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Chapter 7: Slo Mo: The Motherfucker Reveals Himself

Kairi couldn't help but feel terrified, now everybody in the building where wanting to kill her and Dredd, Dredd himself didn't seem that affected.

"Control we have a situation, do you copy?" said Dredd as they moved up a staircase, when there was no response he tried again "Control, do you copy? Shit coms are down; we'll head to the medical centre"

They stopped as they heard voices from above and below, Kairi could tell people were already on their way to kill them, "What do you think rookie?" asked Dredd, Kairi could only think of one thing "Gas grenades?" she said, Dredd nodded "Put on your respirator" he said as he put on one, he told Kay to hold his breath before launching a grenade above onto the next stairwell and below.

They made their way up the stair, shooting all of the men, killing all of them; they made their way into the elevator and travelled to level twenty four, they kept moving shooting anyone who got in there way, Kairi wasn't sure how to feel as she saw Dredd mowing down people, she had never seen action like this before, she kept a tight grip on Kay in case he made a run for it.

As they stopped outside the medical centre they could hear voices "I want this entire block covered, spread out your hardware, we're gonna have Judges sent to Ma-Ma on a plate"

Dredd could see the medical centre "We'll have to go through them" he said as he pulled out a small sphere "Stun grenade" he said when he saw Kairi's look of confusion, he rolled it across the ground, it stopping in the centre of the room, he then pulled out a small device and spoke into it. "Citizens of Peach Trees. This is the law. Disperse immediately, or we will use lethal force to clear the area. You have been warned. You now have twenty seconds to comply"

Their leader Big Joe scoffed and moved forward confidently as the other aimed towards the access corridor, "It you who's doing the complying Judge. There's ten of us and only two of you. Why don't step out from behind that doorway or we'll blow the fuck out of you"

"Ten seconds to comply" warned Dredd

"You got five" said Joe readying his weapon

"Thanks for the heads up" said Dredd as he and Kairi readied their weapons, the stun grenade went off with a flash, blinding them all, Dredd and Kairi moved in and quickly began to pick them all off, Dredd shot them relentlessly whilst Kairi tried to shoot as little as possible, there was a man who was very badly wounded who looked up to Kairi eyes pleading "Please" was all he could say.

"What's wrong rookie, that man's crime is attempted murder on a Judge, the sentence is death" said Dredd coldly, Kairi just stared at him, this man would have killed her but she couldn't help but hesitate "Yes sir" she said her voice shaking, she shot him in the head and she almost broke.

Dredd moved to the entrance of the medical block and spoke into the monitor "Open up" he said, the paramedic from earlier "Negative Judge, you know what's going on out there" replied the paramedic. "We need a place to defend" growled Dredd.

"Then you better find someplace else. This is a medical facility. Neutral ground" replied the paramedic, "Neutral? You're not neutral. You're choosing sides" replied Dredd, he again tried to open the door "Peach Trees has been sealed by blast doors designed to withstand attack. No one's getting in, No one's getting out and you have every Clan affiliate in the block after your blood. There are no sides. You're already dead"

Dredd growled and left, he motioned for Kairi to follow, she grabbed Kay and pushed him forward "Looks like the med centre isn't with us, I'd advise you conserve ammo and don't shoot unless you're going to hit your target" Dredd said as he reloaded, Kairi nodded and then looked over at Kay "Sir what about the prisoner?"

"Explain" was all Dredd said, "Well I imagine that under these circumstances he would be a liability", Dredd looked over at him "Also a prime suspect in three man homicide" he said, she could tell he didn't really care what she said at this point so she just said what had been on her mind for a while "I think we should just kill him" she said simply.

Dredd looked over at her, she could tell he was surprised "Didn't know you students could be so bloodthirsty, fine do it" he said moving off leaving her with him, "I'd have to agree with the Judge, I mean since when did little girls want to just kill people like fucking sheep?" said Kay.

"For your information I'm not a little girl and I have to prove to myself and to the others that I'm ready for war and in war you gotta do horrible things sometimes, I'm sorry" she said before raising her gun at him, "You will step away from the prisoner!" a metallic voice screeched out causing Kairi to jump and spin around.

It was shaped like a salt mixer, a single stick ending in a blue light on the top of the dome like head, a pair of light bulbs that lit up whenever it spoke, two arms one like a plunger, the other a ray gun, small bumps went down the skirt, Kairi couldn't believe her eyes, she had seen this thing in children's book but never in real life.

