SEKIREI-HEART OF DARKNESS CHAPTER 26.
ESCAPE PART 2.
Standing in the direct path of the bridge was Sekirei number 5, Mutsu. The yellow scarf wearing ninja slowly pulled his blade from its black sheath and took a fighting stance. For just the briefest of moments Sora hesitated...what the hell could he do against someone like Mutsu? he was a single number...and if Sora knew anything about these aliens, its that the single numbers were NOT people you wanted to fuck with.
"Alright alright, whats the play big guy..." Sora eyed the ninja before he saw in his rear virew mirror another sekirei jump down behind his car...and it wasn't one of his.
"w-what are we gonna do Sora-san?" Haruka asked with a shaky voice, he held Kuno tight and prepared for the worst. Sora was silent, his military trained mind going through all the options. The sekirei behind them got closer and closer, walking with calm purpose, like a snake closing in on its prey.
"SORA-SAN!" Haruka yelling panic when the sekirei got within FEET of the car.
Sora saw the glimmer of a sniper scope in his rear view.
"Fuck it"
Sora put the car in drive and slammed on the gas, driving straight ahead at Mutsu. The god-like being prepared his sword, Sora knew he could slice the car in half if he really wanted, but Sora wasn't gonna make it that easy for him. The young man made it LOOK like he was simply doing a mad kamikaze dash across the bridge, but in reality he was buying enough time for his back up to cover the escape. He knew that the glimmer he saw was from one of HIS snipers, so he was buying just enough time for the operator to get into position.
The sound of a high powered rifle rang out across Shinto Teito, several bright green tracer rounds impacted Mutsus form, he deflected them with his blade and tried to cut Soras mustang but the sniper stalled him just enough for Sora to get across. The second sekirei had attached to the back of the car and was about to smash in the rear windshield with some kind of large bladed weapon, Sora grabbed his 44. magnum and fired two rounds into the rear window at the sekirei. The windows we're reinforced with hardened plate glass that could stop an RPG, so a pistol couldn't do much good...but the sekirei didn't know that. The sekirei, which Sora identified as a female because of her feminine figure, jumped back to avoid what she thought would be two lethal shots. Sora laughed when he saw her face when she realized the bullets hadn't even gone through the glass.
Haruka curled into the sides of the seats with Kuno when Sora fired the massive Magnum. Firing guns inside of cars is EXTREMELY loud, especially if that gun is a 44. magnum, Sora had to regain his composure for a second or two after her fired, his ears we're ringing and his teeth felt hollow.
10 MINUTES EARLIER.
SORAS SEKIREI.
"Alright, brothers and sisters...get your game faces on, we're here for one reason and one reason only...to ensure that our Ashikabis mission is a success and everyone comes out of this alive, is that understood?" Yume asked with command authority.
"Yes Yume-sama" All of her underlings responded.
"Good, now we're gonna be splitting up, Karasuba and Homura, Akitsu and Shiina, and Me with Yahan. Karasuba and Homura are the most powerful pair and work best together so they will take the disciplinary squad, Me and Yahan will take on the majority of MBIs troops, and Akitsu and Shiina will destroy MBI power centers and other key locations."
All the sekirei nodded in understanding, they checked their gear and strapped their armor on tight to make sure everything was perfect. "All right boys and girls, ill be honest with all of you...im tired of failing...im tired of allowing our precious Sora-sama get hurt, NO MORE! today we show Sora just what we're capable of. Fight to your last breathe but remember...we're a family...and we don't fail our own, now go...AND MAKE OUR ASHIKABI PROUD!" Yume raised her fist in a proud battle call, all of her brothers sisters met her call to arms and rallied around their leader.
The sekirei pulled on their skull printed ski masks and jumped off into the night to kick the operation on. First things first...luring out the discipline squad. To do this Homura would start attacking MBI check points then make a B-line for one of the bridges, being that's hes a sekirei The squad will be forced to come out and comfort him, he would engage the two members in a fight and lure them to a place that would offer the best advantage, at which point Karasuba would join the fight.
Yume and Yahan would wait until MBI was stirred up from Homuras trouble making before engaging the reinforcements who come to support the disciplinary squad, the last thing Homura and Karasuba needed was for MBI special forces to be breathing down their neck while they were trying to fight Haihane and Benitsubasa.
