Chapter 118: A battle amongst feudal warlords Part 2
I am still in the forest, and I do feel like I've been in forests all my life, as a significant portion of chapters seem to start with me being in the forest, doing the same yet necessary thing, of fighting Team Rocket, fighting them so that the Loweeans can reclaim their lost territory. Like I have been in some of the times, I am wounded and quite severely to the point where my health is low to the point, where I have to be extremely careful if I am to survive, and my mobility is low such that it's hard for me to run which isn't ideal, as I need to operate quickly if we are to stand a chance.
Tragically, despite doing my best to fight the enemy, taking out dozens and even an enemy boss, there are still three enemy bosses. And though my allies are fighting them, they are losing as there are enemy grunts assisting them, and what's more is that there will be more enemies to come and more bosses as well. While Stealth has managed to intercept them, and took out a significant number of them, there are still a good portion of the enemy who manage to get through for us to deal with, and worse still is that Stealth is in the same sort of shape as me, and I worry about the idea of him dying and when it will happen.
I know we can be revived, but there is the matter of it being appropriate due to all of the enemies around here. I sigh at the situation and know there is nothing we can do but to continue to fight, at least I have better weapons and hopefully they will be effective against the enemy boss, but will it be enough to not just defeat those bosses, but to save our allies? Hmm, I dunno we'll have to see. But even so it concerns me that Oichi's position in which she is surrounded by too many enemies, and Hideyoshi who has more health than her, is too far away for my liking, as it's such a struggle for me to run due to the agonising pain of my knee where that dreaded Koshosho fired at it, with a grenade from her GP25 which is attached to her AK47.
If I can at least be within range of an enemy and just take one of them out as soon as I see one of them, which must surely be of some help. Come on Black, you can do this, come on, ignore the pain in the knee, it won't last, your allies are counting on you. Ah I just hope I can assist Oichi who I'm certain is fighting for her life, and do so in sufficient time. If only I can ignore the pain just enough, but alas it's not practical to do so. I hear gunfire in the distance, it must be my ally Oichi and as a matter of fact my vision confirms it to be the Azai lady Oichi, and so I move closer and closer as quickly as possible.
After doing this action and making the best judgement as to how much moving I should do, considering the range and the time passing, I stop and open fire at them, and I even manage to kill a couple of enemy soldiers, and though this alerts some of them as they find I have killed them, they come charging towards me which is good as it relieves pressure off of Oichi, and I can take the enemy out.
Annoyingly though, myself and Oichi get shot a couple of times, I can't afford this, will myself and my ally die before we've even manage to take out these enemy grunts? No I must not be so negative even if the situation looks ever so bleak, and I need to keep going because every enemy I kill will make a difference in this fight, come on we can do this, and with these thoughts in mind, I manage to shoot a couple more of them, but then after that I am shot again, argh these shots are getting more and more painful, I don't think I can afford any of this. I need to try and avoid getting shot but doing so isn't easy at all, because of the severe pain that I'm in, well at least for now there's just a couple of them, and taking them out shouldn't be too much trouble.
I then manage to take another one out and Oichi does so as well, but then I get shot once again, though at least after that I shoot the final enemy grunt who was trying to shoot me down in this firefight. The thing is I know I have absolutely zero time to waste, and the Azai lady isn't able to shoot the enemies like I have because of Hideyoshi pinning her down, and it's only a matter of time before she gets shot down.
Hmmmm, I quickly realise that I need to deal with Hideyoshi because then Oichi should be able to deal with the grunts, especially with how there's less of them now. With these thoughts, I then fire my AK47 at this deadly enemy, alerting him and allowing my ally to take out a couple of the grunts, but the thing is that this small monkey Hideyoshi instead of coming after me, fires the grenade launcher of his AK74u, at the Azai lady's location, causing her to fall over and land quite hard, as well as to cause her to scream in serious pain. This isn't good, before dealing with me he intends to deal with my female friend and finish her off, I guess it's deliberate as he wants to see Oichi to not just fall, but for her to fail to get her revenge against this monkey.
This monkey must know that Oichi hates his guts, and wants him dead, and for him to take her out, must be awful for her, but no I will not let Hideyoshi take out the Lady of Azai, I simply won't. But it won't be easy considering how he fires his AK74u at where my ally has landed. Each shot that he fires at her, hurts her as she screams in agonising pain, it must be unbearable and I cannot bear the sight of this, because I just know that upon finishing firing his clip, the Azai lady will be dead. I sigh but at least I have one trick up my sleeve to try and get him to stop killing my female ally.
