[Current music- Dark Souls OST- Orestein and Smough]
The eclipse demon watched as Rory and Giselle made their first move, only for her to parry them with her spear, allowing her to kick them away, smashing them through several pillars.
Itami opened fire with his machine gun, red streaks flying through the air as tracers dug into Eclipsis's flesh, doing very little to deter the demoness.
Tuka pulled up her bow and began to shoot magically enchanted arrows at her, which she was somehow able to dodge. However, one arrow managed to embed itself in the demon's shoulder, causing her to stumble backwards, which gave Kelvin and Lelei enough time for the former to launch a magically-enhanced jump, kicking Eclipsis in the stomach, causing her to cough up blood.
Giselle gets back up and begins to swing at her legs, finally managing to yank one of the demon's legs with her scythe, sending her tumbling down. Itami rushes up with his beam sword, stabbing her in the stomach.
She screeches loudly, before going limp.
"Well, that was easy."
Outside, the moon eclipses the sun, as a beam of pure darkness shoots down from the heavens, knocking Itami and his crew back.
"You imbeciles!"
"This is only phase one!"
She cackled menacingly as she pulls herself up, ripping the sword out of her stomach, after which she taps her spear against the ground, creating a demonic summoning circle.
Her spear is enveloped in an eerie black flame, before it melts to form a machine gun, which had a long barrel, covered in red tendrils. She grabs it out of the air and pulls the trigger, aiming at Rory, unleashing a barrage of red orbs at her. Weaving through them, the most the apostle suffers is light burns and some ripped clothes.
"Hmph! Let's see how long you'll last!"
A sudden blast of cryogenics interrupts her, as Giselle takes this moment to slash Eclipsis across the back. Even so, she doesn't flinch, conjuring a ball of Hellfire, that pushes through the LN and into Lelei and Kelvin, smashing them through a pillar with the sheer kinetic force.
Itami empties another magazine into Eclipsis' chest, but once again to no avail, as she's still standing.
"Even with two demigoddesses, i'm still winning!" She boasted loudly, before kicking away Giselle's scythe.
Tyuule, former queen of the Warrior Bunnies had been through some serious crap at this point.
She just didn't expect several armed men plus the princess to bust into the room she was told to guard. She was thrown down rather forcefully, and due to their surprise entrance, she gave up, surrendering.
"Fan out, check for anything important!"
A few moments later...
"Sir, i've got something!" Mike says after he found a secret door behind the bookcase (It wasn't that hard, the red book actually looked interesting.).
Inside, they found a large control center, with a oversized screen hanging from above, showing several points of the capital, with the following words on the screen
[Time until missile impact: 5:00]
"Come on! Maybe there's a way to disable them from here...!"
He looked over at several large cables running across the ceiling labeled "POWER". Each individual cable was labeled with a randomized pair of letters and numbers. Looking back up at the screen, he saw that one of the cables' code matched one of the labeled points on the screen.
Putting two and two together, he climbed onto a chair, raised his Spas 12, and fired, the shotgun blast shredding the cable. (Because 12 gauge solves a lot of problems!)
This cause beacon "2Q"'s marker to disappear.
Several miles in the air, a cluster of Vacuum Imploder missiles detonate upon losing connection with the target beacon. This, in turn, creates several black hole-like singularities that suck in other missiles, crushing them.
Eventually, more than half of the missiles are gone as Mike shouts out the rest of the cable.
Now there is only one beacon left, named "Beacon X".
Itami raised his gun over the fallen pillar he hid behind, firing blindly at Eclipsis, who was busy showering their position with suppressive fire. Rather than use this to her advantage, she reveled in the feeling of dominance, forcing them to stay low.
He nearly flinched when a bullet embedded itself in his gun, rendering it inoperable forcing him to toss it away.
Looking around, he noticed the RC-flashbang on his belt. He pulled the pin and lazily threw it over his shoulder. Apparently, the demon recognized the shade and dropped her her gun, covering her eyes and closing her eyes. His elaborate ruse paid off, for when the demoness finally assumed that it was a dud, and uncovered her eyes and ears, he pressed the red button on the detonator, causing it to activate.
-BANG!-
"Screeech!"
Thanks to her sensitive eyes, built for a darker environment, the flash has blinded her, knocking her off balance as she falls down, her legs wriggling like an upturned beetle trying to flip itself over.
"Rory! Giselle! Now!" The two Apostles jumped up and dashed fowards swinging their weapons in a synchronized fashion, cutting off the demoness' arms.
"Agh! You little...brats!"
Using her hellfire, she pushes herself back up, her legs trembling and threatening to buckle.
"Gah...i'll end you...!" Her brow was covered in sweat, as she took several pained breaths.
Itami picked his beam saber up off the ground, activating it, and pointed it right at her chest, as did the Apostles with their own weapons. Tuka aimed another arrow, as Lelei prepared another spell and Kelvin his gun.
There was a tense silence, until finally, it was Eclipsis who collapsed on the ground, groaning in pain.
"I...yield..." She spoke in a low, strained voice. In the sky, the moon slowly stopped its eclipse of the sun.
It was then the throne and the flooring under it split apart, revealing an elevator. A Gating Turret rose up, and upon it's seat sat Prince Zorzal. (I honestly regret nothing.)
The guns were already spinning, and before anyone could do anything, he fires, kicking up a cloud of dust as the large bullets hit the ground.
"Hahaha!"
The Prince stopped, waiting for the dust to clear. To his surprise, when it did, there was a large pink shield in front of his opponents, neither of which had a single scratch. (Or any bullet wounds, actually.)
"Myuu! What are you doing here?!"
"Myuuuuun!" The shield dispersed, reforming into a small orb, which then shifted into the shape of a fox's head. It opened its maw, forming a ball of Chaotic energy.
"Myuuave!" The fox-head fired a large beam of energy, similarly to a Wave Force Artillery's blast, piercing through the Gatling Turret's ammo storage, causing it to blow up, sending pieces of Zorzal's body flying through the air.
Silence ensued as the dust once again settled, revealing a large hole in the wall.
"It's finally over..."
"The Prince is dead, eh?"
[Comms: Attention, all forces within the castle, evacuate immediately, Vacuum Imploder impact ETA two minutes! Head for the courtyard!]
Itami and his team, plus the Navy Seals, Mike, and Princess Pinã, barely make it out alive. Riding on Soviet Twinblades, they watch as the Vacuum Imploders tear into the castle, devouring it until there is nothing left but a barren crater.
The war's over. But where's Yuri?
Yuri grinned to himself, as he put in the needed information. Stepping back, he admired the time machine built by Dr. Zelinsky one last time before stepping inside and taking a seat.
Unbeknownst to him, divine intervention has already ensued, for his machine has been sabotaged by the aforementioned doctor shortly after the War of the Three Powers ended.
So instead of traveling to the past, it will simply teleport him somewhere random.
The time machine powers up, and pulls Yuri out of his seat, whisking him away through the fabric of time and space.
For history was his to command and conquer!
Somewhere, in Falmar, Yuri rematerializes.
He'd done it! He had escaped from the Three world superpowers and-
-Graaaaaaaawr!-
Turning around, he had little time to scream in fear before he was devoured by one of the Flame Dragon's offspring.
And thus, Yuri was no more.
The battle is over, and the war has been won. But the story isn't over yet, we still gotta see the aftermath, as well as a sneak peek for a story I might do in the future. See you next chapter!
Also, did you like my throwback to the Yuri's Revenge Soviet campaign ending?