Akitsu and Shiina HAD to shut down MBI tactical relay centers, if these centers were still up then MBI troops could still communicate with one another and coordinate a counter attack. But by removing these tactical relays MBI soldiers would be essentially "blind" meaning they wouldn't be able to talk to each other even over short range radio...and more importantly...they couldn't coordinate with their AIR SUPPORT. Any good soldier knows that THE most important thing to destroy on a battlefield is an enemy's ability to communicate with one another, a disorganized prey was EASY prey.
HOMURA AND KARASUBA.
A group of MBI guards stood on duty at a checkpoint, it was the middle of the night so not too many cars were coming through, the soldiers were smoking and talking to pass the time, there weapons relaxed against their sides, hanging lazily on there slings. Homura picked this post because of how lazy the guards were, he had been by this post before at night and it was always the same thing...smoking, joking, drinking...hell Homura could have sworn he'd seen one of them with some damn weed before.
Homura jumped down into the street below and slowly walked directly up to the guard post, it wasn't before he was only a few yards from the checkpoint when they noticed him. Two guards approached Homura, lazily putting out there cigarettes and putting one hand on their weapons...Homura smirked...this was going to be fun.
Karasuba watched with amusement as her brother sent the lazy guards screaming into the night, he didn't kill them but he defiantly made them think twice about showing up at work tomorrow morning. Homura looked up at Karasuba and shrugged, the ashen wolf giggled and gave him the signal to keep going. Homura nodded and threw several large fire balls at the guards vehicles. The lightly Armored pick up trucks erupted into flames instantly, Homura threw some more fire balls at the guard building and the roadblocks, setting the whole checkpoint on fire.
Homura jumped up on a lamp post and waited for the inevitable MBI reinforcements that would be showing up any moment.
Sure enough a relativity large and well armed MBI unit showed up and stopped at the end of the street, 20 soldiers disembarked from their armored personal carriors and readied their weapons, most of the guards were stunned when they saw it was only one man who caused this destruction. The first squad orderd Homura to surrender...
"Get on your knees and raise your hands in the air NOW!" The squad leader yelled as he pointed his sub machine gun at Homura, his comrades doing the same.
Homura raised his hands in the air.
"Good, now on your knees!"
Homura smirked under his mask, two LARGE balls of fire formed in his raised hands, the guards were momentarily stunned before Homura threw both balls at the first squad of soldiers. The balls of flame exploded just before they reached the group, throwing the soldiers back against their comrades, their uniforms burned off and their heads spinning from the high yield explosion. Homura took off towards the large bridge in front of him, he jumped over the soldiers and their APCs while they were disorganized and ran to the large bridge...for a second Homura actually thought about escaping...about running away from the godforsaken city and all its insanity...about starting a new life, he could work as a host again and be happy without the sekirei plan and all the pain and suffering it caused...only for a second.
Then Homura remembered why he was doing all this...Sora-san...All of Houras thoughts went to his beloved Ashikabi and immediately he was recharged for the coming action. Nothing could make Homura separate from his Ashikabi, he loved that boy so much it hurt, he could never abandon his precious little Sora...NEVER...
Homura ran as fast as he could to the large bridge looming in front of him, which was pretty damn fast considering he was a sekirei. Homura slowed up a little to ive the soldiers extra time. "Man these guys are incompetent, if i actually wanted to escape it would be alot easier than i thought" Just as Homura finished that thought an Attack helicopter loaded down with enough firepower to level a small city came down low over the bridge and blocked his path, it shined a spot light directly on him. "haha Guess i spook too soon..." Homura said aloud.
The fire sekirei and the Attack helicopter suared off in the road right in front of the bridge. The helicopters blades spun quietly, not the ear piercing noise they usually made, this was an advanced military grade stealth helicopter, it could hover 100 feet off the ground without anyone even noticing. The choppers missiles ans guns shined from the spot light, allowing Homura to take in the enemy before him...The silver haired man eyed the chopper with a little fear.
Despite being a single number sekirei, even Homura had to admit...he was scared shitless right now. Just looking at all the racks of missiles and ammunition would be enough to make most men surrender on the spot, the damn chopper had more firepower than an entire battalion of soldiers, missiles, rockets, rapid fire chain guns, auto cannons, gatling guns, heat seeking missiles, sidewinder missiles, anti armor missiles, bunker busting rockets, air to air missiles, air to surface missiles...it was a fucking armory with wings.