"This is the fate for all those who do not marry me when I ask them to you miscreant, prepare to die!" Hideyoshi says with much aggression.
"Do your worst, monkey." Oichi replies in a similar tone.
I switch to my GP25 and fire it in an arc, and it lands on his lower right leg, knocking him on his face. Excellent, he's stopped shooting Oichi and with the way the Azai lady screamed in agony, the monkey thinks that the lady of Azai has died, when she hasn't, though she is close to this point and she is in no fit state to continue fighting Hideyoshi, especially with how just a few more shots will kill her.
"Who is it? Who is interrupting my fun? You'll be very sorry." The little monkey Hideyoshi says as he's grunting from the pain that he's in.
"Not as sorry as you'll be by the time I've done with you, you know maybe you're better off with a girlfriend who wishes to be yours, instead of fighting for no gain." I say to him, really smug despite not being in the best condition, which is perfectly clear.
My response angers him, as I quickly kill the two remaining enemies here, before firing at Hideyoshi and reloading and firing at him some more, hoping that he'll be in too much pain to get up and fight me, and if that's the case I can kill him from here, without the worry of getting hit once by him. That would be fantastic, because that way I can face the remaining two bosses with more health, but it is then that I realise that this will take too much time especially if I use my AK47 as opposed to the AA12, but if I switch to the AA12, I'll be within range of his weapons which I know will be rather deadly against me. This isn't ideal at all to say the least.
The annoying thing is that he gets up after firing a clip at him, I then fire another round from the GP25 this time at his other leg, knocking him over again. I laugh as he yells in frustration considering how he's been with my ally, but while I am able to shoot at him again, I am very, very wary of the time especially with how I've been informed by Uni that reinforcements will be here any minute, and that while Stealth has done his best in taking them out and have managed to divert some of the enemy, he has fallen and that worse still, there are more of the enemy on their way.
Well, at least I know that Stealth has managed to take out a large number of them, but if I can just take out Hideyoshi then Oichi can buy some time for me while I deal with the remaining bosses, though how much time I don't know, considering the lack of health she has and the amount of enemies that there will still be. No, I can do it, we will defeat these enemies, no matter how many there are.
With this attitude of mine, I then continue to open fire against him, determined that he will fall to me, and fall to me quickly. If only I can use my shotgun without getting hit by him, but doing so with his weapon in hand won't be possible at all, unless. I have a new strategy in taking him out quickly, but I just hope it works, and so I continue shooting at him, waiting for him to get up which he is trying so hard to do, though this time it's harder as he's in more pain, but when he gets up I fire at him with my GP25 again, this time in his lower right arm which causes him to scream and for him to drop his weapon.
Yes, he's no longer armed but even if I've crippled his arm, and he finds himself holding it, trying to sooth it, he then begins to pick up the weapon with his other hand, but at the same time I reload the GP25 and fire at him, this time at his left ankle which knocks him over and causes him to scream in agonising pain, especially with how he has landed on his front and the fall has crushed his arms somewhat.
This is ever so amazing and he hasn't hit me once, and now I like to think I've got him as now he's unarmed and it will be difficult for him to get his weapon, because of his aching right hand and aching legs making it difficult for him to move, and while he has a USAS12 on his back, I can shoot his hand which will make it very difficult for him to get it.
I like to think that I've got him pinned, and so even I'm in agony myself, I only have to move in for the kill with my AA12 and just a couple of clips and he should be dead, but I know that the enemy wave is on the way, and with their numbers can they be held off? I'm not 100% sure, but still, I must focus on dealing with Hideyoshi because while I may have him, that doesn't mean he no longer poses a threat and can therefore put my guard down.
I therefore cautiously head towards him, firing my AK47 at him and then reloading and then firing at him again, until I'm within range and with his hands being shot at as he tries to reach for his USAS12, I manage to finish him off with the AA12. He screams with every shot being fired at him, as blood comes gushing out of his wounds. Yes I have defeated Hideyoshi, though it's interesting how at the same time I finish the final shots of my AA12, there was other bullets fired at him, and these bullets come from Oichi's akimbo Nambu pistols, which are held by the Azai lady herself.
