Er, at this point of time it's late, and I am very tired and need to be up early for something for college tomorrow. That's why even if it's a little sloppy the full editing of this chapter will have to be completed tomorrow. Sorry, but don't worry it will be finished within a day. Still, hope you enjoy this hectic chapter!
Tales of the Cosmic Wars
Chapter 87: The True Heinous Face of the Supreme King! Order 66!
Last time, in Tales of the Cosmic Wars, the tension between Kira and the rest of the Enji order had reached a boiling point. Cloud and all of Ben's other friends were outraged that Kira was more than willing to sentence Ben to death for the actions he did, while under the madness of Darth Idious. Kira was adamant about making sure the rule of law was absolute and took Ben and Ezan with him on board the Eternal Justice, leaving behind more of his Salvation troopers to " help" the Enji repair the damage their main base suffered. But not before taking the role of Grand Master for himself, even though it was not certain his own father was going to die!
After breaking down Ben's spirit even further, he arrived at the White Castle, where King Atem, Ezan's father and most of the King's loyal staff awaited news about the true situation involving Ben. At first it seemed that Kira had just came to inform Atem of the situation himself, however, to everyone but his most faithful followers, he showed his true face and ambition at last, and called King Atem too soft to rule the Lylat Kingdom, and that he should be its rightful ruler! The four subcommittee members sharing his views, Xiza, Albert Yuriev, Djibril, and Sakyou all appeared through transmissions to announce they were officially endorsing the Commandant of the Titan Special Forces coup d'etat!
Atem's loyal body guards and Generals all refused to allow this and they attacked Kira. But even with the likes of Emperor Greymon and Manga Garurumon, the power of the son of the Grand Master seems to be even fiercer than his father, as he cruelly killed General Ike and crushed everyone else with ease! If that was not enough, Kira revealed that he had the advantage because he had cast his Absolute Hypnoses magic to control what he wanted everyone to see for some time now!
How far this deception had gone was not yet clear, but it clearly showed that Kira has long sought to take matters into his own hands, no matter what!
Kira did not want to kill Atem just yet, but he did make sure he would not interfere and encased him in carbonite for when he was ready to finish him off!
Kira announced himself the new Supreme King of the Lylat Kingdom without delay and framed Ben as the killer of Atem by using his powerful illusion magic! Ben's friends were outraged and knew something was up, but can anyone stand before Kira, now that he has amassed this much power?
At least many are already planning against him, and even the mysterious Diz seeks to dethrone Kira, and has hired none other than Max to help fulfill his wish! Just how will these events shape the outcome of this war and the fate of the universe? It's time to find out, so let the newest chapter begin!
Today's installment begins with someone whom we have not heard from for a while, just finishing hearing Kira 's announcements. It is none other than the greedy, mad president of the united federation of Zeon, Weil Zabi himself!
Ever since the Zanncross Empire had declared Zeon an open season of genocide, and he "fired" all the other leaders of the federation, he was stubbornly hanging onto the idea that he can crush all his foes and enforce his will on the cosmos. However, despite the best efforts of the now brainwashed Craft, Char, and others, reality has been disagreeing with his desires.
Today he had just rounded up another quarter of his military staff and had them executed for treason, merely because he thought they were losing the war on purpose, because the Lylat Kingdom bought them out when he saw this emergency declaration.
And, let's just say everyone on the capital Zeon planet of Texagrad knew now would not be a good time to ask for a promotion.
Sure enough, we turn to Weil pounding his desk so hard it cracks after hearing Kira proclaim to give Weil the justice he deserves and he says,"
That rat, Kira! I knew it, I knew he wanted to wipe me out! Hey, looks like he plays by my rules. I knew that Kira and the Titan hawks that buzz around him would root out King Atem and show everyone the true face of that ludicrous Lylat Kingdom!
So, he thinks he can just blitz into my territory and finish me!? HA, no one out muscles Weil Narche Zabi! I'll show him, I'll show them all! All who try to take from me what is rightfully mine, have always been put in their place and soon everyone will see that! Hehe, they think that Zeon is finished, but they are all fools!"
He then presses a button and the hologram image of Tarkin appears before him. He says,"Tarkin! You better not tell me you're behind schedule again, or I might just have to rip out your brain and shove it into a robot to motivate you!" His chief weapon scientist chuckles and says,"
No need to be impatient, mister president, in fact you will be delighted to know that I am in fact ahead of schedule."
Weil then pauses before he blurts out," What, you're telling me that the Death Star is finally completed?"
Tarkin then has the image of the moon sized battle station appear on a different screen and shows its hovering around a giant military asteroid base of Artemus! Tarkin then has a mad grin and says,"Allow me to present to you the full power of this battle station! Do it!"
Weil then sees a few Lylat Gundams attack the Death Star only for their shots to be reflected. Zeon mobile suits then ambush them and blow them apart!
The Death Star itself begins to glow, before the battle station's super laser in the center derives power directly from the hyper matter reactor.
Its facet's amplification crystal combined the destructive power of eight separate tributary beams into one single blast with the intensity of a stellar core. Weil then sees the Death Star fire off this massive blast at the Titan asteroid base, and disintegrate both it and the warships around it in one shot ! Weil laughs madly at seeing what took him many months, and lots of cash, to create and says,"Tarkin, you just proved why you're one of the few employees that are worth your paycheck! This is perfect; I'll use this space station Ragnarok, the Death Star, to blow up Kira from his new throne!"
Tarkin reappears on screen and cautiously says,"I would not recommend taking the Death Star into such a critically defended area just yet. While it's true that the super laser is fully operational, the station still has work needed for its defense barrier. Plus, with the recharge time being an hour, at its present state, it's far from being ready to be the bane of the Lylat Kingdom just yet. Be patient, Weil, it will only take a little while longer. Don't want to blow our final victory due to impatience."
Weil gets mad and clutches his fist, before he calms down and says,"I hate anyone telling me to calm down. However, I see your point. Last thing I need is to have the thing blow up in my moment of victory! Fine, I'll let you do your tuning up on Ragnarok.
But don't dare delay! I will not let anyone make a fool out of me any longer! That brat, Kira, along with those ancient ghosts of the Zannacross Empire, I'll show all of them that Weil Zabi is the one true ruler of all space!
Kira, you have a lot to learn if you think you can outplace me in ruthlessness! However, you can amuse me and try if you like. In the end, you will fail, as do all that try and beat me! Hahahaah!"
As Weil contacts more of his men to make them change their production schedules, we now leave him.
We then go to a new location, the White Castle. That which makes it different than times before, is now we have a new king preparing to sit on the throne! Yes, we are in the throne room, just as Kira had finished his inauguration speech.
The four subcommittee members that supported his takeover are with him and, as they see Kira take the throne, they all clap. One of the three celestial Digimon that has sided with Kira, Cherubimon, hands him his golden eight pointed crown. Kira uses his magical energy to have it hover between his hands and he then says,"At last, all of the events before this day have allowed me to reach this point. Now, the reformation of this broken cosmos can begin in earnest. Atem, father, even Ben. All of those fools have played their valiant game of hero, of good and evil.
But I will get results by taking things further than any of them were willing to go! Only by not being held back by such meaningless feelings can this war have any meaningful result. Yes, with my vast power, I will destroy the very fabric of this realm and create a new one!"
Djibril then laughs and says,"Ah, the words of a true, strong ruler. It's clear who was destined to rule Commandant, no, Supreme King Kira! Yes, with you in charge, we can finally stop playing nice with those Zeon idiots."
Kira looks at him and responds with a flat,"Yes, I shall give everyone in the cosmos their proper justice. Ah, it looks like we have a few latecomers."
The four members, along with Tosen and Gin, turn around and see that the two other members of the subcommittee, Siegel and Helmer run in!
It seems Lacus' father is elsewhere. The two run up and Siegel yells out a mortified, "Kira, what is the meaning of this!"
Kira looks amused and responds with a casual, "Did you two not see the broadcast? It is what it appears to be."
Helmer looks at his four fellow members and says, "Have you all gone completely mad! Just how long have you planned this rebellion?"
Sakyou laughs and retorts with a mocking,"Please Helmer, this is hardly a rebellion. We are just doing our job, it's our duty to preserve the best interest of the Lylat Kingdom. It would seem you two have lost sight of that detail. Tell me, where is Erich?"
