TRANSHUMANIST IN HELL
Chapter 10 – Night of Blood 2
[Unknown Location]
In a dark isolated room only filled with a dim red light there is a semi circular table with five chairs behind it. In front of the table there is a big flat screen TV, at least 3m in length per 2m in height. From the other side of the room coming out of the shadow six figures emerge.
"Good, good. It seems we are all here. We can know start this session of The Venerable Council". The first voice is clearly human and out of the shadow emerge the face of Shidou himself. The other five follow suits.
The Venerable Council is the Highest authority of the Therianthrope Army. It is composed of 4 members, each one to represent the numerous and different species that made the Therianthropes. Land, Sea and Air Animals and Insects. Originally the Insects seat was not included, but after some discussion (aka rivers of blood) , it was made clear that it was for the best of having the absurdly vast family of insects having their own seats. There is a fifth unofficial members of the Council. The Creator, aka Shidou, who has this position, which is only a "honorific" position, which also serves as a contact point between Heaven and the Therianthrope.
Under the Council there is the Brotherhood of Generals. It reunite all the Generals of the Therianthrope Army. Every Seat holder can have a max of 4 Generals under his/her command, and only Generals of his/her species.
In cooperation with the Brotherhood, also as a way to quickly find a replace in case of KIA, there are two other organizations: The Roundtable of Knights and The Hall of Crusaders.
The first includes all the Therianthrope that have achieved the Rank of Knight starting from 3° Class Foot knight and similar positions. While the other includes everyone up to the rank of Squire. As a rule every new born Therianthrope that has reached adulthood starts in the Hall, and through his/her efforts can climb the ladder and even reach the rank of Holder.
While there is a limitation to the number of Generals that can be at a given time (no more than 4 per Holder, as such 16 as of now) there is no such a limitation in the Roundtable and the Hall, but there is a separation between active members and the reserve. This gives to the Army the capability to always fill its losses with trained soldiers.
"It is indeed time to do so Creator". This voice is deep and brings with him an aura of Command, Respect and Wisdom, without it making him appear compliant. He is Lokar. He is a Lion Therianthrope, more precisely a white fur mutated one. He has climbed the peeking order up to the position of representative of all the Land Animals, something he shares with his other fellow members. Standing at 2 meters tall with a body builder physique and with a lion like face, he is quite imposing and a little scary, but he is renowned for being a honourable warrior and a wise leader. He is clad in an "armour" straight up from He-man, with heavy brown trousers with a metal X shaped belt on his chests. While some would think of it as him letting himself having to many weak spots, his fur his way more durable than normal. He is the holder of the 1° seat at the right of Shidou.
"Finally. I am bored out of my mind to wait". This is voice is more high pitched than that of Lokar, and while it may gives away the sensation of youngness and recklessness, the owner of said voice is anything but that. His name is Apollyon, a Bald Eagle type. He sits at the Council as the representative of all Air Animals. His head is identical of that of a Bald Eagle with brown feathers growing all over his body, with powerful bird legs to sustain him. He stand at 1.80, tall for the member of his species, but not for this less lethal. He is clad in a very light leather suits, which gives enough protection without hindering his movements. His two wings are now morphed into his arm form to not hinder him. But, at any given moment, he can change back to their wing form to fly with impunity upon his enemies. He is the holder of the 2° seats at Shidou's left.