"Looks like my fate is to outlive him after all, thank you so much my good friend." Oichi says to me, in a tone which I'm unsure what to make of.
I say this because although initially she is upset because of how she almost died at the hands of him, and that she was unable to defeat him considering what herself and himself represented, she then smiles with such relief that she has fired the shots which would help to take out Hideyoshi, especially with how he's a significant member of the group who have done significant damage to her, Nagamasa and Katsuie, not to mention being in charge of the potential invasion of Lastation, and in fact I remember how Oichi even dreamed of killing him and through a similar method as how she died.
And though it must be such a relief for Oichi to have helped taken him down, and to have fired the killing shot against him, there is little time to celebrate because there is more enemies that we have to deal with: 2 bosses with troops, and then waves of reinforcements with one that will arrive ever so shortly, and one with more bosses, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
And so Oichi, even though she's in such a bad shape full of bullet wounds, and her body language tells me how much pain she's in, equips herself with the USAS12 and the AK74u that once belonged to our fallen enemy, and heads towards where the enemy reinforcements are going to be, after thanking me again for my assistance, while I head to the next boss fight, even though I know my condition is critical to say the least, and there is the tension of hoping that this next fire fight I'll be in, will go as smoothly as the one against Hideyoshi.
As for Oichi, I know that all she can do is to buy more time but will it be enough? Our health is just too, too low and they are too, too numerous, and I worry that our luck which has kept us this far, is about to run out, and I worry that with the time that has passed, my allies will be in worse shape than Oichi is, but still I can't let that stop us, and be happy with how well we have done.
If I can just defeat these 2 bosses and defeat all the other grunts in the area, then we can restore our health and be in a much better shape to take on the rest of the reinforcements, come on there's a light at the end of the tunnel, we will make it, I just hope that Oichi can continue to keep the reinforcements occupied, I hope so especially since White and Stealth has fallen.
And so I rush as fast I can even though it's not fast due to my aching knee, and head to the next fire fight, in which Uni informs me that Nagamasa is struggling quite a lot against Hisahide and several enemy troops. I can only hope that I can get there before the lord of Azai Nagamasa falls, it is alarming how like before, our new enemy Hisahide is pretty much healthy which is not ideal, not ideal at all, but at least I have plenty of ammunition for my weapons, and they should prove very useful.
After who knows how long which worries because of Oichi having to hold the enemies off, I manage to get there and though I'm pleased to see in the distance a firefight, although I expected this, I am still dreading of the prospect, of facing such difficult and overwhelming odds, as the Azai gentleman Nagamasa, struggles to deal with all of these enemies, and he finds himself having to retreat, though at least he's retreating to my direction.
The tragic thing is that Nagamasa's body is covered in blood, and it's a struggle for him to move as his legs really ache from where he's been shot by Hisahide, I do wonder whether he's been hit by all of those explosives that this evil villain Hisahide has, I also wonder how many more explosives does he have because they are deadly, and the mobility of both my ally of Azai and myself is deeply reduced.
Hmmm, I guess we'll just have to do our best, if I can just prevent Hisahide from using his deadly weapons like I've done with the enemy bosses, then we might just have a chance against these enemies, come on, I know Oichi can only stall the enemy for so long. As I see Nagamasa trying so hard to get away despite his agonising aches, I provide covering fire taking out a few of the enemies who pursue my ally, but it is then that one of the enemy grunts shoots me, and I'm forced to hide as more of them try and take me down.
I suddenly then see Hisahide himself approach me, and he's armed with his MM1 grenade launcher with which he aims it at me. I then switch to my GP25, and fire it at him, though at the same time he fires his grenade at me and interestingly enough, both of our grenades hits our opponents in the chest, and this knocks the both of us to the ground.
"You're not afraid to face me are you, for I am Hisahide, the greatest villain of the world." The evil villain says to me grunting from being shot.
Oh I despise people who are proud to be evil like him, I never understand the sort to do bad things for the sake of it, and to cause misery to innocents, I remember how his actions got Nagamasa Azai killed from being brainwashed, and I worry about what sick things he's done, but I cannot and I must defeat him if good is to triumph over evil.
"Why would I be? Every villain I've faced has fallen to me." I respond back sounding confident, even if my body may not agree with me, as I struggle to speak from the pain.