Xiza laughs and says,"Most likely checking on his dear child, after that tragic attack from the traitor, Ben. How sad that his compassion for his daughter could lead to his demise."
Helmer then says,"What are you talking about!? Kira, what have you done to King Atem? The reports say that Idious was contained without ever stepping foot here, just what lies are you telling us? And now what do you plan for the Enji Knights?"
Kira just rises from his throne and responds with a cold,"It's rather simple. I plan to punish the power hunger Enji Knights that planned this rebellion by purging the order of its unworthy traitors. Naturally, I will spare those that pledge obedience to me, but the rest will be shown no mercy.
Mercy, after all, is why this war has continued to drag on. However, now that power is in the hands of someone who knows how to truly get things done, we will at last have an everlasting peace. After all, is that not what the public wants?"
Siegel gets mad and says, "What the public wants is a leader they can trust, a leader that is honest with them! I know they do not want a warmonger who only can try and settle things with violence! Have you all forgotten that even if we are ruled by a king, the Lylat Kingdom in its core is still a democracy!?"
Kira looks at the statues of the previous leaders and says,"The people, they do not know what they want. They don't even know what is best for them, just what appeals to their short term desires. It's like a parent that treats their child harshly for their own good. The child may despise them, but when they can understand what is needed for them, they will see that kindness was not what they needed, but strength. And that is why I must weed out all the corruption that has held back this kingdom.
After all, it was because of corruption that the predecessor to the Lylat Kingdom, the old Galactic Alliance of planets, was on the verge of anarchy before radical changes took place.
We are almost there, we just need to "trim" a little bit more. Now, what will you two do? Will you choose the path that must be taken or side with the rest of the fools?"
Helmer then stares Kira in the eye and says "So, it's join you or die, huh? You have really all gone mad. So, you're going to kill whoever stands in your way? I doubt the people will support you for long when you start killing everyone that defies you left and right!"
Kira just grins and sits back on his throne while saying,"Who said anything about killing you? I would never do anything as barbaric as make public executions to those that disagrees with my views. Really now, I am not the kind of man that Weil Zabi is. While he is doing this out of greed, I am doing this out of the knowledge that only I can truly save this cosmos."
The two sane subcommittee members look at each other in disbelief before, Siegel says,"What do you mean? You really think you are a god? You're so in love with yourself that you can't see how crazy this all, GUH!"
Before he can finish, he finds himself shot in the chest with a blaster bolt! Before he lands, Helmer is shot too!
As they both fall to the ground, they can see that it was not Kira or his servants that did the deed, but their fellow members Djibril and Sakyou that shot them with their weapons! Djibril has a deranged look on his face and he says,"Now then, that's no way to talk to a king! You two always did lack any real decorum! Of course, Kira will not kill the likes of you. After all, it's the duty of the subcommittee members to root out unfit members when they are no longer fit for the job!"
Siegel looks at the two as blood comes out of his chest and he says,"You four, you were all just looking to expand your own powers. You will never get away with this."
Xiza then walks up to the two and responds with as mocking,"Ah, but we already have, Siegel. The polls are in, and it's too late for a recall. However, I'll give you credit for being such good sports, but you are no longer needed. It's time you are relieved of your duty. Goodbye."
He then reminds everyone he is not a human by extending his nail, right through the head of his fellow member! As he dies, Xiza does the same to Helmer with his other hand and moments later they are both dead. At once, two Salvation soldiers go to move the bodies and Kira says,"It's always a shame when people can't see through their differences. However, now that I am in charge, I will not allow disunity to weaken our power. Those that oppose my methods will be silenced by any means necessary."
Sakyou then turns to Kira and says,"Ah, its nice to have a king that uses his head and not his heart. Leaving King Atem in charge would never give this war a satisfying conclusion.
But that's the moral of this story. All loose and weak links must be cut off."
Kira looks up and turns to the subcommittee members with a pricing glance before he responds with,"Ah, too true. And that is why, Djibril, Sakyou, your services are noted, but you are no longer needed. And, since you two are now a liability, this is the end of our partnership."
The two are shocked and Djibril blinks before his shock turns to horror and he spits out,"What!? You dare think you can dispose of us when it's because of us that you were able to get this far! Hey, and why did you only say me and Sakyou?"
Kira grins and answers the man with purple lipstick with a cruel, "You overestimated your own worth, Djibril."
Sakyou then gets nervous and stands back before muttering,"Don't be ridiculous, how do you expect to have control over the senators without us, the subcommittee? Even you won't be able to, GAUH!"
Before he can finish, he is impaled by Xiza's tail! Xiza flings him into the air and emits a devilish,"Now then, he never said anything about killing the whole subcommittee, just the unneeded ones. And it happens to be that I am more worthy than you are."
The long haired man that is on his tail glares at him and says,"Xiza, you traitor! You think you could hide everything from us!? Ridiculous, I knew for sometime you were the true leader of the Space Pirates, as well as the godfather of the Twilight Mafia!"
Xiza 's eyes flash with raw disgust as he rasps out, "Ah, you did your homework, except for you still don't know everything, and you will never know. Goodbye Sakyo, and thank you for being kind enough to give your wealth to me as a parting gift!"
The other member curses the green humanoid's name as he is thrown hard into the wall, and is then blown up by an energy blast from the hand of Xiza! He then turns to Djibirl and the man panics before pointing his blaster at Xiza. He then gets frantic as he blurts out,"No, you will pay for this, you backstabbers! What are you laughing at, Albert? You think Kira won't kill you all, too? Bah, if I am going to hell, I'll send you there first!"
He then fires his gun at the mustached man, however he is shocked to see Albert hold out his hand, and absorb the energy right into it! Djibirl keeps firing, but he gets the same result as Albert walks right up to him!
Albert then wags his finger, and reveals a red circle in his palm!
He then says, "Me, die? Nonsense! Unlike you, I am not a mere disposable politician. I came back from the brink of death once, and that will be the only time!"
He then surprises Djibirl by grabbing him by his head with one hand! He then laughs and says,"You want to know why Xiza and I are still around? Because we are more than just disposable bureaucrats, we are the players that will bring about the new era! You can only blame yourself for not being as much a genius as me!"
He then impales the white haired man through the chest with his hand, before throwing him across the room! He then wipes off the blood on his hand and says,"Bah, he was always annoying me anyway. So Kira, now that we have disposed of all the trash, I assume you are ready to begin the execution of Ben Auro?"
Kira sighs and responds with a curt," His demise will come shortly, but first things first. I know you two have been waiting a long time, but we must do things correctly. Now that the Enji have seen my true ambitions, they will come here to defy me.
But I will crush them before they even have the chance to try and get in my way. Those fools, they never realized their doom was right in front of them.
Albert, have you made sure Dist did not do anything to change the nano-machines within the soldiers?"
Albert then strokes his mustache and says,"He tried, but it was nothing that can get past me. Hey, even after all this time, there is no aspect of machines I have not mastered."
Xiza then chuckles and says,"Now, Albert, it has been a very long time since you were known as an expert in robotics. We can't afford to let those Enji have any chance of escape."
Albert then looks at Xiza and says,"Come now, I made it this far, does that not say anything about my tenacity? Don't worry, while there is some chance some will try to resist, the chances of that are very slim."
Kira then presses a button on his throne and has the image of one of his Salvation commandos appears. It is Commander Rex. The image of the soldier salutes and he says," What are your orders sir?" Kira then says,"
Commander Rex, the time has come. Execute Order Sixty-Six."
The commander does not even ask how come and says,"It will be done, my lord. The Enji will be dead by the day's end."
His image fades and Kira laughs and says, "It has begun. I control the system now; there is no one that can stand in my way."
Xiza then looks amused before he says, "You really think your band of clones can wipe out the Enji? They are quite annoying;even their elite skills are not on the level of the average Enji."
Kira smirks and responds with a swift, "I created the grand replica army, to have the Enji at my feet. And to make sure they get the job done, I have my elite members like Yazan and Paptimus Scirocco to insure our victory.
Even if they can not totally destroy the order, they will be crippled. And most of all, even if they had their odds against me, they had no idea how far I stacked the odds. With the Patriot and Veda systems set up the media will see things as I wish them to see, and the Enji will be hounded till they are driven to extinction. Yes, this is truly the end, father.
