing that when you hear it, it's already too late and his coming your way." After saying this, everyone was very concerned about this Darth Vader guy. Just before anyone could ask more questions, Akame then burst out of the door and said "Boss I've got some terrible news! One of our spies found a village filled with people that were executed and killed! There's only one surviving girl left!" Najenda then immediately asked "Rellay? Where is that village located?" Akame answered "North from here. They villagers where described wearing black coats and were also neutral to the conflicts that were ensuing. Their village is located in the snowy moantains." Tatsumi's eyes then widened "Wait! That's my village!" Everyone became very serious now and Najenda said "Then let's go there right now!" As they all quickly left, the two Stormtroopers where just left there. "Uhm. Hey! What about us?" the Stormtrooper asked. And then the other Stormtrooper said "Dammit, shut up Gary!"

*At the village*

Night Raid soon arrived at the village. Once the whole village was seen it was sure enough, Tatsumi's village. The same village where he grew up in. The same village where he originally gained his sword fighting skills before meeting the Night Raid. The same village where he had those fond memories with Sayo and Ieyasu.

As he rushes towards his ruined village, what he saw next horrified him. There on the ground of the village he grew up in where all of the villagers he knew and loved. All of them were killed. When he kept looking at the corpses in horror, he also saw the dead body of the village elder. Horrified, Tatsumi dropped to the ground. His whole village is gone.

When the rest of Night Raid arrived at the village, they too saw all the dead villagers there. Everyone was shocked by this, especially knowing that this is Tatsumi's village. As they inspected the corpses, they saw Tatsumi crying and yelling at the ground. They cannot help but feel very sorry knowing that now he lost his entire village.

Mine walked closer to Tatsumi, knelt down and hugged him to comfort him. Tatsumi in return hugged her back as he continued to cry on her arms. As Akame kept inspecting the bodies, she noticed something odd. All of the bodies had scorch marks while the other bodies that were sliced in pieces also had scorch marks, heating the flesh as they were sliced in half. "Over here!" Leone said as she found the surviving girl of the village.

The girl was trembling in fear as she was traumatized from what happened. As Najenda approached her, she asked "Hello there. Are you alright?" The girl then panicked and was frantically tried to back away from her in the snow, when Leone hugged her and said "It's ok! It's ok. We're not here to harm you. We're here to help." The girl then started to calm down a little bit and said "Oh god please help me!" Najenda calmed her down some more and said "Calm down and rest for a little. Try to recollect yourself and try to explain everything that happened."

After some time, the surviving girl managed to speak up "They were here." Akame asked "Who was here? Was it the Empire that did this? A band of bandits?' The girl responded "Neither. Something much worse." Leone asked asked "Who?" The girl responded back "A bunch of soldiers in white armor, and their leader in black armor." Tatsumi's eyes widened, she continued to explain "Each one of those soldiers were wearing white helmets and all white armor and each of them were carrying a gun of some sorts. But the worst part was their leader." She cried, but then mustered up the words to describe the evil that she had saw. "He was a large black figure, who wears a long flowing black cape, and wore a black helmet that covered his entire face, and the mask had those terrifying dead black eyes." Tatsumi then looked at the girl and instantly recognized her as one of the maids in the tavern of their village. He then asked "Did this leader have a distinct low breathing?" She responded back with a "Yes, he did." She then recognized him as Tatsumi and said "Tatsumi, is that you? Have you come back to save us?" He stood up, tightly clenching his fists and said "Yes, I am." Each one of the members of Night Raid felt very sorry for Tatsumi. He then knelt on the ground and yelled with anger….

"VAADEERRR!"