ARGH! I don't think I can take much more of this, this isn't good not with him being able to shoot grenades like that, he's got more than enough to deal with the pair of us, and even though he's at least down in pain at the moment, it will be much easier for him to get up, than it is for me. At least my ally is able to take out a few more enemies who are a threat to us, but not before he gets shot a couple of times. The thing is there is also the matter of Hisahide getting up quickly, and it's annoying how from where I am, I can't get a clear shot.
I just know that with me pinned down, my foe will finish off what he's started which is the slaying of Nagamasa, and in fact he's heading over there to him, and though my ally does his best to shoot at the deadly foe with his shotgun, and knocks him to the floor, Hisahide merely returns fire and the grenade knocks my friend over as it hits him in the chest, no, this is just as I feared.
What's worse is that the remaining enemy troops do a banzai charge towards his location with the sole intention of finishing off, in the most painful way possible, by stabbing him with their bayonets, but at least this is the opportunity for me to take these enemies out for good, which will make it easier as it could potentially be a 2 on 1 fight, though more likely a 0.2 on 1 fight if you will, considering how the pair of us are in such terrible, terrible shape.
I make sure to hide, hoping that it will be enough to avoid getting hurt until I can finish off all of these enemies that are about to pounce on my friend. The thing is just as I manage to wipe out most of them who try and attack my friend, a grenade which is no doubt fired by our foe, then comes my way, and the explosion of it sends me up in the air hurting me very much, as I then land some distance away from the direction of which the grenade has been fired at me.
Well, I guess this is it, it looks like Nagamasa will have fallen to those enemies. I know that he is in no fit state to attack anymore and now it's just me and Hisahide as well as a couple of enemies, probably more after Oichi has done all she can to hold the enemy off.
I don't think I'm in much better shape than Nagamasa to take my foe on to be honest. My health is getting less, my pain is getting more and more, until it's getting to the point where it's extremely difficult for me to carry on and to fight these enemies. I know how smug my enemy must be that it's easy for him to defeat me but hard for me to defeat him. I then realise that the ammunition for the GP25 is quite low, and I'll need to make these count.
"Hehehehehe….. my condolences Nagamasa, of course it was your own doing." The so called greatest villain says while laughing, his tone and words confirming my knowledge of him being smug.
This situation frustrates me, but I must not let what he says get to me, as he will eat those words for breakfast, and if I can just get it such he cannot use those explosives against me, then it'll be fair game. The very fact that I hear my foe firing a grenade at my ally to finish him off reminds me all too well of this important crucial fact. Hmmm I guess this is it, I cannot stall him because if anything enemy reinforcements are coming my way, but no friendly ones, and I cannot take him on head on because he has the advantage in health, as well as being in a much better condition to fight than I am.
Even with my strategy I can't see myself surviving this, he's just got far too much health, and while I may have enough bullets from my AA12 to take him down, it's not enough without reloading, and that will mean that he can just simply take me down. I therefore breathe as calmly as I can, as I know that stress and nerves will not help me, but hinder me as I hear him coming towards me with his MM1 grenade launcher in his hands.
I find myself playing through the scenario I have in my mind repeatedly, as he heads towards my position, worrying about whether it will work, hoping that it will work, hoping that I can pull this off. I need to for the sake of myself, my allies and for our nations, and so at the appropriate time, I fire my grenade at the lower arm of my nemesis, which causes him to drop his weapon. I know for a fact that he intends to use his other hand to pick up the weapon, and he does attempt this action, but before he is successful, I open fire with my shotgun, which sends him flying down away from his dropped weapon.
I know that the dropped MM1 grenade launcher is much too far away from me, for me to pick up, but as I hoped he doesn't go for the weapon either when he has managed to quickly get up. Instead with his other hand, as his right arm really aches him after shooting it, he gets out his rocket launcher and tries his utmost to aim it at me.
Once again before he can fire his weapon at me, which would have annihilated me for certain, I fire the grenade launcher at his other arm, forcing him to drop his weapon again as he yells in agony, and after that I fire more bullets from my AA12, so that once again he is away from his weapon.
