Days Of Ruin10…Never Ending
I do not own Advance Wars or any of the series…if I did I would have added biological units.
"This is bad…" Zene pictured the images of his men falling by the hands if Dew again. The anger built inside of his chest, he then felt a sudden urge to raise his right hand in the air, but was brought back to his senses as Tabitha brought him to his senses.
"Zene! Lets go! Before its too late!" Tabitha reentered through the hatch and started the engines up.
Zene entered the turret to grab his seat and let him and the seat rise so he could man the machine gun. 'I hope this isn't a repeat of before' He was breathing heavily but soon calmed down when he adjusted his mask on his face. The tank past the nearby ruins and began to decelerate as they neared an intersection.
Inside of the war tank's operating compartment Tabitha started to drop the speed as the displays inside opened up data on the units in front of her. 'Hmm…why aren't these things displaying the biker data?' She thought this as the screens showed the data of the tanks and anti air units ahead. 'Wait…NO!' Another display had appeared, showing what was in front of the war tank.
Outside on the upper turret of the tank was Zene. The distant forms of tanks and anti air units grew closer. 'Damn…they gotta make it through this.' He eyed the vehicles ahead and saw that the guns of their weapons had steam slowly drifting up. 'no…No…NO! Why? NOOO!' Zene saw the scene in front of him and soon gripped his chest tightly and pushed aside his mask, he fell into the turret as he lost his senses.
Both Zene and Tabitha saw what was in front of them a block away. In the center was a blackened area, it was full of twisted metal, rubber, bullets, craters…and remains. The entire bike unit was blown to bits by the anti air units to the right and left with the tanks ahead of the bike unit's remains. The Raider's leader was laughing maniacally at the sight before him.
"Whahahahaha! They got what they deserved! DEATH! Whahahahaha!" he was laughing with one arm off to the side and his hand gripping his face. He continued to laugh, ignoring the sound coming from the tank in the distance.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Both the screams of despair echoed through the War Tank. Zene fell unconscious at what he had seen, his form sprawled upon the turret floor. Tabitha was still screaming, she had lost her new-found family, the anger built inside her, on the verge of exploding…until she slumped unconscious on the operating floor.
Miles above the War Tank was a floating machine. The satellite was enormous, it had a massive array of solar panels and a large barrel pointing down at the surface of the planet. It had a mechanical eye that was focused onto the surface. –Owl Not Detected- The mechanical eye focused and zoomed in onto the surface, at the center of the sights was an intersection littered with small craters and various objects. –Loading Shells- The barrel of the satellite adjusted its angle. –Initiating Substitute Bombardment- The barrel shot five shells in quick succession, one by one.
As the shells entered the atmosphere they began to glow white from the frictional heat. As the shells closed the distance, they began to burn up. The first shell in the line of shells, began to shatter, the shattered remains attached themselves onto the shells behind causing them to form a layer onto the outside of the remaining shells. The process repeated until the fifth shell was the only one that survived, its size much larger than the opening of the barrel it had exited from.
The descending shell homed in on the intersection with ease, trailing behind the shell was a bright streak of heat and light.
It punctured the dense clouds that covered the planet and slammed down on this target.
-Bombardment Complete- The mechanical eye of the satellite began to dim. –Beginning Cloaking- The figure of the metal object began to fade into the surroundings. –Beginning Hibernation- the red eye of the machine turned black before also fading into the background of space.
Back on the surface the sight of the incoming object drained all the happiness from the raider's faces. The white-hot object dug a massive crater into the intersection, heaving the ground up in the direction of the raiders and tearing their vehicles into shreds. The only surviving raider was left in a heavily damaged tank. He groaned and got himself free from the wreckage and began to walk away from the twisted metal.
A single shot resounded through the desolate city and a soft thud followed soon after.
'My job here is done…' The blue haired man left the building he was in and headed back to his fellow soldiers. 'Hmm…green legion…' his boots made crunching sounds as he walked through the city.
Within the War Tank, Tabitha stirred, she gathered her thoughts and sat back in her seat.
'Did I send an order for the Owl?' She questioned the slight pain in her head and thought it through.
'Feels like how I normally do when I send an order for a bombardment' She bent over slightly to rest her head in her hands.
'Not possible…not anymore…it was destroyed.' She wondered at the sensation.
The display in front of her didn't show the destruction in front, but it had another recording of her father, Caulder, standing next to a model of what looked to be a satellite.