"This is your one and only warning sekirei, disengage your powers and get on your knees with your hands in the air!" Homura looked behind him to see a group of MBI special forces soldiers with their weapons all trained on him, the red lasers from their guns danced across his body, some going on his head, some on his chest...all aiming for a kill shot though. The MBI special forces we're the elite branch of MBIs private army, they were comprised of men from all over the world, former elite soldiers who left their home country's army to make ten times the money working for MBI. Unfortunately that's how things were these days, any soldier who's ANY good in the army always leaves to work for private company's...why?...because private company's pay more than the home country's can ever DREAM of paying.
So if your an elite soldier who's been trained to be the ultimate killing machine why not put your skills to good use while also getting ten times the cash you would have been getting if you stayed in the army?
Homura turned slightly to see Karasuba getting in position, Homura developed a little spark in his hand and gave the signal for Karauba to attack...he made a tiny blue flame in his fingers, Karasuba nodded and jumped off the building.
She landed directly behind the group of reinforcements that arrived to hep the bridge guards, The soldiers turned when they heard something land hard behind them. The special forces soldiers were up ahead, these were normal infantry troops who support the special forces. They weren't very skilled but what they lacked in training they made up for in sheer numbers...the perfect warm up for Karasuba.
"Hello boys, would any of you handsome young men like to PLAY with little old me?" Karasuba said with a sweet little innocent voice, Venom laced into every one of her playful words. The squad leader looked confused, he slightly lowered his weapon, not entirely sure how to handle this situation. Karasuba was hiding her sword under her large discipline coat.
"uh...ma'am, you need to exit the area, we have a potentiality dangerous situation, please...we don't want anyone to be hurt"
One of the younger and more obnoxious soldiers spook up, "yeah but if want to wait for me at the bar until were done ill be happy to play with you hah" the younger soldier joked, trying to look cool in front of his comrades.
"Oh don't worry gentlemen, I wont be the one getting hurt" Karasubas slim eyes opened wide to reveal Crimson orbs that were wild with blood lust and a need to kill. The second Karasuba ended her sentence her sword was drawn and she had already DECAPITATED the squad leader. The other soldiers tried to raise their weapons and fire but...they couldn't even see what they were shooting at.
Karasuba moved with such speed and grace that the soldiers couldn't even track her movements, she was never this fast before..."My connection with Sora...Yume was right...this is what true power feels like, This is what the love from an Ashikabi can give a sekirei, POWER! ive never felt stronger! Sora...my precious Ashikabi, im going to show you my gratitude for giving me this power when this is all over, oh i can hear his little moans of pleasure already...that precious body quivering and shaking under me, his sweet voice cracking with pleasure when i enter his soft little hole...yes it will be glorious night, since i cant use my Vagina i think ill just switch things up a little, maybe ill pay Sora back for making me bleed like this, i wonder if Homura still has access to all those weird sex toys? i could get a 14 inch strap on dildo and..."
...Karasubas thoughts took a rather raunchy direction, she wasn't even thinking about the soldiers she was cutting down, until she got to the last one. The punk who wanted to fuck her when he was off duty...the thought of this little worm even CONSIDERING fucking her made Karasuba want to take him apart piece by piece. Until Karasuba realized it was the wrong soldier, the punk from before was dead at least 20 feet behind her, Karasuba had been so deep into thought she didn't even realize who she was killing...it was a feeling that reminded her of her old days...her days of being a mindless butcher, an evil dog of death and destruction. That was NOT something Karasuba wanted to even come CLOSE to going back to.
The soldiers feet were cut off.
He was trying to crawl away from Karasuba, moans of pain escaping his young lips, long lines of blood trailed behind the soldier as he crawled forward. Before Karasuba would have looked upon this man...this BOY...the kid was barely 18...with disgust, she used to hate humans and it always brought her joy to watch them crawl like worms and beg like the pathetic sacks of shit they were...but NOW...now she simply watched this young soldier with pity and regret.
The young soldier propped himself up against the wheel of a Humvee, he looked down with tears in his eyes as he saw both his feet were neatly sliced off just above the ankle. Karasuba approached the boy, her nodachi in hand...
"p-please...i-i don't w-wanna die...please don't kill me" The young soldier begged, blood continued to poor from the stumps that are now his legs.
