Hello everyone! Here's another chapter before Christmas! Last time on Code name FE: Henry and his team went to stop the enemy artillery from destroying the Liberty and are now approaching the source of the attack. What will happen to them? Let's find out!

Chapter 8: Devastation

Soon the team meet up in front of the building.

"The enemy artillery must be just ahead." Kathrin told them.

They went inside to find themselves in an abandoned warehouse.

"Who are you? Are you with S.T.E.A.M.?" a voice asked.

The team looked in front of them to see a woman walk up to them with two lines of red paint under her eyes, black hair a bandanna with a feather in it and a gun with a gold swan on it. Lion recognized her.

"Tiger Lily! You're alive!"

The president called them over the wireless.

"Team, let me introduce you. This is Tiger Lily, another S.T.E.A.M. agent."

"I was sent to observe the enemy. I didn't think they would attack so soon."

"You seem a tad young for a agent of a top-secret organization." Henry said to the woman.

"I'm older then I look and we are done discussing my "youth."

John laughed.

"Nice to meet you. I'm john."

"Er, yeah. Nice to meet you." Henry said.

"My name is Marth and this is Ike, Robin and Lucina."

"How many enemies are in the area Tiger lily?" Robin asked the newcomer.

"A large alien resembling a turret is out there with plenty of smaller monsters around it. They are pretty alert. I can't get anywhere close."

"Behind you!"

Lucina jumped in front of Lily and slashed down a Hound.

More Hounds appeared out of the shadows and started shooting at the team.

"Here they come!" Lucina warned getting into her fighting position.

Lion took out a speaker phone.

"Everyone get behind me and cover your ears!"

Everyone did as instructed.

"GRAAAAAH!"

Lion's let out a mighty roar into the speaker phone stunning all the aliens in front of him.

"Now!"

Robin used his Levin sword to shoot lightning at one and them destroying it. Henry and John shoot another one with their rifles. Lucina thrusted her sword into another one's eye. Marth and Ike slashed through two more.

"That's that." Ike said once the area was clear.

The aliens did some damage to the team when they were shooting at them that Tiger Lily noticed

"Here."

Tiger Lily shot something out of her Medi-Mortar that emitted a green powder that healed the team.

"Thanks!" Henry said.

"Your weapon can heal people?" Lucina asked.

"Yeah. I can heal any of your injuries."

"So what now?" John asked.

"We slowly approach the enemy Artillery." Robin said. "Tiger lily and Marth can heal us so we'll keep them in separate teams. Marth, Lucina, Ike and I will go further up this building and see if we can get a better look at the outside area from above. Once we are in place we'll contact you and the rest of you will go outside."

"Right." Henry said.

"Henry and Lion you two take the front with Tiger lily behind you and John will take the back. Ike and I will take the front of our group with Marth behind us and Lucina in the back."

"Wouldn't it be better to put Tiger Lily and Marth in the very back since they're the medics?" Lion asked.

"No. If they're in the back they can't reach those in the front when they need help. And if we get hit from behind then they'll be left wide open."

"Good thinking." John told him.

"Let's hurry. Be careful everyone." Henry said.

Soon Robin's group made their way to the top and looked out a hole in the wall.

Outside they saw a huge enemy with a cannon on top of it.

"That must be it!" Ike said.

"Getting to it won't be easy." Marth said looking at the enemies guarding it.

"Ike, I have another idea." Robin said before whispering to him.

"This is Robin we can see the monster from hear but it looks like the enemy has the area surrounded."

"Great. If we get caught in a fight outside that thing will fire at us." Henry muttered.

"Don't worry, I've got an idea." Robin told Henry. "See those metal plates in the air?"

"You mean the steel beams for construction?" Henry asked looking at the materials hanging by a nearby crane.

"Hide under those and you won't get hit from above."

"Got it!"

Henry's team took down all the aliens in their range from inside and then hurried to the first beam with Robin Lucina providing cover via Arc Fire and Nidhogg while Marth cut down the remaining enemies inside the warehouse trying to ambush them. Like Robin predicted the Gunners attacks were blocked from the beam and they were safe to clear out the remaining enemies from a distance.