"Always impatient are you? We must always act with serenity of mind and righteousness of purpose". The third voice is distinctively female, but bringing with itself the weight of command and of longevity. Her owner is Seren, an Orca-type Therianthrope. She is the representative of all sea animals. Her name was given to her by her Pod (i.e. the equivalent of an enlarged family for the Orcas) because of her capability to never lose her cool and always making everyone at peace with each other. She has a strict resemblance with her Orca DNA, but with Humanoid features. She has not hairs, but her skin is smooth, like silk, to the touch if one follows from head to tail, divide between the black of the external part and the milk white of the inside. While she has a more dolphin like face, she is nonetheless someone that can be considered beautiful by human standard, and she can talk in a calm voice even if it, apparently, seems she doesn't possess a nose. She is as tall as Lokar, but a little more imposing for her "added flesh". Because being a mix of human and orc has made so that she not only inherited a legs, arms (and very beefy one at that) and the capability to speak, but also humans sexual characteristics, in which case, breasts and so on. And let just say that Mother Nature has been vey generous with her, if her N-cup breasts, and brood mother hips, are a sign of it (as of now she has at least two dozens of the best Orca warriors trying to win her over in any shape possible shy of murdering each other's, but only on Seren direct orders, as she can't allow to lose the bulk of her combat power even before the War starts). Contrary to the previous two she wears a white cloth more similar to that of a cult leader than a warrior one, even with a wide hood to cover her face. Not that the cloth does any kind of job in covering her "body". She is the holder of the 3° seats at the left of Apollyon.
"Nevertheless he says the truth". The last voice, also female, makes herself known. Her holder is the youngest among the members of the council, but not for this she must be underestimated, on the contrary, she is, probably, the most dangerous one. As the fight for the 4° seat, the Insect seat, has been just one digit shorter than a full on genocide. To come out of that blood bath has been Anastasia, a Peacock Matis Shrimp-type. She has rightfully taken her position by right of might, but she has rarely taken part in their previous meetings, because she had decided to go around the world try all the possible, and not, challenges she could find to become stronger. She stands at 1.80 m and she has a kick-boxer/Muay Thai body type, making full use of her speed and nimble figure to deliver the strongest punches on the planet. She is the ones that retains the most human like figure out of all the members Her head is composed of two "mantis eyes" that give her a 360° view of her surrounding, but without taking out her ginger hairs that she has tied back into a single ponytail that reaches her chest. Parts of her face and body are covered with a thin layer of "scales", which increase her defence, but not by much. She has a respectable cup size, at DD, which shows her femininity without being an impediment during combat. She wears a black and purple sports bra and leggings and snickers, with a short jacket with hood and a cap to compete the set, that show her chiselled abdominals and in general her toned muscles while also accentuating her allure. Her most prominent feature are her armoured covered red-handed arms, which gives her the capability to punch over the speed of sound without damaging her body. She is the holder of the 4° seat at the right of Lokar.
All the four of them sit themselves at their seat and wait for the six figure to start. Clad in a blue female military uniform, with a small hole just above her back to let her tail move freely, with her black cat features showing and her light green split eyes, Juliet is a cat therianthrope and also a member of the department of information, which is basically the KGB of the Therianthrope Army. She has E-cup size breasts.
"Now that all the honourable members are here we can start". Juliet says with a serious expression putting herself on one side so that the TV can shows the real time viewing of the Battle of Miami. At first it shows the carnage that Antioch and Fiona forces are causing in the city.
"As you can see the 1° Division has successfully reached the city with his full power. From our current calculations we think that between 40% and 50% of the population has been killed or seriously wounded. If there are no interruption the elimination of the entire town will be completed in less than an hour. The jamming has prove to be effective". Juliet changes the scenes to a macro map of the USA. "our intel has already determined that the US Army knows that something his happening in the city. But the only information they have are eye witnesses from people outside the city, and because of that outside of the jamming scope. We were able to successfully infiltrate this flow of information and cause as much confusion and contradictory news as possible in total we have given at our forces something along the line of 30 extra minutes on the planned schedule.
"Excellent! Excellent!" Compliments Shidou looking quite satisfied at how his creations are working in a real battle situation. "What you can tell me about the Primary and Secondary targets that were at the party in the outskirt of the city?".
Juliet stiffen herself a little, before complying with the request. The scene from the drone change again and this time we can see a bird view of Asmodeus's Villa. Tighter with it there is a real time map showing the current strength and position of the opposing forces. For John and Lucifer forces, they only have 60, them included, combat ready soldiers, with the add of 20 wounded of various degrees, for a total of 80 enemies. Against them there currently in pursuit there is 1° Class Foot Knight Alberg and what has remained of his forces after the first assault, in total almost 1000 soldiers that are currently marching towards John position.