"A Dalek?" she shouted causing Dredd to spin around and point his weapon at the cyborg, "What the hell is this thing" he said as he made his way next to Kairi, "It's a member of a cybernetic race from another planet called Skaro, they're like a space version of the Nazi's causing countless genocide as they believe themselves to be the ultimate beings, I didn't even know they were real but that's definitely one in front of us"

"What's a genocidal robot doing working for the Ma-Ma clan?" asked Dredd, he didn't even seemed fazed which confused Kairi "Daleks do not take orders from humans" the Dalek replied, "Well I don't care who you take orders from, I'm the law and your interfering with a Judges affair and that's a crime, the sentence is death" said Dredd before aiming his weapon and firing, the bullets had no effect, melting before they could even touch the Dalek, "Ahh shit" said Dredd as the Dalek aimed its weapon.

"You will be exterminated!" it shouted before firing its death ray, Dredd dodged and leapt behind a pillar, Kairi joined him leaving Kay behind, the Dalek kept firing preventing them from moving.

"Rookie, any idea how to kill this thing" asked Dredd as the pillar began to crumble, "Well my teacher taught us that the eyestalk is a weak point" said Kairi thankful she had paid attention in History class, Dredd nodded "All right let's give it a shot, High Ex" he said into his gun, he aimed and fired at it, there was an explosion as the Daleks eyestalk exploded "My vision is impaired I cannot see! My vision is impaired emergency!" it shouted in panic.

The Dalek spun around in panic shooting all over the place, Dredd aimed again and fired into the dome, it exploded sending metal and other pieces everywhere, the shooting stopped. Dredd and Kairi cautiously made their way to its carcass, when she peered inside she almost puked. Inside was a green squid like monster with tentacles, Dredd pointed his gun at it "So much for the ultimate race" he said before he shot it dead.

Kairi looked around for Kay but she couldn't see him, he must have escaped during the battle, she cursed under her breath, he couldn't have gotten far. There was an explosion down the nearby hallway startling them both. "What the hell was that?" said Kairi reloading, Dredd switched back to high ex "Let's find out"

They moved down the hall where the Dalek came from and found Kay looking over the banister, Dredd shouted at him and he ran with Dredd giving chase, he ordered Kairi to stay where she was.

When Dredd arrived and looked over he saw Ma-Ma and her gang and they had three massive miniguns mounted and ready to fire, "Ahh Shit" was all Dredd could say before he ran as fast as he could, Ma-Ma ordered them to fire. Dredd ran for his life as bullets tore people around him into shreds and destroying houses and the building as well.

Kairi could hear explosions and gunfire, and then she saw Dredd running towards her telling her to move it, she could see explosions behind him and realised they were under attack from what she could imagine was a small army.

They kept running until they couldn't go any further, they took cover behind a wall but it didn't look like it was going to hold for much longer, "What are we gonna do!" shouted Kairi, the bullets tore through the wall showing off light from outside the building, Dredd aimed and fired a high ex round at the wall, they ran and jumped through the hole.

They landed on what looked like an skateboard rink, there were several teenagers there, Dredd quickly checked to see if any of them were armed but they were just as confused as he was. Dredd then checked his communication device "Coms are back on" he said sounding relived, "Control this is Dredd we have a situation in Peach Tree's, multiple homicides under the orders of the Ma-Ma clan and what is believed to be extra-terrestrial assistance, they've locked us in, back up required immediately "

Back outside the guns kept shooting until they had run out of ammo, the entire block had been destroyed, it looked like a war zone, Ma-Ma looked satisfied, and she ordered Caleb to look for the Judges bodies, "Overkill much?" said the demon, "Better than that fucking pepperpot you sent" replied Ma-Ma smartly, "Yeah fair point the Daleks don't exactly understand the concept of elegance" he said, Ma-Ma kept looking out into the rubble "How long until you and your little gang are out of here?"

Before the demon could answer Dredd appeared on the other side holding Caleb, he casually through him over the banister to his death before turning around and walking back into the rubble, Ma-Ma looked on in shock "Guess he wasn't cut for it, don't worry I'll send more Daleks to apprehend them" said the demon before dematerialising. Ma-Ma let out a scream of frustration and shot one of her gang members at random "Fuck those Judges and Fuck those fucking demons!" she shouted to the entire block.

