Love & War 6: Replicants
Chapter 34: Assault at the Base
Inspired by Die Hard
Gunshots were fired and many security guards were killed. Nina, Amelie, Tracer and Samus joined the fight. Pharah and D'Va fought outside. Melody and her team defended the base well. She knows her clone has arrived.
"We're almost out of the woods, girls!:
"Not so fast, darlin." Kano showed himself from the big screen.
"YOU! How are you still alive?"
"Like you, I'm not that easy to kill, sweet cheeks. Call off your slut army!"
"And why would I do that?"
Kano answered by grabbing the hair of Jade, who was apparently beaten withing every inch of her life.
"MOM!"
The kids see this. Momiji was right beside them.
"You bastard! You better let her go..."
"You don't give the orders around here, Melody! Listen closely, If you want this whore of a mother of yours to live, I suggest you bring your poor excuse of a father of yours to me. Alone."
"Where are you?"
"At your former birthplace, Uganda, you know, where you were raped as a child? Yea, I was the one who started a drug operation there. I even paid the rebels to do whatever they wanted to the children, including you! I didn't think you put out easily by your own father."
Melody couldn't believe it. Her former home is now Kano's hideout. The truth finally came out. Her family in Uganda fell victim to Kano's operations. Her own father was consumed by the drugs. Melody had a sick image in her head of the rebels raping her including her father. Her mother tried to stop them, but she was killed. Her resolve weakened...
"If you fail to do so..."
Kano brings out his knife.
"I will cut your mother, from ear to ear. You have until tomorrow or he'll have another short-lived marriage. Later, bitches!" Kano ended the feed.
Melody's heart was pounding. Her rapist has her mother, and now he wants Chris. The ladies have finished their assault.
"Melody, are you ok?" asked Tracer.
"My rapist has my mother. I need to get in contact with my dad. Excuse me."
Melody left. She went into her private chambers. She fell on her knees and cried. As she got up, she contacts Chris.
"Dad..."
Chris was leaving Columbus with Gudelia via chopper along with their allies. "Melody, are you ok?"
Melody couldn't speak. Instead she gave Kano's transmission to him from her armband. He heard the conversation. His rage increased greatly. Gudelia notices this.
"That son of a bitch has my wife! And now he is located at your former home?"
"Yes..."
"I'll be there, Mel. I'm going to find her and bring her home. How are things at the base?"
"It's too quiet..."
"What do you mean?"
"There are no more gunshots..."
Melody did not finish her sentence as she felt a barrel of a Steyr AUG A1 on her head from behind. Melody froze
"Melody? Mel, talk to me..." The transmission ended abruptly.
"What the hell?"
"What happened?" Gudelia asked.
"Melody's connection was cut. We need to head back to base."
Melody's Quarters
"We are both professionals," said Replicant Melody as she turned off Melody's armband and removed it from her left arm. "But this is personal." She threw the armband down. Melody closed her eyes for a few moments. By instinct, Melody swiped the AUG down and a fight began. Melody pushed her clone out of her quarters and with a scream, Melody lays a few haymakers to the face. Replicant Melody blocked the fourth punch, grabbing her attacking arm, socked her in the stomach and blasted her in the face with her palm, sending her crashing into the ground. Melody winced in pain as her clone has the advantage, kicking her across the face. Meanwhile, Chris contacted Master Raven.
"All of our comm is down, she responded. "I bet her clone did this for a fateful encounter."
"Encounter?"
As soon as he asked, Tatyana heard a ruckus. Her Replicant has arrived."
"Welcome..." Tatyana's fight started as well. Replicant Melody with a sadistic look on her face continued assaulting Melody. She was coughing up blood. Her clone went for another kick but Melody stopped it and tripped her down. She ran for it, but her clone has her Beretta 92FS and shot Melody in her right shoulder. Master Raven took her clone outside and and both used their sword in a unique Soul Calibur fashion. They clashed, Injustice style.
"You're an abomination!" said the real Master Raven.
"Your husband won't think so," her clone disagreed.
They broke the clash, but Master Raven dashed forward and sliced her clone midsection. Her clone fell, torso separating from each other. It disappeared.
"No one threatens my family!"
As Master Raven reentered the base to help the others, Replicant Melody kicked the door inside a boiler room, Beretta in hand. She was looking for Melody. A few moments later, Melody dropped on top of her clone, forcing her to drop the Beretta and the fight continued.
"MOTHERFUCKER, I"LL KILL YOU!" Melody's rage was at a all-time high. Chris and his allies have landed at the base. They entered and saw the bodies of the soldiers. They are all dead. Samus approached him holding her stomach.
"Samus! Are you alright?"
"Yea. You need to find Melody. She is fighting her clone somewhere here."
Chris knew Melody was facing her clone one day as Master Raven predicted after her spar with Melody. Back to the fight, Replicant Melody continued exchanging offense and defense until Melody grabbed her and headbutted her. This stunned her completely. She dropped the Beretta. This was Melody's chance, but she remembered her fight with Nina. She spared the assassin's life. This time, however, was the exception...
Melody's Fatality
Melody could not hold back anymore and pulled out a unique revolver shotgun called the SIX12 from Crye Precisions and shot two projectiles, one on her clone's left leg and the other on her right arm. Both limbs exploded. The shells she used were powerful slugs. She puts the shotgun away and walked up to her clone. She was begging for mercy, but Melody granted her none when she grabbed her head, starting her jaw and her forehead.
"Yippee Ki Yay, Motherfucker!
She twisted the jaw on the left and half the head on the right, similar to Reptile's MKX X-Ray, but with all her strength. She then kicked her down. Chris and Gudelia arrived before the fallen clone disappeared.
"Melody?"
Melody was breathing hard. Her right shoulder was blown off, hence the covering of blood around her. She fell to her knees. Chris grabbed a medkit and placed it on her shoulder.
"I can't... believe it..."
"Melody, it's ok, baby. You're safe now. Here." Chris gave her her armband. "We need to save your mother."
"You have to go alone, dad."
"I know."
Melody's armband activated.
"Melody, it's Tanya. The kids are gone!"
"What?"
"Sombra betrayed us! I knew we shouldn't have trusted that woman!"
"Where did they go?"
"Some guy named Reaper attacked me. Him, Sombra and some woman with the same metal plate like Kano's. They took them. Samus got a read on their location: Uganda."
Melody was even more sickened. It's bad enough that Chris was wanted by Kano, as well as Jade's abduction, and now the kids!"
"Melody..."
"Please, dad. Save our mother. I'm going to save the children. But I need something to get there without detection."
"Melody, you"ll need this." Gudelia gave her stealth camo bandana, something you earn after beating Metal Gear Solid. "Be careful."