Karasuba didn't say anything. She raised her sword and was about to strike down..."I HAVE A BABY GIRL! PLEASE!...i...i just became a father..." The young man pulled a photo of his wife and newborn daughter out of his pocket and with a shaking bloody hand tried to hand it to Karasuba. The Ashen wolf stopped dead in her tracks, what was she doing? this boy had his whole life ahead of him...and a little girl...should his daughter grow up without her father?...Karasuba suddenly felt like the sword shed been using her whole life was a million tons...she dropped her sword and fell to her knees, struggling to hold back the urge to throw up.
What had she done? did all the soldiers she kill have daughters and sons? wives and girlfriends? WHY COULDN'T SHE STOP BEING A MONSTER!?
Karasuba heard gunshots and fire balls being thrown, with her enhanced hearing she heard Homura calling out for her to help him. Karasuba smirked, a big grin filled with sharp wolf like teeth graced her face..."oh that's right...im a Crow...im not some little bird flying high...im a Crow, cursed to be monster from the day i was born...and that's how it always has been, and its how it always will be" Karasuba whispered to herself.
"c-crow feathers..." The young soldier said under his breathe.
Karasuba looked up to him with questioning eyes. "i-i mean y-your name...i-it means Crow Feathers...k-karasuba means crow feathers...t-that's all i meant"
"How do you know my name?"
"m-my brother works on the higher levels of the MBI tower, we all heard the story's of a legendary warrior, a woman in black who dealt with any of MBIs enemy's, with the way you move you must be her...y-your not human."
"No im not..." Karasuba got up and brushed herself off.
"p-please...mercy..." The young soldier begged as Karasuba picked her sword back up.
"Yes...Mercy young one...here..." Karasuba withdrew a bundle of money from her jacket pocket, Sora always gave his sekirei wads of money and told them to spend it on anything they wanted, Karasuba never did because she didn't need any material possessions, she wasn't that kind of girl who needed clothes and shoes and all that bullshit..."get yourself fixed up with this, it should be enough to fix your feet and have some left over to buy your daughter something nice."
Karasuba got started to where she saw Homura battling MBI special forces. She was suddenly stopped when she...heard something.
"You cant deny who you are...My Crow" A deep voice said.
Karasuba stopped and blinked, she turned to see just her and the wounded soldier. Who said that?
Karasuba shrugged and broke out into a full on sprint towards her brother who was jumping between buildings as fast as he could to avoid being annihilated by that massive attack helicopter. The ashen wolf saw just the sheer amount of firepower the chopper had and smiled to herself...this was going to be FUN.
Homura got between two buildings that were close to each other where the helicopter couldn't fit. The chopper shined its light in between the two buildings and tried to fire a few chain gun rounds, they just bounced around without hitting anything so the chopper moved on to find a better firing position. Karasuba jumped down next to her brother, "Persistent bitch isn't she?"
"Indeed, i haven't been able to get a good shot to take the damn thing down yet, how do you wanna play this? we have to take this thing out before the Disciplinary squad arrives, we wont be able to handle both"
"WE wont be able to take both?"
"Karasuba...come on" Homura said as he rolled his eyes.
"Haha...come on lighten up, now i say you distract it and get it to hover low, then ill jump up and slice its tail blade apart."
"good idea, are you ready?" Homura asked as he prepared two fire balls.
"When you are..."
"Alright, lets go!"
Homura jumped out and began firing small fireballs at the attack chopper, the large aircraft turned and began firing bursts of chain gun and small barrages of missiles down onto Homura position, the silver haired man moved fast enough to avoid the choppers targeting tracker, the laser dish eye followed Homura with dead eye precision, Homura just barley avoiding its deadly bursts of gunfire.
Homura began ducking into the narrow alleys again and the chopper was forced to come low and hard to try and kill Homura before he got back into cover, apparently the pilot REALLY wanted Homura dead. Karasuba jumped up full strength and brought her sword down with enormous force, The nearly indestructible blade ran through the tail rotor like a hot knife through butter, cleanly cutting off the choppers rear promoted the death machine to go into an uncontrolled spinning...right into the ground...the machine blew up on impact, all the remaining missiles and rockets only added to the massive explosion.
Karasuba landed next to Homura, the two siblings giving each other a high five, something Karasuba would NEVER have done before. The two siblings laughed hard at the awkward show of friendship, The face Karasuba made when she decided to return the high five was just priceless.