KHROS

Dredd and Kairi kept moving, they had found Kay hunched up against a wall and had quickly subdued him again, Dredd pushed him forward far from gently, he opened the door to an abandoned classroom and through Kay onto one of the desk sending him crashing onto the ground "Your gang holds down an entire block, massacres a level of innocent women and children just to take out a Judge and an Academy member, sound like overkill to you? " he said calmly before ruthlessly punching Kay several times before throwing him against a wall.

"I tell you what I think that we had executed you on the bust, Ma-Ma would have let us out of here, what she doesn't want is you getting brought into interaction, she's afraid of what she might say and that's got me curious" he growled before head-butting Kay hard in the face.

"Spill it" he growled, "Fuck you Judge" spat Kay, Dredd began to choke him.

"Sir" cried Kairi, he turned to look at her only to let go of Kay and pull her down as bolts of energy blasted towards them, Kay was caught in the cross fire lighting up and showing off his skeleton before collapsing, "Exterminate all humans" cried the Daleks, there were four, three were gold, one was red and black.

The two took cover behind a pillar as the Daleks kept firing "Shit! More of em?" cried out Dredd, he tried shooting at them but there was so much going on he couldn't get a clean shot. "Let's split up" suggested Kairi, Dredd nodded "Good idea, will cover more ground, watch yourself rookie" said Dredd before running off, two Daleks followed him "Pursue the human target and exterminate him!"

Kairi bolted and ran down another hallway, the Daleks right at her heels; she looked on in horror when she met a dead end, there was nowhere else to run, she turned to see three Daleks facing her, "Exterminate!" they said in unison before aiming, Kairi flipped them off "Yeah well fuck you too!"

She shut her eyes, then a voice came on over the speakers "Whoa what a minute Daleks, you are to hold your fire and escort that girl to Ma-Ma's headquarters immediately, boss's orders" Kairi gasped, she knew that voice anywhere "Sora?" she said in confusion, this didn't make any sense "Prisoner will be taken, move!" said the red Dalek, before she did they ordered her to drop her weapon, they destroyed it.

The Red Dalek ordered the other two to assist in the pursue of Dredd whilst it ordered Kairi to take hold of it, it then used its teleportation shift device. She found herself in a wide room with many gang members who all started chanting. A woman walked towards her, she assumed this was Ma-Ma.

"So this is what those demons are so afraid off?" asked Ma-Ma as she eyed Kairi with disgust, "Oh yeah cause you would now, all you've done is sit around and let those demons play with you like pieces on a chessboard" said Kairi, Ma-Ma slapped her hard across the face.

"Did you just insinuate that I'am some bitch of those demons?" growled Ma-Ma, Kairi couldn't help but reply with "Yeah well you know about being used a lot", Ma-Ma punched her hard in the gut.

"Kill her" she said simply, one of her gang member's raised his gun, before he could however a blade flew across the room and impaled him through the chest. "Sorry but I won't let you kill my meister" said that voice again, Kairi turned to see none other than Sora standing right in front of her with that big goofy grin of his.

"Sora? What the fuck is going on? I thought you were training with Maximus and the others? How did you get here?" she said in confusion and shock, he raised his hands "Sorry baby" he grinned like an idiot.

Kairi groaned and smirked "Oh come on! You think I wouldn't know my own partner? The real Sora would never call me "Baby"", the fake Sora laughed in a voice she didn't recognise "So you two are that close are you?" it said as red lightning began to form around it, its body changed into an androgynous youth with long black wispy like hair, purple eyes and dressed in tight body suit.

It smirked down at Kairi "Well what you think of my normal form? Not quite as cute as your partner but I it gets the job done" it spoke in a feminine voice, "What the hell are you?" said Kairi looking it over in disgust and confusion.

"That's irrelevant right now seeing as how you're going to be dead in a few minutes, but if you must know I'am what is known as a Homunculus" said the creature with a proud expression on its face; Kairi frowned in confusion "I've never heard of em"

The creature scoffed and "Well obviously you haven't, there are only seven of us in the entire universe but I guess that's what makes us important enough"

"Important enough for what?" asked Kairi, the creature was about to respond when another voice spoke out "That's enough Envy" said the creature, it was dressed like a biker but with three red eyes, short blonde hair and a purple helmet that covered the top of its face, "We can't let her know too much" he said making his way towards them "Beezlemon" he said nodding to Kairi.

"Pfft whatever, how long do we have to we have to stay here?" said Envy as he sat down and placed his head on his arms "Ridley's on his way, when he gets here we can move the big bot out of here" said Beezlemon, he then looked over at Kairi who was listening carefully, he chuckled and loaded one of his sawed off shotguns.