I will show you once and for all, that for all your talks about honor and courage, in the end, it's worthless on the battlefield. In war, the ones that strike the fastest and the hardest win, regardless of talent or purpose. This is why I shall be victorious! When the Patriot system and the Destiny plan is fully implemented everyone in the cosmos will smoothy move in sync with there proper places, and those who resist this fate will be disposed like the defective trash they are.
But remember, you two. If either of you dare turn against me, I will destroy you without mercy."
Kira goes on to command the rest of his army the same deadly order! And as he does, our view now returns to our heroes at the Hallowed Bastion!
Ben's friends are still upset about the recent turn of events. Cloud and the others are checking up on the status of the still out cold, Grand Master.
As Cloud and co are walking down the hallway to the medical hall, Doug says,"Man, how does Kira expect to get away with this? He just calls himself king and expects everyone just to follow him? No way people will just be fine with that."
James then says, "Don't be so sure, Doug. Even if he is not very pleasant most of the time, in the public's eyes he is a war hero that has won many battles. He was even the one who got the most credit for protecting Corneria, besides Ben, since it was thanks to his arrival that Xehamaru and his massive fleet was stopped."
Cloud sighs and responds with a wary,"In times of war, it's not uncommon for people to rally behind those that show resolve and strength. The problem is that these days Kira is all about power and little about anything else. Still, King Atem was quite popular, and if he is still alive we might have a chance of ending this quickly.
Even Kira would not really kill Atem just yet, he knew we would sense the backlash of energy. He must be waiting for something, but we can't afford to wait. Ah, here we are. Oh, Master Chief?"
Cloud and the others not only see the Spartan warrior, but a bunch of other armored soldiers to his side. When he sees Cloud, he nods and says,"Captain Strife, what is your purpose for going to this area?"
Cloud looks annoyed and says,"To ask my friend Aeris about the status of the Grand Master. Why do I need to even tell you where I am going in here? I should be asking why Kira sent so many of you just to help us repair the castle. Did he send you to spy on us?"
Master Chief just says,"I know the Commandant has made some actions that have you angered, Cloud. But, you must understand, he is just doing what must be done to bring peace to the universe as fast as possible. Alright, you may pass."
He then moves out of the way and Cloud responds with a curt,"Thank you."
He and the others enter, and as he does, Master Chief looks at them go and says,"I admit even I do not understand the C, no King Kira's will all the time. However, he always has his reasons. Although, I did not expect him to become the new Supreme King in the place of Atem. I guess he was the most qualified one to rule after him though. Even still I, huh? RAH!"
The soldier hears a voice in his head, and it's the voice of Kira! All the other soldiers go through the same symptoms, and as the Chief holds his head, the image of Kira appears before his eyes and he says,"The time is now to fulfill your duty, time to execute order 66."
Chief is wondering why Kira is in his head and he says,"What, now? But order 66 was to assassinate rogue Enji?"
Kira just grasps his right gloved hand and sharply says,"It is not for you to decide what is the proper time. Obey the will of your king, and destroy the traitors. You will do what your duty commands, Chief, you cannot defy me!"
Chief then struggles for a moment, but even though he is not as willing to obey his order as the others, Kira planned for this, and the nanomanchines inside the Chief enforce his will to the point that Chief and the other few definite soldiers come to see the logic of the supreme king! Chief then loads his machine gun and says," Understood, proceeding with battle plan."
Kira then smirks before he quips out a delighted,"Good, do not fail your king, for it is for the glory of the Lylat Kingdom that all traitors are crushed!"
His image fades and the soldiers begins to move, and not just them.
All the soldiers deployed around the area begin the pre-programmed plan that Kira burned into their mind! And as they do, the Titan member assigned over the troops, Yazen Gable is in the cockpit of his mobile suit, the Hambrabi, at the time and sees a red single flare up in his suit. He then grins and darkly says,"Finally, at last these magical freaks will get what is coming to them! Time to pave the way for a pure new world! Dunkel, Ramsus, get the ships into position! We are going to have a barbecue!"
Meanwhile, Cloud has just reached Aeris and the others still working on Grand Master Myers. Cloud sees the leader of the warriors of light is still not moving and he says," Is there any progress on the wounds?"
Tear, who helped the other three after a while in the healing process, looks down and says,"
We have been able to prevent him from dying, but sadly that's all we have gotten so far, even with four of us. I suppose when a blow from the supreme god of darkness was told to be able to shatter even the celestial ones, the fact that he is still fighting, shows how strong his will is."
Aeris then says, "As long as he keeps fighting, we will too. However, it will take everything we have to heal this. And who knows how long it will take him to wake up afterwards."
Cloud looks hopeful and says, "As long as there is hope, that is all that matters. Even if it will take a while, we can't afford to lose Master Myers. We need him now more than ever, especially with Kira going mad. Huh, what the, what do you guys want?
Cloud sees that the Chief and his squad are all in a line, and get into a formation. Hiryuumon then says "Um, can we help you guys? It's rude to just waltz in with out, hey what the?"
The Digimon and the others see that the soldiers point their guns at the Enji! Cloud at once takes out his sword and says,"What are you doing? This is not very funny,Chief!"
The Spartan aims his rifle right at Cloud and says,"Nothing personal, Cloud, just following my orders. In the name of the king, all Enji Knights must die!"
Doug is shocked and says, "What? Have you all suffocated in your helmets? Are you just going to blindly follow what Kira tells you to do? I bet he will tell you to fly into a star and you still would do it! Can't you see you're being idiots?"
Chief just responds with a ruthless, "It's the job of a soldier to enforce justice. No matter the cost, that is what we must do! Fire!"
He then fires a shot from his plasma rifle, and the other soldiers all fire missiles! However, the Enji are still too fast, Cloud deflects the plasma blast with his sword into the ground and Aeris stops healing the Grand Master to hold out her hand and protect everyone with a force field from the rest of the attacks! James then aims his energy bow at them and says,"This is your last chance to come to your senses. You won't win."
The commando to the right of Chief takes out his chain energy blaster and says,"You smug Enji, think you're unbeatable? It's time you got shot off all your high pedestals! You may have your fancy powers, but we Salvation soldiers were trained from day one to deal with threats like you!"
Aeris looks dismayed before she responds with, "Is that what you truly think of us? Or is it what Kira told you to think of us? Even if the majority of you are clones, you still have your own heart!"
The soldier to the left of Chief says,"Quiet! You can't trick us with your magic tricks! It's time for the Lylat Kingdom to be purged of all those that conspire to weaken it from within! We have the equipment to match your powers, you will all die now!"
The solders all fire, but James fires first and blasts the guns out of their hands with a barrage of energy arrows!
Doug then growls out, "You all need to chill, Bursting Machine Gun punch!"
Before the soldiers and Chief can try anything else, Doug punches hard and fast and they are all slammed through the door and all hit the hallway hard! They run out to see everyone out cold and Cloud says,"Nice work, guys."
Doug then grumbles before sorely saying, "What the hell got into them?"
James looks in the distance and says,"More like what happened to everyone! Look, it seems that Kira has become even more deceptive, because it appears to me that these soldiers were here to kill us all along!"
Everyone looks around the area and sees that soldiers and mobile suits are attacking Enji everywhere! Cloud sees a few levels down Vincent and Barret shooting back at some more storm troopers as Tifa carries a wounded Yuffie out of the line of fire.
James then sees further in the distance what appears to be Luke, Guy, Cecil, and Yang fighting against a special pair of Titan's Throne class Gundams.
Luke and Yang have just avoided the beam attack from the mega launcher of the black and heavily armed GNW-001 Gundam Throne Eins.
At the same time, Guy had just attacked the back of the orange GNW-002 Gundam Throne Zwei in order to prevent the suit from impaling Cyan with its large and deadly buster sword! Aeris feels the pain of the ones that were not able to react in time and were killed by the sudden attack of the Salvation troopers and says,"This is horrible! How could Kira order his own friends and family to be killed?"
Cloud looks mad and responds with,"Kira, he truly has lost all emotion and has become obsessed with killing anyone in the way of his twisted world. He may think he has fooled us all to the end, but if he thinks that he will be able to shatter the same order he once was a part of, he is dead wrong! Huh?"