"As you can see all the Primary and Secondary targets are still alive, but cornered in the villa. !° Class Foot Knight Alberg forces will make contact with them in 5 minutes".
"Good, good. What are odds of success of the assault". Shidou asks, more out of curiosity than of really thinking that they can come out of that situation.
Juliet simply taps into her pad and looks back at the screen, showing a graphic with the probabilities of success of Alberg's assault. "Currently the chances of success are above 95%, with chances of a tie at 4% and the possibility of losing is less than 1%. The use of Angel blessed weapons has been a great assets that has already shown is effects by eliminating all non-human enemies at the villa during the initial assault.
"Hpm! Of course they would work! I was the one to bless all the water and equipment for this mission, idiot! My holy water is the purest and strongest out of all the angels of Heaven!" in a flash of light another figure appears in the room. She has a childlike appearance with blue-green eyes, white and yellow small wings, and an incredibly loose and not very much covering yellow jacket, with no bra under it, with extremely short white pants. Her outfit is completed with a pair of white boots. She has AA-cup size breasts. She is Gabriel, member of the Seven heavenly Virtues and Virtue of Chastity.
All the Therianthrope stand up and give a respectful bow, even Shidou slight bow himself to Gabriel.
"Lady Gabriel. I didn't expect you here, something has piqued you interest?".
Gabriel looks back at Shidou with same regard and disgust of someone looking at dry shit on the side of the road, but she nonetheless decides to answer.
"I am here simply because I personally want to see that stupid Asmodeus finally biting the dust. As she is my opposite it is only right that I shall be the one to bring her down".
Shidou simply gives a nod of understanding and everyone returns to their previous spot with Gabriel hoovering above Shidou positioning herself between Shidou and Lokar.
They all look at the screen where, while they were talking, Alberg is only 1 minute from engaging John's forces. The overwhelming disparity in numbers promising a quick and easy victory, but Murphy's Law is always ready to show itself at the worst possible moments.
"They aren't going to make it" Anastasia says. A stern look on her face.
"Huh?! What was that idiot?! Of course they are winning over a bunch of useless sex obsessed demons and devil-worshippers. Are you saying that the blessing I have given to them is not enough?!".
Anastasia simply gives a deadpanned look at Gabriel's outburst and without flinching she replies with a scary calmness.
"They are going to lose for two simple fact. 1 they have lost the surprise effect after the first assault. The have given the enemy enough time to prepare some makeshift defence, this is going to make the assault very costly than before. 2 They didn't eliminate both the Primary and Secondary target at the first occasion, and I have given a look at the files on them. While some of the targets may be not an obstacle, it remains a fact that they were unable to kill the enemy leadership and also the strongest members of the enemy factions are still standing. I have also looked at their papers, and most of them are not people so easy to deal with. This is my personal assumption on the outcome of this skirmish".
"Mph! Merely excuses and a bunch of blah, blah, blah. Now shut up and let us see how our forces kill that stupid Asmodeus and his lackey!".
Unfortunately for Gabriel, it seems the universe was of different ideas. Because when Alberg's forces are almost at the range to engage with their fire weapons, two horizontal pillar of flames spurts from the villa aiming at the two wings of the formation. The one hitting the right wing is bright red, while the other is bright purple. In one single swoop the count goes from 1000 to 800.
Without giving respite, the remaining forces come under aerial barrage of fireballs and lightings as well as smaller explosion and also…
"Are that SPEARS OF LIGHT?!" Gabriel is flabbergasted by what she is seeing. None of the Seven Sins should be able to do such a thing, and even Lucifer after falling to Hell should have such an ability taken away, but what she is seeing is undoubtedly spears of light being thrown at the Therianthrope forces. Zooming on who is doing such a thing the image clears on the face of Maria, the one who was considered the weakest of all the Targets. Meanwhile the count goes and down and downer. Going from 800 to 600 and then to 400 as fast as the blink of a eye.
