Nothing is Truly Impossible
Main Road
The Eisenreich platoon managed to set up and heavily fortify the ruins of the barricade, "By Furher's name, the hell is going?" The Sergeant cursed watching the ensuing battle off in the distance. It looked like hell and the gates of oblivion just opened.
"I know what you mean, one minute we're dropping in during an exercise then next we're dropped into a hell hole of a warzone." A soldier casually responded shouldering a Panzerfaust Rocket Launcher. The Dozens of uniformed soldiers finally reached the fortification after being flagged down.
"Reinforcements?" A female asked, presumably the leader; Himiko. She and the others began to rest up for he time being once they arrived.
The soldier holding the Panzerfaust spoke, "Yes Ma'am." He acknowledged with a nod.
Noticing the Flecktarn camo and serious equipment she wanted speak with the officer in charge, "Where's your platoon leader." Himiko asked.
The rocket soldier cocked his head in the general direction, "Over there." He said then returned to scanning the tree lines.
The Sergeant approached the group after checking up on the now medicated Honda, "Nice to see friendly faces." He stated noticing the digital camouflage but then noticed a familiar patch resting on the bicep. It was the symbol of a spades suit.
Himiko didn't responded and looked across the current dystopian city, "We got hit pretty hard." She said softly with a serious expression.
The Eisenreich leader understood what she was going through, "It's war, you'll get used to it." He stated with sympathy, "So where're you headed?" He asked looking amongst the gear of the group. Seeing the Spades symbol, his first objective were to assist those carrying the Spades symbol; The Brotherhood.
"West Genetics Academy." Himiko replied, "We've been called back." She admitted looking back from the city to the Eisenreich Sergeant.
"You need all the help you can get. Heinrich, Wahl, On me." The Sergeant explained implying he would help out and ordered two of his best to follow him.
"Ja Herr Staff Sergeant." The two said in unison taking their respective weapons and followed in behind their leader
"Let's move, we may already be too late." Himiko responded lifting her Tavor.
"Right behind you." The Sergeant acknowledged. Himiko and the rest of her team followed in behind towards West Genetics leaving the fortified barricade.
East Gate
The Novafied Tony and Kolt continued the battle it out. The two would swing and block each others attacks and appear to be getting nowhere. Naturally Tony would be winning if he was himself but since the Nova had taken control of his body.
Kolt had swung for his head and Tony went blocked it only to have his forearm blade break upon the blades clashing. Kolt's blade dug into Tony's shoulders and shortly after fell to his knee's, "Why do you other worlders insist on protecting the humans? It is inevitable that the humans will perish." Tony spoke using various tones at once but mainly a females, "Yet you stand, you resist, why?"
Having knowing what to say she responded, "Because no one else will." She told the voice controlling Tony.
Tony directed his teal colored apathetic eyes towards Kolt, "It is only a matter of time before the humans turn their backs on you, other worlders." He explained. Though there were some truth in that subject, Kolt didn't detain from the Brotherhood's goal.
Kolt looked into the teal eyes of Tony, it pained her to see one of her comrades being used like a puppet. She scrunched her face getting more and more irritated by the second as Tony looked back with little emotion.
"Your action will ultimately be your downfall." Tony casually said. Kolt finally snapped drawing her sword from his shoulder and lifted it up prepare to separate his head for his body.
"Kolt!" A voice shouted from the direction of the East Gate.
Kolt stopped and turned to face the voice only to find a few Eisenreich Soldiers, Himiko and her team. The sudden pause allow Tony to disappear in an acceleration turn and reappear behind Kolt with a newly formed blade. He grabbed Kolt's shoulder and impaled her lifting her up off the ground.
Himiko's expression went from surprise to shock as she seen Kolt's body slowly go limp, "It's not your fault." Kolt softly muttered. Tony drew another blade from his other arm and dug that into her back then out stretched his arms separating Kolt into halves.
Himiko reacted in rage lifting her rifle pointed directly at Tony, "You bastard!" She cursed aloud.
The Eisenreich Sergeant also reacted and lifted Himiko's weapon along with the motion of her rifle having it point upwards toward the sky, "Hold your fire! He's not himself!" The Sergeant defended. Himiko's team followed suit and lifted their weapons as well but the two Fallschirmjäger troops didn't bother and instead did their best to get the team to lower their weapons. Wouldn't be the first time when one of their own had been taken control by the enemy.
Himiko struggled to free her rifle free, "You saw what he did you Kolt!" She snarled tugging and pulling from the Sergeant's grip.
"But you didn't see what he's become!" The Sergeant snarled back. The group was now confused as to what to do now.
The Sergeant and Himiko heard a gust of wind sound as well as a pair of boots hitting the pavement, "Shit!" The Sergeant cursed turning to see Tony charging towards them with both arms bladed.
Just as he came in range for a swung he was body checked by a fairly large creature into the nearby wall. Stunned, Himiko swore she just saw a Hydro brush by the group, "Did I see that right?" She asked looking at the creature pinning Tony against the wall.