"Sorry kiddo, did you think we would spill what we've been up to? Say goodnight" he aimed his gun and was about to fire when there was a massive explosion blasting open the door and in came Dredd guns blazing, Beezlemon was distracted allowing Kairi to roundhouse kick Envy in the face and run over to Dredd, he chucked her an assault rifle and she opened fire on the demons, the two took cover behind a pillar.

"Shit!" shouted Beezlemon as he started firing at Dredd and Kairi, Ma-Ma left and headed off into her room.

There was a loud screech and something huge smashed through the ceiling, it was shaped like a dragon with a pterodactyl like head, it was partly mechanic with metal wings and cybernetic enhancements all over its body, it flew down towards Dredd and Kairi and fired its plasma breath, it melted the pillar forcing them to run, it landed down next to Beezlemon "About time you arrived Ridley, the big bots back there get him out of here, we'll cover you" he said to Ridley who flew up into the helicopter pad to find a giant mechanical beast.

Beezlemon and Envy shot towards Dredd and Kairi forcing them to take cover, Ridley grabbed hold of the cargo with his talons and started to fly up, Beezlemon and Envy jumped up and grabbed hold of the cargo, Kairi and Dredd fired at them but there bullets didn't reach them, the cargo was protected by some kind of shield, "Give my regards to Maximus if you ever see him!" shouted Beezlemon before they flew of on Ridley into the air and out of sight.

Kairi looked surprised at the mention of Maximus and tried to give chase but was stopped by Dredd "Where do you think you're going rookie? We have to apprehend Ma-Ma remember, your academy can handle that crowd" he said, she nodded and reloaded "You ready?" he reloading as well, "Yeah" she replied, she felt ready "You look ready" he said and nodded at her.

They made their way through to Ma-Ma's chamber mowing done anyone that got in their way. When they reached the chamber the saw Ma-Ma standing in front of large window, she had a metal device attached to her wrist, despite everything that had happened she looked rather confident, one of her members shot Kairi in the stomach and she collapsed in pain, Dredd shot him dead before aiming at Ma-Ma.

"You're a piece of work Dredd but then so am I, you think I didn't know that one day I'd get busted, comes with the territory, this entire level is loaded with enough explosives to take out the top fifteen floors" she raised her hand to show off the device on her arm "Like jewellery, this is wired to my heartbeat, if it stops the bombs go off, the building blows, everyone in it? Ash, you got no way out Judge, put your gun down"

Dredd merely grunted "This isn't a negotiation, the sentence is death" he then shot her in the abdomen catching her by surprise, she landed with a groan of pain as he made his way towards her, he casually picked up a Slo-Mo inhaler "We're a kilometre above ground, what do you figure the range is on that thing?" he said before grabbing her and forcing her next to the window "Ma-Ma your crimes include multiple homicides and distribution of narcotic's, how do you plead?" she didn't respond merely sneering at him, "Defense noted" he said before forcing her to inhale and then throwing her straight through the window, the fall down went on forever in her eyes.

Dredd lifted Kairi up into the elevator and used his first aid kit to dress her wound, when they arrived at the bottom floor there were many Judges, including the head Judge waiting for them, the blast doors were open and everything was being sorted out by the other Judges, Kairi was led to a first aid van but not before giving her badge to Dredd, she had lost her primary weapon, she had failed.

"Heard something went up over here so I came to check it out myself, report came in of a dragon flying in and out of the city, so what happened in there?" she said amused, Dredd looked back up at the building, there was a huge hole at the top where Ridley had broken in "Drug bust, you should pass on the other details onto the academy" he said simply, she nodded and looked over at Kairi "So how did she do? She a pass or a fail?"

Dredd looked over at her, even if she had lost her weapon they would have been dead if not for her and she had proved she could use a weapon.

"She's a pass"

A/N Dam this was a long chapter, so yeah that's the end of the "Dredd" storyline, we'll see more of that later, in the next chapter we will see how Sora's getting on as well as what Riku's up to. Yeah the villains are pretty different I mean we have the Daleks, Homunculi, Digimon and Space Pirates, who are they working for and who else, will turn up?

I'll give you a clue "…..it hurts…."

You'll have to wait and see, or not cause Ridley's in the next chapter, Chapter 8 Way to the Dawn: Riku's Rematch with Ridley?

BTW take a guess as to what the "mysterious cargo" that Envy and the others were guarding, the winner gets a slice of cheese, cheers.