Chapter 4: The assault
Everyone apart from Sid was on a hill looking down at the fortress, this was where the men that work for Galorphar were, they all needed to pay and all needed to die. That was all that Kid could think about. His cloak blew in the wind as he stood at the top of the hill, the only clearing near the fortress, surrounded with trees. He placed two fingers on the phone hooked onto his ear.
"Azusa how is Sid?" Kid spoke.
"Since our minds synchronised perfectly without a margin of error we have the entire map of the fortress, and it appears our Intel was off", Azusa replied. She was in the Death room back at the DWMA with many computers up along with a table with the map of the entire fortress.
"What do you mean?" Kid asked.
"It seems he has –four– witches in there instead of three", she replied. Kid grinned.
"Even better, is Sid on his way back?" Kid asked.
"He is, he got in and out undetected", Azusa answered.
"Right, I'll keep in touch", Kid said and lowered his hand, keeping his eyes locked on the base. Liz, Patty, and Tsubaki were talking to Crona.
"So what have you been doing Crona?" Tsubaki asked.
"Well Marie let me stay with her, because she's a nice person to me, Maka occasionally visited me and me and Ragnarok had been training so we could be as strong as Maka", Crona said in his very nervous way, smiling though, as he's got a bit more confidence now.
"Ha! You should try to look up to me instead of her, I'm the superstar after Hahaha!" Black*Star said, he was on his own doing one hand stand push ups, with two fingers.
"Ignore him Crona, you can do whatever you want now, and maybe you'll rejoin the academy", Liz said.
"Yeah! We can beat up baddies and break paper animal necks!" Patty childishly announced.
"You all very kind", Crona said. Spirit and Stein were talking near the trees away from the others, especially from Kid.
"This is very reckless you know, Kid coming out here like this, if this Galorphar killed Lord Death then he could very well kill Kid. This is a big risk for him to be out here", Spirit said.
"And without a Death Scythe he is vulnerable. However there is a chance that this may succeed if Galorphar is not here", Stein replied.
"Galorphar… I know that name…I swear I do…", Spirit mumbled.
"The name is defiantly familiar indeed, but hopefully this mission will go smoothly and we can get the information needed to find Galorphar, maybe even find out why he sounds familiar as well", Stein said. On the other side of the opening was Soul and Maka who were also talking.
"Look at him, he is out to kill everyone working for this Galorphar dude. And he's dragging us along with him, un-cool", Soul said, sitting against a rock.
"I'm sure he has a good reason for bringing us along" Maka said, looking to Kid.
"Probably to show off the cloak you made for him", Soul then said.
MAKA CHOP!
"ARGH Jeez! What was that for?" Soul groaned, holding his head with a book like dent in it.
"I didn't make it for him!" Maka said.
"Oh please! I saw the way you two looked at each other, and you were covered in evidence about that cloak, litteraly!" Soul said gritting his teeth. Maka made a huff noise and crossed her arms. But then sighed.
"I may have talked to him…", Maka finally muttered out.
"Maka you know how dangerous it is to be around him on your own, you almost died in that vault, remember? Just stay the hell away from him", Soul said.
"What are you my dad?" Maka pouted, and at a blink of an eye Spirit was kneeling right next to her.
"Maka? Did you call? Did you want your dada?" Spirit asked like talking to a child.
"No, I don't want to talk to you at all!" Maka said back to him with a frown, and just like before, at a blink of an eye he was back to sitting on the ground next to Stein black and white, in woe.
"Here comes Sid", Kid said and everyone turned they're attention to Sid who was coming from the trees at the side of the hill. When Sid came everyone gathered in a circle at the opening.
"The fortress is well guarded, men are patrolling the outside of the wall and there's a hundred more inside, from what Azusa saw the witches were in the main dining room. Azusa also saw that there was a tower that sets off a beacon into the sky, no doubt for reinforcements to bases we do not know of. It also appears there is a prison house with many prisoner in the fortress", Sid explained.
"How did this guy get away with having an army and witches right underneath our noses in the first place?" Kid grumbled.
"Right then, Black*Star, you and Tsubaki go and make a distraction for the entire fortress, take out anyone in your path. Lord Death will be on his board and make an aerial assault on the fortress with his board and new powers; Liz and Patty shall be his weapons. Crona, Spirit and I will take out the beacon from the inside while Maka, Soul, Sid and Mila will get to the prison house and free everyone there. Once the tower and prisoners are free we make our way to the witches. You all clear on what to do?" Stein described the strategies to everyone. Everyone nodded.
"We want to question the witches first, slaughter the rest," Kid ordered.
"Yeah let's do this!" Black*Star eagerly said, knowing that being the distraction means more people for him to best in his quest to surpass god. Everyone ran off in different directions leaving Kid alone with Liz and Patty.
"Liz, Patty, let's raise hell!" Kid said and summoned his skateboard 'Beelzebub'. Kid jumped onto it and Liz and Patty jumped at Kid, changing into they're twin pistol weapon forms. Kid catches them with ease and he takes off into flight on his board.
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The soldiers patrolling the fortress outside were all in black chain mail with black plate helmets. Black*Star charged into the patrol group outside the fortress, slaughtering everyone. The alarm was sounded and more soldiers came charging towards Black*Star, creating the distraction needed for the others.
"Come on! No one can defeat the mighty Black*Star!" he roared as more soldiers started to charge him. More soldiers appeared on the walls with crossbows loaded and aiming at Black*Star. Suddenly a hale of soul wavelength bullets came firing down upon the crossbow men as Kid flew shooting Liz and Patty.