The group around them began looking around only to notice half a dozen Hydros crowd the group overing looking their six, "Skar?" The Sergeant sounded upon recognizing the supposed leader of the Hydro group. The difference between these Hydros and the others were that these Hydro's wore cloaks made from drapes and blankets.
Skar nodded towards the Sergeant but the sound of grumbling and ripping flesh caught everyone's attention. Tony just killed the Hydro pinning him and broke out of it's grasp, "Hydro! Help all wounded!" Skar ordered with a quick wave of his claw. Sure enough the Hydros around the militia turned to the wounded, got them to their feet, and directed them away from the field.
"1st Platoon, assist the Hydro!" Himiko ordered. The platoon looked amongst each other in confusion then quickly rushed to help the creatures but once this was over it'll change for the better of for the worst. Can't really trust a monster your trained to kill can you?
Tony then darted towards the group and gave Skar a round house to his abdomen sending him several yards away. He then decided to swing at the Sergeant but Himiko used her rifle the block it.
The Eisenreich troops quickly drew their knives and attached it to the barrels of their M4s and began taking trusts towards Tony but he simply shifted out of the knife's pokes. The Sergeant drew his knife as well and threw towards Tony's chest crystal but he disappeared in a flash only to have Skar take the knife to his thigh.
Skar roared in pain and Tony reappeared level to Skar's face but was plucked back down by another Hydro and slammed into the pavement by his leg. One of the Eisenreich troops was ready to thrust into Tony's chest but he reacted by pointing his arm and launching his blade into the soldier's upper body.
The force knocked back the soldier allowing Tony to roll back and onto his feet only to be knocked back down by a side kick to his head courtesy of Himiko. Skar along with one of his Hydros thrusted to pinning him to the ground but both claws were stopped by using his feet and pushed off making the two Hydros recoil back. Tony back hopped to his feet and quickly caught a swinging fist sent by the Sergeant.
Tony threw the arm down causing the Sergeant to lose his balance allowing Tony to spring up his knee impacting the Sergeant's face. As he went down the other Fallschirmjäger troop thrusted his bayonetted rifle towards Tony and have it brushed away and countered with his remaining arm blade swinging to the Soldier's neck killing him.
Himiko gritted her teeth in frustration and lifted her rifle but Tony took the lifeless troop's body and used it as a shield. Unloading her entire clip out of frustration she dropped her rifle and darted towards Tony knife drawn. Tony simply pushed his shield blocking Himiko from tackling him. There was no avoiding it, The body crashed into Himiko causing both to hit the pavent.
Just as Tony was about to step over to Himiko he was impaled from behind and held in the air. Skar stood there arms free, he had used his tail to thrust behind and sure enough the tip of his tail stuck out of the crystal. Quickly pulling out of Tony he watched the body hit the pavement, The Sergeant stood back up holding his nose running with blood and went over to check Tony's condition. He gave a thumbs up after a quick check to make sure he wasn't dead.
Himiko stood back up sighing in relief, the Sergeant and Skar went to check on their dead and pay their respects, Skar's Hydros and Himiko's Platoon came back only to be glared at each other. Was it finally over or was it only the beginning? It could only go one way and Himiko was going to find out after today.
Aftermath, City Rooftops
With the Sun on the horizon and the smoke finally settling, the only thing Richard could do is watch on a roof of a building over looking the destruction cause by last night's events. It was only a matter of time before the Nova themselves were destroyed and frankly they played their part in Richard's plan but in all honesty it wasn't going to the end.
Behind Richard stood a fairly large Hydro bigger than most and had more demonic appearance with more spikes, "Richard, Why wait? We can take the humans now and destroy the Genetics facility." The Hydro spoke in clear dark toned english. It sounded impatient to attack the crippled defenses of the Genetics faction.
"Why? We've already made the effort once just trying only to have the main force held back by four measly tanks." Richard explained. Like a tactician he was he had planned to take out the facility in one swift strike only to have it foiled by a fortified position, "Skalez, There will be more opportunities in the near future." He stated turning around looking back at the Hydro Skalez:
Skalez knelt down before Richard, "Of course." It acknowledge the being in front of it.
West Genetics
Tony slowly drifted his eyes only and noticed he was in the infirmary. Quickly scanning the room he noticed several silhouettes crowding the bed he laid in "He's awaking." A voice sounded. Now completely waking up he seen Chiffon, Himiko, Maximus, an Eisenreich soldier, and Elise Schmidt. Maximus was in bandages, Himiko looked unharmed, and the Sergeant wore a nose band:
Tony groaned as he felt a surge of pain run down his spine and didn't bother moving from his laid out position, "Why do I do feel like I was hit by a train?" He asked the group before him. He group looked amongst each other in confusion.
Himiko began scratching the back of her head, "Uh yeah about that." She said nervously. After the event's earlier nobody was going to bother telling the news. Especially if Tony just woke up.
Tony shifted his eyes to Maximus, "What happened last night?" He asked with a grumbled tone. He didn't sound like he enjoyed the bed as mush as he likes Richard.