Not wanting to assist to a battle whose victor has already been decided Gabriel excuse herself saying that she has to report this new information to Michael and God. Mere seconds after Gabriel is gone even Shidou excuse himself declaring that these unexpected changes require him to modify and adapt the current Therianthrope production to combat this new threat.
After Shidou both Apollyon and Seren goes away. The first declaring that this is all the fault of Lokar as Alberg is a member of the Land Animals, while Seren gives her condolences for the loss of so many lives, leaving only Lokar and Anastera alone in the room, because Juliet has followed Shidou to rely his orders.
"Are any bugs here?" Lokar asks.
"No" answers Anastasia.
"Good, then we can talk without remorse". Lokar says while relaxing his body and slumping into his chair.
"Well, things aren't going for the better. You okay?" Anastasia looks at the slumped figure of Lokar, sadness dotting his handsome lion face. He only swing his hand dismissively, like she doesn't need to worry, but it is evident that he wants to say something.
"Nothing to worry about, just… *sigh* I have to prepare the eulogy for the familiars of the soldiers and all of that. *heavy sigh* they will not have even a body to bury".
"You should consider yourself lucky to do so. If soldiers of my species die their family don't even care about it. Only another way to die for an insect-type. Dammit, 75% of my work is making sure that the various members that I represent don't go killing each other's around at any given chance".
Lokar look at Anastasia with puzzled look in his eyes, before letting out a sigh and then a small chuckles.
"I suppose you are right. Still, I don't like any of this".
"You mean how the operation has been planned?".
"Yes. I don't believe for a single second that the Creator or the Heaven's Angels didn't know of the real capacity of both the Devil Lords and of their Champion. I think…*sigh* I think they have been sent there to die a pointless death. You can already see how by dividing us in battalions of the same species it has increased the cases of infight between different members. Damn, just yesterday I had to stop a fight between two battalions, one of Panthers and the other of Jaguars, and the reason they started all of it it was simply because of some odd look between each other ".
"Almost certainly, these situations are becoming increasingly common all over the Army. I fear it is something that the Creator has foreseen from the beginning. In this context it would not surprise me that they have sent one general for each of us to die, so that Air and Sea animals could use it to feel superior to the both of our species and create even more instability in the Army".
"*heavier sigh* I suppose that the option of live and let live is not usable anymore".
Anastasia gives an intense look at what Lokar is saying, pondering every single letter in her head.
"Was it even an option to begin with?".
"Who knows?" Lokar looks up at the ceiling like hoping that it contains the answers to his dilemma, his majestic white mane moving in accordance with his breath in a calm way. "I have lost too many brothers and sisters to arrive here Anastasia. Even now that we are talking hundreds of newborns are being raised to be put against each other's in bloody combat arenas so that only the strongest and cunning of all survive. And both the Council, the Brotherhood and everything under it is only a facade to divide us so that once the war against Humanity is over we can start killing each other's without remorse. Truly, at times like this I ask myself, What makes us different from Mankind? Especially if we are going to commit the same mistakes"
With that words said Lokar goes out of the room to start his work and prepare to rely the death of his soldiers to their families, meanwhile Anastasia simply looks at the chair where Lokar was mere seconds ago.
'You have no idea how much you are right Lokar. You have no idea'. With that she herself goes out of the room, but she looks one last time back at the screen where the battle is still going on. The count of their forces now down to 50 members, Alberg included. And then all its gone. The last life signal stopping signalling the total annihilation of the battalion.
'I am sorry that I couldn't said anything to you John, not that you would have believed me at face value. But know that you have allies hidden were the Darkness would try to swallow you. I will make sure of this'.
And with that said in the sanctity of her mind, she finally goes out of the room towards her quarters to relax and then start the next cycle of training for the troops under her command.
[Back at the Villa]
Wrong.
How it went all so wrong.