The recording of her father began to play, Caulder's face showing extreme anger at something, not his daughter. His voice was harsh.
"It looks as if my flying fortress isn't operational anymore and my fortress is destroyed." Tabitha looked at the monitor with a surprised face.
'How would a recording know?'
"My fortress would have launched a bombardment for you if the Owl was in the middle of a refueling session." She realized that he was talking about her CO power!
Caulder's anger quickly turned into one of happiness…evil happiness.
"By the looks of it…you have issued an attack when even my fortress is down." He paused a bit before tapping the model to his side.
"Take a look at my final creation!" His form gesturing at the model to his side, the image zoomed in on the model.
"It is one of my very few perfect creations! It can hide itself among other satellites and it is fully self-sufficient! No need for refueling or rearming! This will now serve as your blade!" His voice hinting at his anger soon shifted back into a happy, yet evil tone. "Though its offensive power is reduced, it has the best precision! I call this! The Dark Cannon!" The image fades and is replaced by the sight of a functional Dark Cannon operating its systems.
After the Dark Cannon's test run was over there was one last image, the impact crater that the cannon left on the surface. This image soon faded, bringing up the screen that showed what was outside the War Tank, the crater she saw out in front matched the impact crater the Dark Cannon left.
'I…did that?' She thought with amazement since she momentarily forgot the power of her father's weapons for a moment.
As she saw the decimated remains of the tanks and anti air units she smiled at the destruction. 'I wish some would've survived so I could show them true pain.' The damage was too severe that she quickly dropped any thoughts of survivors.
'I wish some of those idiots had survived…' She thought wistfully. She headed up to check up on Zene if he was ok.
Tabitha stopped when she was the unconscious form of Zene at the floor of the turret. 'No! Did the blast hit him too?' Tears began to form, but she soon snapped back into reality.
She shook him violently to get a reaction, knowing now that subtleness isn't what she needed. After a couple of seconds shaking him she heard an angry groan.
"Stop shaking me!" He sat upright, pain still in his chest. His mask was on his face but off to the side.
"What happened?" He asked this as he still held his chest.
"I shot them all to oblivion! ...They left no survivors…" Tabitha trailed off near the end.
Immediately the pain in his chest lifted at the mention of this enemies being obliterated, he noticed the worry in Tabitha's face as she looked at his chest. He still had anger and sadness raging inside his mind.
"So what I saw there was real…" His voice grew weak, he was shaking slightly trying to regain control of his body, his anger was being repressed by his own will.
'Calm down…Calm down!' He sealed his anger away with what reasoning he had left.
'The men aren't here to restrain me like before.' He looked at Tabitha who was now sitting beside him, she still looked worried.
'I doubt she can restrain me if I ever lost it.' He was now forcing his anger to fade away; he hated the image of Tabitha getting hurt because of him.
"I'm ok, see? No need to worry." He showed her that he was perfectly fine…well, physically.
She looked back, unconvinced. "Just tell me when you feel anything wrong."
They both exited from the top hatch and looked at the damage Tabitha caused; metal shards were everywhere, the intersection replaced by a small crater, and more metal shards protruding from the front of the War Tank.
"So this is the full force of a war tank…" Zene's voice said in awe as he looked forward.
"…Umm…that wasn't the War Tank…" Tabitha said softly, wanting to give Zene the news calmly.
"Then what was it?" He wore a perplexed look as he turned to face Tabitha.
"…Umm…"
"Was it a secret weapon?"
"…No…well, kind of." She fidgeted for a moment.
"Then what?"
"My CO special attack…" She said nervously, not knowing how he would react to this.
"Is that so…well, let's return to the supply trucks." He just took in the information given to him without much fanfare.
"Aren't you going to ask why?" Tabitha was surprised at his calm reaction, she half-expected Zene to burst out in questions.
"I prepared myself for any surprises and I've conditioned myself mentally for those ever since you came out with this." He tapped the reinforced steel of the War Tank.
"Also, I respect your privacy and you can just tell me whenever you want or not." He finished calmly as he got back into the tank.
Moments later the two of them headed back to the supply trucks, their War Tank smoothly riding past the remains of the ranged units they had assaulted recently. Smoke rose from the remains of the city and the day began to end.
A/N I'm planning to take a short break from uploading when i send out ch11 i still need to proofread several future chapters and find battlefield ideas from the AW maps. I might as well release ch11 along when i release this.