Yes, yes, yes, my tactic has worked and it's such a relief because now I am out of ammo for my GP25. With this tactic a success, now it's just a matter of finishing him off with my AA12, which shouldn't take too long, and this pleases me, it pleases me quite a bit, because I just know that there'll be more reinforcements coming any minute and with him gone it will be one less villain to worry about, as I cannot begin to imagine how hard it must be for Oichi to at the very least postpone those reinforcements, because of the lack of health that she has.
I cannot honestly see how she'll be able to survive against all of those enemies, but I like to think she's having a good go at bleeding them, just keep at it Oichi, and I'll keep at it with dealing with those bosses, and all those remaining troops.
Just as I was wanting, after firing my bullets from my AA12 at him, then reload and fire some more, though he fires his Nambu pistol at me, even in the state that I'm in, it's absolutely no match for me, no match for me at all as just a few clips worth, and he's down though I feel like I'm at the point where just a few more hits and I'll be killed, which I can ill afford. It's annoying how even with my strategies, I still get hit a few times, and I just worry that even though it's one boss left for the time being, can I defeat that one?
The interesting thing is that like Oichi, Nagamasa appears and fires a shot at Hisahide which kills him. The lord of Azai's body language is the same as his wife's, exactly the same in that he's frustrated with himself as if it weren't for me, he would have died and he's failed to defeat this foe of ours. Perhaps he feels like with Oichi, that he's failed to defeat evil, and that he's let his lady down, but at the same time he feels happy, happy that he got to help me kill him, and happy that he's still alive.
Suddenly though out of nowhere, two enemies fire at Nagamasa with their bolt action Arisakas and because the lord of Azai's health is that low, he falls and dies, I manage to avenge his death, but it is sad to have lost yet another ally. Considering how Uni hasn't said anything about Oichi dying or that the enemy reinforcements are close by, I must be real close to the final boss fire fight, and these must be the enemy troops from the fire fight.
I ought to be relieved that I am close, considering how long it would have taken me to get to the next firefight with the pains I have in my legs, and with this it means I have more time to deal with these enemies and the boss, before the enemy reinforcements show up, as I am certain that Oichi will fall at any minute even if Uni hasn't said anything to me yet, though I feel she will do soon.
The thing is though, I do wonder about whether we can win this fight, as my aches and pains keep reminding me of the condition, and the enemies remind me of the odds that I have to face, these overwhelming odds. All this makes me wonder if I can win against them. Well the only answer to that question is, I have to, I must do, for the sake of us all who cares about freedom, justice and prosperity, as well as the future being bright.
In any case I have survived this long, and it's great to have gotten 3 bosses, and not just any but Hisahide, Hideyoshi and Koshosho, 3 vile people who is responsible for Oichi, Nagamasa's and Katsuie's misery and loads of other innocent's misery, and has had a hand in ensuring Lowee sees no prosperity, but bleakness and hopelessness. It's just that it's such a shame that what does the demise of those 3 villains mean, if I can't defeat the final one before the next batch of bosses will inevitably show up. I must not think that way, at least there's still hope while I do have little health left, and ammunition for my weapons.
I see that the boss is Nene who is armed with two MP5s, battling Katsuie and his 2 Winchester 1887s. It's a battle of the akimbo weapons, only Nene has just under a dozen enemies, well I expected this and I won't give in.
I immediately attempt to shoot as many enemies down as I can, and I manage to get a few just as my ally Katsuie gets a couple, but then my ally gets shot a couple of times. I guess it's a couple more and then he's dead, and as a matter of fact while the pair of us are successful in getting the rest of the enemies, what ends up happening is that my ally dies leaving it to just myself and Nene, who is in much healthier shape than me, with her health and her speed.
I realise that while I have my AA12 to get her with, she has MP5s which are deadly at close range. I can only hope I can take her down before she can even lay a shot at me, but this won't be easy, especially with how my ally has fallen to the enemy. At least I remember that with her having akimbo weapons, it will take quite a long while for her to reload her weapons once she needs to, which will allow me to shoot her, but until then there is a lot of bullets that she needs to fire in which I don't get hit, and it may not be easy getting her to fire her guns and dodging quickly afterwards.
The thing is there is also the matter of her switching to her 2 M9 pistols, or her throwing knives, in which while the pistols aren't too bad the knives will be, because it will take too long to pull them all out, and in the meantime they will cause a significant amount of damage.