"Well well well it looks like someone decided to finally show her pretty face"
Karasuba and Homura turned to see a pink haired boxer and a gothic girl with two VERY intimidating clawed hands.
"Now just what the hell are you two thinking, Your supposed to HATE everyone, Your supposed to be pulling the outside loner, mysterious man in black routine, so what the hell are you two doing TOGETHER?" Benitsubasa remarked sarcastically, Haihane had a confused look as well...this was so out of Karasubas wheel house it wasn't even funny.
"I guess you could say i got tired of doing the Monkeys dirty work for him" Karasuba replied with a bitter sweet venom laced smile.
"Number 105 and 104, just the people we were looking for" Homura stated calmly and with an air of distaste for the two lap dogs of MBI.
"haha YOU got tired of "the monkey"? Bitch...you were here before ANY of us! don't pretend your any better now that you got yourself a sweet little Ashikabi, the amount of blood on your hands is more than any of us here COMBINED"
Karasuba was unsheathed and at Benitsubasas throat faster than the pink sekirei could finish her sentence, Her sword at the shorter girls throat, Haihane placed her sharp claws to Karasubas neck and back and Homura aimed his fistful of melting hot fire at the back of Haihanes head.
Oh well, a little mexican stand off never hurt anyone" Homura said jokingly.
"m-mexican stand off? what the fuck are you talking about?"
Homura and Karasuba both laughed, "Trust me sweetheart, if there's one thing you get plenty of while being with OUR Ashikabi, its stupid one liners and western references" Karasuba said with a laugh, sucking all the tension out of this dangerous situation.
"D-DONT MAKE JOKES AT A TIME LIKE THIS! IVE WANTED TO KILL YOU FOR A LONG TIME KARASUBA!" Benistusbasa yelled definitely despite the impossibly sharp sword currently digging its way into her neck. Homuras hand of fire got hotter and hotter, burning some of the lighter hairs on Haihanes head , she in turn pressed her claws more into Karasubas flesh, the ashen wolf gave her former apprentice a big insane smile, showing how LITTLE she actually feared death.
The four sekirei steadily lowered their respective weapons, each one eyeing the other and very carefully retracting their hold on one another. Just as their weapons got low enough they all sprang up again and went at it, with Homura taking Benitsubasa and Karasuba taking Haihane.
"I told you this day would come! prepare yourself Haihane...im NOT holding back HAHAHA! BE SURE TO PUT UP A GOOD FIGHT!" Karasuba laughed manically and rushed forward Sword in hand, she locked blades with Haihanes claws. The two blades produced sparks as they grinded against one another, the sound of sharp metal shaving against itself ringing in the two sekireis ears. Haihane ripped one of her claws free and slashed down on Karasubas face...leaving three thin cuts along her left eye. Luckily the cuts avoided her eye by just a few centimeters...leaving her mostly un harmed, besides the scar now running down her left eye, three thin cuts from above the eye brow to under the eye.
Karasuba disengaged her sword and bounced back, she ran her fingers over her left eye and looked at her fingers, she had three thin lines of blood on the three fingers she ran over the eye. Karasubas Crimson eyes widened at the sight of her own blood, her expression becoming wild, she barred her teeth in excitement and shot ahead again, now super charged with excitement over the coming fight...her opponent was actually skilled enough to cut her...this was shaping out to be a GREAT night. The black sekirei faked haihane out with a mock charge before sliding into her blind spot cut at her arm, aiming to cut off her left arm.
Haihane turned at the last second, causing the blade to go across her chest, a long line of blood shined brightly across her entire upper chest, right above her breasts and just below her neck. Haihane made a fanning motion with her blades to keep away any follow up attacks, Karasuba merely went low, bending her thin and muscular body down to cut at Haihanes legs, luckily the clawed sekirei saw this coming and did a front flip before a deadly leg removing strike could be given.
"HAHA well you REALLY have gotten better little one! look at this nasty little scar you gave me...ill just have to pay you back for this!" Karasuba said with wild eyes as she jumped up for an aerial strike. Haihane didn't say anything...no need to waist oxygen one pointless taunting, if there was ever an opponent she needed ALL her strength for...this would be it. Haihane was throwing out EVERY move and trick she had just trying to KEEP UP with Karasuba...let alone defeat her.