He hears a man laughing through an intercom, and he sees a mobile suit descend in front of them!
It's Yazan in his special mobile suit, the blue Hambrabi!
Yazan then takes out his beam rifle and barks out a ruff,"Hahah, you Enji are so arrogant; you think you can defy fate? Forget it; it's the end of the line for you freaks! The true saviors of this cosmos are not you magical hippies! Hell no, its the ultimate military force, the Titans! There is no need for your kind in the new order traitors! Kira is the man who will create the ultimate world, and the first step is to wipe out you mavericks!"
Cloud powers up his magic energy and retorts with a sharp,"Mavericks? Kira is the one who has gone maverick. He has become mad with his ideals, and now can not even understand anything but his own ideals! If this is what you think is justice, then you are just as mad as he is. Time you pay for attacking the home of the Enji Knights!"
Cloud then fires a beam sword attack at the blue mobile suit just as it was about to fire to blast it back! The battle for Hallowed Bastion is now truly getting started! However, speaking of mavericks, before the battle begins in earnest, let's briefly turn to a different group of people that deal with Mavericks!
We now go to inside the HQ of the Maverick Hunters. At the moment, X, Zero, and Axl have heard the alarm and are running to the briefing room to find out what there newest emergency is.
X, not exactly happy about the events going on lately, looks at the newest video on the screen in the left wall as it shows the false image of Ben/Idious impaling King Atem again, and a reporter talking about his coming up public execution.
X sighs and Zero sees this before saying,"X, I know that look, what is it this time?"
The blue, long time maverick blaster looks at his long time partner and says,"Zero, time and time we fight, but after all of these years of deleting mavericks, has anything really changed? I mean, we fought for so long, and now Kira is acting very suspicious. It makes me wonder if all we are doing is useless."
The pony tailed haired fighter besides him just sighs and says,"X, remember what we talked about last time you acted like this, right after Axl joined? Just take a deep breath, and snap out of it! Seriously, don't get all wishy-washy and talk about not fighting again, or I will throw you right out of the window to snap your circuits back in order! Remember what I said?"
X then looks serious for a second, but then beings to then responds to Zero with a firm,"Heh, you're right, Zero. No matter how long it takes, or how many stand before us, we will keep fighting to create a world of peace."
Axl then adds a enthusiastic,"That's the X I know! Or, at least the X I like! Just moping around is not going to get anyone anywhere, so let's show those jerks out there that they won't wear us down and blast their heads off."
X then looks forward and says,"You're right, Axl. Alright, Maverick Hunters, let's see what's the newest disturbance that we need to quell is about!"
The other two hunters nod and they enter the command room. Once in there, they find both their long time operator Aila and the more recent assistant operator who joined after the rebellion on Giga City, Nana pressing many buttons. To their side, X sees their long time friend Signas looking over a report when he sees the trio enter. He then reacts to the trios arrival with a enthusiastic,"Ah, about time you got here. I said this before, but things are pretty insane."
X just looks at the monitor saying maverick alert and says,"So, what is it that Vile and Sigma are up to this time?"
Aila then looks at X and says,"Well, you see, it's not quite business as usual this time, X."
Zero just chuckles and says,"So, it's one of those other Zannacross idiots? I don't care who it is, we will stop them and put them in their place!"
Nana then says, "No, it's not the Zannacross Empire or Zeon. Here, let me explain. We just got a direct order from the new supreme king, Kira. He issued us your new targets by order of supreme order 66."
X looks puzzled and says, "Order 66? What order is that?"
Signas then looks down and says,"It seems that our latest mavericks are Enji Knights "
Axl raises his eyebrows and says,"Enji? You mean more Enji turned traitor? This is going to be a pain, who?"
Aila then presses a button and answers Axl with a tense,"That's just the thing, X. It's not just a few Enji. It seems that the entire order of Enji Knights have been labeled Mavericks!"
The three hunters are shocked as the names and images of nearly every recorded Enji Knight appears on the main monitor in front of them and a description of the entire order being labeled traitors for conspiring against the Lylat Kingdom! Zero looks outraged before he reacts with"This is nuts! How could the entire Enji order be labeled mavericks?"
X sighs and answers his long time pal with,"Zero, remember what happened with Colonel Redips? Kira, this turn of events is far too suspicious. I won't allow history to repeat itself. Kira, I don't know what you have planned, but I continue to fight for the true path of justice, not the twisted version you envision.
I won't betray my friends, even if it's the order of the Supreme King! Alia, send the teleporter to Hallowed Bastion. Zero, Axl, time to make sure that we have not fought this long just to let things repeat."
His partners nod and they step into the machine, however Alia says,"Oh no, it's impossible to warp you directly there! It seems the Titans have a jamming field to block anything to go into the area around the castle!"
A frustrated X then says, "Well, warp us to the closest location you can, Alia! We can not waste time here."
Alia then says,"Alright, I'll do the best I can. Begin transmission!"
She then warps the hunters to aid the Enji from the treachery of Kira.
Meanwhile, the Enji on Hallowed Bastion are not the only ones being ambushed by the Titans and their Salvation troopers, this is happening all across the cosmos!
We turn to the world of Popstar, were outside the Castle of King Dedede, Enji Knights Tidus, Wakka and their Roso friend, Kimahri Ronso, nearly wound up full of holes just as their squad of Salvation soldiers helping them monitor the planet turned on them!
At the moment, Tidus is deflecting shot after shot with his Calaborg sword and, if it were not for his great speed, he would already have been done in! He just manages to see some snipers aiming for him and casts a haste magic spell on him to avoid being marked down!
Wakka then takes out the snipers with his Blitz ball. Right behind him Kimahri assaults the other soldiers and gets the jump on them by using his Aqua breath blue magic to wash them off the castle and give them a nice hard landing! Tidus sees more storm troopers rushing into the courtyard and he says,"
This is nuts! Have all these guys gone mad?"
Wakka then responds with a tense,"I don't know, man, but something tells me we can't just ask them to chill! Hey dudes, what did we do, anyway?"
The commander takes out a flamethrower and says,"You know your crimes, Enji. The end of the Enji order trying to sabotage the Lylat Kingdom is now! Not one of you magical traitors will escape!"
Kimahri growls and says,"Kimahri is starting to think we were set up. It would seem Kira does not remember who his allies are supposed to be!"
Tidus then grimaces before he bursts out with,"Man, I always knew Kira was way too uptight, but I just thought he was holding things into himself, like Auron. Well, now it seems he is even more of a power hungry backstabber than Seymour!
Whatever, I don't care if we have to fight the entire Titan's Special Forces, there is no way we are going to let him get away with this! It will take more than a bunch of goons to stop us!"
Wakka hears something before turning around and giving off a gasp. He then whacks Tidus on the head and says,"What's your problem, man? All this time and you still have a big mouth!"
Tidus is annoyed at the bump and says,"Hey, you don't have to, huh? Oh, maybe you were right."
He then sees that another squad of soldiers is behind them with their guns aiming right at them! Their leader then puts his targeting laser right at the head of the former blitz-ball player and says,
You will not defy lord Kira, Enji Tidus! We know all your tricks, so you have no surprises for us. Ready men? Open, GUH!"
Before he can even finish, a massive blast of magical energy hits him right in the back and obliterates him and the rest of the squad! In the distance, Wakka sees that it was his wife, the powerful black mage Lulu, who blasted them with her Ultima spell. She then walks up to her friends and says,
"You guys don't know everything we can do, so don't act so smug. Now, if any of you value your life, how about ending this now, while you have a chance?"
The other squad of soldiers all look at their commander. He just aims his gun at Lulu before saying,"Bah, your magic is no match for our superior combat skills! We are prepared for every situation!"
Lulu readies another spell and says,"I always thought something was fishy about you Salvation soldiers. Very well, then learn the hard way."
She then fires a Flare magic spell at the other group. However, before the powerful blast hits the armored men, a sphere drops down from the sky and absorbs the blast!
Before Lulu or the others can figure out what it is, all of a sudden, four spikes shoot down from the ground and create a barrier around the four Enji! A new laugh can be heard and a giant purple mobile suit lands down with a thud in front of the Soldiers!