This is the thought recurring in Alberg's mind. And probably having Lucifer's spear impaling you at the root of a tree just under your lungs doesn't help with it.
It all went good, at first. They were almost in range to fire their guns, but then the two pillar of fire came out of nowhere and obliterated his wings. The soldiers didn't even made a sound. They simply were standing in a spot at a moment, and the one next there was only ash on their place.
After that the situation went from bad to worse. Lighting bolt hitting his heavy machine operators and other fireballs coming towards their formation.
But worst of all where the Primary targets. Asmodeus, Lucifer and John. If he remembers correctly. They charged towards his formation like a hot knife through butter.
Alberg had taken into account that the strange missile object coming from the airfield towards the Villa could have been something to support their position. And he was right, but also wrong. Because they didn't defend. No, they counter-charged them with incredible fury.
John armour gives to him incredible defence and attack power. Every time he punched someone you could here the sound of bones, muscles and organs, exploding from the sheer kinetic pressure.
Lucifer spear ability and velocity didn't leave space to anyone. It seemed almost like she went from one soldiers to another in an endless chain of instant kills. Alberg's thought that he has seen her kill 50 men's consecutively in the span of 30 seconds before she noticed him and throwed his spear at him impaling him. It is only thanks to his being a Lynx hybrid that he hasn't died on the spot. Not that it is something to be happy in his situation.
Asmodeus was even more ferocious. Screaming like a Banshee and going head first into the frenzy. Her whip, a clumsy weapon to take into a close quarter battle at best, its used by her with absurd ability. You heard the sound of her whips and 3 head went rolling down the dirt, cut off their bodies. She hits you in the chest, then you find yourself open in half from the abdomen to the head. And her magic fire is no less terrifying, literally liquefying the organs of everyone unfortunate enough to be hit by it.
He then sees John approaching him. The last pitiful pocket of resistance being dealt swiftly by Asmodeus succubus. He doesn't talk. He simply looks at the impaled, almost lying on the ground, form of Alberg with cold rage in his eyes.
Alberg doesn't even try to resist, he is to weak to do anything to be honest. He simply stares at John waiting his next move.
John then takes out his personal modified Desert Eagle, and point it at Alberg's head. Alberg doesn't even try to plea for mercy. He simply close his eyes, waiting for the inevitable.
BAMM!
One shot to the head by John's gun and all ends. The enemy's head now a mauled collection of bones, blood and cerebral matters in a 1 meter radius. John stands for another seconds, looking at the spot where the enemy commander was, were the man that has ordered to kill all that humans and succubus was dying and in doing so lots of questions flowing into his head.
He quickly takes himself out of it. He will have time to ponder it at a later time. Now, he has a battle to win. And he has the right weapon in mind for the job.
"Lockheed CL-1201 here Atlas…" And while he saying the password he gesture to Selina to use her ability to create a makeshift mega-phone for him to use.
'It is time to take out the dirt'. He thinks coldly.
[Headquarter of the Invasion force, Fiona's territory]
Fiona is not in a good mood right now, not by any chance. While her half of the Division is doing a good job at killing and destroying everything on sight, the news that the entirety of Alberg's battalion has been eliminated has shocked her to say the least.
Granted they were Lynx Hybrids, so not much of a loss in terms of singular combat power, but the loss of one of his only 8 Battalions is an horrible news nonetheless. She can only reassure herself with the fact that they were not Panthers, Leopards, or worse of all her own Hyena battalion.
Quickly she gives new orders to the nearest battalion to put on defensive positions against the incoming enemy. The nearest unit is the one made of Coyotes, good enough she thinks. That is the moment when she, and everyone in the city ears someone speaking using a very powerful loud speaker.
"Attention to all invading forces. This is my message to your leaders and every combat able body under their command. Know this. There shall be no mercy. You have disregarded every single laws of war ever written and have gladly partaken in the wanton slaughter of innocent civilians. As such no restriction by the Geneva convention applies to what is happening right now. I have only one more thing to tell to all of you. If you have a God, then pray to him for mercy. Because you shall have none of it from me!".