"That is very naughty of you to kill all of my fellow soldiers, I will punish you for this." Nene says in such a patronising tone.
Urgh just hearing that reminds me of why I didn't like her as a character because of how she acts so big headed and annoying, as though she has any authority over others when she doesn't, and there's also how she might be more than just a patronising, bossy so and so here, and maybe involved with Hideyoshi and Nobunaga as well as Noh, in the things he's done against Oichi
"We'll see who gets punished, after you've killed my ally." I reply to her.
Nene then rushes towards me firing her submachine guns forcing me to go prone and hide by some trees. The amount of bullets that comes over my way concerns me as it goes through the trees, this really unnerves me as I'm reminded of how little health I have, and how easy it is for her to kill me. I try and move away as I worry that soon she'll hit where I am, but amazingly she doesn't hit me at all, and yet she's out of bullets and so she reloads her gun and it is now that I open fire with my AA12, knocking her away, but the frustrating thing is that she's too far away for my bullets to hit her after firing a decent amount.
Afterwards she then throws her barrage of knives at me, and I'm surprised with how I'm able to fall to the floor without getting hit by a single one of them, though a significant amount of them hit the trees. Interestingly enough she dares to rush towards the trees, though perhaps she doesn't know that I have magnetic vision as she moves quietly and it's through me seeing her through the trees, which I knows she's doing this. The moment just before she picks up the knives, is the moment when I strike and mow her down, and I'm relieved that I'm able to do more damage per shot than before.
Excellent most excellent, as with her needing to reload her MP5s, and her not having any more knives, I can pick up a few knives, though I only dare pick up a few because I know that she intends to respond quickly to it. During the same time though, she switches to her M9s and opens fire against me, and even manages to hit me a few times with these pistols.
Though I manage to find safety, and though I'm still alive, those bullets are agony, real agony and I know how my health is extremely, extremely low, and though my pain is intense and it's a struggle to think and to move, I must still carry on and I must still fight, for if I don't, then all will be lost and this is something we cannot afford.
"Hmmm looks like your punishment is imminent, and will only increase the more you resist." Nene says taunting me, as she heads closer and closer to my location.
I manage to crouch to another tree nearby and hide there and wait for the right moment, as it's my only hope. If I expose myself and attack she will survive no matter how many bullets I fire, because they won't be enough. I find myself having to calm my breathing down and to ignore the pain, as she moves closer and closer towards my position. Soon I am within reach, and it is then that as she's next to me do I then with a knife in hand, do I stab her right wrist with my left hand, while with my right hand, I throw my knife into her left wrist. These actions cause her to drop her MP5s on the ground, she screams loudly in pain, as I then switch to my shotgun and fire away at her.
I knew this would happen but it does alarm me when I have to reload my gun, as it will mean that she has time to remove the knife from one of her wrists, and throw the knife at me, and there's no way for me to dodge it not in the shape I'm in. I just hope that I can finish her off before she does the same to me. The reload time is real short thanks to the perk a colas, even if I'm in severe pain, maybe it's adrenaline and a need to succeed especially when our lives are on the line.
I fire my gun for as much as I can and move close to her so that the bullets have more of an impact, but despite the pain my enemy is in with her body language, despite it being an initial struggle, she gets the blade out. I feel time has slowed down as I fire bullet, after bullet, after bullet at her, hoping that she'll die, but she then throws the blade and it travels closer and closer to me. Even as it hits me I am still firing at her, hoping that I can take her down with me, until I then fall and find that my time is limited.
Well she's got me, but whether I've got her equally I do not know. It is sad though to have fallen here after fighting all those enemies and all of those bosses, I worry that I have failed and have allowed Lastation to fall, after all this. Well I gave it my all and it's a great all if I've took out 4 deadly bosses, but it's not enough, they'll attack Noire's nation and Team Rocket will attack this land also, and we do not have the power, the capability to fight against these two at the same time, but it looks like it will be the case, and it looks like our great nation will be in even more trouble and will no doubt fall, and Neptune will be victorious.
But I will not feel ashamed, after all it's better to fight and die against Neptune, than to fight and live with Neptune on my side, I know that I have made my family and my friends, proud of me. Proud that I have done well and have done much to help Lastation survive this long and to help provide much help for the brave innocents who rely on us, it's too bad it looks like we've postponed the inevitable even if, it was worth it.