This machine is armed to the teeth, so to speak, and is one of the special Titan's enforcer suits named the PMX-000 Messala! And, if that was not bad enough, it is being piloted by a fervent follower of Kira and Titan's commander Paptimus Scirocco, Sarah Zabiarov,!
The female pilot laughs and points her grenade launcher at the Enji while saying,"Oh, please, your magical powers are useless against us! With that Negator, you can't pull anymore tricks. Now, time to wipe out those that stand in the way of the new order!"
Lula is obviously annoyed and says,"Damn her, that thing is not only absorbing my spells, but is sealing my magic energy!"
Tidus then gets serious as he reacts with,"Well, guess we will just have to smash that before we smash that suit! No matter what you pull, you're not going to get away with this!"
He and Kimahri then charge at the Negator, but it flies out of their reach! The Messala then shows it's faster than it looks by attacking both of them with its grabbling "Vice "claws and slams both warriors into the ground! It then emits an electrical current to inflect more pain into the Enji and Sarah says,"Ha! It's you Enji who will not get away with defying Lord Kira! I won't show mercy, I'll kill you all right now!"
She then aims her machine's pair of heavy mega particle cannons at them, and says,"Yes, goodbye! What the, no!"
She is about to fire, when all of a sudden a new figure appears and throws a sharp blade at the wires to free both Tidus and Kimahri! Right after that, a powerful blow strikes the suits left leg, causing it to stagger and fire its blast into the sky, as the attack causes a massive explosion! She then has the machine take flight and says,"What? More Enji? What is this?"
She then has her sensors lock on the two new arrivals. It turns out that they were none other than Kirby riding his large cat friend, Nago, and King Dedede himself! Kirby looks at the soldiers and says,"Why are you guys fighting? Aren't you all on the same side? "
King Dedede gets mad and points his hammer at the Messala and says,"Yeah, what are you doing, shooting up my landscape? Far as I've seen, these Enji have not done anything wrong, so what are you doing trying to shoot them full of holes?"
Sarah laughs from within her suit and says,"A simple king of your level could never understand the great mind of our new ruler, nor could you understand what the true obstacles are! All you need to know is that these Enji Knights are traitors and must be erased for the good of all! Now, stand aside or you will be traitors as well!"
Dedede and Kirby are shocked and the penguin king says,"Man, I thought people used to think I was a bad king, but this is plan loco!"
Kirby says,"Even if Dedede is not high in that leaders of the Lylat Kingdom poll I saw from mister Tidus, even at his worse, he would never do something like this! I won't let you hurt these guys; they are nice and gave me a lot of tasty food!"
Dedede winds up his hammer and says,"I knew something stuck about that Kira, and for once, I was right! No way am I going to let him walk all over me!"
One of the soldiers walks up to Kirby and says,"What, you are going to stand against us, shortly? What are you going to do against the likes of, AH!"
The soldier is shocked to see Kirby open wide and swallow the soldier whole! After a minute, Kirby appears to absorb the Salvation storms trooper's power and now wear his mask and a plasma gun.
He then says,"That man tasted like plastic, yuck!"
The other soldier got nervous and says,"Oh, my god, you killed Kenny! You're dead, freak!"
Tidus gives the three a thumbs up and says, "Thanks guys, don't worry, we won't make you regret helping us!"
Sarah gets annoyed and transforms the Messala into its mobile armor form before saying,"Bah, stupid locals. I'll kill anyone who tries to defy the rule of law, no matter whose side they are on! All units, open fire! Kill anyone who stands in the way of justice!" The battle for the fate of the Enji on planet Popstar then resumes.
Elsewhere in the cosmos, similar situations are breaking out. On the planet of Hyrule, Link had come to the aid of Enji Knights Stan, Rutee, Mary, Woodrow and others who were betrayed by their Salvation soldiers and Titan's pilot Ein Liewi in his Dezpada Gundam!
Likewise, Samus Aran decides to interfere with an ambush on the planet Venom and blasts through the formation of another Titan's commander Alejandro Corner in his Alvatore mobile armor and thanks to her interfere she prevents the doom of the red afro Enji Samurai Amarant Cole, Zelos, Ingus and the others in their squad and allows them time to escape on her ship.
Yes, it seems that despite the popularity Kira has in the public's eyes, they have not forgotten the many times the Enji have saved the day!
And that is why while some of the Enji are tragically killed by the about face treachery of Kira, the majority are able to hold their own against the march of the Titans thanks to those that support the warriors of light! Yes, and we now change are view once more to the view of yet another Enji Supporter, none other than Lacus' father!
(Sorry, but it would be crazy to go into detail every single Enji fighting of the Salvation soldiers. Even I have my limits, lol.)
The now only surviving sane member of the Subcommittee was on his way to the Enji Temple to check on the status of Grand Master Myers anyway since he and the Enji founder were close friends.
However, while he knew before hand that Kira had sent his men there in the name of helping repairing the damage done by Idious,he is shocked and horrified to see the four Alexandra class battleships over the castle blasting the home of the Enji with their cannons! Although the shields are up, they are taking a beating and it's not going to help them from the soldiers and machines already inside the barrier!
Erich then tries to open a channel and says to his pilot,"What in blazes is going on down there? It can't be Idious, what does Kira think he is doing. Lacus, everyone, I hope you are safe. Land us down, I want some answers."
His loyal crewman does as told and lands the royal Raystar shuttle down. While the Castle itself is in lock down, Erich sees that there is a blockade set up by some soldiers on the outstretch of the mountain entrance and lands down there.
At once, he exits the shuttle and quickly walks to the soldiers. At first they point their blasters at Erich, but then they put down their weapons as they see his uniform and name.
A furious Erich says, "What is going on here!?"
The commander of the unit responds with a stern,"Sir Erich, if you're not aware, there has been a rebellion by the Enji Knights. Don't worry; the situation is being taken care of."
Erich is in a state of disbelief and says," Rebellion? What are you talking about? Let me in there, my daughter is inside! As a member of the subcommittee, I order you to stand aside! What?"
The commander, Aplo and his men bar his path and he says,"Negative, it's a direct order from Supreme King Kira that no one may enter until the traitors have been exterminated. I am sorry sir, but it's time for you to leave. If you do not, I will have no choice but to, what?"
One of the Enji broke out of the barricade!
The commander sees one of the newer Enji apprentices, the young Genji from the village of Areura, who is a werewolf like Lycanth, named Caius Qualls, strike down the sergeant watching the door! The rest of the soldiers open fire, but Caius is able to deflect the shots his way and fires off a demon fang energy sword wave to cut down a few more soldiers!
Aplo takes out a sonic grenade he has, and throws it at the Enji to cause his ears to bleed from the vibration! He tries to transform into his beast form, but the pain is too much and Aplo shoots him with his plasma shotgun! Erich is horrified and says,"Stop it now, have you gone mad? This is only a child! "
Aplo does not even seem to listen and says,"Check his pulse, and if he still has one, finish him! Huh, more Enji? He then sees in the distance four more Enji fighting against another Titan's pilot Dunkel Cooper in another Hambrabi, and Erich is shocked to see it's Lacus and her squad!
As she protects Terra and Yuna from the machine's beam rifle shots, Aplo says,"They just can't get the picture! Fire the Rail cannon!"
He then gets in the tank holding up the blockade and readies its rail cannon to blast at Lacus from behind, without her even knowing it! However, Erich has had enough and says,"No. I won't let you do this to my child, even if I must kill you!"
He fires a powerful holy magic spell that shocks the commander right before it blows the tank to bits!
As the remains of the tank and Alpo fall down the mountain path, he sees Lacus now going on the offensive and is at the moment striking her opponent's blue mobile suit with her Rising Crescent slash!
This damages the "eye" of the machine and it blasts around randomly, just as Terra fires off her own Flare magic blast to blast it right into the barricade and destroy it!
It's just now that Lacus sees her father and she and the others flash step over to him. She then says,"Father! What are you doing here? This is no place for you to be right now!"
Erich looks at his child and responds with, "Nor should it be a place for you, either. What does Kira think he is doing?"
Terra then says,"Well, mister Raystar, we were hoping that since you are one of the subcommittee members, you could explain to us just what Kira is up to with this rather rude gesture."
