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Chapter 21: The Devil's Number Pt.2

The team Stayed huddled together. Bruised and beaten they slouched over to catch their breath as the force fusions started to recede back to Beelzebub where they made a wall like formation.

"What are they doing?" Sadie asked while looking at Ron as she leaned on her spear to rest a moment.

"They're regrouping. They know they can't waste anymore men on us if they're going to take on the gems, so they're going to form a wall and smash into us until we run out of caine," Ron explained between pained breaths.

"That's not going to take long; my caine is running low as it is. Once it's gone that's it…It's been great doing this with you guys. I always wanted to make a difference in the world, so thank you all for helping me with that," Buck said in his usual stoic tone, but with a melancholy undertone.

"Enough of that, we're not dead yet," Sadie said with conviction a breeze blew across the grassy plane. "How many of them are left?" She turned to Ron once more.

"There are around four hundred and thirty left," Ron replied with defeat evident in his voice.

"DAMN IT!" Sadie shouted as she slammed the dull end of her spear into the ground. "We can't lose, we can't afford to lose!" She yelled as tears started to prick her eyes. She looked up when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up to Lars who was giving her a smile as if to say it's going to be okay. He looked back up with steely eyed determination.

"I'm out of arrows," He said blankly. Ron and Sadie quickly handed him their knives as he tossed his bow onto the ground. No one said anything as the horde of force fusions started to charge forward just like last time. No one had anything else to say, Sour simply took Jenny's hand as they watched their imminent doom approaching. They were all shocked as a blue blur zoomed past the horde leaving a line of explosions in its path. The team stared in awe as the six plumes of fire rose and disappeared in matter of moments. The blur came back around and stopped right in front of the six exhausted teens. Sour's eyes grew as wide as dinner plates at the figure that sat before him.

"O-onion! What are you doing here?!" The pale DJ yelled in shock. The smaller child said nothing as he reloaded the hammer grenade launcher in his hands. His blank stare scanned over the exhausted heroes and then immediately turned back to the mob as he grabbed hold of the accelerator on his moped, and rode back into the battle. Sour shook off his astonishment and went to run after him, but was shocked once again when a black Lexus rolled up, and two people immediately jumped out. Lars' eyes went just as wide as Sour's had been as Alex accompanied by Connie sprung out of the car. Lars ran up to his brother with confusion evident on his features.

"Alex, how did you know I was here?!" The taller male ignored Lars as he readied a NATO machine gun. "Where the hell did you get that?!" Alex's half lidded eyes turned to Lars for a moment before he lay down on the ground and started firing into the mob. Connie kept a similar expression as she tossed her scabbard to the side and began fighting as well. Her blank eyes glowed blue as a swarm of rocks were ripped from the ground and sent flying into the mutated monsters at the speed of a bullet, destroying the forms of twenty three more force fusions. Sadie impaled six force fusions that had gotten too close to Lars and Alex, Breathing heavily as she did so.

"Damnit Alex, why won't you answer me!" Lars shouted with worry as he shook Alex by the shoulders.

"Lars, leave him; he can take care of himself!" The short blonde yelled as she batted another force fusion away. Lars didn't notice his girlfriend ion the heat of the moment.