The one thing Karasuba had that gave her an edge over EVERY sekirei was her unflinching willingness to jumped head long into a fight with NO regard for her own body. The woman would get cut, stabbed, shot, beaten, thrown, stepped on, and crushed and no matter how much damage she would take she would just keep coming. If you beat Karasuba with fists she would come back with her sword, if you beat her with the sword she would come back with TWO swords, and if you beat her with two swords you'd better kill her because she would just keep coming and coming and coming until either you or her was dead.
Haihane however had to learn this the hard way...at least 14 cuts latter and Karasuba as still just as fast and strong, it was true...the only way to beat the black sekirei was to destroy her.
Karasuba charged again and got right up in Haihanes face, looking up at her chin. "OH COME ON! DON'T TELL ME THAT'S ALL YOU GOT?!" Karasuba punched Haihane right up through the chin with a HUGE uppercut, sending the clawed sekirei straight up into the air. Karasuba grabbed Haihane mid air and twirled her around, she let go...sending Haihane directly into the side of a concrete building. Before Haihane could even get her head together and stop seeing stars she felt the wind cut behind her and she could feel an extremely sharp object coming down, aiming for her neck...
CLANG.
Haihane closed her eyes, waiting for the worst...when she turned around she saw a second sword locked with the one coming to kill her.
"Mutsu"
The yellow scarf billowing in the wind and a black eye patch from a previous fight was the last thing Haihane saw before she lost consciousnesses.
"Oh? well isn't this a pleasant surprise, and just what do you think your doing here my old comrade?" Karasuba asked with a venom laced smile, her sword continuing to press down HARD on Mutsus.
"With the discipline squad being so low on manpower these days a deal was made..."
"A deal?"
"Yes...how do you like my new clothes?"
Karasubas eyes were drawn down to Mutsus new attire, he was wearing his usual black ninja outfit...but it was what he wearing OVER his ninja top that was interesting...a disciplinary coat...hanging on his shoulders just like the good old Kamakura days.
"Well well well, what do we have here? playing dress up now Mutsu?" Karasuba joked lightly as she and Mutsu changed sword positions, going to an upright vertical lock.
"Im the new head of the Diciplinary squad, with so many Ashikabis rebelling against MBI they needed someone to...keep the peace"
"HAHAHA "keep the peace" yes because peaceful is what the S-Plan is all about, right Mutsu?..."
"Laugh while you can, ill have you know its not only me on the squad...ALL of master Mikogamis sekirei are now wearing this uniform."
"Is that so? oh its going to be so much fun getting blood all over those nice new coats...are you really prepared to face me alone Mutsu?" Karasuba asked as a dark edge took over voice and eyes, her Crimson orbs shining brightly through the night air.
"Who said i was alone?"
Suddenly 4 more sekirei joined the fight, one of them peeling off to go fight Homura, the other three engaging Karasuba, Mutsu broke away and shot off in another direction...heading towards the bridge. "NO, get back here Mutsu!"
Mutsu simply looked back at Karasuba with a little devilish smile, Karasuba gritted her wolf teeth and roared in anger...her Sora was now in danger, "NO! im not failing master again!"
Karasuba threw a mighty blow with her sword, forcing all three attacking sekirei back. She leaped forward and with all her strength and came down HARD on the three sekirei who were dazed from the last strike, The ashen wolfs silver hair waved about wildly as she passed in front of the moon...
The three sekirei looked up with disbelief as they watched what they thought was an angel of vengeance come down from heaven to strike them down. A great black figure with gleaming red eyes who roared like a wolf descended with the speed and ferocity of a Valkyrie and landed right between the three sekirei, Karasuba swung her sword around and in one strike all three sekirei were cut cleanly in half. There three half's falling back as a torrent of blood cascaded down onto the silver wolf.
Karasuba stood from her combat pose and looked at her hands...blood...so much blood.
The ashen wolf gently leaned in and gave her hand a little lick, just barley trailing her tongue over the red liquid. Karasubas eyes grew wider and more wild when the taste of the warm red substance entered her mouth, she could feel her whole body shake with excitement and even her womanhood became a little damp from sheer excitement...
"You cant forget who you are...My Cro-
"Karasuba! snap out of it we need to go after Mutsu, hes heading for the bridge that Sora-san is on!" Homura yelled at his sister as he threw fire ball after fire ball at the two sekirei attacking him. "Ill hold these two off, you go after Mutsu! make sure this plan doesn't fail!" Homura looked at his sister with pleading eyes...