Erich looks angry and responds with a solemn,"I wish I knew. However, I have not been able to contact any of them since Kira took over the throne, and now I fear the worse. I never would have suspected that Kira had such a dark plan in motion during the course of the war. I am beginning to wonder, if he had been setting things up from the start of this war to move things in his favor."
Lacus looks at all the Enji fighting off the soldiers and mobile suits and she says,"I don't think your theory is too far off, father. However, right now are priority is to defend the home of the Enji Knights!"
Erich smiles and says,"You're right, my dear, I am sure that even with the firepower of the Titans, they will pay for underestimating the power of the Enji Knights."
Lacus smiles and says, "That's for sure. Huh? Watch out!"
She sees a barrage of missiles head for the group and at once sets up a barrier to protect everyone! She breathes a sigh of relief and says, "That was too close. We have to take out the field commander to get them out of sync so we can rout them out of here."
Collette then looks around and says, "But which one of the mobile suits is the commander?"
Little do they know that Cloud is still fighting against Yazan in his blue mobile suit? The blond haired hero has been able to keep the fight in his favor, but he has not been able to finish the Titan pilot just yet.
At the moment, Yazan has transformed his suit into its mobile armor form and is flying around blasting at the castle, and is trying to blast Cloud and anyone else in his sight! As Cloud sees his foe damage the castle with his attacks, he gets mad and says,"Damn him! If this keeps up, he and his pals might bring the place down. I have to end this soon."
Yazan laughs and says, "You Enji make me sick, fighting with those swords. Just because you have some magic powers, it's not enough to make up for your outdated fighting style!"
He then transforms back into mobile suit mode and takes out his beam saber. He slashes the area above Cloud to send some rubble his way, but Cloud easily slashes them apart, but Yazan takes the distraction and tries to run Cloud through with his beam saber!Cloud splits his blade into two swords once more and manages to block the thrust in time! He then swiftly slashes the sword arm of the machine off! He says,
"You should not act so smugly. It just makes your case look even worse. Kira has gotten far too delusional to think he could destroy us so easily!"
The Hambrabi flies back out of Cloud's range and Yazan says,"Damn you, Enji! But you just don't get it, even if you are the better warriors, you still are finished! What you can't seem to get is that the best warriors always are beaten not by even better fighters, but by the best tactics. Even if they are underhanded, it's how business is done! Looks like I'll just have to move to plan B faster than anticipated! Now, ready the poison gas storm! Heh, let's see if it takes longer to kill one rather large holdup of Enji rats or a space colony full of rebels!"
Cloud hears this and is outraged and says,"Gas? How low will Kira go? Is this how you plan to end the war? With brutal and mass deaths? I won't allow it!"
He fires off a flare magic spell, but his opponent is too fast and dodges it before laughing and saying,
Haha! Too late, the process is already starting! In a matter of moments, you will all die! That is what you get for making this difficult!"
Cloud sees that in the distance one of the ships is dropping down a rather large box to the ground! Cloud can only afford to guess the other ships are doing the same. Cloud looks around and sees Doug, James, Wyrmmon and Aeris are all fighting back various enemies including the new robotic Salvation troopers built to combat Enji, the Purge Troopers.
He then sees everyone is as bogged down as he is and says, "This is not good, if I don't act fast, it's going to get real nasty. I hope someone is closer!"
He then flash-steps to shock the Titan ace pilot and drive his sword right into the chest of the mobile suit! However Yazen shows he is not a ace pilot of the titans for nothing, as he has the thrusters on his Hambrai blast him backwards before he also unleashes electrical wires from his hands! Cloud gets hit in the chest and suffers being inflected with damaging voltage. But with everything that's on the line the blond Enji Captain refuses to let his situation due him in, and just as Yazen tries to impale him Cloud slashes the wires off him and blocks the incoming thrust before renewing his offensive with even more vigor!
As he hurries to end his fight, the storm troopers have already surrounded the Gas generator with the powerful red Gundam, the Fast GNW-003 Gundam Throne Drei protecting it!
Its pilot Nena Trinity sees the soldiers ready the device and emits a devious giggle before she says," Yes, it's almost ready at last! Then we can fulfill Lord Kira's will and purify the cosmos of all that stand in the way of the new order! Hurry up, you block heads! Is it almost linked with the other three?"
The commander of that squad salutes her and says,"Just about, madam, we are linking it up with the others."
The Titan pilot then groins before she pouts out," Well hurry idiots! We cannot let the Enji make it here in time! We got to gas them all before they have a chance to escape! That's the whole reason we are doing this, duh!"
The commander, Kagi just flatly says," Right away, hurry! What the, what is this vibration? An Enji"
The other soldier reads his scouter and says,"Captain! We are getting a massive power level erupting! It came out of nowhere! Over there!"
He points to the rubble and they all point their guns. A large yelling can be heard before a tremor blows away the rubble, and an enraged Brad emerges!
While Idious hurt him so bad he was on the verge of death and was knocked out cold, he has recovered and is seething with rage at being humiliated once again!
While he is covered with wounds he is in such a berserk state that he powered up to 100 percent of his true power! Now nearly the size of a giant, his steps cause the ground to shake as he growls out,"Where is he? Where is that masked guy!"
The Throne Drei looks at Brad and points its energy hand gun at Brad and says,"What kind of freak are you ? Bah, just another freak that needs to be put to sleep! What are you, the Enji's pet monster that they train with?"
Brad looks at the Gundam and says,"Where the hell did that freak go? Did he think he could really kill me!? I'll teach him to try and diss the unstoppable Juggernaught! I'LL SMASH HIM! NOW WHERE IS HE!? "
Kagi takes out his rocket launcher and says,"He is obviously deranged, blast him!"
Even though the amount of magic energy from Brad is nearly crushing the soldiers, they still all open fire. But all of their attacks do nothing to Brad in this state! He just gets even madder and says,"You think you can mess with me? You're all nothing but grunts and you think you can take me? That's it, YOUR ALL DEAD!"
He then claps his hands with such speed that it creates a massive shock wave that blows the troops right out of the area and nearly does the same to the Gundam! This gets Nena angry and she cries out a hateful," Ew, you're even more annoying than the other Enji! You're nothing but an ugly brute! I'll kill you myself!"
She then fires her machines missiles at Brad, but he just punches them all back at her so fast she can't even see it! She then says,"How did he do that? AH!"
Brad instantly warps right in front of the Throne Drei and punches right into the suit and grabs the pilot by the throat!
He then says, "I don't care who you are! Anyone that does not pay respect to Brad the great will pay the proper price!"
Nena coughs at this and frantically sheiks out," Get off me, you damn monkey! I hate men without manners, ill teach you to talk to a girl like me like that! I am not going to die to a freak like you!"
Brad sees Nena desperately swing the red beam saber of her Gundam, but as the blade of red energy collides on Brad's forehead to her horror it shatters instantly on impact! Brad just grinds widely as he says," You think your little machine can match me! Think again! Tsc, I hate dames who think they can do stuff just because your a chick! Girls that tick me off get no mercy! So DIE!"
He then fires a powerful energy blast at point blank range that not only instantly vaporizes Nena Trinity, and her Gundam, but his energy ball goes right into the poison gas generator and blows that up in a massive explosion! Brad laughs as he sees the flames and says,"Haha! That masked guy can send as many flunkies as he likes, but I'll clobber them all in one punch! Ah, looks like I got some more fun!"
Brad sees more soldiers and mobile suits surround him and he says,"
Hey, I thought you were on our side? Whatever, never liked these bucket heads. Heh, I don't care what is going on here. If you guys want to fight me, then bring it on! I don't care what you guys throw at me. Nothing anyone can dish out is enough to bring down the Unstoppable Juggernaught! NOTHING! RAHHH!"
He is fired at on all sides, but he unleashes a shock wave to blast everything back and then fires energy blasts everywhere to destroy everything in his path! As Brad continues to go on his rampage, Lacus and the others see it from where they are fighting and she says," Brad? I figured he was fighting somewhere."
Her father sees Brad in a berserk state, as he kills the soldiers and says,"Yes, he is quite passionate about it. But enough about that now. I know what those devices were, they were gas generators! They are trying to seal this place and kill everyone at once with poison!"