"Take them all out, we need to make a bigger diversion for the others!" Kid yelled.
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Meanwhile, Maka, Soul, Sid, Mila, Crona, Stein and Spirit we're hidden in the trees and looked on the wall at the soldiers.
"They should be moving any moment now", Stein said in a hushed voice. Then as if on cue a soldier came yelling for help where Black*Star was, and with that all the soldiers on the wall near the group went running towards the distraction.
"Perfect", Soul said, then changed into his Scythe form, which Maka gripped onto.
"You know where your heading, get a move on", Stein ordered and Spirit changed into his scythe form.
"Ragnarok, weapon form", Crona quietly said and a black sword formed in his hands. Stein took Spirit and Crona grabbed around Stein and he took them to climb the wall, Maka and Sid following swiftly. Once they we're inside Stein and Crona went charging for the beacon while Sid and Maka headed for the prison house.
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Stein and Spirit slaughtered all guards on they're way to the Beacon, Crona following behind taking out some stragglers. Smashing the door down and slashing all soldiers in half as they stormed up the stairs. Once reaching the top three guards made they're way to a crystal in the middle of the room, the crystal to light the beacon. Stein wouldn't have been fast enough to catch them all.
"Ragnarok, scream resonance", Crona said and red lips appeared on his black sword and suddenly let out a very loud scream, halting the guards.
"Toss me Stein! Quickly!" Spirit shouted. Stein quickly responded by swinging Spirit then throwing him towards the three guards, cutting through them until finally Spirit slashed and shattered the crystal. Crona took out more guards while Stein made a run to pick up Spirit. Once he did he turned around to see lots of soldiers ready to charge. Crona looked scared while Stein with his free hand grabbed the large screw in his head and started to turn it until it clicked, grinning evilly he spun Spirit.
"I'll Dissect all of you!" Stein yelled with a mad look on his face.
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Sid and Maka cut down the soldiers in they're way until they reached the prison cells. However, there was a very tall armoured Golem with two massive swords in each hand.
"Oh, he's a big one", Sid remarked.
"And look at his belt", Soul added, noting the keys hanging from it.
"This may be a tough one, but we can do it!" Maka said confidently and readied Soul.
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As Kid was flying around his skateboard and shooting down on the soldiers inside the fortress and on the walls, he suddenly stopped and hovered over Black*Star's battle far below him.
"Kid what's happening? Why did you stop!" Liz asked. Suddenly Kid held his hands against his ears, still holing Liz and Patty. He was in utter darkness again, and the ticking returned. The hourglass came shooting towards him, this time it had on the glass a date. It said the twenty-fifth of December. Christmas day. The Big fiery 'M' appeared once again in front of Kid, another letter seemed to be heading towards Kid but before he could see what it was everything snapped back into reality once again. Kid found himself on his board with a lot of pain in his back.
"KID!" Liz and Patty shouted. Kid looked over his shoulder to see an arrow sticking out of it. Kid's eyes glowed purple, he then started growling under his breath and a dark aura appeared around him.
"Kid! Calm down! Kid! Kid!" Liz shouted, but it was too late. Kid let go of both Liz and Patty and they both fell down upon soldiers that were about to attack Black*Star. Suddenly the fighting stopped as they all looked up to Kid. His soul waves were revealed and his soul increased in size dramatically, reaching all the way to the ground and far around him. Kid's arms then became electrified and he turned to the fortress walls.
"You will burn!" Kid roared and pointed his arms towards the wall and shot out a beam blowing up a section of the wall where the arrow came from. Soldiers began to run away but Black*Star chased them and cut them down. He then flew towards the fortress and shot another beam towards the tower.
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Stein readied himself with Spirit to slaughter the soldiers along with Crona but then suddenly the tower shook and began to fall to the side.
"Brace yourself!" Stein said to Crona and both ran towards the window and jumped out towards a building.
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Maka and Sid fought against the Golem Jailor with Soul and Mila but then Stein and Crona came crashing in through the wall.
"Take cover!" Stein shouted then the tower itself came crashing down into the prison house and crushed the golem into pieces. Maka and Sid dived away from the Golem just before impact.
"What the hell happened out there? Crona are you all right?" Maka asked.
"Y…yeah, I'm fine", Crona said, being helped up by Maka.
"Kid's lost it! He's using his powers to destroy everything!" Spirit yelled turning back into his human form.
"We've got to help him!" Maka said.
"No, we need to take out these witches and free the prisoners, Kid can wait!" Soul argued.
"But Soul!" Maka replied.
"No Soul is right, let's release the prisoners", Stein said and with that everyone got to work releasing everyone, when they found the key's in the pile of broken bricks. Once everyone was free they armed themselves and charged to fight against the other soldiers. The others however made they're way towards the main dining room where the four witches were.
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Black*Star, Liz and Patty finally caught up with the others and they entered the dining room all together. There at the tables as if waiting for them were the four witches.
"Well it's about time you all showed up", Zakuro said.
"I want to play with the dead man, I love dead men!" Vordemin then said.
"Let's make them all dead!" Myestra yelled and all four witches went to charge the group but then something broke from the roof and landed in the middle of the room. Suddenly fire erupted from the floor, which from a bird's eye view was the shape of Lord Death's mask. Slowly the figure revealed to be Kid rose up from the floor. Kid's eyes glowing purple and his cloak blowing behind him, despite the arrow in his back. The witches backed away.
"Now that we're all here, time for some answers", Kid said, with an evil and angry frown on his face.