The group again looked to each other as if someone should break the news, "He doesn't remember." Elise stated joining in on the silent conversation.
The first one to respond was Chiffon who leaned in closer beside Tony, "A lot." She assured him taking his hand and lightly holding it.
The door to the room opened up with Sister Margaret standing in the frame, "Sister Margaret?!" Maximus said with a surprised tone.
She simply walked in and looked over to the group, "How's Tony?" She asked with concern. If anything, she'd be the one to tell Tony the news.
"Fine ma'am." Tony sounded acknowledging the question.
"You should've told us about your Hydro friend." Sister Margaret stated with a bit of irritation. It would have made things a lot easier for West Genetics to know they had some Hydros as friendly, "We're all lucky that he and his...colleagues have respect for you." She stated. Tony rose and eyebrow as if he questioned the motives of the Hydros
Maximus spoke of in Tony's defense, "We felt it was a need to know basis." He explained. He, Tony, and Kolt did their best to minimize the threat of the Impure but all that changed due to recent events. Sister Margaret nodded in response understanding the situation.
"Where's Kolt? How's she?" Tony abruptly asked noticing she wasn't around with the group.
Once more the group fell dead silence, they didn't bother looking to each other. Now knowing any better he scanned the pained and pitiful expressions of each person. Sister Margaret let out a deep sigh implying she'd handle the burden of telling him what happened. Though it would make sense if Himiko or Maximus told him.
Ghost Realm, Eisenreich Mainland
Jesse walked into the science building in Eisenreich's Capital. Scanning the room seeing dozens of white lab coats figuring out the same thing; what happened during the exercise, "Jesse!" The head scientist greeted with open arms now far off.
"How goes it?" Jesse greeted back as the head scientist stepped beside him. Like the German engineers of the Physical Realm, Eisenreich's scientists were it's Ghost Realm equivalent.
"Not so well." The Scientist sighed. Since the disappearance of the troops they haven't found anything solid, "We've been trying everything in the book to try and locate them but no luck yet." He explained taking as step towards the center of the room with Jesse following in beside him.
"What do you mean try? It's not complicated." Jesse casually responded. Apparently he had figured it out before hand and wondered if the scientists had the same idea which was why he was there.
The Scientist stopped and scrunched his face in confusion, "How do you mean?" He questioned turning to Jesse.
"Look, instead of looking for worlds they might be on, why don't you track the Friendly Strobe ID Tags to find out where they are." Jesse explained. With the Friendly strobe technology, Command would be able to pin point the location of the soldiers on the field as well as vital signs etc. etc.
"That's ridiculous it'll never...Oh, okay." Scientist scoffed at the response of Jesse and began trailing out once he realized it could work, "If we just use the strobes to..." He said quickly running over to a computer and randomly typing codes. His screen began initializing and searched for the missing ID tags. After several moments of searching the computer finally found them, "There!" The scientist called looking at earth with different dimensional coordinates.
The tags began popping up on the screen and several of them read a flat line with most of them beating like a regular heart, "Looks like several vital signs are gone." Jesse commented noticing the flatlines, "Now we just have to figure out a way to get there."
"Eisenreich's job is almost done and now the Brotherhood can begin theirs." The scientist told Jesse with enthusiasm and a cheeky grin but Jesse stood serious and stared at the other earth with an intrigued look, "What is it?" The scientist asked.
Jesse pointed to the console's keyboard, "Check the Impure Scanner." He said. Something had been eating at him just now to check the scanner just becuase.
"What?!" The Scientist exclaimed with a near joking tone, "C'mon, you and I know that there won't be any Impure Presence." He commented. To him; Checking would be useless because this is an unknown world with no contact with the Ghost Realm.
Jesse had a hunch, "Just do it." He told the scientist raising his voice.
Not going to let it go, the Scientist acknowledge the request without delay, "Not going to find anything though." He commented aloud typing in the commands.
The computer wasn't accurate nor precise but it had done it's done in scanning the earth. After a brief moment the levels reading for Impure escalated beyond the average readings, "Not going to find anything huh?" Jesse remarked with a slight smirk.
"Okay-" ; "I'm sorry, what?!" The Scientist began speaking with defeat but Jesse interrupted boasting that we was right. The scientist sighed and turned to the screen and noticed something immediately, "That can't be right." He said upon seeing the levels of Impure.
Jesse turned to the screen and noticed it too, "That's a lot of Impure energy for this world." He stated. Normally new worlds wouldn't have Impure signatures and if they did it would be very little but this was something else.
"Yeah is it." The scientist agreed.
"Either the Impure are fighting for control or there is an Imperialist Court." Jesse explained the posible scenarios that would mostly like cause the high levels, "I'll contact the Generals, for now just keep and eye in those levels." He ordered turning towards the door and leaving.
"Yes sir." The Scientist acknowledged the command.
Flash Notes
Yes I know it may have been rushed and I apologize for it. Things will also get a bit slow because I still have to plan out the E-Pandora Arc and somehow integrate the bad guy Richard in there somehow.
That is all.