Terra then says, "Poison, I won't forgive anyone that stoops to the level of Kefka! Ah, but it seems the others have already caught on to this vile plan."
Terra is in the group sees that the various Enji are doing whatever they can to make sure the soldiers do not start the gas chambers! Brad has already totaled the northern generator.
In the southern generator, Yang has just punched the Throne Eins Gundam in the lower left leg to cause its Mega Launcher blast to hit its own ship!
Luke then unleashes his Radiant Howl Mystic Art attack right at the suit to blast it apart!
At the Eastern side, Gundam Throne Zwei is trying to slash Guy and Cyan out of the way so it can start the generator, but the two won't let it get close!
The pilot, Michael Trinity, tries to impale both of them with its remote control beam fangs, but only hits the fast moving warriors of lights after images!
Knowing time is of the essence, Cyan deflects some of the incoming projectiles back at there attacker to cause the Zwei gundam to get off balance with its own attacks. The Enji with the mustache then unleashes his powerful Quadra Slice sword Skill and in a blur unleashes the samurai slashes the mobile suit several times in a second! As it's being damaged, Guy then powers up and unleashes his Razing Phoenix Mystic art to burst right through the suit! As it explodes, Cyan sees the generator begins to glow and he says,"Oh no, you don't! Thou will not let the tragedy of my beloved Doma Kingdom ever be repeated!"
He and Guy both slash at the machine to at once stop it.
Meanwhile, in the Western side, Barret, Vincent, and the others were able to win the shootout with the Storm troopers and team up with Irvine and the powerful, blaster wielding Enji, Max.
(Er, mind you it's a different Max than Ben's cousin, this guy is from the world of Celestia. He is an energy gun expert. )
The Enji were able to make their way to the poison generator, but the Hambrabi, piloted by Dunkel Cooper, stands before them! He takes out his beam saber and says,
"Traitors! Die like the dogs you are!"
At once, Vincent warps above the suit and fires a few rounds from his tri-barrel Cerberus gun to damage the sensors. Barret is more than a little angry about this whole attack and he channels all his energy into his gun arm and says,"Die like dogs? Like hell we will you punk! You Titans are really getting on my bad side! Catastrophe!"
He then fires off his most powerful limit break at the blue suit and Vincent jumps out of the way just as the machine is blasted apart by the powerful beam of energy!
Max is impressed with the display of power and says,"Not bad, now it's my turn. Elemental Master!"
The man then charges up his energy cannon and fires off a massive blast, composed of various elemental powers! The blast shatters the generator on impact and as a massive explosion breaks out, Barret gives a whistle and says,"Damn, nice shot!"
Irvine raises his hat and says,"I thought I had seen ruthless attacks before, but this is pretty high up there. Time we wrap this up!"
As the smoke rises from the ruined machine, Yazan realizes his plan was ruined and says,"What! Dunkel, Ramus, the Trinity siblings and everyone else messed up! Damn Enji Knights! I'll still burn this place to the ground! I have plenty of more soldiers and spare gas generators to cremate you all! GUh!"
Cloud has had enough of this blood thirsty soldier and managed to score a hit with his sword beam attack to destroy the machine's left leg and wing! Cloud then charges at him and says,"You won't have the chance, this little back stab of yours is over Yazan! Finishing Touch!"
Cloud then gathers a large amount of magic energy and his sword begins to glow! He then takes a massive leap and jumps above his opponent's machine!
Yazan then tries to counter with his beam saber, but he is too slow and Cloud slashes the machine in half! Yazan sees his machines systems are about to blow and he just laughs before saying,"Damn you, Cloud! It's still too late, you know! No one can survive against the power Kira has! You're all goners! Hahahaah, see you in hell,Enji! AHH!"
The suit explodes and Cloud just sighs, while saying,"Man, I thought he'd never shut up. Is everyone okay?"
Doug and James run over to him and Doug gives a thumps up while brazenly saying,"All clear here! That will teach those guys who they are messing with!"
Aeris and Wyrmmon then come over and Aeris sighs while saying,"Yes, we were able to neutralize the threat and make sure the soldiers did not get their blasters within range of Grand Master Myers, or any of the other injured. And, it seems we were able to prevent anyone else from dying. Still, I hope this madness ends soon."
Cloud then retorts with a grim,"Well, with their commander dead, maybe they will see it's a fight they can't win and back off. Huh? Or maybe not."
Cloud and the others see more troopers land on the ground, and some are even in the air with jetpacks! It seems like at least a hundred soldiers have their guns pointed at the group Wyrmmon grows before he grinds out a frustrated,"Man, they just won't give up!"
Cloud retorts with,"They really are devoted. But, I guess Kira created them to be without fear. Still, we can't let them win, the future of the Lylat Kingdom depends on it! Huh, that power level. Is it, Master Yamamoto?"
Cloud is correct as he sees the elder Enji flash step in front of his fellow knights! His sword is already set ablaze and he says,"
I am sorry my return was delayed. It seems some soldiers tried to sabotage my shuttle. Kira, the son of the Grand Master would try and shatter the order that he grew up in?
Such disrespect will not be tolerated! You all may be patriotic men, but your time ends now! Ashes to ashes, dust to dust! Ryuujin Jakka! Flare Tornado!"
The Enji master then raises his sword into the air and it explodes with fire, before he hurls it at the soldiers! He then sets the entire group of soldiers ablaze in one blast! But the Enji Master, is still not done and he hurls his energy attack into one of the battleships, and destroys it too! As it comes crashing down, Doug says,"
Whoa! Looks like the masters are just as angry as the rest of us at Kira's little coming out party so to speak. Hey, what happened to Master Zoda?"
James just pokes Doug in the shoulder and motions him to the left, where they see that somehow the small red Master is sitting down as if he was always there! However, the group sees that he is not taking a nap as he waves his hands and shows off his enormous power to hurl one Alexandria ship into another, destroying them both! Zoda then calmly stands up and says,"The Enji order, today fall it will not. Glad I am that everyone has managed to hold on."
Aeris then says,"Master Yamamoto, Master Zoda. I am glad to see you're both well and managed to escape this ambush. Kira, what could he be thinking?"
Zoda then looks distressed and says,"A dark turn of event this is. Kira's play foresee we did not. Ashamed I am that things have gotten this out of control."
Yamamoto then sees the various dead soldiers and says,"Kira is willing to bet so many lost lives on a misguided vision. It seems he has joined Xehamaru and has descended into madness. However, he is greatly mistaken if he thinks he can so easily win. Now let us finish off this misguided attack"
Cloud looks at the single remaining battleship and says,"They must see now that they can't win, but if they are so loyal to Kira that they will fight to the very last man, then I guess we will have no choice. Huh, another soldier?"
Cloud and everyone sees a man appear out of the hallway behind him, and it's none other than Master Chief! Although hurt from Doug's attack, he is still able to hold a gun and points it at the Enji! Cloud says,"
It's over Chief! No matter how willing you are to serve Kira's command, you must be able to see you can't win! Your commanding officer is dead, so the attack is over." Chief moves forward and says,
"With Commander Yazin dead, I am now the commanding officer. No matter what, Order 66 must be completed. That is the order of the Supreme King! It must be completed."
Cloud then responds with a vexed,"Wake up! You fought alongside us; do you really think we are traitor to the Lylat Kingdom? Don't you see Kira is just manipulating everyone for his own ends?"
Master Chief stops for a moment and says,"Even if that is true, the rule of law must be enforced. No matter what I, I, RAH!"
Master Chief holds his head in pain! As this alarms the other, Enji Cloud not only sees the Spartan begin to convulse, but the few still standing Salvation soldiers begin to do the same! Doug sees this and says,"What the hell is with these guys? They are acting a little unsoldier like, no? Oh man, are they all going to blow up?
Because Chief is starting to glow!"Doug is right as he sees a purple stream of light come out of Chief, but as it heads into the nearby terminal, Cloud sees it take the shape of Cortana and she says,"Cloud, don't kill Chief, he is not in control of his body! "
James then gets suspicious and says,"Are you sure? Maybe you're just trying to get our guard down?"
Cortana then responds with a tense, "Just trust me and listen. Both he and the soldiers are being commanded by the nanomachines in their bodies called SOP, or" Sons of the Patriots". In other words, they are forced to obey whatever orders are given and it takes a strong will just to oppose it, and even then, it's nearly impossible to resist!