"What's wrong with you?!" Lars shouted once more, but was quickly shaken by a scream from Sadie. His head whipped around so fast it could've given him whiplash. Sadie had been pinned down by a particularly big force fusion that was made up of a deformed torso with legs sprouting out of it like a spider. "Sadie!" Lars sprung from his spot next to his brother and leapt onto the monster's back. He activated his electric aura as she stabbed the knives into its back, destroying it almost immediately. Sadie took a deep breath as Lars helped her up. Lars caught something out the corner of his eye, and reacted fast enough to throw himself in front of Sadie as a giant gem mutant hurdled toward them. Just as the monster was about to make contact, a pink blade encompassed in a blue light impaled it. Lars gulped hard as the blade retracted and flew back into the hands of its user, who immediately swung around to dismember an incoming enemy. The explosions continued to rain down on the helpless gem mutants. Meanwhile Beelzebub had decided that it was tired of watching, and took chase for the blue moped. Onion looked behind him at the giant monster with an unchanging expression. He sped up and hooked a left in an attempt to lose the winged gem beast. But Beelzebub was too fast for the moped and swung its giant sword at the vehicle. The blade missed by a micrometer and caused Onion to swerve to a halt. Sour caught wind of the danger that his little brother was in just as the giant started to charge up its brimstone. In an instant Sour put all of his caine into his legs and spirited faster than he ever had or will; slicing four mutants that stood in his way with lightning fast speed. Just before Beelzebub could fire at the child still trying to steady his launcher for a shot; Sour propelled himself forward and focused his caine into his hands. He felt them pulsate as he landed on the corrupted general's back and slammed them down on both sides of its head. The high frequency vibrations shot through Beelzebub's skull like a pair of cannon balls, and it reeled its head back letting the blast it had been charging shoot into the sky. Sour jumped away before it could retaliate, as Beelzebub slumped over, letting glowing red liquid drip from its nose, eyes, and mouth. Sour went in for a strike with his machete, but was slapped away by a hand roughly half the size of him. The tall teen found himself sailing through the air, making the gradual decline until he hit the ground, and rolled to a halt. Beelzebub rose to its feet and looked ahead as Onion rode away into the thinning mob of force fusions. Its head shot up as it heard the sound of something large approaching by air. Suddenly machine gun fire poured down from the sky and into the remaining two hundred fifty gem mutants. The sound of gun fire only increased as a pair of choppers descended from the sky and came in for a landing on opposite sides of the army. The team watched as soldiers clad in black jumped out of the air vehicles and began to take aim. Two men stood out in particular, one was dressed in a tan trench coat and had short black hair; the other was a middle aged man who wore a white dress shirt with blue jeans.

"Spread out! Don't let a single one escape!" The younger man commanded, and then looked to Beelzebub. "Leave this one to us," He said as an afterthought as the middle aged man walked beside him. The team was still letting the fact that they weren't going to die sink in as they stayed back and let the soldiers take care of things.

Ron had every right to be suspicious. First Alex, Connie, and Onion show up in a trance like state, and then a company of soldiers show up? There's no way the two aren't connected. Ron focused on the soldiers one at a time until he found what he needed.

"Sidewinder," he said in confirmation. He then focused on Alex who was closest to him. Destroy any and all combatant's forms. Protect the others. "It's unnatural, it's like he's been programmed," He thought in deep contemplation. Meanwhile Jenny had rushed over to Sour's side.

"You alright, bae?" She asked, looking down to Sour who was still lying on the ground.

"It hurts to breath," He said in a strained voice as he tried to focus on anything other than the crazy burning in his torso.

"You gonna live?" She asked worriedly as she slung his right arm over her shoulder, and picked him up. He let out a hiss of pain and then smirked.

"So long as I have your eyes to look into," He said with a slight chuckle. Jenny rolled her eyes with a smirk.

The two men strode up to Beelzebub.

"What do you say Ryker? Easy Pickens?" The younger man asked in a raspy voice, as if he had twenty years of smoking under his belt.

"Think again Joshua, see those runes?" The middle aged man asked as he pointed to the glowing red symbols on the creature's black skin. "This things been imbued with caine," He explained as Beelzebub raised its sword.

"Hella lot of it by the looks of it," Said Joshua as Beelzebub opened its mouth and slid its sword through it, leaving a thick red energy on the blade. It swung diagonally releasing a wave of brimstone

"I'm getting too old for this!" Ryker yelled as he jumped away from the destructive force. Joshua gazed in shock at the crater made by the attack.

"Whoa! First time I've ever seen that!" He exclaimed as he drew two dessert eagles from his coat, and began firing. The gun seemed to shoot bolts of fire in place of bullets. They flew through the air unit Beelzebub deflected them with its sword. It quickly charged up its brimstone and fired at Joshua, who rolled out of the way and continued shooting from the guns that never seemed to run out of ammo.