Karasuba snapped out of whatever strange mental lock she was in and nodded at her brother, jumping off without a second thought towards the bridge where her precious Sora was.
YUME AND YAHAN.
HALF A MILE FROM ESCAPE BRIDGE.
"I think we've waited long enough, Karasuba just destroyed an MBI attack helicopter, reinforcements should be here any minute, lets get set up Yahan." Yume said as she turned away from her perch on top of a sky scraper and jumped down to a smaller building Yahan was occupying. "Yes Yume-sama, i can see MBI armored vehicles heading our way now, they will arrive in 2 minutes"
"How can you see them?" Yume asked as she took in Yahans abilities, the shadow sekirei had her hand soaked through a shadow like she was looking through a window.
"I can see through other shadows, like for example that shadow behind you...yeah that one...if i connected to it i could look at you from two different angles, like looking through a magic mirror"
"So you can basically see ANYWHERE in the city if you wanted?"
"Pretty much, as long as there's shadows then yes...ANYWHERE"
Yume chuckled at the implied sexual implications of such a power, Yahan laughed a long with her until both girls realized that two platoons of special forces soldiers were on there way right now...
"Are right how do you wanna handle this?"
"Ill take the high ground you take the low ground, your shadows work better on ground level and my light is better in the air or from elevated positions"
"Roger that sis. LETS GET SOME!" Yahan pounded her fists together and pulled her dagger from its sheath, removing the sharp blade with an ear piercing "SHINK"
"get some?"
"Yeah...its like...never mind,
"No come on, tell me"
"it...it basically means let kick some ass"
"Oh...yes...let us kick some ass sister!"
"oh Yume...cursing really just isn't your thing" Yahan giggled as she face palmed at Yume.
TWO MINUTES LATTER.
'Four Humvees, Two APCs, and one battle tank...This is going to be messy'. Yahan thought to herself as the combat vehicles rounded the street corner and headed towards the bridge Sora was on. Yahan looked up to see Yume raise her hand and form a count down hand...Yahan readied her dagger.
Yume began counting down to their attack.
Five... Yume formed two balls of light in her hand.
Four... Yahan got four miniature explosive throwing stars ready between her fingers.
Three... Yume jumped onto a telephone poll over looking the street.
Two... Yahan comes out of the shadows and prepares to attack, Yume super charges her two balls of light so they will be able to destroy the heavily armored tank.
ONE... "NOW!"
Yume throws both supercharged balls of energy at the lead tank, the balls impact against its heavy armor HARD, leaving two giant melted holes in the tanks front end, The massive machine grounds to a halt, its main gun still operational but its driver was dead. Yahan throws the four explosive stars at the four Humvees, all four stars hit there mark and the four vehicles go up in flames, there high yield explosives so none of the MBI troops burn to death or suffer slow deaths, quick and painless.
The lead tank was immobilized but its weapons were still functional, the tank swung its massive gun up and fired directly at Yume, the tank shell exploded as soon as it left the barrel of its gun...Yume super heated the shell so it would blow up before it hit her. The light sekirei then lept up in the air to dodge the barrage of gun fire coming from the tanks machine guns. Yume ran along the rooftops and side streets trying to avoid being hit by the thousands of bullets coming at her, she formed two shields made of pure light to block the bullets, the shields held but they weren't indestructible, and the more damage they took the closer Yume got to be a sitting duck.
Yahan primed her last explosive and jumped inside the tank, Yume fired a small ball of light to bust open the top hatch on the tank and Yahan jumped inside. Yahan surprised the first two soldiers inside the tank, she stabbed them both in the heart and turned to attach the explosive to the tank. A third soldier, the commander of the tank, sneaked up behind Yahan and tried to shoot her but Yahan heard the click of his gun and turned around just in time to knock the gun away. She tackled the commander into a lower part of the tight and cramped tank, the commander tried to pull his knife but Yahan restrained his arm and sunk her blade into his neck. The commander screamed out in pain, hurting Yahans ears, the tight tank compartment echoed with the pained yells of the commander, Yahan cut across...ending his life.
Yume looked down to the large metal vehicle with concern, her partner has been in there longer than she should. Suddenly Yahan burst from the top hatch and ran as fast as she could away from the tank, Yume ducked behind the rooftop she was on and covered her ears...