You have to help, Chief. Some of the soldiers might be doing this out of their own free will, like Yazan. But some, like Chief, have no choice but to obey, otherwise the nano machines will shut down their vital systems!"
Yamamoto looks at Chief, screaming in pain and says,"This is truly tragic, controlling the very minds of his soldiers, to the point that they are little more than the droids used by the Zeon federation. Has Kira lost his entire sense honor?"
Cloud then sees Master Chief move zombie like, and says to Cloud,"Cloud, kill me now. Otherwise, I'll continue to disgrace myself."
Cloud then says, "Cortana! Isn't there anyway to free them?"
The virtual women looks stressed and says,"This whole time I have been trying to find a way to deactivate the machine's control on Chief and the others. However, if they are removed, they will rupture the organs."
Cloud sees Chief pick up his plasma pistol and Cloud braces himself before he says,"Chief, I am sorry. I'll make it painless."
Cloud prepares to charge at the Spartan and bring down his sword, but all of a sudden, a flash lights up the sky! This light strikes the castle like a lightning rod and swiftly covers the entire area, and hits all the soldiers! This causes all the remaining solders to fall down, and even the remaining battleship is hit and becomes silent! Everyone is not sure what to expect, and Aeris waits a few seconds and says,"What was that? It looked like a magic spell of some kind. Are they all dead?"
Cortana goes back into the unconscious Chief and appears out of his helmet visor and says,"
I am not sure just what happened. But all I can tell you is that the nano machines are now on standby."
Zoda looks amused and says, "Such a sudden resolution this is. Did the Cid's or Jade break the program they did?"
Cloud looks puzzled and says, "I don't think even they would be able to figure out all this fast enough. Any clue what happened, Cortana?"
She responds with a uneasy, "Sorry, this is the most highly encrypted program I've seen. All I can make of it is something called program Diz. But, I think we don't have to worry about these guys acting up for now. From what I figured out, it seems someone sent a signal to the Nanomachines that override all other commands."
Wyrmmon looks around and says,"That's all good, but what about the guys that don't need to be told to do this?"
Cloud then says, "I think we killed all of them, and not a moment too soon. Any more, and this place would have been totaled. But, at least we stopped them before the worst could happen. Let's see if anyone is still onboard that last ship, and make sure they are willing to talk. I think we all want answers. Huh? Maybe it's not over just yes!"
Cloud and co sees three lights appear in the sky and get into fighting stance! However, soon the lights take form, and when Cloud makes out their shapes, he is relieved to see it's not more Titan's forces, but the three Maverick Hunters! He then realizes that they might be following Kira to and says,"X, Zero, what are you guys doing here?"
Axl gets annoyed that he was forgotten again and says,"Nice to see you too, Cloud! Man, you guys seem to be busy."
Cloud tenses up before he gives out a uneasy, "You guys would not happen to know about this, would you?"
X then looks at Cloud and answers with,"Yes, our orders are that the entire Enji Order has been labeled mavericks. But don't worry; I have a suspicion that the real maverick is the one giving that order."
Cloud smiles and says, "Ah, glad to see you're not our enemy."
Zero laughs and reacts with a bold,"Hey, give us some credit, we do have common sense, you know. Glad to see you guys were not done in by this."
Cloud then looks around and says,"I guess you could say we won, but now this place is even more damaged, and some were killed before they could defend themselves. X, Zero, and you too, Axel. I think we need to talk about our new king. I think for the sake of the cosmos we need to have a one on one chat with him about a regime change, fast!"
Doug punches some rubble out of the way and says, "That's for sure, the more we wait, the less time we have to save Ben from being killed by that backstabber! I had it with Kira! He thinks he can just do whatever the hell he wants!? I don't care how strong he is, no way in hell am I going to let him keep thinking that!"
Yamamoto then looks at the moonlight and says,"Do not fear, the Enji Knights will not let this stand. Even with Master Myers still in critical condition, the Enji will fight as one, and do what must be done to truly protect the innocents of this cosmos."
Cloud then says, "Yeah, hang on, Ben, we are coming! Kira, we may not have realized just how twisted your plans are but this is as far as your ambitions go! You can send as many of your brainwashed troopers and insane followers as you want, but we are not going to let you have your way!"
Cloud, the rest of the Enji, and the maverick hunters go make sure everyone is okay, heal the wounded, and then go into the damaged, but still standing command center, to plan a course of action.
Meanwhile, back at the White Castle, Kira is going over the status of the entire Lylat Armada, and is preparing to have the Fifth fleet ready the newly created Gryps two colony laser to total one of the Zeon fleets, when Ezan enters the room.
The silver haired Enji bows and says,"Com, I mean my king. We have lost contact with the legion over Hallowed Bastion. It's likely that the Enji were able to overcome them."
Kira does not move and just says,"Ah, I admit, even I was not counting on them having the power to totally finish them. But as long as they weakened the Enji even further, then their sacrifices were worth it."
Ezan looks conflicted and says,"But, they will not take this lightly, what are you going to do?"
Kira smirks and says,"Wait for them, of course. They will come to me, and I will shatter their hopes once and for all. I know you feel sadness on having to fight your former comrades, Ezan, but I assure you, for the sake of peace, this must be done. As long as the Enji order stands, the war will never end. Every single Enji, including those like your former squad leader, Squall Lionheart, and the others are enemies to the Lylat Kingdom. You understand that, don't you?"
Ezan looks at Kira and says,"I will do what I must, I serve the Lylat Kingdom, no matter what."
Kira responds with a authoritative, "I knew you would see my view, Ezan. You are making the correct choice. Yes, the Enji will come, but they can not stop me. Soon their light of hope will be blown out."
Kira then presses a button and a hologram image of Ben chained by energy beams in the center of his cell is shown.
Kira smiles and says,"Fool, they can't fight against the passage of time. They are simply a part of the old world, and like all things that will not embrace change, they will vanish! Now, it's time to prepare their doom. Bask; alert all officers that we and the city are to go to high alert. Have all citizens of Neo Arcadia go to the shelters, activate the Destroy Gundams and the Pysco Gundam Mark II, and prepare the White Castle to change to battle position. Come my former comrades, come if you dare to this Outer Haven!"
The castle itself beings to change into its ultimate battle form, the true form of the castle of the supreme king! Meanwhile, even Ben locked up in his cell can hear the massive castle changing and he says,
"What's going on? Is this the thing that they are going to use to kill me? Sigh, after all this time, I would never have thought this would be how it ended. I wonder, is anyone going to try and stop this?
But, why would they? I tried, or Idious tried to kill them. Even if it was not really me, they must all hate me. I wanted so hard not to fail anyone, but in the end it seems I was a failure after all. Cloud Sensi, Lacus, sorry for being such a waste of time. I just hope that you are all okay."
Well, talk about a race against the clock! The Enji order was able to defend their, home but Enji throughout the cosmos are still struggling to survive from the betrayal of the Titans and the Salvation soldiers! Can the Enji and those that side with them rally to dethrone Kira, before it's too late for Ben? Only way to find out is to catch the next chapter of Tales of the Cosmic Wars!
Next time Cloud, Doug, James, Lacus and many other Enji plan a assault directly on Kira, to rescue Ben. And they are helped by Maverick hunters, Samus, and the Star Fox team.
They are going to need all the help they can get, because Kira is ready for them and has turned Neo Arcadia into lockdown mode, making it nearly impossible to get into! The warriors of light are able to sneak in by hijacking a military train into the city, but they still have to deal with the Titan fleet guarding the city with five massive Destroy Gundams and their bigger brother, the planet conquering, Psycho Gundam Mark II! Just one of these massive machines has the firepower to total a fleet and all of them together present quite a deadly roadblock! Our heroes are determined to save Ben from being killed by his former teacher and won't let anything from reaching Kira at his transformed Castle of Outer Heaven! Can the Enji and those that side with them make it in time?
Find out in Chapter 83: Blades of the Patriots! Clash of the Titans!
Author note. Just to make things clear about the Salvation Soldiers, they are all mostly replicas of Master Chief, but in addition they also have nanomachines in them like in Metal Gear solid 4, just to insure they are totally obedient. Well, till next time, and thanks for all the reviews!