"You still have much to learn," Ryker teased as he put a pair of special looking gloves on. They looked like they were made out of metal, but bent easily as Ryker balled his fists.

"Bullshit!" Joshua yelled as he ran out of the way of a sword strike from the demon like creature.

"Let me show you how it's done," He called out as he put Beelzebub in a headlock from behind. It let out a screech before flying into the air with the aging man still on its back. "First you get a good grip, don't let go. Then you just keep on tightening and tightening, until its eyes start to bulge out." Ryker kept his grip through the ariel aces and barrel rolls. Finally Beelzebub collected itself and swung its claws behind him, digging them into Ryker's left shoulder. Ryker let out a gasp of pain and loosened his grip enough for Beelzebub to throw the sidewinder agent off. Ryker fell to the ground and rolled to lessen the damage.

"What was that about having a lot to learn?" Joshua asked sarcastically as he continued shooting. He could feel the caine in his eyes improving his aim, even going as far as to account for the wind, and distance.

"This one's stronger than most of the incarnates we've fought before. Stay on your toes,"

"You've got it," Joshua said, knowing full well that he had landed six shots just now. The glowing red liquid trickled through the sky as Joshua kept filling the beast with holes. Finally Beelzebub came in for dive. Joshua realized all too late what was happening and couldn't move in time to dodge the strike. He reeled back as he took a deep gash in his right arm. Ryker took the opportunity to latch onto the beast's wings with the vice grips he calls hands, and broke them with one caine fueled squeeze. Beelzebub let out another screech as it crashed into the ground. Acting immediately it swung it right elbow back into Ryker's face, knocking him away. Beelzebub got up just in time to sue its sword to bash Joshua away, who had tried to finish the fight with a point blank shot. The agents dragged themselves off the ground to see Beelzebub charging up another shot. Josh felt for his pistols, but immediately found them…at Beelzebub's feet. Gulping hard, Josh sprinted for his guns, and only chance for survival.

"No don't!" Ryker yelled, but it was too late; there was no turning back now. Josh looked at his guns then up at the beast then back at his guns again. He knew he wasn't going to make it. Beelzebub started to shoot, but jerked back and froze, and then it fell to the ground to reveal a steaming Sadie with her spear through Beelzebub. Joshua froze in place for a moment until the gem beast poofed, and Sadie dropped to her knees. The man smiled.

"Thanks for the save," He said as he reached for his pistols.

"No problem," She gasped. "Now can you please tell me what the hell is going on?" Josh idly holstered his guns as he began to explain.

"Our sensors picked up large concentrations of gem current; an electronic signal emitted by gems. We figured it couldn't be good news," Josh walked away. "Alright boys bag'em and tag'em; you miss one and next thing you know our cover's blown. Sadie caught up to him and persisted onward.

"What about them?" Sadie asked with hits of venom as she pointed to the three tranced people approaching them. Once there they stopped and stood perfectly still.

"Oh so they called in sleeper agents. Joshua, what are the deactivation codes for these newer models?"

"That answer your question," He asked sarcastically while looking down at Sadie. "ZK-016-538" Alex, Connie, and Onion all walked straight to Alex's car, Onion leaving his moped behind.

"Those are our friends!" Sadie yelled.

"Makes sense; they always plant them close." Ryker cut in as the soldiers started to load up on the helicopters.

"Where are you going?!" Lars yelled as the two agents made their way onto one of the choppers.

"Home, it's past five and I'm going to bed." Josh answered.

"We're not done talking yet!" Said Lars as he became increasingly angry.

"It's above our pay roll! Talk to Charlie!" Ryker yelled over the chopper blades as they took off.

"GOD DAMN IT!" Lars shouted and slammed his foot on the ground. Sadie took his hand in hers to try to console him. Lars let out am sigh. "How can things get any worse?"

(A/N: Dear god that took a long time! Sorry for anything that sounded stupid, but I just got tired of looking at this.)