"We can't get any closer!" Henry said over the wireless after they reached the second beam.

"Don't worry. Thanks to your getting its attention Ike was able to get in position." Robin told them.

"Ike?"

"AETHER!"

From behind the Gunner Ike threw Ragnell upward and jumped catching it in mid-air and slammed it into the monster creating a fiery explosion. The alien slowly became a chunk of ice and shattered.

"It's over for you!"

"Nice work Ike!" Henry called.

"You did it." The president said over the wireless. "On behalf of us aboard, thank you most sincerely."

"We're on our way back now." Henry replied.

"Hurry! More aliens are closing in on your position!"

Soon the team reached the Liberty. More Hounds appeared to shoot at them but they fired back at them from the ship taking them down one by one.

"Not bad work." Lily told the team.

"You're no slouch yourself." Henry smiled.

"Same to you Robin and Lucina." Marth said turning to his fellow otherworldly fighters. "It seems we didn't have to worry about you after all."

"Indeed." Ike said. "You're strategizing was incredible. You remind me a lot of a good friend of mine." Ike said thinking of Soren the tactician of his band of mercenaries.

"Thanks." Robin said putting his fire tome away.

"Yes! We did it!" Lion cheered.

"Good work." The President called. "Let's move out!"

Something caught Henry's eye.

"Look!"

They turned to see the giant tentacle monster from before on top of Big Ben holding a large chunk of the tower.

"What is that monstrosity!?" Lucina asked in shock.

"That freak again!?" John yelled.

The monster threw the chunk of the clock tower at the ship.

WHAM

BA-BOOOOM

"We've been hit! I can't hold her!" the helmsmen cried.

"Quick! Get inside!" Henry yelled to the team.

The ship began to slowly fall to the area bellow until it crashed.

"Is everyone alright?" Marth asked making sure no one was hurt.

"You and I both know I've been through worse." Ike joked.

"Roaarrr!" Lion groaned getting up from the floor.

"Rough landing!" John added.

"Where are we?" Henry asked.

"St. Kathrine docks." Tiger Lily said looking out the window.

"That puts us right near Steamgate Bridge!"

"You think we got time to help out those survivors? I don't like leaving folks behind." John said getting up.

"Same here. I've already seen enough innocent people die in my time." Lucina added.

"The ship is grounded until we can effect repairs. It will take several hours at least." The president said.

"Sir if we're stuck here anyway…" John said turning to him.

"Agreed, sergeant…Get to the bridge, all of you, and help anyone still alive."

"You mean that?" John asked.

Lion turned to them. "But the queen-"

"It will be alright Lion. We won't be gone long." Ike reassured him.

"He's right. Besides all those poor people out there have families praying for their safety." Robin pointed out.

"You heard the man we've got people to save!" Henry addressed to the team.

"The old man took his sweet time." John muttered.

"Something on you mind, John?" Henry asked.

"Only that I'm glad I got him to see the light. We've got a duty to save them folks. And I'm ready to blow off some steam!"

"Good luck, agents. Make me proud." The president said. "Like Robin said each victim has a family waiting to hear that he or she made it out. Don't disappoint those families."

"We need to hurry!" Tiger Lily said. "It's only a matter of time before that monster finds us!"

"What was that thing?" Lucina asked. "It was even bigger then the monster we defeated earlier."

"We're calling that species "Devastators." Milton said to the team.

"We had to flee from it earlier." Marth said remembering when the Liberty saved them from the massive creature.

"We should get moving." Henry said.

The others nodded.

The president watched as the team left the room to go outside and search for survivors.

"We are done fleeing." The president said after they left. "We have a secret weapon ready to show these aliens the price of grounding the flagship of the United States."

Are there any survivors and will Henry's team save them? What is this "secret weapon" the president spoke of? What kind of dumb question will I ask at the end of the next chapter? Find out all this (Good glory only eight chapters and I'm already running out of ideas for dumb questions.)And more next time!