BOOM!
The tank exploded in a massive fireball, Yahans explosives set off the tanks ammunition supply and its gasoline, prompting an explosion much larger than it should be. The tanks turret was blown clean off, leaving only an empty burning husk...
Yahan rejoined her sister on the rooftops, the two sekirei just sat and watched the raging fire for a minute. "Are you okay Yume?"
"Yeah...that explosion just knocked me around a little, just waiting for my head to stop spinning haha" Yume turned to her comrade.
"You did well Yahan, Master would be VERY proud of you"
"Thank you Yume, were sho-"
Yume saw the muzzle flash of a gunshot.
"WATCH OUT!"
Yume grabbed Yahan and threw he off the building, just fast enough to save her from being taken out by a sniper. Yume jumped to cover, the sniper fired two shot, the first one missed by a few inches and the second grazed Yumes leg. Yume whimpered in pain but managed to take cover behind some solid concrete, Blood leaked from a rather large wound on Yumes leg...if this was what just a graze could do then Yume didn't want to know what a direct hit would do. Whatever this sniper was using, it was BIG, probably a 50. Caliber Barrett M-82 or something similar.
The sniper continued to fire at the concrete wall Yume was hiding behind, the massive 50. Caliber rounds took entire CHUNKS of concrete off at a time, making Yumes cover smaller and smaller by the minute.
"YAHAN ARE YOU OKAY!"
"YEAH! THANKS FOR THROWING ME OFF A BUILDING, REALLY SAVED MY ASS!"
"I NEED YOU TOO SPOT THE SNIPER SO I CAN TAKE HIM OUT! THINK YOU CAN DO THAT!"
"SURE THING BOSS!"
Yahan jumped back up to the rooftops and proceeded to run as fast as she possibly could to avoid the sniper fire. Yume observed the sniper switch from her to Yahan, now he was fully concentrating on Yahan...leaving Yume to try and spot him. Whoever this sniper was, he was GOOD...VERY GOOD...if he could keep up with a sekirei and land accurate shots then he was incredibly good, sekirei were the fastest living things on the planet, there were hardly ANY humans who could match their speed, but there were a few...
Yume ripped off a piece of her white ninja top and tied it around her leg to stop the bleeding, she then low crawled along the rooftop to a better spot to watch for the sniper. Yahan had gone back into cover and was waiting for Yume to give the word again, the sniper had stopped firing for now...probably to reload his rifle or maybe he knew they were trying to lure him out.
Yume peaked her head up for just a second, she saw the muzzle flash and immediately got back down, a huge bullet whizzed over her head...missing by just a NANOSECOND.
Yume signaled too Yahan, she FOUND the son of a bitch.
Yahan smiled and prepared to act as bait again, Yume prepared a super charged ball of light, one that could reach out for at least a mile. Yume gave the signal and Yahan jumped out, the shadow sekirei immediately almost got her head blown off, the sniper fire only one round before Yahan was forced back into cover. But it was enough that Yume knew where the sniper was...a church bell tower...fitting.
Yume thew the ball of light with pin point precision, it took only a second or two for the light to reach the tower. The entire top section of the tower exploded in a magnificent fire ball.
"Did you get him?" Yahan asked as she rejoined her comrade.
"No, he jumped out of the tower at the last second, he used his combat knife to break the fall from the tower, i cant see him anymore thought..."
"Well that's something, hooray for small victories i guess...who the hell was that guy? he was REALLY good!"
"He was one of the bounty hunters that killed Sora-samas family, the youngest one i believe"
"No shit...the same three that gave you and Karasuba a pretty decent fight right?"
"Yes, we'll be seeing alot more of them i promise you, Mikogami has several highly skilled mercenary's under his command"
"Gee...i cant wait to fight these guys...i almost lost my head dealing with one of them, let alone three" Yahan said with a pout as she kicked a trash can.
Yume had a strange feeling about that man they fought, that sniper...there was something about him. Yume could sense these kind of things, she pushed the thought aside for now and refocused on the escape plan.
"Come Yahan, lets rejoin Karasuba and Homura in their fight"
"Of course sister..."
The two sekirei jumped off towards the fire and explosions happening just half a mile away.
ALL RIGHT THE THIRD AND FINAL PART COMING NEXT, STAY TUNED AND PLEASE REVIEW!