KABOOM!
"What has happened!" Fiona and his squad are taken back the abrupt barrage of missiles. It can't be. No missile unit is present here, and even if it was the case they should have been able to know such a unit was here to begin with.
And yet reality is a harsh teacher, and the unmistakable sound of jet engines going over the city can't be confused. And yet, these jet don't belong to the US Air Forces in the area.
"General! Look! Over there!" Fiona looks back in the direction of the Miami International Airport, and what she sees makes her blood go cold.
A massive whitewashed robot, almost 30 meters in height. And on both his arms there are massive plasma cannons that are aiming towards Antioch troops position.
'How?! What?! WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING HERE?!'
[5 minutes ago in Miami International Airport]
"Lockheed CL-1201 here Atlas. Enemy presence confirmed. Initialization of defence protocol Code Name: Liberty Prime. Password: Alpha, Sierra, Sierra, Foxtrot, Uniform, Charlie, Kilo, 2, X-Ray, Oscar, Victor, Echo, Romeo. Confirm Password and Proceed ".
"Atlas here Lockheed. Password Confirmed start of Liberty Prime defence program".
After that there is a soft sound of cogs moving. A sound that becomes louder and louder by the seconds. Then single parts of the massive cargo plane starts to move, the 11 jet drones disconnect from their position and starts to move on the airfield and take fly to grant to the massive cargo air cover.
Meanwhile the plane transform in a way similar to Transformers, with various parts moving around and changing his form. Gone is the biggest cargo plane of the World. In his place there is a white armoured Steele Giant with a Cyclopic blue-green eye and two massive plasma cannons per hand.
His name is Liberty Prime.
And the first thing it says is. "Death is a preferable alternative to communism".
After that he use his massive 30 meters of height to assess the situations. Once he identify the enemy position as of John instructions, from small launch bays on the sides of his chest, he shoots small rectangular black boxes towards the ground. Once the make contact they also transform in bipedal robots with a laser version of the AK-47 in hand (think of E3N from Call of Duty: Infinity Warfare with a Volk equipped).
In mere seconds there is over 200 hundreds of them and others more are coming out of Liberty Prime. They form in Squads of 10 robots and immediately moves in front of Liberty Prime.
Their objective singular in purpose. Their mind focused on it with cold calculations. Their mission one and simple.
The total elimination of every enemy combatant in the city. None shall come out of here ALIVE.
END
AN:
Hello everyone Ghostfire here.
I am happy to say that I have been able to finish to chapter in a single week. This is a true milestone for me.
Back on the story. I am still not very good at describing my characters. As such whenever I refer to a member of the Therianthrope you must imagine them physically as Furry (unless stated otherwise), while the hybrids are more like Kemonomimi, or Cat-girls for simplicity. Especially for Anastasia, her design is similar to that of Keiji from the manga Terra Formars.
I want to make a statement here that I have nothing against the Furry community. My use of Furry in this contest is only for helping me and the readers to better differentiate the two factions.
As for Liberty prime and the robots, their IP is owned by their respective companies. The Liberty Prime here written is identical to the original, just being a little big taller and bigger and having a white paint all over its body. The E3N are identical to the E3N of the COD campaign, but do not possess (at least these ones) its same level of intelligence and individuality).
Nonetheless, in this chapter we had the chance to see some of the internal machinations of the Therianthrope Army and that they are not such a unified front as they seemed at first.
I want to tell to all my readers here that things are going to change in comparison to the Anime, and very much so. Such a thing like the almost destruction of Miami is too much of a big event for things to remain normal and for Lucifer and Belial to calmly waiting the results of their duel, and I don't want them to become another world were Apocalypse-level shits happen and yet the main cast can freely go wherever they want and do their high school bullshit like it is all normal (Yes, I am looking at you Hybrid X Heart). After the battle we can expect the various factions to start moving all over the place and see how this battle can change the world for better or worse.
I wait your reviews and I will see all you next chapter.